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No surprise. You have ZERO competition in that conference. Here are my preseason 4 playoff contenders for next year:

Clemson - basically returns the entire team from last year

Bama - until somebody sacks up in the SEC, the SEC is owned by the Tide

tOSU - refer to Bama, only the Buckeyes have an easier path to the playoff. They were a fluke loss away from it this past year.

Baylor - I think Briles finally does it
 

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No surprise. You have ZERO competition in that conference. Here are my preseason 4 playoff contenders for next year:

Clemson - basically returns the entire team from last year

Bama - until somebody sacks up in the SEC, the SEC is owned by the Tide

tOSU - refer to Bama, only the Buckeyes have an easier path to the playoff. They were a fluke loss away from it this past year.

Baylor - I think Briles finally does it
B1G is still more difficult than the ACC, Big 12 or Pac 12. At least that's what the rankings say.
 

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Urban Meyer FINALLY lost his 1st regular season conference game in 4 years and has only lost 2 games in the B1G in 4 years. That's a weak conference.....
No, that's one of the top 2 coaches in the nation. Saban and Meyer on on a different level, simple as that. He gets elite recruits and knows how to use them.
 

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No, that's one of the top 2 coaches in the nation. Saban and Meyer on on a different level, simple as that. He gets elite recruits and knows how to use them.

Even Saban lost 7 games in his 1st two years at Bama. Meyer came in immediately and dominated with ease. He's a great coach no doubt, but it also helps when he has very little competition.
 

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No surprise. You have ZERO competition in that conference. Here are my preseason 4 playoff contenders for next year:

Clemson - basically returns the entire team from last year

Bama - until somebody sacks up in the SEC, the SEC is owned by the Tide

tOSU - refer to Bama, only the Buckeyes have an easier path to the playoff. They were a fluke loss away from it this past year.

Baylor - I think Briles finally does it
I wish some team would finally beat Ohio State to win the Big Ten, they have won the last 25 B1G titles.
 

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Even Saban lost 7 games in his 1st two years at Bama. Meyer came in immediately and dominated with ease. He's a great coach no doubt, but it also helps when he has very little competition.
Saban walked into a completely different situation.
 

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Baylor - I think Briles finally does it
I agree except for this one. While they've recruited well the past 2-3 years, they still lost way too much IMO.

I'm going out on a limb just to stir things up. Bama, Clem and tOSU all go undefeated. The PAC 12 and Big 12 conference champs have 2 losses each. Thus the committee forgives a late season loss to Clem and makes 11-1 FSU the 4th team. The ACC becomes the first conference to get two spots in the CFP causing the B1G, SEC, Big 12 and PAC 12 collective heads to explode. This serves as the impetus for an 8 team playoff.

Then FSU goes on to lay an egg in the semi final game similar to the one they laid against Oregon.
 

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Even Saban lost 7 games in his 1st two years at Bama. Meyer came in immediately and dominated with ease. He's a great coach no doubt, but it also helps when he has very little competition.
Yet, the B1G finished with 6 ranked teams this year, compared to 4 for the Big 12, 3 for the ACC, and 3 for the Pac 12. Hell, we even had two 5-7 teams win their bowl game (one of them against 8-4 UCLA).

Doesn't sound weak at all.
 

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No surprise. You have ZERO competition in that conference. Here are my preseason 4 playoff contenders for next year:

Clemson - basically returns the entire team from last year

Bama - until somebody sacks up in the SEC, the SEC is owned by the Tide

tOSU - refer to Bama, only the Buckeyes have an easier path to the playoff. They were a fluke loss away from it this past year.

Baylor - I think Briles finally does it

2016 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Schedule

An easy path you say...hmm. :scratch:

I think I'd take this one over tOSU's...

2016 Texas Longhorns Football Schedule

All difficult games are at home with the exception of the neutral site rivalry game.
 

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But since OSU has a really good record against most of those teams, they're weak. Evidently that's how this works.

I honestly think it'll be a rebuilding year this year for the Buckeyes. I think we drop 1-2 games. First one may come @OU and I'm not sure about the 2nd game...

We have a ton of talent, but asking them to run the table or only have 1 loss is a tall task for this many underclassmen. I do think by the end of the year this could be a very dangerous squad and next year they should steamroll people.
 

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Where is the Baylor love coming from? I know they got down to the 4th team QB last year, but they lost some very key players at other positions. What am I missing?
 
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