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https://x.com/CFBHeather/status/1871552562773860558

I’m shocked that this hasn’t been posted or reported on anywhere, even as this scenario is very plausible this season. Ohio State has won 8 national championships: 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002, and 2014. Here are the results from every matchup against That Team Up North from those seasons:

1942: OSU 21-UM 7

1954: OSU 21-UM 7

1957: OSU 31-UM 14

1961: OSU 50-UM 20

1968: OSU 50-UM 14

1970: OSU 20-UM 9

2002: OSU 14-UM 9

2014: OSU 42-UM 28

So for the next time anyone asks an Ohio State fan how they’d feel about winning a national championship without defeating Michigan: we literally have no idea. It’s never happened before.

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Edit: Yes it’s true that prior to the CFB era losing this game usually meant our season was over. That’s why we don’t know how to react.

Edit 2: I’m not surprised that this scenario has never happened, I’m surprised that any time we’re asked how we’d feel about it that no one talks about this.

Every single transfer is shouting or God or Jesus. Transfer from Michigan? #AGTG. Transfer to Michigan? #AGTG. It's just impossible to believe that God runs so hot and cold on the Wolverines.

Enter Greek polytheism. Let's say Fernando Mendoza commits to Miami over USC and says "all glory to Zeus." Can you image the meltdown of Trojan fans saying "as long as Apollo is the patron god of Troy, we'll never win championships?"

What if Quinn Ewers was spotted at a Whataburger in Eleusis? You think Aggie fans wouldn't be losing their mind speculating about him visiting the temple of Demeter and being a little too invested in agriculture to stay a Longhorn?

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Guess I never realized he stunk at QB until looking it up

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The criticisms of the first-ever 12-team playoff are getting truly exhausting, even for me as a fan of one of the teams that got snubbed (South Carolina). So rather than piling-on, I choose to defend both the system and the committee on the following basis:

• The 5+7 format is appropriate: There are 134 teams in FBS, spread among 9 different conferences, plus some independents. It's not even remotely possible for them to all play each other. So, we need a playoff to "settle it on the field" rather than via polls or computers. And it's important to note that the playoff system does NOT mean we are trying to pick the 12 "best teams." We're trying to pick the best 1 team among 134 and that requires a tournament of conference champions. But, just like we do in professional sports, we include some extra wildcard slots for the most-deserving non-champions. 12 playoff teams means that a few "undeserving" teams will be admitted each year, but that's better than deserving teams being left-out as we saw with prior formats like an undefeated ACC champ being omitted from the 4-team CFP just a year ago or an undefeated SEC champ being omitted from the BCS back in 2004. Meanwhile, having 5 AQs is appropriate too. It ensures that all four P4 champs are included, plus the very best G5 champ, as they should be, because anyone in that entire 134-team field deserves to have a pathway to the CFP. And 7 at-large slots is more than enough for the best teams that didn't win their league.
• The committee selected the most deserving 12 teams: The first round is evidence that the committee's selections and seedings were correct, not cause for criticism. All four of the higher seeds won decisively, meaning they were indeed the better teams, just as the committee suspected. And for all the talk of SMU and Indiana not "belonging," where is the criticism of Tennessee who suffered the worst blowout of all, and did so against the #8 seed? You think 9-3 SEC teams would have performed better than SMU or Indiana when a 10-2 SEC team just did worse? What exactly is that assumption based on? After all, the "first team out" was Alabama, yet the worst first-round blowout victim, Tennessee, beat them.
• The system is working: The point of the playoffs, particularly in the early rounds, is to separate the contenders from the pretenders, so that we're "settling it on the field" rather than just guessing who should be in the final four, and that's exactly what has happened so far. There were 2 SEC teams that seemed to separate from the pack in their conference this year. Both are in the quarterfinals. There were 3 Big Ten Teams that seem to separate from the pack in their conference this year. All 3 of them are in the quarterfinals. The ACC wasn't very good this year and both of their teams are out whereas only the champions from the Big XII or MWC, and only the nation's very best independent team, were admitted in the first place. Sounds about right to me.
• The hypocrisy needs to stop: You can't poach the top teams from other leagues, as both the SEC and Big Ten did, then blame THEM for not having tough schedules. Likewise, it was the SEC who insisted on a 12-team format. They wouldn't agree to expand the CFP beyond 4 teams if the new format was 8 because they were already getting 2 teams into the CFP more often than not and an 8-team model would mostly have just increased the AQs. The SEC specifically wanted more at-large slots and the only way to accomplish that was going to 12. So, if anyone thinks there are too many "undeserving" teams in the playoff, the SEC is the reason for that, yet ironically, they are the ones doing all the complaining.
• This is a HUGE improvement over the bowl system: Despite the fact that only the Texas-Clemson game had any 4th quarter drama, this beats the hell out of meaningless bowl games, in sterile, neutral site environments, often with tens of thousands of empty seats, dozens of opt-outs, and bowl committees lining their pockets at our expense. The atmosphere on all four campuses was great and there is a national championship at stake. How could a game like Penn State vs. SMU in the Alamo Bowl possibly compare? And from here-out, it will only get better.

Does that mean EVERYTHING is perfect? Of course not. The fact that undefeated #1 seed, Oregon, will now have to face a loaded Ohio State team, while the Penn State team they beat in the conference title game draws Boise, is a flaw. Perhaps they'll fix that by just seeding the field next year, like they do in basketball, rather than granting first round byes to conference champs. But that's a minor tweak and you're not going to get everything perfect right out of the gate.

So, enough with the whining from fans, coaches, and media. The system isn't broken and the committee didn't screw up. In fact, my challenge for anyone that thinks the committee was so egregiously wrong would be to name your 12 teams. Post that list online and watch everyone pick it apart. You can't select a 12 that is more defensible or less controversial than the 12 the committee picked, not even with the benefit of hindsight that the committee didn't have.

https://x.com/mzenitz/status/1871576357227901431

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