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November 7, 2016Saturday night gave the Ohio State Buckeyes a chance to prove just how good they are in front of the entire country against another top 10 opponent. To say they were impressive would be an understatement.
In their 62-3 demolition over the previously No. 9/10 Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Buckeyes proved a point and then some. Although they have one loss on the season, the scarlet and gray made a statement Saturday night and showed that they are one of the best teams in the country. With their big-time win, the Bucks remained at No. 6 in the Associated Press poll and moved up one spot to No. 5 in the Coaches poll.
With just three games remaining in the regular season (at Maryland, at Michigan State, vs. Michigan) the Buckeyes are fighting to get back to at least No. 4 and control their own destiny. If they win their remaining three games, make the Big Ten Championship game and take care of business there, they will most likely make the College Football Playoff with Michigan potentially dropping below.
There are five Big Ten teams who are ranked, including Ohio State: (AP poll, Coaches poll)
- Michigan: No. 2, No. 3
- Wisconsin: No. 7, No. 7
- Penn State: No. 12, No. 14
- Nebraska: No. 21, No. 20
Although they were unranked when they beat the Buckeyes just a few weeks ago, the fact that the Penn State Nittany Lions are now in the top 14 in both polls shows that a loss in Happy Valley wasn’t that bad for the Urban Meyer’s group. Yes, they would have liked to still be undefeated, but losing the second of a back-to-back road game at night is proving to not be a deal breaker with the voters.
While they are somewhat important in showing how good a team is viewed by the media and coaches, the AP and Coaches polls mean nothing when it comes to the College Football Playoff at the end of the season. The most important rankings that are determined by the Playoff committee which debuted last Tuesday night with the Buckeyes coming in at No. 6. It will be released for the second time this coming Tuesday night (and every Tuesday the rest of the regular season).
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Hopefully tOSU doesn’t attribute the slaughter-fest to the jerseys and decide to wear them for the rest of the year… those are horrible.
Anyone who thinks the Baltos are better than SUoO is high.
I would like to see Maryland and Rutgers get humiliated every week, every year until they finally wave the white flag and crawl back to where they came from, money be damned. They don’t belong here. Shoulda built a wall.
Rutgers and Maryland have opened up fertile recruiting grounds.
Stomp their college teams. Take their HS players. Repeat.
I believe once Maryland cleans up their financial books (they were a mess before they joined and got worse too join), they will be a good program. They have everything they need from a structural standpoint.
If anyone does not believe a SEC bias still exists, then please explain the ranking week-by-week of Texas A&M and Nebraska. Thanks.
DJ Durkin was a fantastic hire.
Can’t wait until Auburn beats Alabama ending their hopes at playoffs
That just means they’ll both get in. $EC! $EC! $EC!
Ending whose hopes? It will just somehow end up with BOTH of them in the CFP, no? They will find a way!
I support it as a UM fan because it got his high safety look that OSU shredded far, far away from my team.
Maybe I’m just a contrarian, but I’ve not been high on Nebraska at all this season. I thought they were supremely overrated, or maybe untested would be a better term. Sure, they were undefeated, but other than a highly suspect Oregon team they’d beaten no one. I put them on equal footing with Western Michigan.
Not taking anything away from OSU overall, as a beating is a beating. But, that is/was not the 10th best team in the country.
Half joking, half serious: if Clemson, UM, and UW are all undefeated conference champs and Alabama and Auburn sit there with one loss (not even to mention Louisville and OSU), who doesn’t get in?
It would *have* to be the non-conference championship SEC team, right?
if UM is undefeated, then tOSU has 2 losses
Auburn already has two losses
These things tend to play out but…
most interesting scenario left on the table is this:
UNC or VaTech (11-2) beats Clemson (12-1) in ACC Champ game w/ Louis (11-1)
USC (10-3) beats Washington (12-1) in Pac12 Champ game
Minn (11-2) beats tOSU (12-1) in B1G champ game w/ UM (11-1)
Florida (11-2) beats Auburn (10-3) in SEC Champ game w/ Bama (11-1)
WV (11-1) wins out
W-Mich (13-0) wins out
Which four teams get in?
I don’t think you’ll find any arguments there. Nebraska being ranked 10th was more to do with a strange season with few top teams worth putting up that high.
All about where teams are ranked at the end of the year and which ones you beat anyway but A&M falling just three spots after getting annihilated by Bama, then just a few more after a bad loss to Miss-State shows some incredible bias in the polling.
Was more a statement about the Aggies treatment than Nebraska.
No Mone, or Glasgow didn’t help.