Four Dead in Ohio

I hadn't seen a mugging this brutal since a poor, over-weight man was swarmed by cops in New York City for just selling loosies.  Being a black man, he should have never seen this coming.  Barack Obama and Al Sharpton want cops to treat all people of color with kid gloves, even when they're using fake identities and killing pedestrians.  On the other hand, TCU should have seen this coming - in this world.  After all, their middle name is Christian.

 

TCU, Texas Christian University, dropped from the number 3 ranking to the number 6 ranking in the final college football playoff standings.  This drop in the rankings occurred the day after TCU had gashed Iowa State 55 to 3.  What was TCU supposed to do to retain its ranking and a spot in the four-team playoff?  Send the Iowa State players to the morgue?

The playoff selection committee, on Sunday, proved that their process for choosing the best college football teams is both arbitrary and without merit.  TCU should have never been ranked higher than Florida State.  Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing is pretty much true as long as you're not trying to send your competitors to the hospital, and no one has done winning better than Florida State this season.  But the committee did put TCU above Florida State, and then put Florida State above TCU!

This new 4 team playoff system is worse than what college football had.  It's much harder for a team to claim to be one of the two best teams in the nation than to claim to be one of the four best.  Outside of Alabama, Oregon, and Florida State, I don't believe there's much merit for any team to claim to be one of the best two.

Why did the selection committee elevate Ohio State into the playoffs?  Ohio State's 59 to zip trouncing of Wisconsin wasn't so much a sign of Ohio State's strength as it is a sign of the Big 10's weakness.  For a Big 10 division champion to have its ass handed to it in such a lopsided fashion in the Big 10 championship game doesn't say as much about Ohio State as it says about Wisconsin.  The hype associated with Ohio State football is as much deserved as the hype about Urban Meyer being sick.  Both were and are myths.  Meyer was only sick of being in Florida.

Hopefully, the hype about the greatness of Ohio State football will once again be bludgeoned by reality when OU faces another SEC team.  So far, TCU and Baylor's football dreams died in Ohio.  Here's hoping that Ohio State's and Urban Meyer's do as well.