OSU fans?? Where art thou?

[mallorian69]

(12-03-2017, 05:14 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Agreed.  Ohio State faced better talent then Alabama and deserved it over Alabama, but they were not going to beat either Oklahoma or Clemson had they been selected instead.


No, the last two seasons prove that there is no real point to having a playoff when the participants are still selected by a panel of people.  It is the same problem that plagued the BCS system.  The rankings are subjective, and that is how the participants are selected.  They are not determined by record alone, or by conference champ alone.  It is subject to someone saying "I think X is better than Y" and making an argument for it.   You can expand the playoff to include all ranked teams, but you will still hear "X should have been ranked over Y".

People complained about the BCS because there wasn't enough of a human factor which is why they chose to use a commitee for the playoffs instead of retaining the BCS.