[stupac2]

The thing is that trying to determine the "best" team is an actively pointless goal. It's so poorly defined that I don't understand why ostensibly smart people even discuss it. There is a reason that literally every other team sport I'm aware of determines a championship based on:

1) Group teams into geographical clusters.
2) The winners (determined somehow) out of those clusters advance to the tournament.
3) The best records of the non-winners (again, determined somehow) also advance to the tournament.
4) Seeding is done either by records or by informed panels producing a consensus.
5) There's a defined path to winning the tournament.

College football is the only sport that doesn't do that and I find it baffling. I find it even more baffling that people defend this approach, especially fans of the team that has been completely screwed over by it at least twice in the past 8 years.

Finall, what I meant by us being better than Oklahoma/MSU is that we wouldn't have put up clunkers of games against Alabama/Clemson. Would we have beaten the latter two? Maybe! It's impossible to know without playing the game, which is all that I want the opportunity to do. Could we have beaten Auburn in 2010? I think so! Alabama in 2011/2012? Probably not but who knows? I want to see those games!

[stupac2]

The thing is that trying to determine the "best" team is an actively pointless goal. It's so poorly defined that I don't understand why ostensibly smart people even discuss it. There is a reason that literally every other team sport I'm aware of determines a championship based on:

1) Group teams into geographical clusters.
2) The winners (determined somehow) out of those clusters advance to the tournament.
3) The best records of the non-winners (again, determined somehow) also advance to the tournament.
4) Seeding is done either by records or by informed panels producing a consensus.
5) There's a defined path to winning the tournament.

College football is the only sport that doesn't do that and I find it baffling. I find it even more baffling that people defend this approach, especially fans of the team that has been completely screwed over by it at least twice in the past 8 years.

Finall, what I meant by us being better than Oklahoma/MSU is that we wouldn't have put up clunkers of games against Alabama/Clemson. Would we have beaten the latter two? Maybe! It's impossible to know without playing the game, which is all that I want the opportunity to do. Could we have beaten Auburn in 2010? I think so! Alabama in 2011/2012? Probably not but who knows? I want to see those games!