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Message: [QUOTE="Fjoinkay, post: 2406634, member: 604"] Ohio State played Oklahoma OOC and lost by 15 points. It was a 3 point game in the 4th quarter. Ohio State plays 9 conference games to Georgia's 8 conference games in a much more difficult conference division- the B1G East is much better than the SEC East right now. Ohio State is more talented and is a more complete team when you look at offense and defense. The loss to Iowa hurt them, and that is why the committee chose Alabama over Ohio State. I would have chosen Bama over Ohio State although it was a close call. I also, if the 4 best teams is the standard as the committee proclaimed every week and as ESPN marketed heavily for months, would have chosen Ohio State over Georgia despite the two losses as the 4th best team. Ohio State went into Iowa after beating a very good Penn State team in a battle. People forget that Penn State barely escaped Iowa City with a win earlier in the season. Iowa was playing really well early this season, and they play really well against top ranked teams at home. Last season they beat a really good Michigan team. Being the week after the hard fought game with Penn State, Ohio State lost at Iowa which is a difficult place to play, and Penn State lost to Michigan State. Both teams suffered the week after playing each other. Maybe they should have scheduled a cupcake in there someplace and scheduled one less conference game (8 instead of 9) to soften the blows taken during the B1G grind? That's what the SEC teams do with only 8 conference games on the schedule and many of them scheduling that extra OOC game against a cupcake in November. So, while I can see why the committee selected the way it did, in my opinion the 4 best teams, if that is truly the standard, are: Clemson, Bama, Oklahoma, and Ohio State. Auburn beat a very banged up Bama team a week ago. Two weeks ago Bama was so banged up that Bama barely beat Mississippi State. This was just after MS barely beat a really bad UMass team at home the previous week. Bama healthy is a much better team than Auburn this year in my opinion. Also, Auburn lost to LSU the week after LSU lost to Troy. Basically, the SEC was a mess this season. Bama was the best team in the SEC. The committee rated Georgia too highly early on based on a one point win in South Bend against Notre Dame. No way the win in South Bend meant that Georgia was number one ahead of Bama, but the committee rated them that way anyway, and then the committee justified that rating by propping up ND and rating them too highly after a loss at home saying it was ND's strength of schedule and the fact that ND lost to Georgia who is now number one. The committee linked those two teams justifying each team's ranking by referring to the other and rated both too highly, which came to light very soon. That showed me right there that the committee really liked Georgia even though the SEC East was obviously having a down year. Then a couple of weeks later both Georgia and ND were blown out during the same weekend. After those blow out losses both should have fallen further than they did as they were linked and with each one having been used to justify the other's ranking. Then Notre Dame lost to Stanford and struggled to win other games. The committee whiffed on ND, and really surprised most people when they rated Georgia ahead of Bama in the process. With all being said and done, Georgia is a good team, but I think Ohio State is a more complete and better team. I see why the committee selected Georgia, but Georgia is not one of the 4 best teams. [/QUOTE]

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