It's early to start the CFB Final 4 sweepstakes, but I kept hearing stuff this week that I just had to say "really?!?!!?"
The analysis, heard multiple times this week, was essentially this about the Final 4 field --
-- Alabama
-- the winner of Ohio State/Michigan
-- Clemson
-- Washington.
Most discussion beyond this was about "if one of those doesn't work out, does Louisville, the Ohio State-Michigan loser, etc" get in?
The Big 12 winner was never mentioned.
Currently, TWO Big 12 teams are undefeated. True, I have West Virginia losing this weekend, knocking that to one, but Baylor is undefeated. And, true, just as in the last two years, Baylor's schedule is backloaded -- they have to play TCU and Oklahoma, for two, yet.
Why isn't Baylor mentioned?
Two years ago, Ohio State came from "nowhere" (they were Ohio State, not exactly the Houston of CFB programs) to make the final four and then win the national championship.
Baylor isn't as far back as Ohio State was, and their schedule doesn't look as difficult as it once did, now that both Oklahoma and Texas have multiple losses.
I'll stop here with this: watch Baylor. Even a one-loss Big 12 champ might look good, depending on how those others do -- and there are a lot of potential losses on those five teams' schedules over the next 7 weeks.
