If Alabama gets in (I hope they do) then PAC and BIG left out, two blue bloods out.

[john4psu]

If Alabama gets in, and I hope they do, you'd have two SEC teams in, which I think the committee doesn't want to happen, you'd have a PAC-12 champion USC and a BIG-10 champion Ohio State out. Two blue bloods left out of the playoffs.

With the west coast not involved and Big 10 country not involved, would that lessen interest somewhat for those areas and will that hasten going to eight teams once this agreement is up?

 

[NittPicker]

If that happens (I'm hoping too), I'd like to think a bowl game between the two excluded conference champions would be arranged. Seeing USC beat OSU would be fun.

 

[BobPSU92]

There should be a forum rule forbidding the use of "blue blood". I don't care what Tom Selleck thinks.

 

[Art]

Life sucks and then you die...when you lose two games.

 

[blion72]

If Alabama gets in, and I hope they do, you'd have two SEC teams in, which I think the committee doesn't want to happen, you'd have a PAC-12 champion USC and a BIG-10 champion Ohio State out. Two blue bloods left out of the playoffs.

With the west coast not involved and Big 10 country not involved, would that lessen interest somewhat for those areas and will that hasten going to eight teams once this agreement is up?

if Bama is in (and they should be because the are one of the 4 best teams), then tOSU will very likely play USC in the Fiesta. it will be interesting whether the committee sees Wisky ahead of us. IF so, then Wisky vs TCU in Cotton. That would put us in either the Orange vs Miami or Peach vs UCF.

IF the committee has us ahead of Wisky, then we would probably play TCU in Cotton. that is probably the key.

if you look at one of the tOSU arguments it is that the "1 point win vs PSU was really more like a 20 point win" - the tOSU view is they totally dominated us, and it was only pure luck it was close. nobody mentions the two key injuries we suffered in that game.

 

[BUFFALO LION]

If Alabama gets in, and I hope they do, you'd have two SEC teams in, which I think the committee doesn't want to happen, you'd have a PAC-12 champion USC and a BIG-10 champion Ohio State out. Two blue bloods left out of the playoffs.

With the west coast not involved and Big 10 country not involved, would that lessen interest somewhat for those areas and will that hasten going to eight teams once this agreement is up?

Are you kidding? Half the country wouldn't even know there was a Playoff.

That's like saying after the season's done that no one from the AFC is good enough to play in the Super Bowl. You think someone like me who is a Steeler fan would care much about what happens in the NFL Playoffs?