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Message: [QUOTE="Fjoinkay, post: 2406904, member: 604"] I laid out my reasoning earlier in this thread in a few different posts. It's late now, but I'll give it a quick go anyway. I think Georgia is a really good team. I just think Ohio State is better. The SEC East is very weak this season. SEC teams play 8 conference games while B1G teams play 9 conference games. The B1G East is much better than the SEC East this year. The committee overvalued Georgia's one point win in South Bend over Notre Dame. At that time the committee linked Georgia and Notre Dame. The committee made Georgia #1 then ahead of Bama which was strange. Neither the Coaches poll nor the AP did that. Also, at the same time the committee ranked Notre very high even though ND had one loss at home to Georgia. The committee said that ND was ranked so high because they lost to #1 Georgia and the committee also said that ND's SOS was high. The problem was that SOS algorithms are flawed. It was too early to apply SOS as a rationale to place a one loss ND, whose loss was at home, so high in the rankings. The committee also said that they ranked Georgia ahead of Bama as the #1 team because Georgia beat ND by one point in South Bend. The committee was using one team to justify the other and vice versa for rankings for each team that were a little too high for each team. Bama was the best team in the country and ND should not have been ranked as high as the committee ranked them which soon became clear. A couple of weeks later or so both Georgia and ND were blown out. ND also lost to Stanford, and really they struggled to win a couple of games along the way. So, I think Georgia while a very good team should never have been ahead of Bama earlier in the season. And when Georgia and ND were both blown out the same weekend they both should have dropped further in the committee's poll than the committee moved them because the committee's own rationale had been that one justified the other, but suddenly both had been blown out. However, like I said I think Georgia is a legit #5 or #6 team in the country, but they played in a weak division this year. Ohio State is a more complete team that played in the most competitive conference division this year and also in a conference where the teams play 9 conference games instead of the 8 games that the SEC teams play. Many SEC teams also use that extra OOC game to schedule a cupcake at home in November to rest up for big rivalry games. So, if the committee is going to say that the 4 very best teams were chosen for the CFP then I disagree. The 4 best teams are Clemson, Bama, Oklahoma and Ohio State in my opinion. A healthy Bama was always better than Georgia. The committee used injuries after Clemson lost in the Dome, Bryant Kelly played in the Dome with an injured ankle and then he was knocked out during that game, to justify not dropping Clemson further in the rankings than it did drop them. I'm not a fan of using injuries like that, but the committee did. So if it used injuries for Clemson then I think it can look at Bama's injuries and say Bama is a better team than Georgia. If not for Bama's injuries they would not have lost to Auburn. I think a healthy Bama is better than Georgia, and I think Ohio State is right there with a healthy Bama and should be the #4 team with Bama being the #3 team. I'd put Georgia at #5 or #6. [/QUOTE]

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