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Originally Posted by dsjj251
Your argument doesnt make sense when you look at the numbers
Northwestern (Big 10 #4) beat Kentucky(SEC #7)
Texas(Big 12 #7) beat Missouri( SEC #9)
Wake Forrest( ACC #5) beat Texas AM( SEC #8)
Mississippi State (SEC #6) beat Louisville (ACC #6)
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Yeah, but the committee pitted #7 Auburn against #12 UCF, whose best wins were by one touchdown over Texas A&M and Memphis. UCF's recruiting record is pitiful against the top Power 5 conference teams.
If you want fair contests, why wasn't Auburn, which beat both Alabama and Georgia, pitted against Wisconsin or Penn State, let alone Ohio State? Oh yeah, Auburn might have been spanked, blowing the committee's decision to elevate an Alabama team, whose best win was against LSU, based on the final rankings, with not even a division title over Ohio State based on an eye test.
This was a major piece of CYA by the committee.
Oh yeah, and as of this post, NO SEC team has defeated in a bowl game any team ranked in final top 25 by the committee. The Big Ten has defeated teams ranked 8, 10, 11, and 18.
College Football Playoff
Matching Auburn with UCF is an offensive joke given the committee's decision to put Alabama in the play-offs over Ohio State. The committee clearly didn't have the confidence in its Alabama decision to expose it to a test on the playing field against ANY top 10 team.
When the SEC starts playing successfully home-and-away series with the best Big Ten teams, then the SEC can talk about its superiority. College football will be much poorer if in future seasons the PAC-12, Big Ten and Big 12 begin to follow the SEC lead and water down their independent schedules.
When was the last time that Alabama played a highly ranked non-SEC foe on other than an independent field? Pathetic. The committee should not have rewarded Alabama this year for such chicanery if for no other reason than to improve the quality of college football by forcing the SEC to compete on the road against other Power 5 conferences.
Admittedly, the committee punished Ohio State for its inexplicable loss against Iowa (perhaps not so inexplicable when considering that Barrett was playing with a bad knee that required surgery before the Big Ten championship game; the committee considered Alabama's injured linebackers but not Barrett's knee), but effectively rewarded Alabama for its lack of signature victories based on the final rankings and the lack of any championship.
If Georgia and especially Alabama lose today, this will have been the committee's worst performance yet.
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