(01-04-2021 07:55 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-04-2021 04:37 PM)Jared7 Wrote:  TCU got screwed in 2014 because we aren't a blueblood and Ohio State is.

TCU was not screwed in 2014. TCU had a Baylor problem and a Big 12 problem. The Baylor problem was that nobody could rank TCU ahead of Baylor, because same record and H2H. That means that to put TCU in to the playoffs, you would have to put both TCU and Baylor in the playoffs. But that was untenable, because no way did either of them deserve to be in over FSU, the only unbeaten, and Alabama and Oregon, who had played much tougher schedules.

So the only issue the committee had to address was Baylor vs Ohio State, and Ohio State had a clearly stronger resume than Baylor.

The Big 12 problem was the lack of a CCG. What should have happened is Baylor and TCU should have played again in a Big 12 CCG. The winner would surely have gotten in to the playoffs over Ohio State.

Disagree on clearly stronger given tOSU lost to VaTech who was weaker than WVU that year and need two blown ref calls to survive PSU and struggled with a Minnesota team TCU throttled. At best it’s a debate. Destroying Wisconsin made it easy and OU’s backup QB losing to OkSt so they fell out of the T25 took a dominant win out of BU’s resume despite Bu playing a much tougher version of that team as they fell off without Knight. QB injury at WVU hurt both BU and TCU’s resumes. With Trickett they gave Bama a tough game.

Big 12 getting a title game that year probably makes a difference but how much is debatable. Tons of Big Ten influence on that selection committee.