Everyone saying, “Ohio State won the playoff, and they were the better team” is completely missing the point.
Ohio State lost TWO games to Michigan and Oregon. In the old system, they’re not even playing for a national championship.
2008 USC lost to Oregon State. Did that suddenly mean Oregon State was the better team? 😂 USC finished 12-1, allowed 9.0 POINTS PER GAME, ranked #1 nationally in scoring defense and held opponents to 221.8 yards per game. That defense has a legitimate argument as one of the greatest ever.
Give that USC team a 12-team playoff and they would’ve dog-walked everybody.
That’s the point: the expanded playoff changed what losing a regular-season game means which made college football so epic every Saturday