I'm with Creed. Jeff Long said this (MSU jumping OU) was about wins against top ten teams and the win over Iowa. He could have chosen his words in such a way as to obscure the issue over a lack of consistency but he didn't. MSU already had the advantage in wins over top ten teams last week and jumping a team ahead of you for beating a team ranked below the team you jumped...if you follow...is ludicrous. If Long had just said something along the lines of, "The win over Iowa made Michigan State's body of work superior to that of Oklahoma's..." instead of what I'll paste below, I might have been less suspicious.
“Great discussion, great debate,” College Football Playoff Committee chairman Jeff Long said of the choice between Michigan State and Oklahoma. “Both conference champions, both four wins over Top 25 teams, but what it came down to was really Michigan State with two top 10 wins and then adding the win over last week’s No. 4-ranked team. I think when you looked at the body of work, the complete resume, that’s what pushed Michigan State just slightly ahead of Oklahoma.”’
In the interest of full disclosure, I got some long odds on Oklahoma (+700) and Clemson (+280) to win the whole thing a few weeks back such that I was mostly just disappointed they'd be playing early. The lack of consistency and credibility for this playoff committee is still disheartening. That we're used to funny business in college football doesn't make it okay.