The highest ranked team in the B1G has a SoS ranked at #55 according to Sagarin.
Actually the B1G is as follows:
Wisconsin #55
OSU #49
PSU #38
Mich #45
NW #35
The top 5 SEC schools are ranked:
Bama #63 (They will rise significantly after playing both Auburn & Georgia)
Auburn #36
Georgia #47
MSU #46
LSU #57
With the SEC West ranked as the #1 SoS division.
But I am just a Mizzou fan so I’m not really in the SEC.
That’s pretty simple to sort out: Auburn, Oklahoma, Clemson, and OSU.
The only big chaos left would be Auburn beating Alabama and then losing to Georgia. Or OSU losing to Michigan and then beating Wisconsin.
Well let the debate begin. Where does one loss Alabama stand after a fairly competitive game against Auburn?
I say they’re out. They’ve looked good beating mediocre teams, but they lack a signature win against a great team.
Considering the lackluster showing 'Bama had vs. Mississippi State last week, I’d tend to agree. However, this is Alabama, who has already proved that you don’t need to win your conference to be a national champion.
Of course, what you or I think does not matter. Personally, I think the existence of a playoff makes the conferences obsolete if it isn’t going to matter if you win your conference or not. Of course, if the conferences don’t matter, the whole thing falls apart. Why not just have a single game between Ohio State and Alabama and let the winner claim the trophy?
So when a major conference has a down year and generates a relatively mediocre champion, that team must be picked over a better team that’s a runner-up in a dominant conference, or else “the whole thing falls apart”? :dubious:
Alabama should be out if Auburn wins the SEC and if Wisconsin, Clemson, and Oklahoma win their conferences. If Miami wins then there’s a debate between Clemson and Bama. If Auburn wins and Wisconsin and OU lose, then they’re inviting a debate.
Actually, my opinion is that picking a national champion in college football is a fool’s errand. If it is all going to be a matter of who thought who was best during the season, then just leave it at that. I enjoyed CFB much more before the BCS, which was supposed to settle the controversy. Surprisingly (or not), that did nothing to settle it, it only make more. So, they said, a 4-Team playoff will settle it. The only way for any playoff system to work is to abandon the conferences and let the NCAA set the schedules based on how good they think the teams should be. Of course, that would tend to screw some programs (Tennessee, for example) who aren’t considered a major contender, but have proven they can be contenders.
Its Official. I’m fucking tired of the goddamn reviews. Especially when you can retroactively call a penalty on some infractions, but not others*.
Utter Horseshit! And as some guy said last night, (paraphrase) “The Officials have really learned to Suck the Joy out of the game”.
Damn, that was funny! 
I couldn’t believe that. How did the refs miss half the Alabama team moving at the snap?
Any chance that a 2-loss Washington team somehow gets in if the top 4 teams collapse next week? They’re probably the best team in the Pac-12 and making quite the statement this evening. I know that most of the country hardly recognizes the existence of college football West of Texas but there actually is football played on the left coast.
Proposal: If a team doesn’t make their conference championship game, then the committee should count that as an additional “loss”. So for instance, instead of Alabama being considered a 1-loss team, they would be considered a 2-loss team. The committee could still weigh whether a 2-loss Auburn/UGA/whoever should be considered over Alabama. Their single loss wouldn’t disqualify them but they’d be effectively paired with 2-loss teams not 1-loss teams. That’s probably the happy medium.
I have to agree. In principle, the idea of instant replay review sounds great; bad calls can be corrected before it’s too late to do anything about it. But, in practice it seems the cure is worse than the disease.
To many men on the field is reviewable; illegal motion isn’t.
Best Team except the Conference Champ (and whoever they beat) to be determined next Friday. 
The Zebras missed it. Too bad, so sad. Either get it right, *all right, *or keep the game going.
It really wasn’t their fault as it was an unexpected snap that even the QB wasn’t expecting. It was a one in a million play.
Not only are all of the 5-win teams shut out of bowl games (unless (a) Georgia Tech whines to the NCAA, “We could have been 6-6 except for the game that was cancelled by a hurricane,” and (b) the NCAA doesn’t respond, “You mean the game against 11-0 Central Florida?”), but anywhere from 1 to 4 6-win teams will also be left out, depending on who wins next week.
That don’t confront me! I think there are too many bowls, and you should have at least 7 wins to go to one.
6-6? Hell, that’s one play away from a loosing record!
Go Meteors!!!
I’d like to know how these SOS are computed. Most SEC teams schedule at least 3 of 4 non-conference games against utter creampuffs. So it’s quite easy for them to go 4-0 non-conference, and if you win half your conference games, you’re 8-4. Now if you beat one of those 8-4 teams you can say “look at us, we beat an 8-4 team!” Not that the Big Ten does everything right, but I do like that they’ve banned future scheduling against FCS teams and that they’ve gone to 9 conference games. Sometimes you do get lucky like Wisconsin did and avoid the real tough cross-conference games but on the whole I think the Big Ten does a better job at attempting to schedule real games than the SEC does.