This year was a crap shoot. Outside Alabama and Clemson there are good arguments for and against the next bunch of teams.
OSU - still don't think they should have made it based on number of games played. And they did not look overwhelming at all yesterday against Northwestern. Only reason they jumped ahead of ND was to avoid a 3rd game between ND and Clemson. I don't think they are any better.
Notre Dame - I'm also of the school that says if you don't win your conference it's hard to justify making it. And they got schooled pretty good yesterday, and their earlier win vs Clemson is with a bit of an asterick.
Florida - looked real good yesterday but can't be there with 3 losses and not winning your conference.
Oklahoma (I'm a Sooner fan so probably biases). Since stumbling early they have been getting better every week. Win their conference and beat the #6 team in the country to do so they arguably could have been considered. But hard to get over the 2 losses.
PAC12 - conference champion did not even win their own division (!!) and are still ranked lower than the team they just beat. Go Figure. So yeah - no.
Cincinnati - probably deserved to go as the 4th team more than anyone else. There is still a huge bias against the Group of 5. Yes they probably would get smoked by Bama but so would most anyone else.
After Clemson and Bama honestly you could probably put in any of about half a dozen teams and they would all do equally as well.
At least the Cotton Bowl looks like it will be a good game. OU - Florida. Two pretty solid teams.
Looking forward to OSU and Notre Dame getting blasted.
And speaking of the playoffs - the Rose Bowl (aka Semi Final) has been moved to Dallas this year due to Covid restrictions in California.
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