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Better score, worse opponent. Push. 

When OSU lost to MSU, it was "that's the ONE game that you couldn't lose! It kept you out of the Ccg" 

So this year the Buckeyes lose to 6-6 Purdue, and it's "you can't lose to a .500 team and expect to get it"

Okay? So you are allowed one loss, but it has to be to a team over .500, but not quite good enough to win the divisional tiebreaker? OSU played like two teams that fit that narrow qualification zone all season. 

Balderdash. Had OSU lost to Penn St instead of Purdue, it no doubt would have been "you can't lose to one of the only good teams that you play and expect to get in!" 

Essentially if you are in the Big Ten then you have to be able to navigate your schedule without tripping over any of the road apples, or else you will be buried behind a two-loss non-champion from the SEC. 

Fine. If that's what has to happen, then cop up to it instead of hiding behind all these weasel arguments based on ever-changing goalposts. 

See how Scott Frost and others voted in the final coaches poll.

https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/ballots/

Frost voted his former team fifth in the country. UCF ranked seventh in the composite rankings among coaches, and the same within the Associated Press. The Knights sat at eight in the final College Football Playoff rankings.

For Frost, UCF ranked in ahead of both Oklahoma and Georgia in the polls. During Frost’s final season with UCF, an undefeated run and win over Auburn, UCF finished seventh in the coaches poll.

Also of note, the Nebraska football coach showed a respect for his own conference. Ohio State, a team which Nebraska took to the brink this season, received a No. 4 ranking with Michigan at No. 8, Penn State at No. 9, Northwestern at 20 and Iowa at 21.

Frost is not the only coach whose final poll drew intrigue. Alabama and Nick Saban voted Georgia fifth a day after lauding the Bulldogs as a playoff team.

It’s a rouse.  If Oklahoma lost, OSU was in.

The rest is just spin.   They got the top 4 right.

They were never going to put a two loss, non conf champ, who only played like what 8 or 9 power 5 teams, and who lost to their two toughest opponents, in over a 12-1 power 5 conference champ who had the most power 5 wins, tied with Clemson) of any team in the country.   

Their final rankings suggest that they were indeed going to put Georgia in ahead of OSU if Oklahoma lost.

Yes, they are very clever.    But never.  Leave out 3 conferences for a 2 loss team with very few wins over power 5 teams.  

It’s a rouse.  If Oklahoma lost, OSU was in.

The rest is just spin.   They got the top 4 right.

I think you are right.  My question is still:  why spin it that way?

Another interesting caveat is that all of Urban's NC teams have had a loss, while none of his undefeated teams have ever been crowned.