Grave Digger posted:
-Washington has 1 win vs. Top 25 team, Stanford, who I wouldn't call a signature win either this year. Keep in mind that they have wins over a couple of teams on the periphery of the top 25 like Utah and Washington St. Those wins are as impressive as wins over Iowa and Nebraska, which is to say they a little bit impressive. Colorado would be a signature win.
If you're just looking at numbers next to their team names, sure. But who have these teams played? What are their strength of schedules?
You will see that WSU got beat by E. Washington and doesn't have a single good win on their record- I don't even know how they're ranked. They fattened up on the weak underlings of the conference and lost every game against a team that didn't suck.
Utah has losses to Cal and Oregon (both really bad teams) in addition to losses to Washington and Colorado. The only win they seem to have that is of note is against an OK BYU team. I do not know why they were ever ranked either. They also got fat on their own terrible schedule and conference.
The Pac 12 is just bad this year. Only Washington, Colorado, USC are even decent- that's it. Stanford got exposed like MSU did, but because they play in the Pac 12 they were able to recover to get 8 wins. The middle teams below them are only winning because they scheduled dog crap in the non-conference and they beat up on some horrible conference teams. The quality of play has also been bad- look at the points given up in that conference this year, even by the good teams. Ridiculous.
No, it's a far better argument to make that 3 B1G teams make it than the B1G Champion be left out. I said earlier that Washington might be considered if Clemson loses- the more I think about it, the more sense it makes that Michigan be considered ahead of Washington.