agreed... especially this year.
i should have worded that differently....
i am not sure clemson is a top 15 team.
watson at times looks stellar but at others he stares down receivers and misses wide open guys.
his athleticism can carry him past mediocre defenses but good ones bottle him up.
clemson is an sec caliber team in the acc so they'll always be top 2 or 3 there imho.
ohio state has the most overall talent followed closely by baylor imho.
alabama is in that discussion but the difference at qb is too large... as it was in the playoffs last year.
all that said, ohio state might be the hardest team in the country to watch.
they play ugly ball 90% of the time and wait on amazing athletes to bail them out.
the sec is a very strong league but qb's make the difference and they've generally been short there.
it looks that way again. lsu is a monster with a very mediocre guy at the reigns.
i favor tamu out of the sec because the qb(and back ups even) can play and they have finally gotten an SEC caliber defense.
the pac 12 is a fun league to watch but much like the big 12 it has it's premier team playing dumpster fire ball all too often and serially underachieving.
trying to sell utah is a lot like selling baylor and tcu... which means they have to be elite more than one year for it to matter.
my final 4:
baylor - No loss big 12 champ
tamu -wins sec, 1 loss
notre dame - 1 loss de facto acc champs
ucla - 1 loss pac 12 champs.
1 loss ohio state finishes just out of the running. late loss ot either msu or mich and not making b1g champ game hurts as does weak schedule.
1 loss fsu hurt by notre dame getting more love.
utah - hurt by being an upstart and what i project as late season loss to ucla.
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