Clemson - Ohio State
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Sounds like two ideal members for the CFP committee in the future.
Those Big 10 defenses must not be that good if Clemson and Florida St both put up 30+ points.
USC winning big tomorrow would make it the most ridiculous overhyped nonsense since 2006. Maybe even more since 2006 was 2 teams and 2016 is 3.
Agreed, completely shocked to see Ohio State get dominated in this game to be honest. This is just like how we've been so high on Big 12 basketball some years only to see several early exits in the NCAA Tourney. When you break down a season the conference games are typically the more predictable games because teams are so much more familiar with each other from facing them more more often so the players, coaching staff, and the systems they run make it much easier to game plan against than it is going against a non conference opponent you aren't familiar with. The problem is that a lot of the teams use the non-conference as a warm up to conference play so you don't see as many tough match ups on the schedules. I'm curious to see how Oklahoma looks in it's bowl game after going 9-0 in the Big 12 but losing to then ranked #15 Houston and #3 Ohio State in the non-conference. They basically got penalized for losing to 2 ranked teams in the non conference while running the table in the conference which was admittedly down this year but they at least can say they played and beat every team in their conference. I don't have an issue with Ohio State being in the playoff, a 3 point loss to Penn State was their only loss on the season and they beat 4 top Top 15 ranked teams on their schedule but makes you wonder if the Big 10 was over-rated as usual because the top teams feasted on weaker conference competition because of being a 14 team league.
We'll never have a perfect playoff system with college football because it's already asking a lot of fans to potentially have to cough up money to potentially go to 2 postseason games. This is another reason I hate how conferences are so eager to go to 14 or 16 teams, the 1 thing the Big 12 can say is that their champion had to play every team in the conference while these larger conferences on a given year might not play 2 or 3 of the better teams in the conference due to the schedule. Iowa hasn't played Ohio State since 2013 and didn't play them in 2011 and 2012 either so those 2 teams have only played each other twice over the past 7 seasons. That's crazy how you can go 4 years between playing a team in your conference, even in the old Big 12 we only got a 2 year break from OU and Texas.
Western Michigan winning would be even better.
That may be this year, but what we do know for sure is that at best the B1G is the 3rd best conference this year in football, or worse, and not the best as many so called analysts on ESPN and other media outlets have been spouting off all year.
