Well, wonder if all the people who were ragging on Twitter about Indiana will say the same thing about Tennessee.
Well we are off to a great start in the first quarter with a 21 point lead over the Volunteers! Rocky Top number seems very quiet in the Shoe.
Might have a ballgame after all, in the 2nd half. Vols offense seems to have found something that works vs the Buckeye defense. 21-10 Ohio State at the half.
And as you pointed out earlier today, Texas did not beat a ranked team …until they waxed the ACC champion today. The vagaries of scheduling —at the start of the year Indiana was scheduled to play the defending NC, the NC runner up and OSU— is not the Hoosiers fault. They beat the unranked teams they were scheduled to play in contrast to teams not in the playoffs. Pretty hard to keep a 1 loss team in a power conference out of the playoffs although FSU might point out that a 0 loss teams was deep sixed.
I’m not blaming Indiana. It is not their fault that their opponents this year were not ranked but that doesn’t change their strength of schedule nor the fact that they lost to the ranked team they did play. And yes Alabama lost to 2 unranked teams, but they also had to get mentally up to play at least 4 topnotch teams. Like I said to Sid, if the only criteria is the number of losses then the committee just needs to say that and go with it. Don’t pretend that that there are other factors. And if that is the case then we don’t really even need the committee.
Oh and FSU wasn’t the only team to be left out after being undefeated. Central Florida went undefeated a couple of years ago and just declared themselves the National Champion.
Big opening series for both teams. Buckeyes got them off the field and the Vol punter shanked one...Ohio State needs to score on this series.
I was referring to 1 and 0 loss teams in power conferences. In 2017, Ohio State got knocked out of the playoffs even though OSU was a conference champion. The reason was a bad loss to Iowa on the road. The week before they beat an elite Saquon Barkley led PSU team in a dog fight but that fact was ignored and those who favored OSU’s exclusion cited the “ bad loss” as the pivotal justification.The criteria for excluding teams seems to shift in different years and people seem to be OK with the criteria de jour as long as they are not at the short end of the stick. Last year Michigan was ripped for their soft schedule but proved their worth in the playoffs.
There are more than a few NFL teams that would have problems covering OSU’s receivers. The key tonight is O’s line is protecting Howard and he is playing with confidence.
That’s what I’m saying. If the committee is not going to consider SOS, just say that. Alabama has future commitments to play Ohio State and Notre Dame (I think). I would advocate they get out of those commitments. If you win those quality OOC games it does nothing for you and if you lose it hurts you.