CFP Rankings Speculation

I don't know if Ohio St should be ranked higher. We beat Wisconsin more handedly than they did (come back in OT). They lost to Penn St who we demolished. Should be lower ranked than us...

If I had to pick us to have 1 loss out of Iowa, Indiana, OSU, & B1G Champ game, I'd choose this one in a heartbeat. Win and we're in! (trying to stay positive)

Doofus homerism at its best. Sure, Clemson and Washington drop 3 spots but we stay unchanged. Okay dude. Great post

Alabama, OSU, Louisville, Clemson, Michigan, Washington

The rankings this week will be real interesting.  Supposedly the committee values being a conference champion but if you end up with a 2 loss Pac-10 champ (Wash St, Utah or Colorado). a 2 loss Big Ten champ (PSU, Nebraska or Wisky), a 2 loss Big 12 champ (Oklahoma or Okie St) and one loss teams in Louisville and OSU who don't even win their divisions, who the heck makes the playoffs?

Probably # 6, since Washington lost to a good USC team. We lost to a team that got blown out by PSU last week, one that only beat Rutgers by 7 points and one that Purdue scored 36 points on.  Earlier this year I thought our defense was elite but it has fallen off since the MSU game. Our offense was improving but our OL is an average unit at best, not elite. It will be tough to beat OSU but you never know. We could be hyped up for the game and we may play well enough to beat OSU.

Wisconsin might jump into the top 6 if they decide to drop Washington that low. depends on what factors they consider the most important this week.

Ill give my prediction. We are fucked

1) Bama 2) Ohio State 3) Clemson 4) Louisville 5) Washington 6) Michigan They'll give us the soft schedule noise and justify our drop saying we lost to the worst opponent. Then someone will bring up Clemson and they'll justify by saying they beat Louisville/harder schedule.

Yes, we'll drop because we looked like absolute crap. It will be

1. Bama
2. OSU
3. Louisville
4. Clemson (because the CFP committee can see no wrong in their nail biter wins or losses)
5. Wisconsin
6. Michigan

OSU lost to PSU. Very similar to what happened to us last night. Sparty lost to Nebraska last season, won out, and made the cut... We're still in this. Edit: Can we get Brady Hoke as a guest speaker prior to The Game in two weeks? Thank-you.

My prediction:
1. Bama
2. OSU
3. Clemson
4. Louisville
5. Michigan

Don't know how you can put Louisville ahead of M or Clemson based on resume especially if it's about who you beat like they say. I also think there's a solid chance Michigan ends up ahead of Louisville but I wanted to end conservative.

1.) Bama
2) OSU
3.) Louisville
4.) Michigan
5.) Clemson
6.) Wisconsin
7.) Washington
8.) Oklahoma
9.) Penn state
10.) Colorado

1) bama
2) OSU
3) Louisville
4) Clemson
5) Michigan
6) Wisconsin
7) penn st
8) Washington
9) Colorado
10) Oklahoma

Remember that SOR is what the committee uses, not SOS. Though similar, not the same. if you are using the SOR metric, how can you say a team with 1 loss that has beaten 3 top ten teams isn't #2? Because of who we lost to. I can see us as high as #4 above Clemson because of that, but I doubt it. I don't know why the committee loves them so much, but they do. Louisvilles loss is to a top 5 team, so they jump us. Obviously OSU for the same reason. But hey, the committee also put a 1loss A&M over undefeated Washington. Don't be shocked if we drop down to 7 or 8. It could happen. Hell, Washington might drop to 10. This committee has proven they're insane

1) Alabama
2) Louisville
3) OSU
4) Clemson (the committee loooooooves them some Deshaun Watson)
5) Michigan
6) Washington
7) Wisconsin
8) Oklahoma
9) PSU
10) WVU

I don't think Michigan is ready for that kind of stage.  I don't think we'd beat Alabama or Clemson and both might get ugly.  Washington is so much faster than us and Louisville and Ohio State are probably much better than us as well.

 

 

1. Bama
2.OSU
3.Clemson
4. Louisville
5.Washington
6. Michigan

Out of all those teams we probably have the worst loss. Yes Clemson loss to a 6-4 team, but Pitt has 2 top 10 wins on their resume. Iowa hasn't done anything all year and I think we will be penalized for it.

Yes, win out and we're in is true and it's great to control our own destiny....

However, had we gone in to Columbus undefeated and stayed within 10 points of them in a loss, we would have absolutely been in the final Playoff top 4.  No way they could keep a 1 loss Michigan out of the final 4, especially given how the rest of the scenarios played out this weekend.

I'd even argue (although we would much rather earn a trip to the playoff), the easiest way in would have been going in to Coumbus and losing that game, sitting out the B1G championship game, and probably getting in at #3, where we wouldn't have to play Bama in the first game.

Now we have to win out to earn back the #2 or #3 ranking.

We'll be 5th and have a game with 2. Fix a few things and level Indiana. Still have to work for everything but if we had to lose a game that was the best one to lose.

6th. They have the second worst loss and a paltry resume.

We drop to 5 at least. Wouldn't be surprised if we drop to 7. Wisconsin will get credit for beating OSU and "almost" beating us, who "aren't as good as everyone thought." They've been fellating Clemson and Louisville all year, they're both top 5 tonight.

Speaking realistically I dont see us beating OSU in Columbus..That means Penn St goes to the BIG Title game and M and OSU dont..Who saw that cominmg?  Osu would be top 4 and into play off with ?  Wisc or Penn st whoever wins the BIG? 2 loss team? unlikely so whoever wins that game goes to Rose bowl knocking Michigan 0ut of that too..Short of beating OSU (unlikely) this game cost us ALOT

I  felt this coming all week long and my worst fears came true...We probably would get a Big 6 bowl game though say Orange Bowl or other so there is that

I would guess Alabama, OSU, Clemson, Louisville, UM