Committee stays true to mandate

PREGAME SPEECH

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If you've read this column over the years, you know the BMOC would rather chug a raw sewage smoothie than endure one more nanosecond of the Bowl Championship Series. So when the College Football Playoff arrived, I was tossing confetti and planning parade routes.

And even though I disagree with the selection committee on its choice of Ohio State as the final selection in the bracket of four (along with No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Oregon and No. 3 Florida State), I don't question the committee's integrity, diligence or transparency. For the first time in years, we actually had a living, breathing person (committee chair Jeff Long) telling us what happened, why it happened and when it happened. We never got that with the BCS.

So if you're asking me whether the CFP selection process was a success, it was. Fabulously so. Historically so. Long may it live.

Of course, I don't have to agree with all of the results. And I'm sure I'm not alone. Right, Baylor and TCU?

We've heard time and time again that there are no wrong answers when choosing between Ohio State, Baylor and TCU for that precious fourth spot in the national semifinals. This is true. But some answers are more right than others.

Had I been one of the 12 committee members, I would have fought for Baylor at No. 4, followed by TCU and then Ohio State. Doesn't make me a bad person. Doesn't make me anti-Buckeyes. Just makes me pro-Baylor.