Ohio State Football: Buckeyes snubbed by CFP Committee
The last two weeks Ohio State dominated the No. 4 ranked team in the country and then won the Big Ten Championship Game. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough for the Buckeyes to make the College Football Playoff.
Fair or not, for the second-straight season the College Football Playoff Invitational Committee did not select Big Ten Champion Ohio State as one of the four best teams.
Last season was understandable as the two losses torpedoed the Buckeyes’ chances. This season is harder to swallow even with the embarrassing loss to Purdue.
All the rationales and justifications that are being presented are garbage.
The reality is the system of crowning the Football Bowl Subdivision champion is absurd. We allow a committee, with obvious biases and conflicts of interest, to determine who they think should be in a four-team playoff.
An eye test determines the playoff participants. The FBS is the only sport that chooses its postseason in this manner.
Every year we are forced to accept this system as legitimate and those in power perpetuate it.
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All of us will look at strengths of schedule, conference affiliations, games won, games lost and try to conclude who are the four teams that earned the right to play for a championship. I might be fine with just four teams or continuing having a committee selecting the teams if the rules were balanced. And one conference, the SEC, did not manipulate the system.
I agree the debate is lively and adds to the drama. I think we could still have the debate with an expanded playoff. This is not about Ohio State either, I have always advocated for eight teams.
Baylor, TCU, Houston, Stanford, Penn State, UCF and Georgia are among the teams that have been excluded in the past.
The logistics are not that difficult but the power brokers will tell you they are. Most of the coaches are apprehensive given the scheduling demands, but we are talking about one extra game.
Next. Multiple Buckeyes will have 1,000 yard seasons. dark
Mike Leach is right when he rambles on about how the FBS fumbles its post-season. It is time for change, but we won’t get it.