Sunday, December 14
| |||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
Season record: 138-65-1
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
College Football Playoff Announced
College football final four has just been announced. Here are the final rankings and matchups
#1 Alabama vs. #4 Ohio State
#2 Oregon vs. #3 Florida State
Obviously, the big story is TCU falling from #3 to #6 after beating Iowa State by 52 points this past weekend. Ridiculous precedent set the by the committee, where they rank TCU that high based on on the reasoning that is how good they think they are one week, and then drop them because of the entire body of work and how good Ohio State looked in their Big 10 Conference championship game.
As far as Baylor, I don't think they deserved it. Sure, they beat TCU head-to-head, but they needed a miraculous comeback in order to escape by 3 points. Plus, their nonconference schedule was awful.
Ultimately, this is how I look at it.
TCU lost one game, on the road @ #5 Baylor, by 3 points.
Ohio State lost one game, at home vs. 6-6 Virginia Tech, by 14 points.
The notion that Ohio State had best strength of schedule (as ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit kept saying) is also wrong. Here are strength of schedule rankings.
#1 Alabama vs. #4 Ohio State
#2 Oregon vs. #3 Florida State
Obviously, the big story is TCU falling from #3 to #6 after beating Iowa State by 52 points this past weekend. Ridiculous precedent set the by the committee, where they rank TCU that high based on on the reasoning that is how good they think they are one week, and then drop them because of the entire body of work and how good Ohio State looked in their Big 10 Conference championship game.
As far as Baylor, I don't think they deserved it. Sure, they beat TCU head-to-head, but they needed a miraculous comeback in order to escape by 3 points. Plus, their nonconference schedule was awful.
Ultimately, this is how I look at it.
TCU lost one game, on the road @ #5 Baylor, by 3 points.
Ohio State lost one game, at home vs. 6-6 Virginia Tech, by 14 points.
The notion that Ohio State had best strength of schedule (as ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit kept saying) is also wrong. Here are strength of schedule rankings.
42. TCU
52. Ohio State
56. Baylor
In the end, I think the committee got it wrong. I thought the days of BS BCS rankings were over, but we ended up with the same conclusion as the computer rankings.
NFL Picks: Week 14
Sunday, December 7
| |||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
Season record: 127-63-1 | |||||||||||
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)