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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 1222889, member: 874"]
That's why it doesn't make sense.  How does beating a 2 two loss team make you look better than beating a 1 loss team, just because it allows for a decided conference champion?  It shouldn't.  If SOS wasn't all that different, then Baylor's win over TCU means more than any win OSU had all year.  Who cares that much about small differences between OOC strength if overall SOS is similar?  OSU's OOC schedule wasn't that much better than Baylor's?  They played one mediocre P5 team and lost by 2 TD's at home.

If it's about OOC schedule, TCU's was comparable to OSU's.  TCU's P5 OOC opponent finished with a better record than OSU's and they actually beat them.  Coincidentally, it was also a common opponent that TCU beat by 23 and OSU beat by 7.  Normally, I don't like to play the "my team won by more than your team" game, but when it's combined with an overall stronger SOS and a "better" loss, it's significant.

Objectively, OSU didn't deserve to be in the top 4.  TCU and Baylor had better arguments.
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