Starting 11: The Big Ten's Big Mess Edition
Let's start here: what the SEC, the ACC, and the Big 12 have all accomplished is one of the most impressive achievements in college football history. No hyperbole, I mean that. In the middle of a coronavirus outbreak that caused much of the American public to lose their minds, these three...
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Clay Travis has a lengthy column blasting the Big10 and PAC-12 handling of the pandemic. In the column he also stated that even if a 11-0 ND loses to Clemson in the ACC Championship Game, they are still more deserving than Ohio State to make the playoffs:
I just don’t see how the playoff committee is going to knock Notre Dame from number two in the playoff rankings all the way down to five or worse because they lose to Clemson in the ACC title game.
At some point, I think the playoff committee is going to have to consider the discipline required to win 11 football games in the middle of this covid madness. That’s a pretty incredible accomplishment. Especially when all 11 of those wins would be in a power five conference.
......are you telling me that if Notre Dame goes 11-1 and Ohio State goes, for instance, 6-0 or 7-0, that those are functionally equal resumes? Or, even wilder, that Ohio State’s resume is better than Notre Dame’s? I just don’t see how that’s a decision that a reasonable committee could make.
