November 14th, 2017 at 9:39 PM ^
Beating #5 is going to pole vault Michigan in next weeks rankings.
November 14th, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^
OSU has too many quality teams to jump. It's Wisconsin or no one this year.
November 14th, 2017 at 9:58 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
they're #9 right now. They'd probably be in if they win out, Bama wins out and Miami wins out. It'd be those three teams and Big 12 winner. Clemson and UGA eliminated as 2-loss non-champs. OSU would be in over PAC12 champ and ND.
Wisconsin as a 12-1 champ is probably looking at needing the same thing.
November 14th, 2017 at 10:00 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 10:54 PM ^
Not a chance. Miami will be in before OSU. OSU will not be jumping Miami. And OSU will not be getting in unless some crazy things happen.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
If OSU and Alabama win out, OSU is right there in the discussion. OSU and Alabama winning out means Wisky, Georgia and Auburn will have been eliminated from the playoff. Then it's down to 5 teams Bama, OSU and OU, Miami and Clemson. The latter two still have to play each other and OU will have to play a team they've already beat in the Big 12 title game.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:57 PM ^
OSU needs to win out (obviously) and also needs Alabama to win out (eliminates Auburn and Georgia) and Miami to win out (eliminates Clemson). The Big 12 is irrelevant in that scenario because you’d have 1. Bama 2. Miami 3. OU (or TCU or the Pac 12 champ) and 4. OSU.
OSU was really helped by Auburn beating Georgia and Miami beating ND. Wisconsin lurks as a potential one loss non champion getting in over a two loss B1G champ with a h2h advantage just like OSU over PSU last year in the event OSU’s win over Wisconsin isn’t very convincing (like perhaps a FG block TD to win).
November 15th, 2017 at 7:59 AM ^
November 15th, 2017 at 9:50 AM ^
buckeyejonross is usually a quality poster, not a troll. He has been around here for a while. You have been around here for 4 days. Having opposing fans give opposing view points is welcomed around here as long as they aren't trolling.
November 15th, 2017 at 2:44 PM ^
November 15th, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^
You forgot the part where we beat you
November 15th, 2017 at 11:36 AM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 10:35 PM ^
by the ref crew to make sure we don't win.
November 14th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^
Steve in PA...
I do not expect OSU to make the playoff. But there is a very reasonable path to allow it to happen. You say there are too many quality teams to jump. Being ranked 9th, they need to jump 5 teams.
If Alabama wins out, they will give Auburn a 3rd loss & Georgia a 2nd loss, both will fall behind OSU.If Clemson beats Miami, both teams may stay ahead of OSU, but if Miami gives Clemson a 2nd loss, OSU (if they are a 2-loss conference champ) will be ahead of a 2-loss Clemson non-champion. There's 3. If OSU beats Wisconsin, that makes 4.
That leaves only Oklahoma or Notre Dame. The easiest scenario is for ND to suffer a 3rd loss.
That's how OSU can jump 5 teams. Not saying it's all going to happen. But that's the path to winning the nomination.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^
It's not impossible for OSU to make it. ACC will probably have a 0 or 1 loss conference champion and I doubt Alabama loses to Auburn or Georgia (Fromm is overrated). So that would leave two slots open. Even if Oklahoma wins out, that last slot is going to either Wisconsin or OSU if either team wins out. No way ND goes to the CFP. This will be the year a 2-loss team makes the CFP.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:45 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 11:06 PM ^
But why should Georgia drop below OSU if they lose to Bama? They would have losses to Auburn and Alabama while OSU would have losses to Oklahoma and Iowa.
Losing to a very mediocre Iowa team by 30+ points should have eliminated OSU permanently. It's an absolute farce that OSU is still in the discussion after getting taken behind the woodshed by Ferentz.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
November 15th, 2017 at 12:14 AM ^
not just losses. Yes, OSU losing by 30 to Iowa was moderately worse than UGA losing to Auburn by 23 (wasn't really even that close).
But an 11-2 OSU would have wins over PSU, MSU (by 45!), Michigan, Wisconsin, Army (they're 8-2!). Georgia plays in a horrible division and their only quality wins would be ND and Miss St. The committee has shown time and time again that it's more about your quality wins than your losses.
November 15th, 2017 at 10:38 AM ^
Losing to Iowa by 31 is MUCH worse than losing to Auburn by 23.
Iowa is a completely mediocre team (they gained 66 yards of total offense against UW this past week) while Auburn is actually pretty good (not as good as the pollsters think, IMO, but still a damn sight better than Iowa). If UM had lost to Iowa by 31 I'm pretty confident the media would be talking about how that should disqualify any 2 loss team from the playoffs.
That loss by OSU was one of the worst performances I have seen from a good team in a LONG time. The only way a 2 loss team should get into the playoffs is if both of their losses are "quality" losses; losing to Iowa by 31 isn't a "quality" loss. As I said earlier, that loss should have immediately removed them from any playoff consideration.
November 15th, 2017 at 3:06 PM ^
UGA vs Aurburn if you think OSU-Iowa that game was the worst you've seen from a good team in a long time. It was 40-10 in an absolute beatdown before UGA scored a dignity TD late. UGA could not do anything on either side of the ball. It was a far more comprehensive beatdown than Iowa administered.
And yes, totally agree that Auburn is a lot better than Iowa so OSU's performance could maybe be considered moderately worse in that context.
But OSU still gained nearly 400 yards on Iowa, they could move the ball, they just turned it over 4 times.
Both very bad performances. OSU's only moderately moreso than the complete egg UGA laid.
November 15th, 2017 at 9:31 AM ^
Wow!. So osu sneaks in to the playoffs after what I saw in Iowa. Does that fan base really want to have a repeat, but worse at the hands of Alabama. If Iowa can throw up 55, what do you think happens whwn they play an undefeated team, not one with four losses allready. You fucks got what you wanted last year and it was a great day. I don't want you in because it means you beat us, but hey I will sit back and enjoy. Alabams vs. osu. First game. Does the osu faithful really want in. I think not, but I will be watching and laughing as Barett implodes and gets run up in by Bama' defense. Either way Barrett is going out a big loser. Loses to Michigan or gets literally raped by Alabama. Unless they don't make the playoffs, but you arrogant fucks all want in because it could'nt happen two years in a row. Ya right, Iowa is better then Bama. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 9:49 PM ^
November 15th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
November 15th, 2017 at 11:01 AM ^
I could see Michigan drop a spot and Wisconsin fall below UCF. It really doesn't like Wisconsin, and losing at home to the only ranked-ish team you'll see all year is pretty G5 of them.
November 14th, 2017 at 9:39 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 9:41 PM ^
so does that mean we could be in the top 10 next week?
November 14th, 2017 at 10:19 PM ^
in your own house... other team has to start playing long after when they'd be on the bus ride home.... never should have jumped 12 spots.
Good weather, no lucky charms... Dantonio was owned. Just drop them far back enough to get scorched in a bowl game.... OK whatever
November 14th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^
Weather=never a good excuse. Both teams have the same access to weather forecasts and play in the same weather.
November 15th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
poor weather affects better teams more because more of what they're capable of doing isn't possible. It evens things out and turns things into more of a coin flip.
November 15th, 2017 at 12:16 AM ^
November 15th, 2017 at 1:36 AM ^
Nope. Not really. For that to be the case, one of the two teams in the UM-MSU game would have to be significantly better than the other. As much as everyone wants to be a homer here, that just wasn't the case. There isn't a huge gap there at this point.
I think it is just as simplistic to think that the advantage/disadvantage doesn't go both ways. If we had won that game, many on here would do their best to shoot down any weather excuses from MSU so I'm not buying it.
Our strength was not passing the ball. It was rushing. And yet we were throwing a bunch with a bad QB in the fucking pounding rain. Pretty obvious that the "monsoon" was an excuse afterward.
Excuses are for losers. It was the rain. It was the wind. It was the refs. Nonsense. Pretty sure you won't hear that crap out of Harbaugh and I have never heard it from any good leader I have ever personally known.
So when I see that excuse on here it screams weakness.
November 15th, 2017 at 10:09 AM ^
It might scream weakness to you but weather is a factor. Acknowledging the effect of weather on a game isn't excusing the loss. It is one component among many moving parts.
And no you won't hear the leaders of the team complaining about weather. That's to be expected.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 9:41 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 9:58 PM ^
Miami hasn't beat a winning team on the road. Clemson beat Auburn on the road. All per the chairman of the committee.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:08 PM ^
Clemson beat Auburn at home. If the chairman stated otherwise then he should be immediately removed from his position for gross incompetence.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 10:05 PM ^
November 15th, 2017 at 12:11 AM ^
and each team has played ten games so they're all taken into account. The eye test also counts and Miami was really fortunate to win a lot of their early games. So yeah, they've looked really good these last two games but both were at home.
Besides, it's completely irrelevent because they play each other on a neutral field in the ACC title game.
November 14th, 2017 at 9:42 PM ^
Guys we knew the playoff rankings were a joke when washington and o$u made it last year. It was shocking then, not so much now.
November 14th, 2017 at 9:43 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 9:59 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 10:05 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 10:11 PM ^
The rain affected both teams. Get this through your skulls. Only one coaching staff was dumb enough to throw in a monsoon on a consistent basis leading to 5 turnovers. That was ours.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:02 PM ^
Thank you. I don't know how many more times I can take the whole weather excuse from people. Both teams have the same weather to play in. If you know a "monsoon" is on the way, get the lead.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:10 PM ^