Help Me Seed My 8 Team Playoff

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Quote: Originally Posted by DonJonpin

Ok. So teams are as follows Team 1. Ohio State (12-0) B1G Team 2. Texas A&M (12-0) BIGXII Team 3. South Carolina (11-1) SEC Team 4. Texas (11-1) BIGXII Team 5. Louisiana (12-0) Sunbelt Team 6. Nebraska (10-2) B1G Team 7. USC (10-2) PAC12 Team 8. Mich St (10-2) B1G Team 9. Michigan (10-2) B1G I decided to give Louisiana the boot because I discovered that every single win they had, was against a team ranked below 60, except for beating 7-5 Boise State. They literally didn’t even have a team on their schedule with more than 7 wins. They beat a few 7-5 Sunbelt teams, but I found out that none of those 7-5 teams even cracked the top 60. The rest of their schedule were 4-8 teams, and even an 0-12 team. It proved to be the right choice because Louisiana got beat by Oregon State in their Bowl game and finished the year 12-1. I SEEDED THE PLAYOFF AS FOLLOWS I seeded Michigan and Mich St above USC because they’re resumes were basically identical and USC had two bad losses. But clearly, USC is a good football team. I also didn’t want a rematch in the playoff. Seemed stupid to have Ohio State play Michigan again when they already played them. 1. Ohio State (12-0) vs 8. USC (10-2) 2. Texas A&M (12-0) vs 7. Michigan (10-2) 3. South Carolina (11-1) vs 6. Mich St (10-2) 4. Texas (11-1) vs 5. Nebraska (10-2) Ohio State narrowly beat USC by 3 points, USC had the lead late but Ohio State scored a game winning touchdown... USC deserved to be in the playoff. Texas A&M beat Michigan by two touchdowns. Mich St defeated South Carolina in a defensive battle. Texas squeaked by Nebraska in a close finish. THE FINAL FOUR 1. Ohio State (13-0) vs 4. Texas (12-1) 2. Texas A&M (13-0) vs 6. Mich St (11-2) Ohio State beats Texas by 20. Texas A&M beats Mich St by a touchdown. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 1. Ohio State (14-0) vs 2. Texas A&M (14-0) Ohio State defeats Texas A&M by over 30 points. So, looking back. The question should have been between Michigan or Louisiana. USC proved to be a quality team by literally almost beating Ohio State. Michigan State advanced to the Final Four and put up a good fight. The knock on Michigan was the 40 point loss to Ohio State. But Ohio State went on to beat the #2 team Texas A&M by over 30 in the National Championship. So how could you hold it against Michigan? While Louisiana got beat by Oregon State. I don’t think Louisiana would have fared any better against a playoff team than Michigan. In the end, I think I made the right choice. Disclaimer. I’m also not pleased with “conference domination” by any means. I don’t like the fact that the B1G supplemented 4 teams into this years playoff. Also the ACC was left out because their best team was Georgia Tech (10-2). The difference was Georgia Tech had 2 decent losses, but only 1 top 25 win. Michigan and Mich St both had marque non conference ranked wins against Notre Dame and Oregon respectfully. Florida was another contender at 10-2 very similarly to GT. They lost 2 decent games but only had 1 top 25 win. Just sucks to see because I would have loved to have put Georgia Tech or Florida in at 11-1, but they both lost late in their annual in state rivalry games. They just didn’t have those key ranked wins to overcome their 2 losses, that was the difference between them vs USC, Michigan, and Mich St. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Man, you controlled who got into the tourney and you're whining about the B1G getting 4 teams in? You let them in!
Anyways, the undefeated G5 school should get in because its one of the main reasons for the playoff in the first place. Just like in real life when UCF was undefeated and didn't get in. They should've gotten in, gotten crushed and no one would've been mad about Alabama getting screwed out of another title. Doesn't matter they played all cupcakes, they still won out. In just a BCS national championship game? No leave them out, but a tournament? Let the #1 team have a glorified bye week.