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BIG TEN FOOTBALL

There are basically zero good spins for the way the top 5 teams played

lolabama.

This is fun. When do we get to go to 8 teams?

Hooooooooly smokes @ that catch

No. Alabama, Oregon and tOSU deserved to be in the playoffs. But FSU had no business being there no matter what their "record" showed or the fact they're the defending National Champions. If the committee would have taken a hard look at their games, they may have chosen a different 4th team (TCU). Pretty sure you guys's sarcasm meter is broken

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Buckeyes need to get in the end zone

So which is it then? You say that Vegas, which is the collection of all public knowledge about all of the football teams condensed into betting spreads, knows what it's doing, and it looks like they have the conference as a whole rated properly...yet we also have this idea that the SEC is overrated? So you need to make the distinction...the SEC is overrated by who? It appears that they're properly rated, as I've been saying all along, as the #1 conference with the Pac-12 a close second. If we're talking about media bias, I've always agreed that the media gives the SEC more attention than necessary, although that's due to the feverish interest down there and contracts and whatnot. I'm not concerned with any of that.

Go Buckeyes?

Scott Frost is calling an incredible game

Jameis Winston is a bad human being, but he's gonna be a good NFL quarterback

It's because they don't care, right? You think that these rankings get inflated/deflated based on the fact that apparently good teams play apparently good teams and apparently bad teams play apparently bad teams? I mean when an SECW team plays and SECW team, both teams rankings don't go up. One goes up and the others' goes down based on the outcome, proportional to the margin of victory and the difference in their rating. It's not like Bama plays LSU and suddenly both teams make a jump. The reason that the SECW was rated so highly at the beginning of the season was because they were something like 29-0 against all non-SECW teams. As far as the "not caring" narrative...who knows. I hate narratives. For some reason people always try to read into the motivation of each team in a bowl game - maybe motivation is a factor, maybe it isn't; there's no way to know and guessing from the outside is purely conjecture. Dude, you do science. I play/coach sports. These are people, not chess pieces, not chemical reactions. YOU CANNOT USE SCIENCE WHEN DEALING WITH PEOPLE. It is about narratives because of the fact we are human beings and are driven by our emotion. We don't do the same thing over and over when pressure is applied, this is why science doesn't work here man. Success in sports is entirely about three things: individual player talent, player motivation, and ability of coaches. As already stated, you can't measure motivation. Your fancy little computer programs do not measure coaching prowess, you see Paul Johnson watched film and KNEW that Miss St couldn't stop the dive. Wisconsin watched film and KNEW that Auburn couldn't stop the run. Michigan State watched the film and KNEW that Baylor couldn't run the ball against them. Those teams all out-coached the others. For all this talk about how great Dan Mullen, Hugh Frees (sp?), Gus Malzahn and Art Briles are they were out-coached this week. HAHAHAHAHA You don't even know what you're arguing.

lol. I mean these teams have had a month off. Fatigue of any sort is no issue.

I TAKE THAT BACK TOUCHDOWN

Connor Cook has played awful today compared to what he's capable of

Come on Sparty

Depends on what rankings you're talking about, the difference in the rating (not ranking) of the two teams, the HFA, and the margin of victory. If you're talking about human polls, then yeah those are stupid. But we got dominated by Wisconsin and IIRC we only dropped 3 spots in Sagarin.