Final thoughts on this year's Playoff

Quick thoughts on the teams in, and just out of the CFP.

1.) Alabama -- After it was all said and done, they clearly had the weakest justifications for being in the CFP.  I had a feeling that they would have to lose a game at some point, but I could never bring myself to pick the next game as being the loss.  Also, their main reason for being included was the lack of any good reason to not include them.

2.) Oregon -- Every other year, their sheer arrogance would bite them in the butt before the postseason.  Now, it might just be a case that it doesn't matter how many games it takes to win a national championship, it's always going to be one too many for the Ducks.

3.) Florida State -- You couldn't leave the only undefeated Power 5 team out of the playoffs.  That being said, I think if they were only 12-1 at the end of the season, they would not have made the cut.

4.) Ohio State -- Obviously the committee made the right choice here.  I don't care if it was their 12th or 13th game, but they beat Wisconsin 59-0 in their conference championship game with a third string quarterback.

5.) Baylor -- And that is why you don't lose to the couch burning cousins.  (Although I think if it's a toss up between Ohio State and Baylor, Ohio State lost to Virginia Tech while Baylor lost to West Virginia.  VT > WVU, so Ohio State wins.)

6.) TCU -- It would have been fun to see these guys in, but their biggest stumbling block was not Ohio State or the Big 12's inability to follow the rules and declare a champion.  It was the fact that they lost to Baylor, another team that ended at 11-1.  If they had lost any other game on their schedule, or if Baylor had lost an additional game, then maybe there could be an argument.  The biggest mistake that the committee made was ranking TCU #3 in the penultimate poll, because that made all of the perceptions worse the following week.