National playoffs begin with conference title games and Ok-Ok St.

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers]

It's the perfect "first round" of the national playoffs:

ACC champ (Clemson or North Carolina).

Big 12 champ (Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Baylor, if Okie State beats Oklahoma and Bears beat TCU & Texas).

Big 10 champ (Iowa or Michigan State/Michigan winner).

SEC champ (Florida or Alabama)

Pac-12 doesn't have a 1-loss team so it's its turn to be odd man out.

If Notre Dame wants in the national playoffs, then it should join a conference and go through the grind the others have.

The Big 12 champ will have its quality wins. Who thinks that Iowa would be 11-0 if it had to play Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor and TCU? Who thinks that ANY team in the country would be 4-0 against those four? So why should the Big 12 be penalized because it has four strong teams? And Iowa be rewarded for not playing Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State during the regular season?

Meanwhile, my alma mater needs to beat Iowa State and Kansas State to cement its 5th place finish in the Big 12. We're king of the bottom half of the Big 12!


M ighty defense throttled Georgia Southern, 44-0

O utstanding defense obliterated Liberty, 41-17

U nilaterally decimated Maryland, 45-6, on defense and offense

N oxious offense & special teams against Oklahoma, 44-24

T urnovers lose to Oklahoma State, 33-26 in OT despite impressive comeback from 15-point deficit.

A wesome Baylor too much, 62-38.

I ncinerated by TCU, 40-10. Way too many mistakes, penalties, dropped passes.

N ifty rushing, defense take down Texas Tech, 31-26

E xcellent turnovers by defense against Texas, 38-20

E rectile dysfunctioned Kansas, 49-0

R oll past Iowa State

S lap down Kansas State

 

[WVex-pat in GA]

The worst thing that could happen is that OK St. beats OU. SOS will keep OSU out of the CFP and give the committee an excuse to put in ND.

 

[dogeered_again]

You are forgetting that there is a round table of people who make the decision and that's not any better than the former BCS set-up. It's all political and I, of little faith, believe that they want ND in the playoffs. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers]

We'll all be smarter about this in early December. Then the Power 5 conferences left out can see that they replaced the BCS with a new form of monster. Power 5 set this up, and yet they get victimized by it. Oh, the irony! There should be 4 Power 5 conference champs in the national playoff. This year, the Pac-12 gets left out. Last year, the Big 12.
Clemson and Iowa belong if they stay unbeaten. That should be set in cement: Unbeaten Power 5 conference champs get into the playoff. Period.
But we know college football is unpredictable, so it's tough to tell who will be standing by midnight Dec. 5.

 

[VaultHunter]

The Big12 needs Oklahoma to win. Oklahoma goes to the playoffs and the 2nd place Big12 team gets the Sugar Bowl. This scenario improves WVU's bowl if WVU handles business the next two weeks.

 

[GoWVU]

I'm sure you missed it, Vault, but on another thread we went over the reasons why a Big 12 team in the playoff likely does not improve WVU's bowl position at all.