CoFoPo Selection Show Open Thread

Why Baylor? Under the Big 12's tiebreaker from back when they had a championship it would have been TCU (not Baylor) that would have won their division (I think it's safe to assume they would have been in the same division) and gone to the championship game. Can't punish TCU for the fact that the Big 12 doesn't have enough teams.

The further down the QB depth chart they go the better their offense (and defense!) seems to get.

More seriously, it may be a cliche, but it did look like OSU came with a lot more fire.  Wisconsin was flat from the kick off, completely inept.

Jeez, a bad 5-7 Michigan team was able to go toe-to-toe with OSU for 50 minutes.  Wisconsin was done after 2 minutes.  In what rational universe is Michigan able to mount three 75 yard plus drives with plenty of running yardage against OSU, while Wisconsin and Melvin Gordon gained just 2.9 yards per carry and looked terrible all night? 

Though it is a thread for a different day, I just cannot imagine that all three OSU QBs will stick around for 2015.  I say Braxton Miller is the odd man out.  He will have his degree and would maximize his NFL draft position by going elsewhere. 

In sports kayfabe, I hate OSU as much as anyone.  But they deserve to be in the playoff.  If they don't, the Bammers will obliterate them.  I think they had a great season, all things considered.  Besides, I don't want to see a precedent set in which the Big Ten Champion with one loss doesn't get in.  It could hurt Michigan down the road.

Totally agree. I just can't think of a scenario where OSU gets in. TCU and OSU common opponent: Minnesota. TCU beat them more soundly. End of story.

Why? Baylor just beat a top 10 team and osu just murdered the team i thought was the best in the b1g

This is why I hate weekly polls. They start from scratch each week. The you can't drop them based on last week's poll is the worst argument. TCU won, but OSU defeated a ranked team and TCU beat a ranked team. I mean ISU is a tire fire. Anything can happen. 

So TCU playing ranked teams first and getting ahead into the rankings is somehow significant? TCU beat some ranked teams, got their boost, and now Baylor has done the same. We're back to square one. 

Cumong WD, Michigan-level math time here - 3 spots!!!! Who's the guy in the sky-blue blazer pimping TCU? I get Herbie boosting osu, but that guy makes some sense - what did TCU do yesterday to drop?

Everyone else beat a ranked team in a conference championship game and added to their resume.  TCU's resume stayed the same by beating a tomato can.  You snooze, you lose...

Circle Jerk was already taken.

No

No no no no no

Yes. Yet another nationally televised example of why the B1G just doesn't belong. What could go wrong.

Actually, as much as I hate Saban and Cryer, this scenario makes as much sense as any possible for what's good for MICHIGAN! B1G gets in, osu doesn't win a game, but doesn't humiliate the conference.

Really taking some big-ass lemons and coming up with a glass of lemonade there - too tart, but in the glass not in the eye ;-)

but ESPN has announced that OSU made it.  How did they forget OSU's performances against Michigan, Penn State and Indiana. 

I guess they punished th Big 12 for no chmpionship game?

Plus, a major dose of the recency bias.

That's 2.5. But still 2.25 longer than needed.

Ohio has a better paper resume than either of those teams. The Big 12 is not good this year, Ohio has the worst loss but a tougher schedule overall and a championship game that they crushed

No

GA Tech v MSU is 1 bowl

The other 3 will be mix and matches.  I think Boise State goes to Fiesta vs the lowest ranked team (Missouri, Georgia Tech, Arizona, Georgia, etc)

The other 2 games will be some combination of Baylor, loser of OSU v TCU, Miss State and most likely Ole Miss.