Playoff Selection and What It Means

This week, the College Football Playoff Selection Committee met to put four teams in the playoffs for the third year. Once again, Alabama was in the playoff, the only team to have made the Playoff each year and twice as the number 1 seed. Two teams also returned to the playoffs at the 2 and 3 seeds, Clemson and Ohio State. Clemson looks to get revenge on Alabama for last year's performance in the National Championship, and Ohio State looks to win their second College Football Playoff National Title, and maybe some more bragging rights on the Crimson Tide. The new kids on the block are Washington, which was a highly disputed choice amongst the Playoff Committee. Putting them in over two B1G teams, one being the Conference Champion Penn State, the other Michigan; Washington has a lot to prove going up against Alabama in the first round of the playoff, since many College Football experts, like myself, have called for Penn State to be in the playoff. After all, the playoff committee's job is to put the four best teams in the playoff, factoring in Conference Championships, the records, the wins, the losses, strength of schedule, when they lost, and current ranking. Washington got in the playoff most likely because they dominated their Conference Championship game over Colorado, and Penn State dominated really the second half of their game. In both games, the Conference Champs only let the other team score three points, just Penn State scored enough to come back and win the game, while Washington extended their lead, again and again. In my opinion, the team that Penn State should be in for is either Clemson or Ohio State. Clemson and PSU lost to the same Pittsburgh team, just when Penn State played Pitt, the Panthers were 2-0, and when Clemson played Pitt they were a weak 5-4. On the other hand with Ohio State, OSU beat Michigan, who beat PSU early in the season. PSU beat OSU later in the season, by a field goal, unranked, while OSU was #2. Regardless, the Committee had a reason to put these teams in the playoff and thought these four teams were the best in the nation. Should suit up for one interesting playoff season.