Even if they win the Big Ten championship game, I'm not convinced they deserve a spot. That gives them six games against not great competition. Do we really know how good they are? I think they would have a better argument if they had been allowed to schedule another game this weekend.
I look at Florida and Texas A&M and think they are probably more deserving. Part of me wants Ohio State left out, just to stick it to Warren and the mess the conference made this year.
Do we really know how good anyone outside of Alabama is this year? To me, they have been head and shoulders above anyone else, and going off the eye test, it hasn’t been close.
Norte Dame looked entirely beatable for the first half of the year, and their only great win is against a Clemson team that didn’t have their QB and was playing a true freshman. Clemson also has been pretty average (by Clemson standards) to this point. A signature win against Miami??
A&M beat FL, but look at the rest of their wins... it lacks a fair amount of substance. Same can be said with FL because they lost to A&M. But we find out more about them vs Bama.
IMO the only other team worth mentioning is Cinci. They’ve played good ball, but not playing this week hurts as that would be a solid win for them if they got it.
So while OSU may not be deserving, I don’t really see a drop off from any of the others in consideration for the playoff at all. When you only play league teams, this is what can happen-especially in a year where a lot of traditionally strong teams flat out stink.
