Simple math

So it's Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia and ... hmm.

That's where we are this morning, a few short hours or so from the last College Football Playoff poll, the College Football Playoff poll that will decide who plays for the College Football Playoff National Title, which the Blob insists on calling the "College Football Playoff National Title" simply because it likes saying "College Football Playoff."

(And, no, not actually. Ironically. Because the Blob thinks "College Football Playoff" is the most unimaginative name ever. What, you couldn't throw a flower or a root vegetable or a car rental joint in there? You couldn't call it The Only Four? Or the Fabulous Four? Or the Only Power Five Teams Need Apply Four, Plus Notre Dame If It Ever Gets Good Again?)

Anyway ... it's going to be a juicy little parlor game, trying to decide between Alabama and Ohio State for that last playoff berth. And it is between Alabama and Ohio State. Central Florida may be unbeaten, but it's a directional school. Only Power Five teams need apply, remember?

So it's 'Bama vs. Ohio State, and, really, it's simple math from where the Blob sits. 'Bama gets in, even if it didn't really beat anyone of consequence this fall. It was No. 5 in the last CFP poll. Its only loss was to Auburn, which lost to Georgia in the SEC title game. And it didn't lose Saturday, because it didn't play.

Ohio State, on the other hand, had one shot at leaping from No. 8 in last week's poll into the top four. It had to beat No. 4 Wisconsin like a dozen egg whites. The Buckeyes didn't. They won by six points, 27-21, and were outscored 11-6 in the second half. And no matter how much they would like you to forget what happened in Iowa City, it happened. Iowa beat them like a dozen egg whites.

Hard to see the committee jumping a two-loss Ohio State four spots over 'Bama, even though Auburn's loss hurt the Crimson Tide's resume a bit. And it's not like Ohio State can use the "But we won the Big Ten" argument, seeing how it had no problem with last year's Big Ten champion, Penn State, being snubbed in favor of the Buckeyes.

That precedent worked to their advantage last year. It will work against them this year.