College Football Playoffs

After 13 games, it's come down to this:

Thursday, December 31

Capital One Orange Bowl in Miami, 2pm MT
#1 Clemson vs #4 Oklahoma

Goodyear Cotton Bowl in Dallas, 6pm MT
#2 Alabama vs #3 Michigan State

- - -

Clemson is the only undefeated team in the country so they get the #1 ranking. I think that's right. But I do find it humorous when the committee says "Clemson is clearly the #1 team in the country" and then Oklahoma opens as a 2.5 point favorite.

- - -

This is really a perfect year for a 4-team playoff. If we were left with Clemson vs Alabama it would be pretty disappointing. I think Oklahoma and Michigan State earned a shot at the title by winning good conferences with only one loss, same as Alabama. And there's not really another team that's deserving. I think Ohio State at 11-1 is a great team, but they couldn't win their division. I don't feel bad about 11-2 Stanford or 10-2 Notre Dame not having a chance. 4 teams worked out great this year.

- - -

It's kind of funny. Ohio State loses by 3 to a playoff-worthy MSU. MSU loses by 1 to a crap Nebraska. If we were looking at it like a March Madness committee, you'd say that MSU had a worse loss. But because Ohio State's one loss was to MSU, they didn't even get to the conference title game.

Also, really funny that MSU is in the playoffs considering how Michigan fumbled away that game.

- - -

Last year Alabama was a higher seed against the Big Ten conference winner. That didn't work out so well for them.

- - -

A little over a month ago, I thought Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and TCU would be in the playoff. At that time there were three undefeated teams in the Big 12 and Oklahoma wasn't one of them.