Now that the college football regular season is over let the foolishness begin. This week everybody’s got conference championship games to play, well…everybody expect for Notre Dame because they aren’t in a conference. They’ve completed the gauntlet with a perfect 12-0 regular season so when the College Football Playoff Committee sits down to figure this thing out they’ve got one less team to discuss. Notre Dame is in regardless of what happens this week.
All of the talking heads were asking questions that won’t have answers to them until after the conference title games are over. The first thing boyz were asking was who do you take, Oklahoma or Ohio State? Well…that depends upon what they both do on Saturday.
Ohio State’s got a better shot at winning than Oklahoma does simply because OU has to play it’s biggest rival known to man, the Texas Longhorns, for all of the marbles in the Big 12 title game in Texas. It’s the Red River Rivalry all over again with even bigger implications. You don’t need a reason to get up for this game! It’s OU/Texas!!!
The Longhorns have already beaten them earlier this year so they’ve got crazy confidence going into the title game. On some real talk, Ohio State should blast Northwestern easily because they aren’t even on the same level athletically, physically or emotionally when it comes to playing games at this level.
It should be a cake walk in Indianapolis for the Buckeyes after they completely dismantled the No.1 defense in America on Saturday that may have essentially cost Jim Harbaugh his job. I know boyz aren’t talking about it yet on television but you heard it hear first playa. They’re paying him a gang of bread to win those types of games and he’s yet to produce them.
Harbaugh finally beat Michigan State this year but he’s batting zeros against both Notre Dame and Ohio State. His neighbor’s have been outside all night taking bids on the snow blower and grill. I’m just sayin’.
Clemson’s going to sprint through Pittsburgh so that’s not even worth discussing.
So the real debate is not whether Ohio State or Oklahoma will get in. It’s wether or not the committee will screw both of them if George beats Alabama in the SEC title game in Atlanta? We’ve seen it before, like last year. I’ve been telling you guys all season that it was literally only two spots open for the playoff because these ESPN cats would rather have two SEC teams in the playoff because they own both the College Football Playoff and the SEC Network. If Georgia beats Bama they’re both getting in because of the foolishness that I spoke of when I started this article.
Notre Dame and Clemson are locks at this point so there’s only two spots left. If Bama wins then there is a discussion if both OU and Ohio State win. If they both win and Georgia wins they’re screwed because the committee will pull the same rabbit out of their hats that they pulled last year. “We can’t keep a one loss Alabama out.” I would agree with that if their strength of schedule was better than everybody else’s but it’s not.
“They play in the SEC” sounds great on the surface but Alabama’s strength of schedule was trash this year just like it is every year. They play their first game on a neutral field against their ONLY Power 5 non-conference opponent. They refuse to play a real home and away non-conference game against ANYBODY. Then they add the Boo-Boo State’s of the world like Arkansas State, Louisiana State (in Week 5) and The Citadel (in Week 10). They already play in the terrible SEC West with Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss State and Texas A&M (who was a door mat in the Big 12).
They then added two catfish/bottom feeders from the East in Tennessee and Mizzou to complete the hustle. So therefore, they only played two real games all season and that was against LSU and Auburn. Sure, they blasted both of them because late in the season they’ve got absolutely no attrition because they aren’t even playing into the fourth quarter. Tua Tagovailoa took a fourth quarter snap for the first time on Saturday against Auburn. The freakin’ last game of the season. They’re ALWAYS healthy going into the playoff.
But the duns at ESPN will tell you out of the same mouth that if Notre Dame had loss a game they would be out of the running for the playoff but Bama could still lose playing that terrible schedule and get in. Why? Because they always do. The wins and losses count for everybody else but not for Alabama and they know it. That’s why Saban and Co. continue to pad the schedule every year knowing that even if they lose the SEC title game they’re getting in.
So both Ohio State and Oklahoma could potentially win their respective conferences and Bama could still get in ahead of them without winning theirs. Foolishness to the tenth degree. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.