theboardref
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Never said it was a rule, I said that is the way it should be. If team A. Must play an extra game and team B. Sits at home because they did not earn their way into said game, they should not be rewarded for dodging a likely top 15 showdown. Now if we got rid of Title games, which at this point I think makes sense, then OSU no doubt. But you don't get rewarded for playing a less game and risking a loss one less time.I should have labeled the first one as an option. What you believe is #3: You care more about an arbitrary conference tiebreaker than the fact that OSU was unquestionably better over the course of the year.
(1.) That is not the rule, nor has it ever been the rule.
(2.) If the committee is just meant to plug in the conference champions, why even bother having a committee at all? At that point, just make four superconferences and have a playoff.
(3.) Why would we intentionally choose a metric which has nothing to do with performance on the field when we could choose the teams with the best performance on the field?
Again, it makes no sense. There is only one sensible argument for PSU over OSU, which is that they had momentum and were playing better heading into the playoffs. Any other rationale favoring PSU over OSU is hogwash.