Gonna keep writing about CFB because it’s more fun than lame competition theory.
Going into Week 11 of College Football, everyone was expecting a pretty calm weak without too many casualties or change in rankings due to the only top 25 matchups being #4 Washington vs #20 USC and #24 LSU vs #25 Arkansas. This expectation was proved horribly wrong in the most exciting manner though. 5 of the top 10 teams lost with 4 of those losses being to unranked opponents. #2 Clemson lost to Pitt, #3 Michigan lost to Iowa, #4 Washington lost to #20 USC, #8 Texas A&M lost to Ole Miss, and #9 Auburn lost to Georgia. #1 Alabama, #5 Ohio State, #6 Louisville, and #7 Wisconsin all crushed their relatively weak opponents not too surprisingly, but #10 Penn State went relatively close with the not-too-great .500 team, Indiana (personally I think Penn State is overrated atm). This created great confusion to the CFP committee as how they should approach this chaos. Obviously Alabama should be #1, but past that what goes where? Due to the rest of teams ahead of Ohio State losing, they should be #2, but then if that logic followed, Louisville should jump up to #3, which they did not! Michigan and Clemson stayed ahead at #3 and #4 respectively (funny SIDE NOTE: After the CFP ranking reveal on Tuesday, Louisville players complained on social media about only being ranked #5, only to lose to unranked Houston two days later lmaooo). Washington stayed in top 6, which is understandable considering they had the most solid loss of Week 11, if they just had a stronger schedule going into it they’d be great. USC I just found out actually is tied for most top 10 defeats which is incredible considering their ranking.
BIGGEST OUTCOME OF THE WEEK:
With Michigan’s loss, if Penn State wins out (which they should, p cupake games) Ohio State WILL NOT go to the B1G Championship game, even if they beat Michigan in week 13. This could leave the CFP committee with likely #2 tOSU (or #1 if somehow Bama loses) AND the B1G champion to choose from for the top 4. The committee values conference championships a shit-ton so this might be the way to get two B1G teams in the playoff which would be brazy.
Thursday update: Further chaos with L’ville’s loss and I really have no clue as to what’s to come for the rest of the season.
My playoff predictions:
0. Bama
2. Clemson
3. UW
4. tOSU
Even thought I don't really follow football, I always find upsets in any sport to be pretty interesting. It almost always makes rankings a lot more interesting. It sounds like these games were really crazy and the thing about the social media was also pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteEven though I was kind of lost through some of this blog post because I don't follow football I liked how casual but yet still really information-full you made this post.
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