Washington and Michigan are 13-0 and conference champions, so they're in. Florida State is 13-0 and conference champion, but they're down to their 3rd qb and aren't as good as their record says -- so are they really in?
Then you have Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Georgia received its first loss after 29 wins in a row, does anyone really think they're not one of the top four teams in the country? It was a close loss too.
Texas blew out Oklahoma State and on top of that beat Alabama earlier this year, with only 1 loss don't they have the best strength of schedule?
Alabama only lost to Texas and beat Georgia, shouldn't they be in?
The answer is all 6 teams deserve to be in the Playoff -- so does Liberty for that matter since they're undefeated 13-0 conference champions themselves. But there are only 4 slots, because this Playoff system is too chokingly unfair and small for a 133 team league. This is why I wanted to expand the Playoff. But okay, if I have to narrow it down to 4, I'd give it to Florida State and Alabama. It would be too unfair to leave out an undefeated team in favor of a 1-win team, and Alabama's win against Georgia is more impressive than Texas' win against Alabama. Alabama's loss to Texas is more understandable than Texas' loss to Oklahoma. But I honestly have no idea what the Playoff committee is going to do, and someone is going to be justifiably mad no matter what they do.
From a broader perspective I'm very impressed that three conference champions are moving on to tougher conferences -- that's very good understanding that they don't really belong in those conferences anymore, they've outgrown them -- Texas, SMU and Washington are all moving on up. Next year will have more parity within each of the Power 4 and a 12 team Playoff so every deserving team gets a shot at the title. College Football continues to improve its product year after year.
Rurouni Kenshin's Remake is back to canon material so I added it back to my season watch list.
Oshi no Ko came out in bluray so I added it to my archives. I've already rewatched the series but it's good enough I'm sure I'll watch it in bluray as well someday.
It looks like Russia has finally taken Marynka, which is a suburb of Donetsk city (previously Stalino). Now if they could just take Avdeevka they'd own all of Donetsk city and the shelling of the capital's civilians would be reduced for the first time since 2014. The front has been immobile for so long it's exciting when the tiniest things change.
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