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Ohio State won the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night, but on Sunday, the Buckeyes had their celebration ruined when they didn’t get into the College Football Playoff.
The selection committee decided instead to put a one-loss Alabama team that didn’t win the SEC title in the No. 4 spot ahead of the Buckeyes, sparking some debate.
Though the Crimson Tide are certainly deserving of a spot, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said on ESPN on Sunday afternoon that he would have liked a chance to be in the mix.
He did add that the committee probably did a good job and that he doesn’t know much about the process. But, he said, the Buckeyes’ 31-point road loss at Iowa in November probably hurt them.
“I think they probably did the best they could,” he said. “I don’t really study it that much. I think that would be an injustice to my players.
“The bottom line is we had a tough road loss to a very good team. What could we have done better? I don’t know.”
Ohio State will play in the Cotton Bowl vs. USC, another conference champion that didn’t make the final four:
Meanwhile, Alabama will play No. 1 Clemson in the Sugar Bowl, with a trip to the national championship game on the line.
Watched the interview. Not a big fan of the guy, but he kept it classy.
What could you have done better? Easy, don’t get blown out by Iowa.
Exactly, but they do not want to admit that. In reality they should not even be in the top few teams since they were not only outplayed but murdered by a team who lost 5 games. If any favortism was played, it was toward Ohio State.
This goes to show how corrupt the college football system is. Alabama has no business being in the final four regardless is there one loss. If you look at there schedule it wasn’t even worthy of being number 1. Wonder how much money the committee gets for voting the right teams versus the deserving teams. They aren’t even champions of there own division.
Alabama had a better SOS, Better FPI than Ohio State. They were number 1 the majority of the season. If this was any other team BUT Alabama most would say they deserved to be in. So their late season road loss to their rival was a worse loss than Ohio State’s second loss to Iowa by 31 points. That’s the argument you are making. This is to put the 4 best teams in and let them hash it out. A healthy Bama goes in undefeated, or at worst with a closs loss to Georgi in the SEC championship game.
* close loss
DooDoo Ruben pure Doo Doo. What did you say when OSU was jumped into the playoffs ? OSU went on to be blown out by Clemson, another embarassment. Typical Buckeye type thinking. Buckeye Troll perhaps ?
Let me get this straight. Are you saying that a 2 loss team should go ahead of a 1 loss team who lost to the division champions? Ohio State lost to Iowa who had 5 losses this season. If you want to talk about favortism, Ohio State should not even be in the top few teams. I know Alabama has not had the greatest season ever, but they did not get murdered by an unranked team.
It all comes down to who was more impressive.. osu lost 2 games and one was by more than 30 points.. bama lost by a dozen to a very hot (at the time) au.. one loss will always be less than two no matter how much you want it to be the other way around. Auburn could have made it but they absolutely choked last night.. haters gonna hate! RMFT! How is that corrupt? And also it doesn’t matter if they won their division and for that matter because Alabama should have been in the sec championship based on the number of wins vs losses seeing as how au already had two losses before they even played Alabama!!!
Ruben has to be trolling. Short and simple, there were 5 one loss teams. 4 of them got to go, one stayed home (Wisc). Ohio State wasn’t one of those 5.
I’m glad osu won last night. Their qb is one tough player. 6 days from knee surgery and to play like he did last night.. that was a really good game. Too little too late for OSU but still a good game.