{"id":47554,"date":"2020-12-20T20:36:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47554"},"modified":"2020-12-23T22:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T03:36:47","slug":"playoff-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47554","title":{"rendered":"Playoff Team*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-47555 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/blowhiostate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/blowhiostate.jpg 510w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/blowhiostate-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*<em>Went undefeated, with a perfect 6-0 record; while most other schools in the nation played 10-11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the day is over Ohio State makes the playoffs, because those in charge understand that it\u2019s best for business that Ohio State plays in a nationally televised playoff game; I write such as singular, because little chance that Ohio State is going to upend Clemson, and much like last year, they\u2019re going to fall short and make all the armchair pundits at home revile the fact that another team gets undressed by Clemson and that someone else should have made the playoffs in their place.<\/p>\n<p>But still, it\u2019s complete bullshit that college football allows Ohio State to maintain a high rank and make the college football playoff when they played 2\/3 the games that most other programs did.\u00a0 Sure, some of it was out of their control, because 74 million Americans are retards that couldn\u2019t avoid getting coronavirus even if they were inside of a medical bubble, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that Ohio State basically gets entry into the playoffs on reputation alone.<\/p>\n<p>Because it wasn\u2019t really their strength of schedule that warrants playoff contention; four of their six paltry games were against unranked opponents, and the other two, Indiana and Northwestern, are schools that would never be ranked in any ordinary season where every program is dealing with players out on account of pandemic whether it was voluntary or stupidity.\u00a0 The fact that the Big10 championship featured Northwestern at all goes to show just how weak of a conference they were playing in, and Ohio State only managed to win by 12 points when they probably should\u2019ve won by 42.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, coronavirus or no coronavirus, it\u2019s impossible to have a college football season without some controversy on rankings and standings, and this is no exception.\u00a0 College football was in a perfect position to have some fun, and considering how many schools rose to the occasion of a chaotic field, it could have been really fun to have seen a non-power five conference school get into the playoffs, and because power five schools all play to the same metas, could definitely give some fits to some contenders.<\/p>\n<p>Given the fact that Ohio State will probably lose 37-17 to Clemson, there\u2019s no way it wouldn\u2019t have been remotely interesting to have seen like, Clemson vs. Cincinnati or Clemson vs. Coastal Carolina (11-0); it\u2019s not like they would have done any worse than what Ohio State is probably going to do.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever though; in a season that shouldn\u2019t have happened at all in the first place, it looks like we\u2019re headed for Alabama vs. Clemson #5(?) for the National Championship, and considering this is now Trevor Lawrence\u2019s swan song, he\u2019ll probably go out a winner, because in spite of the 2-2 record in the playoffs between the two programs, Lawrence ate the shit out of Alabama\u2019s lunch in their last meeting, and there\u2019s little reason to believe that another encounter will result in anything different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Went undefeated, with a perfect 6-0 record; while most other schools in the nation played 10-11 When the day is over Ohio State makes the playoffs, because those in charge understand that it\u2019s best for business that Ohio State plays in a nationally televised playoff game; I write such as singular, because little chance that &hellip; 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