Terrebonne Booking Log – December 5, 2019
December 5, 2019
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December 5, 2019
On Saturday night, I watched the LSU football game where I usually do — plopped on the Lazy Boy chairs in my family’s living room.
On one side of me was my brother, across from me my mother and behind me in the computer room, my dad.
Somewhere in the third quarter or so of the game, the topic of conversation had come up about the College Football Playoff Rankings.
My dad and brother agreed — LSU should be No. 1. After all, the committee said the only reason LSU wasn’t already No. 1 was because of its defense. But in this game, the Tigers were absolutely dominant, allowing just 7 points in a shellacking of a Texas A&M team that had played close to Clemson, Alabama and Georgia this year.
I saw in my seat and nodded in agreement, but expressed that I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
My reason for pessimism is because I think the College Football Playoff rankings are a joke, the members who select the rankings are incredibly biased, if not downright corrupt and this is far and away the worst system we have ever had in college football for selecting championship participants.
Never was that more evident than on Tuesday when the newest rankings came out.
The committee gets the frissons for Ohio State. They look at Ohio State like a young child looks at his/her crush or how I look at a bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream on a warm summer day (or any day for that matter).
From the beginning of this process, the committee has cooked the books and has done everything in its power to give the Buckeyes the leg up over the field.
One week, it was because of their defense. They were labeled the “more complete team.”
Now, it’s apparently because their schedule is more difficult than LSU’s, which I think is comical because absolutely no one who knows college football believes the SEC is less difficult than the Big 10.
It’s easy to talk about the number of ranked opponents a team has faced when you’re literally creating the rankings.
This past week’s rankings literally cooked the books for Ohio State’s schedule to look more impressive than it is to fix the narrative about their schedule.
Michigan lost to Ohio State in a blowout on Saturday and dropped 1 spot from No. 13 to No. 14.
Alabama lost a nail biter that could have gone either way to Auburn. They tailspun seven spots.
Other Ohio State opponents also had random leaps forward.
Why?
To control the narrative.
The committee knew the “complete team” narrative was no longer valid, so it had to makeup a new excuse to downplay LSU and put Ohio State in the spotlight. So they literally massaged all of the Buckeyes’ opponents up a few pegs to give the gasoline needed to light that fire.
The Big 10 is a joke, folks.
Most of the teams in the league are bad and others who are in the Top 25 (like Minnesota and Wisconsin) are only in the Top 25 because they’re less awful than the teams they feast on all year — like Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue, Northwestern and others.
They’re far inferior to the SEC — where the true big dogs play.
It’s been proven time and time and time again.
Since 2006, there have been 13 college football national champions. Nine of those 13 have been from the SEC, and four different teams in the league have won the title (LSU, Alabama, Auburn and Florida).
The other conferences? The ACC won three times and Ohio State earned one for the Big 10.
The idea that there’s parity in the sport is comical. The South dominates college football.
Of the past 13 champions, literally 12 (Clemson is from South Carolina and Florida State is, of course, in Florida) are from southern states.
And even this year — if SEC teams didn’t have to pound on one another and generate losses, I could argue that LSU, Alabama, Georgia and even Auburn are among the Top 6-7 teams in the country, and Florida isn’t too far behind, either.
The people who argue for Ohio State are the same people who told me 10 years ago that the Pac 12 was catching up to the SEC.
They’re the same people who think Chase Young should win the Heisman Trophy.
They’re the same people who think programs like Minnesota would have winning seasons in the SEC (they wouldn’t).
They’re haters.
They’re jealous of the South and are too far in the woods of that hatred to see the trees.
The committee chairman is the Oregon Athletic Director, after all — enough said.
If anyone has an excuse to hate the South, it’s that guy.
We’ve kicked his team’s butt every which way for the past decade-plus — literally every step of the way.
