01-02-2020, 08:46 AM
(01-02-2020, 08:27 AM)Farm93 Wrote: ASU and Oregon won games they easily could have lost thanks turnovers.
Pac-12 could have easily gone 2-5, but that didn't happen. Whew!
4-3 is a rather good case.
USC simply doesn't show up for bowl games other than CFP/NY6 games.
Utah got a very raw deal. They went from CFP to Alamo. Worse in the Alamo their opponents were a few miles from campus.
The biggest question coming out of the 2019 bowl season will belong to another conference.
1) Big12 - (Tag you're it) - No question they will be the conference that loses tiebreakers in 2020. Their best teams were destroyed in the big bowls. Their schedules have few quality OOC games.
Other questions/observations -
Rose Bowl Trends - The Pac-12 went 6-2 in Rose Bowls. The BigTen went 2-6. Most of those years it was Pac-12 #1 vs BigTen #2, but that's a different problem.
Pac-12 CG losers - The Pac-12 CG losers are now 0-9 in bowl games. That's a problem.
Michigan/Harbaugh - Coach Harbaugh has still not beaten a top 10 team away from Ann Arbor. Hard to be a BigTen conference champion or CFP champion with that inability to win the big ones on the road.
In all seriousness, why would you want to see a Pac12 team other than Stanford in the NCS? How does that improve Stanfords program? Remember ‘99? Stanford got slaughtered by Texas in the opener and went on to win Pac 10. The Conference was, I believe, pretty weak that year. Does that draw away from the Championship? No. They don’t put asterisks next to it.
As far as I’m concerned if the Conference is down, Stanford has a better shot to win it. I don’t want an Oregon or a Wash competing for the NCS.