“If you’re a top contender, you should play the weakest FBS level competition you can.”
A day after the College Football Playoff Committee selected their Top 4 teams for the fifth annual playoff, Clay Travis said that difficult out of conference scheduling, often thought of as a vital tiebreaking ingredient between a deadlocked cluster of schools, actually ended up irreparably damaging seasons in 2017.
Travis says Auburn’s loss to Clemson, Ohio State’s loss to Oklahoma, and USC's loss to Notre Dame, all extravagant out of conference matchups, were the reasons those teams were left out of the playoff, and said all threes teams would have made the playoff if they had just scheduled an FBS cupcake in those weeks instead.
Travis also lauded Wisconsin for refusing to take part in a challenging game in the non-conference yet still putting themselves in a ‘win and in’ position the final week of the season, adding that the committee will always include an undefeated Power 5 team no matter how awful of a schedule they played.
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