Here we go again, the committee is putting this on a tee for Alabama. With a loss against LSU, at home, in their only real matchup of the year, they are still going to get in.
The Committee did the right thing putting LSU at one and Ohio State at two. I would have been fine with Clemson at three or four and either Georgia or Oregon above Alabama. But guess what those darn committee members did? This is what the current landscape looks like.
- LSU
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Georgia
- Alabama
- Oregon
This is what the committee is thinking. LSU, Ohio State, and Clemson all win out. They have guaranteed spots. If LSU is going to win out they would have to beat Georgia in the SEC Championship game. That eliminates Georgia from the playoffs.
So now there is one spot left for three teams pretty much. The Pac-12 champion, The Big-12 Champion (lol,) and Alabama. If everything goes according to plan this is what the top six will look like during championship weekend.
- Ohio State
- LSU
- Clemson
- Alabama
- Oregon
- Utah
- Oklahoma/Baylor
The Pac-12 needs to hope and pray that Utah wins out and beats Oregon in the championship game. Because if it comes down to Alabama and Oregon, guess what those rascals on the committee are going to use? That damn common opponent defense. Since Oregon lost to Auburn and Alabama theoretically beats Auburn, Alabama is going to get the nod.
The Committee has already done something like this in 2017 with Alabama and Ohio State. Bama lost to Auburn and Ohio State was the Big-10 champion. So the committee which put Ohio State in the top four in 2014 because of a conference championship game said: “actually, we don’t care about that.”
Also in 2016 how Ohio State lost to Penn State and still made it in over Penn State, who was the conference champion.
I’m now officially woke on the committee. They only care about the big names. Clemson, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, Georgia, etc. They will sprinkle in a Washington every once in a while to throw us off the trail. But here we are, five years later, and we have no idea what the committee looks for.
