12-07-2014, 10:48 PM
Well, it's not like Baylor (Kansas) or TCU (Baylor) couldn't have gotten in. It's just that among one loss teams, the bar for being in the top-4 is going to be higher if you don't have one added win against a top opponent in a conference championship game. But, the conference championship game is also risky. FSU was trailing at the half. Had they lost in the championship game, they would have been left out in the cold.
I would love to see an 11-1 Big12 team get beaten by a lower ranked team in their conference championship game and knocked out of the top-4. Not because I don't like the Big twelve, but because I don't like how they have been trying to manipulate things (see, for example, our former AD) to get the playoffs.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...e-champion
Maybe if he hadn't started with the bs about Baylor and TCU being co-champions, Baylor would have had a better case.
BC
I would love to see an 11-1 Big12 team get beaten by a lower ranked team in their conference championship game and knocked out of the top-4. Not because I don't like the Big twelve, but because I don't like how they have been trying to manipulate things (see, for example, our former AD) to get the playoffs.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...e-champion
Quote:The words of Football Playoff Committee chairman Jeff Long "will cause us to go back to the drawing board a little bit and think about if we need a different model," Bowlsby said, referring to tie-breakers and title-game discussions.
Maybe if he hadn't started with the bs about Baylor and TCU being co-champions, Baylor would have had a better case.
BC