I'm over the fact we got hosed but We Are PSU, I like playing Alabama and Pitt and USC when opening the season.
I'm over the CFP but I like having tough out of conference games, no cupcakes for me.
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So do I but it was made pretty clear that out of conference schedule don't matter much. I rather see PSU in playoffs then playing a Oklahoma or who ever once a year.
First conference champ team left out of the playoffs and of course it's PSU. Shocking
First conference champ team left out of the playoffs and of course it's PSU. Shocking
Eh, they do matter though. If OSU didn't schedule Oklahoma, they probably would not be in the playoffs. It goes both ways.
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Disagree. Washington proved that this year. It's ALL about W/L. Not quality of opponent or Conference Championships or head to head. The proof is that OSU is the first team ever to not win a conference championship and get in the playoff. Yet, there has NEVER been a team in the CFP with more than one loss.
I think if OSU had a tomato can win instead of Oklahoma, the playoff committee would have been forced to compare them to PSU, where they would be eliminated. But despite that I agree... I think there is more value in scheduling weaker teams OOC than harder ones. It seems that I loss is harder to overcome than a weak schedule.
And only because it's PSU.
Change the name of our conference to SEC, they're in.
Swap us out with OSU or Michigan, they get in.
The agenda is crystal clear. The reasons to keep us out that we've heard the last 6 weeks were manufactured. OSU was "flukey". Before OSU/Michigan game it was all about them. Then when they were shut out, it was the eye test. Then the 39 point loss. Then we all saw last week the JS stuff come out about how it's "too soon" for us when there was very little left for them to hang on to.
I'm surprised even with the win we weren't sent to Dallas.
I'm fine with the stated approaches of both the B1Ga and PSU -
B1G says no 1AA games (Idaho is dropping down, so our scheduled game with them in 2018 is grandfathered, but hopefully can be cancelled). The B1G had at one time encouraged scheduling MAC teams, and most B1G teams did and still do. I don't know if they still encourage it, but it's ok with me - many MAC teams are at least competitive if not outright good, and a tuneup is a good thing before the meat of the schedule hits.
PSU says play an out-of-conf P5 team each season, so we have lots of those games lined up. Scheduling an AAC team like Temple or another team is fine with me. Scheduling an inter-sectional game with a team from a prime recruiting area is fine with me. Not crazy about Ga. State coming in, though. A Florida non-P5 1A school would be fine, for example. But I think it is in each P5 school's best interests to try to schedule a tune-up game early in the season.
It's a tough schedule that way more often than not, and cupcakes are not always easily predicted. I hope we get to the point soon where ESPN is asking us to take part in one of their opening weekend made-for-TV matchups.
It doesn't go both ways numbskull - daO$U was not PENALIZED for losing the FAR MORE IMPORTANT conference season! They didn't even win a Conference Division Title, let alone a Conference Championship Game, and your trying to claim that a win against an OU team that got blown out @home by an unranked Houston team is more important than losing your Conference Division, not even earning the right to play in your CCG and having the second best outright B1G record??? Huh??? WTF??? That is the DIAMETRIC OPPISITE of what the "Selection Committee" claimed in regards to Washington and clearly constitutes a "double-standard", "mixed-messaging" and absurdly subjective, arbitrary & gratuitous rationale by the "Selection" Committee.
I do. Right now they have three top ten wins. Without Oklahoma, they would have two top 10 wins and none other inside the top 25. PSU has two top 10 wins and one top 25 win (Temple). I think that would force them to take a look at the head to head and conference championship. Now I know what you are saying... that the selection committee was deadset on screwing PSU and elevating OSU. Maybe they were... but that becomes much harder to justify without that Oklahoma victory.
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