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I think comparing OSU to Baylor/TCU on OOC schedule is misleading. As others have noted, OSU got a championship game, presumably if you took that out their SOS would plummet. OSU's OOC wasn't any better than TCU's, Baylor's was pretty garbage though. What really hurt Baylor/TCU is that the Big 12 was beyond terrible last year, offering up no one with a pulse except those teams. That's emphatically not the case with the PAC this year, so we don't need to worry about our OOC as much.

I think the point is to compare OSU, TCU, and Baylor on their schedules overall, and in addition how well they performed against that schedule. There isn't any moral judgement here, (i.e. what they "tried" to schedule is irrelevant) just who demonstrated themselves to be a better team to the best judgement of the committee.

OSU was undoubtedly helped by doing well in a conference championship game. That was part of their record, and in particular it was the part of their record most indicative of how well they were playing at the end of the season. Of course if OSU had lost, then one of TCU/Baylor would have been in for sure - Wisconsin already had two losses.

And it's minor, but OSU's OOC schedule was better than TCU's, their IC schedule probably a touch weaker.
tOSU - Navy (8-5), Va Tech (7-6), Kent State (2-9), Cincinnati (9-4)
TCU - Samford (FCS 7-4), Minnesota (8-5), SMU (1-11)

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I think comparing OSU to Baylor/TCU on OOC schedule is misleading. As others have noted, OSU got a championship game, presumably if you took that out their SOS would plummet. OSU's OOC wasn't any better than TCU's, Baylor's was pretty garbage though. What really hurt Baylor/TCU is that the Big 12 was beyond terrible last year, offering up no one with a pulse except those teams. That's emphatically not the case with the PAC this year, so we don't need to worry about our OOC as much.

I think the point is to compare OSU, TCU, and Baylor on their schedules overall, and in addition how well they performed against that schedule. There isn't any moral judgement here, (i.e. what they "tried" to schedule is irrelevant) just who demonstrated themselves to be a better team to the best judgement of the committee.

OSU was undoubtedly helped by doing well in a conference championship game. That was part of their record, and in particular it was the part of their record most indicative of how well they were playing at the end of the season. Of course if OSU had lost, then one of TCU/Baylor would have been in for sure - Wisconsin already had two losses.

And it's minor, but OSU's OOC schedule was better than TCU's, their IC schedule probably a touch weaker.
tOSU - Navy (8-5), Va Tech (7-6), Kent State (2-9), Cincinnati (9-4)
TCU - Samford (FCS 7-4), Minnesota (8-5), SMU (1-11)