Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. had the perfect reaction after watching USC fumble their Playoff Sack in the Pac-12 Football Championship game.
It’s hard to pinpoint where the unpredictability of the total soccer chaos awaiting the world is to be blamed.
USC clearly deserves the lion’s share of the blame, as a loss in the Pac-12 Championship Game meant the Trojans played themselves out of the playoff picture. All USC needed to do was beat Utah—which they had failed to accomplish earlier in the year—and their ticket to the National Semifinals was destined.
Most of the crowd also deserves the blame for assuming that things will work out accordingly and that the top four teams in the country will win this weekend and everything will remain on track. Only one title game was played and it got into this big mess, so the idea that things will look the way they do now when the selection committee meets Sunday morning is foolish.
With the loss to Utah, not only is USC out of the picture (save for an amazing serve by the selection committee) but it opened the door for the Ohio State Buckeyes to sneak in again.
It was already a fringe narrative heading into the game, but Ohio State now has CFP at the throttle and everyone — including the players — knows it.
Marvin Harrison Jr. reacts on Twitter with USC opening the CFP door for Ohio State
Simply put, Harrison knew exactly what it was like to lose the Trojans on Friday night. When it became clear that USC was going to lose, the Buckeyes receiver took to Twitter to celebrate Ohio State’s luck.
Barring chaos or an Olympic-level gymnastics committee to keep USC in the playoffs, Ohio State is going to the College Football Playoff. The question now is how high will the Buckeyes climb?
For now, Ohio State will slide to the No. 4 seed vacated by USC. This would set the Buckeyes up for a semifinal matchup with Georgia – assuming the Dawgs don’t blow it out to Brian Kelly and LSU.
If Kansas State pulls off a Big 12 championship upset over TCU, that could potentially lift Ohio State to third place, and set up a rematch against Michigan. In that scenario, Alabama should sneak back in and set up a game against Georgia — a matchup paired with OSU-Michigan would be a committee dream.
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