There is no denying the growing gap in college football between the Power Five conferences and the rest of the NCAA. Can the Bearcats only reach the College Football Playoff with an undefeated season?
It wasn't long ago that Ohio State completed an unprecedented run, beating Wisconsin, Alabama and Oregon on their way to a National Title. Only a month prior, the College Football Playoff Committee was faced with the difficult decision of even selecting the Buckeyes as the fourth seed in the four-team playoff. TCU and Baylor were equally deserving and many felt (and continue to feel) Ohio State had the worst resume of the three options, yet the committee members took the Buckeyes, in a move that would have confused the BCS computers in much the same way Matthew Broderick bewildered the computer in WarGames.