Fornelli 50 college football rankings: The Buckeyes playoff case isn't that strong

The College Football Playoff doesn’t care about the Fornelli 50. This isn’t breaking news to you. I often wonder if the committee should care about a formula like the one I use, and hope that whatever metrics they use to choose the four best teams in the country, they’re at least of the same principles that my formula uses. Not because I think the way I do things is better — OK maybe a little — but because, when evaluating 65 teams, math can be quite beneficial. It removes any possible biases from the mind of the ones looking at the data about which team is good, and which team isn’t as bad as it possibly looked that one Saturday when it was losing to Iowa by 31. Which brings me to Ohio State and its playoff case. There has been talk about Ohio State’s potential to reach the playoff…

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