2018 Playoff Rankings

[OrangeAfroMan]

1  Alabama
2  Clemson
3  Notre Dame
4  Oklahoma
5  Georgia
6  Ohio State

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Orange Bowl
Alabama vs Oklahoma


Cotton Bowl
Clemson vs Notre Dame

[FearlessF]

Delany needs to DO something

[OrangeAfroMan]

This is why I'm a proponent of 50% resume/50% eye test.  The committee just needs to say that's their criterion, and not lie about "4 best teams".  Their top 4, I have no problem with, but resume does matter and should matter.  It's not just eye test, or ND wouldn't be in the top 4.  



And if OU lost to Texas, Georgia would be in over OSU.  That means resume doesn't matter to the committee if they'd include a 2-loss non-champ over a 1-loss B10 champ.  I guess that's okay, if they were honest about it.

[FearlessF]

also means conference champions don't matter a lick

2 years straight

[OrangeAfroMan]

Well no, but they aren't a trump card.  Nor should they be.  

[Honestbuckeye]

Well, I think they got the top 4 correct.

[Kris60]

Well, I think they got the top 4 correct.

I do too but I still feel legitimately bad for Ohio St fans.  I cried in my Coke yesterday because WVU wasn’t in the Big 12 CCG and had no one to blame but themselves.  Ohio St has won conferences titles the last two years in an excellent conference and been left out.  That would be incredibly frustrating.

[Anonymous Coward]

also means conference champions don't matter a lick

2 years straight

Since there is no single conference sending two teams, this is nothing like last year. ND certainly belongs more than OU or OSU in my mind, and that final battle was decided between conference champions.
This is not a year where the system failed. And unless you want to make it literally impossible for ND to make the Playoff, this also is a year where conference championship respect was as maximal as could be realistic.

[Anonymous Coward]

I do too but I still feel legitimately bad for Ohio St fans.  I cried in my Coke yesterday because WVU wasn’t in the Big 12 CCG and had no one to blame but themselves.  Ohio St has won conferences titles the last two years in an excellent conference and been left out.  That would be incredibly frustrating.

There has still never been:
-a 2 loss participant 
-a participant with a blowout loss
OSU missed on both grounds last year and on the second this year. So we might as well (a) treat those as written CFP rules and (b) feel 100.000000% confident that a Big Ten champion who violates neither rule will *always* get in.

[LittlePig]

also means conference champions don't matter a lick

2 years straight

3 years straight

[MaximumSam]

Georgia was blown out 40-17 last year and still made it

[FearlessF]

Since there is no single conference sending two teams, this is nothing like last year. ND certainly belongs more than OU or OSU in my mind, and that final battle was decided between conference champions.

seems the final slot was decided between a one-loss conference champ and a two-loss non champ

[FearlessF]

Well no, but they aren't a trump card.  Nor should they be.  

I feel a one-loss big ten champ should trump a 2-loss SEC non champ
if you are going to give lip service to conference champs
it really didn't mean anything at all since Georgia and Ohio St. didn't get in, so why not send the message regarding your lip service?

[FearlessF]

along that line...... conference championship means something (which it obviously does not)

why not put Big 12 champ OU at #3 over Notre Dame?