Ohio State's Controversial Playoff Ranking Explained

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00:00What amazes me is not that they won.

00:06What amazes me is that nothing happened to Ohio State other than they aren't playing

00:12for a Big Ten title and they get to go to the playoffs with their cushy ranking.

00:17They went from two to seven.

00:19It's like they lost to, let's just face facts, Michigan has never been seven and five and

00:24beaten Ohio State in Columbus.

00:27So it was a stunning win, but I thought they deserved to fall further and there should

00:32be some kind of punishment losing to a five loss team, your rival in your stadium in front

00:37of 105,000 people.

00:40This is the downfall of the modern college football playoff format, which we always have

00:45to tinker and always have to adjust with every 10 years, 12 years or whatever it is.

00:50And finally greed got the best of everybody.

00:54And Scott, it was fine the way that it was with four teams.

00:57You know why?

00:58Because there was actually ramifications.

01:00As you stated, Ohio State lose, you lost to the Ducks.

01:04So listen, the Ohio State Buckeyes guys, if you look at their schedule this year, they

01:08played and this isn't a great Michigan team.

01:12All right.

01:13So they played Penn State, they played the Oregon Ducks and they played the Michigan

01:16Wolverines.

01:17Those were their three games on the schedule.

01:18It's like, all right, these are sort of, and I know at Indiana.

01:22So Indiana this year, and they win two of them.

01:26They win two of them.

01:27In past years, Scott, that sends you to the Outback Bowl.

01:30It's like, sorry, you lost twice.

01:31You're out of the mix.

01:32And you know, move on.

01:34There's no ramifications anymore for losing.

01:37So I warned everybody about this and said, all right, you think these, the rivalry games

01:41are still cool.

01:43They don't mean as much anymore.

01:44They don't mean anything.

01:45I remember last year, Scott, when Michigan were undefeated, it was like, man, you gotta

01:49beat Ohio State.

01:51There was a chance before, you had one loss, you were on the outside looking in, it was

01:55like, yeah, you know, sorry, but you lost to this team and they're undefeated and you're

01:58not.

01:59You know, it was like a level of perfection that you needed.

02:03Now we're probably going to have a three loss Alabama team backdoor this thing.

02:07There's going to be a three loss team in the playoffs, right?

02:10It's going to be South Carolina.

02:11Would you rather it's team Alabama or South Carolina with three losses?

02:14Oh God.

02:16Well, we know what's going to happen there, right?

02:20Yeah.

02:21South Carolina is playing better than Alabama.

02:22Yeah.

02:23But South Carolina, South Carolina, you know how it works.

02:25It's all, it's all brand name.

02:27I, you know, I don't want to get it.

02:28We get into this stupid stuff though with these three loss teams, dude, even Illinois

02:33had an argument, right?

02:34I saw, uh, their coach Belima was, uh, Lay Tiffin was crying on Twitter about how they

02:40deserve to be in the playoffs because all their metrics.

02:43And he said, oh yeah.

02:44So I guess we do too.

02:46But he fired back and he had strength of schedule wins, losses, and Illinois was more

02:52impressive than Ole Miss was.

02:53Right.

02:54So we're going to get into, you know, we're splitting hairs here to me.

02:57It's almost Scott.

02:58Like we're arguing who the 69th best team is to get into the college basketball tournament.

03:03You know, not to disrespect these three loss football teams, but that's what we're doing

03:06here.

03:07Right.

03:08You know, it's like, all right.

03:09Which one of these teams, Illinois game, I'd take Ole Miss with that defense of theirs.

03:14I agree with that.

03:15I think Ole Miss would beat Illinois.

03:17If it was in Ole Miss, if it was in Illinois, I'm not sure.

03:20I'm not sure.

03:21Put it this way.

03:22Like, you know, we, we hear all this assumption all the time.

03:25Well, if these SEC teams are like Nick Saban said it last week, well, if Ole Miss were

03:29in the big 12 or if Ole Miss were in the ACC, they wouldn't lose as many games.

03:34What conference are Georgia Tech in?

03:36They should have beaten Georgia the other night, right?

03:39They're an ACC team, Texas just walked in for the big 12 and basically won your, your

03:44conference in their first year.

03:46Yeah.

03:47And how about the PAC 12, Scott, Arizona state walks in, um, walks in and goes to the conference

03:53championship game in their, in their first year.

03:56Uh, how about the Oregon ducks leaving the PAC 12 dominating the big 10 in their first

04:00year?

04:01Right.

04:02It's amazing.

04:03These, all these teams showing up all, they're going to struggle.

04:05They won't do as well.

04:06PAC 12 sucks.

04:07Well, I guess, I guess they didn't suck as much as people said, that's the big crime

04:11of this.

04:12I just want to say, Scott, it's a real shame.

04:15It's too bad.

04:16You and I should have been the commissioners of the, of the PAC 12.

04:17They'd been, they'd be thriving.

04:18I know they're coming back in a, in a miniature, you know, with a small, you know, smaller

04:23setting, but they had such a great conference.

04:26They just had bad management, bad TV deals.

04:29But the quality of play, don't kid yourself, that was elite football that they were playing

04:33and now it's showing.

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