After last night's chain of events in college football, its most dreaded moment is almost upon us. This committee now is left with the unenviable task of picking the four most deserving teams to be given the right to play for the title of best team in the nation.
Except, nobody seems to understand that the goal should be to pick the most deserving teams, and not the best teams. Not even the committee itself, with the evidence being that an undefeated Florida State team entered this week as the No. 4 "ranked" team by the committee based on lack of style points.
Too many experts (Doug Gottlieb in particular) think that the committee's job is to pick the "best" teams. He suggests that a team like Florida State should be left out of this playoff picture all together because they have played too many close games and others have done more to prove that they are better.
But pardon me for a second and let me interrupt. Isn't the goal to win games? Isn't college basketball's championship rewarded to the team that wins six consecutive games in an end of season tournament with a field of teams that are deemed most deserving to compete in the tournament based on their body of work? Isn't college basketball's champion still crowned even if the way the team won those games was ugly?
If the committee's job is to pick the "best" teams, why even play the four-team tournament? Just let the committee pick the best team in the country and that will be that. Here you go Alabama, you are the big winner.
The committee needs to focus on the most deserving teams, not the best. Let the title of "best" team be settled after the committee does its job and selects the most deserving to compete on this stage.
My four, in order of most deserving, and ultimately how the final four should look, would be:
1. Florida State - because they are undefeated and have yet to lose, which is the point of playing games.
2. Alabama - because they are the SEC champs
3. Oregon - because they are the Pac 12 champs
4. Ohio State - because they are Big 10 champs
Why no TCU? Why no Baylor? It is pretty simple. If you can't even win your own conference outright, why should you deserve a chance to win a national championship? You can blame that on the Big 12 itself if you want, and frankly I do. But the national championship conversation should be centered on a tournament of deserving conference champions. Frankly, I think only three teams "deserve" to play for right to be called the best (FSU, Bama and Oregon) because the Big 10 is such a sham that Ohio State should not be included. But because of the ineptitude of the Big 12 to organize a conference championship game, I am morally left with no choice but to include the Buckeyes.
Now, if I was ranking on who I thought was best, it would look like this:
1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Baylor
4. Florida State
5. TCU
6. Ohio State
But who is best does not matter, it is who is most deserving. Undefeated teams and true conference champs should be rewarded as most deserving and be given the right to settle it on the field.
If the committee tries to make the process anything more difficult than that, then they have negated the purpose of having this four-team playoff in the first place.
Now, can we talk about expanding this to eight teams yet?
@CoreyRuddwww.twitter.com/coreyrudd
Except, nobody seems to understand that the goal should be to pick the most deserving teams, and not the best teams. Not even the committee itself, with the evidence being that an undefeated Florida State team entered this week as the No. 4 "ranked" team by the committee based on lack of style points.
Too many experts (Doug Gottlieb in particular) think that the committee's job is to pick the "best" teams. He suggests that a team like Florida State should be left out of this playoff picture all together because they have played too many close games and others have done more to prove that they are better.
But pardon me for a second and let me interrupt. Isn't the goal to win games? Isn't college basketball's championship rewarded to the team that wins six consecutive games in an end of season tournament with a field of teams that are deemed most deserving to compete in the tournament based on their body of work? Isn't college basketball's champion still crowned even if the way the team won those games was ugly?
If the committee's job is to pick the "best" teams, why even play the four-team tournament? Just let the committee pick the best team in the country and that will be that. Here you go Alabama, you are the big winner.
The committee needs to focus on the most deserving teams, not the best. Let the title of "best" team be settled after the committee does its job and selects the most deserving to compete on this stage.
My four, in order of most deserving, and ultimately how the final four should look, would be:
1. Florida State - because they are undefeated and have yet to lose, which is the point of playing games.
2. Alabama - because they are the SEC champs
3. Oregon - because they are the Pac 12 champs
4. Ohio State - because they are Big 10 champs
Why no TCU? Why no Baylor? It is pretty simple. If you can't even win your own conference outright, why should you deserve a chance to win a national championship? You can blame that on the Big 12 itself if you want, and frankly I do. But the national championship conversation should be centered on a tournament of deserving conference champions. Frankly, I think only three teams "deserve" to play for right to be called the best (FSU, Bama and Oregon) because the Big 10 is such a sham that Ohio State should not be included. But because of the ineptitude of the Big 12 to organize a conference championship game, I am morally left with no choice but to include the Buckeyes.
Now, if I was ranking on who I thought was best, it would look like this:
1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Baylor
4. Florida State
5. TCU
6. Ohio State
But who is best does not matter, it is who is most deserving. Undefeated teams and true conference champs should be rewarded as most deserving and be given the right to settle it on the field.
If the committee tries to make the process anything more difficult than that, then they have negated the purpose of having this four-team playoff in the first place.
Now, can we talk about expanding this to eight teams yet?
@CoreyRuddwww.twitter.com/coreyrudd
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