irrelevant. That was an 8- or 9-win team that lucked into a couple victories. They got all the bounces last year. Then got destroyed by Alabama in the CFP. Rating were in the toilet.
It didn't take people long to realize that there is no reason to think the best teams in a conference would necessarily appear in a conference championship game. This year the two best B1G teams aren't in it. Even Wisconsin and Penn State fans know this on some level, as seen in the plummeting ticket prices for that game. Not even their own fans will watch that game. The real B1GCG was last weekend in Columbus.
The CFP committee has tried the conference champion route, but that bit them in the ass last year. In the era of unbalanced, bloated conferences where strength of schedule varies wildly, you just can't depend on the conference championship games producing the best teams. It just doesn't happen. We as mature adults can recognize that, I hope.
It didn't take people long to realize that there is no reason to think the best teams in a conference would necessarily appear in a conference championship game. This year the two best B1G teams aren't in it. Even Wisconsin and Penn State fans know this on some level, as seen in the plummeting ticket prices for that game. Not even their own fans will watch that game. The real B1GCG was last weekend in Columbus.
The CFP committee has tried the conference champion route, but that bit them in the ass last year. In the era of unbalanced, bloated conferences where strength of schedule varies wildly, you just can't depend on the conference championship games producing the best teams. It just doesn't happen. We as mature adults can recognize that, I hope.
