Quote:But what if Alabama is better? They finished with the same record as Baylor but played a more difficult schedule. Why penalize teams in good conferences and protect those in weaker ones? Again, a team would be better off playing in a weak conference and running the table every year.


The bowl committee needs to decide, is the goal of the 4 team playoff to pick the 4 best teams or the 4 most deserving. There is a difference between the two.

Alabama lost the last game they played, and are being rewarded for not playing this past weekend. Stanford , Baylor, and MSU all played, against the best competition their conference has to offer (save for Baylor, who played Texas) and still couldn't climb higher than Alabama, who sat on their butts and moved up 1-2 spots.


That's not right


Personal bias aside, it should be:

FSU

Auburn

MSU

Baylor

Bama

Ohio State

Stanford

Missouri

South Carolina

Oklahoma


At least, that's how I see it, though perhaps you could make the argument for Stanford being ranked higher than tOSU. But since they have 2 losses, they're ranked lower imo. 

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