Playoff Question
- Thread starter Nbergbuck
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Penn State ranked higher regardless
The Michigan loss kills Ohio State
Penn State 11-2 > Ohio State 10-2. The extra win with no bad losses.
Your analysis makes sense. However, I am not sure the people who decide this will see it that way. OSU did beat PSU in State College. OSU probably also played the tougher regular season schedule.
I 100% believe that and most here will tell you they think I'm an Ohio State fan lol
Most of what I've predicted has been right. My only real miss is I thought ND might jump Penn State
Penn State's floor is the 7 seed. Tennessee at Ohio State is a lock as is Indiana as the 10 seed IMO
There's a part of me that wants the other side of the bracket, but that means Alabama. So I am erring on the side of caution. I still think if Penn State somehow pulls out a close win against Oregon and Texas smacks down Georgia, we can get just that with the two seed and the winner of a down Georgia or IU
You've gotta win the games. The SOS is secondary. And the championship game is different. Both PSU and tOSU end with two losses but tOSU's are in the regular season. PSU will have lost to two top ten teams (tOSU and Oregon). tOSU lost to a top-ten team and a middle-of-the-pack, 6-5 team. Easy choice, really. PSU is 11-1, tOSU is 10-2. PSU plays a 13th game and tOSU does not. You can't elevate a team for not making it to the championship game.
SOS is a factor in the committee's thinking. OSU also beat PSU as an away game. Beat Oregon and it is all academic.
All true but there's no logic in Penn State dropping that far for a conference title game against #1. If we were playing Clemson or ASU or someone you'd be on to something.
SOS is secondary to overall record. Lots of teams have better SOS than Oregon. Lots of teams have 1 loss. But every good team with 0 or 1 loss will be in the playoff. SOS only comes into 2 loss teams this year. 3 and you are out. (at least this year) That is why I SOS is secondary.
I don't care about the PSU/OSU game. PSU has one less loss. Period and end of sentence. That is why we are playing in the championship.
And since tOSU isn't playing in the championship, or any game at all, they can't move over us. We have 13 games moving into the championship. tOSU only has 12. And losing to Oregon, would only make us even to tOSU...we both lost to them (if it comes to that)
Jesus Christ why are you so scared of freaking Tennessee at HOME? Ohio State will beat them by 24 points. Then you have a neutral field, probably the Rose Bowl, to beat a team in Oregon who you SHOULD have beat in Eugene, or a team in Penn State who you literally only need to show up in uniform and Franklin will find a new way of losing to you by 7 to 14 points.
Michigan really screwed up you guys heads 😂
Relax. You have the best roster in the nation and you have done this before, many times, as recently as 2014, etc
Michigan really screwed up you guys heads 😂
Relax. You have the best roster in the nation and you have done this before, many times, as recently as 2014, etc
But in 2016 Penn State was the one with two losses and had beaten Ohio State who only had one loss head-to-head, and Penn State was ranked higher. Oh wait,...
