Some thoughts from ESPN's end of year podcast

LaZoris said:

I wonder if a 2 loss pac12 team will get the vote over a 1 loss ACC team next year. The ACC could be a dreckfest like the Big10 was this year. Ohio St needed a beatdown in the champ gm just to get the 4 seed. Will the Big12 have a championship game next year?

The Big 12 won't have a championship game until they have at least 12 teams.

I could see a 2 loss Pac team leap frogging a 1 loss ACC team, depending on OOC accomplishments of those two teams, but then you've got to worry about a 2 loss SEC team beating out the 2 loss Pac team, etc.

If you want to make the playoffs, win the Pac and only lose one game at most. Otherwise it would take a whole lot of help to get in.

dnc said:

LaZoris said:

I wonder if a 2 loss pac12 team will get the vote over a 1 loss ACC team next year. The ACC could be a dreckfest like the Big10 was this year. Ohio St needed a beatdown in the champ gm just to get the 4 seed. Will the Big12 have a championship game next year?

The Big 12 won't have a championship game until they have at least 12 teams.

I could see a 2 loss Pac team leap frogging a 1 loss ACC team, depending on OOC accomplishments of those two teams, but then you've got to worry about a 2 loss SEC team beating out the 2 loss Pac team, etc.

If you want to make the playoffs, win the Pac and only lose one game at most. Otherwise it would take a whole lot of help to get in.

Couple of things on the Big 12:

1) Would be amusing to watch the NCAA turn down a request for the conference championship game IF requested when the selection committee used the lack of title game as a basis for keeping them out.

2) With TCU most likely a sure fire Top 3 consensus team going into next year and Baylor not that far behind, would be hard to imagine that they will be kept out again next year - particularly if TCU does what they are capable of doing.