With the USC loss - it looks like "the" Ohio State University should make the playoffs
TCU is playing right now and down a touchdown. A loss by TCU could make for an interesting call there. Certainly Ohio State has to pass them up? But do you allow a 9-1 TCU into the playoffs or do you drop them all the way down below two loss Alabama? If you do bring in Alabama would you have them ranked 4th and have the two SEC and two Big Ten teams play each other in the first round?
Let's say TCU pulls it out today. You have three undefeated teams and only one team with one loss (Ohio State) left. That would seem to be a no-brainer. But I have read some analysis that the committee would (or might) decide to take Alabama over Ohio State but that would require them to reorder the two teams when there is literally no reason to do so (neither team is playing this week).
Of course, the argument (a poor one in my opinion) would be from SEC fans who suggest that it is a better conference and deserves two teams over the Big Ten.
But there are three SEC and three Big Ten teams in the top eight. Ohio State has a win over Penn State. Alabama has no wins over top ten teams. But it is the losses that matter more. Ohio State's only loss to undefeated and #2 Michigan versus two losses (#6 Tennessee and #14 LSU) for Alabama. Alabama ends the season with only two wins with teams that ended the season in the top 25.
Either way... I am guessing Michigan is rooting for TCU (would not want to play Ohio State again). In fact, not sure that anyone would choose to play Ohio State over any of the other teams that have been in the mix (TCU, USC, Alabama).
