Why An Ohio State-Michigan Rematch is NOT an Option

Simple - if you can't win a conference championship, you do not deserve a shot at a National Championship. Sorry, Michigan - that was your only chance.

Shark, that's kind of myopic. If you lose your conference to the best team in the country, on the road, by only 3 points, and you're clearly the second-best team in the country, why not get a second chance? Who would you advocate over Michigan, whose only loss came against the #1 team in the country? USC? Florida? Near as I can tell, we need a 12-team playoff between OSU, Michigan, USC, Louisville, Notre Dame, Florida, West Virginia, Rutgers, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Texas, and LSU.

I'm sorry but did I dream that the only reason Michigan didn't lose at home to Ball State was because of a botched referee's call inside two minutes and inside Michigan's 25-yard-line? Does the second best team in the country almost lose at home to an average MAC team???

OSU should play USC (if the don't lose again) or the SEC champ.

Why, Michigan only has the 12th-hardest schedule in the country!! My god, they've practically played all Division II schools! What a bunch of cupcakes! My point about the 12-team playoff is that there's Ohio State... and there's everybody else. How do you pick among the one-lossers? Hell, 2-loss LSU and Texas are almost certainly better teams than 1-loss Rutgers, Boise, Wisconsin, Arkansas, and (maybe) Notre Dame. And why the Louisville disdain? They've played as tough a schedule as Florida, with the same number of losses. Frankly, there are about eleven non-Ohio State teams that could all legitimately be the second-best team in the country, regardless of whether they have 2 losses or 1 (whoops, I forgot that 2 losses should eliminate you from the race, schedule strength be damned -- and in related news, Tulane was retroactively awarded the 1998 National Championship!). Point is, we need a playoff, and we need one now -- lest we simply declare OSU the Champs today, by default. Instead of having the BCS arbitrarily choose #2 for us, why don't we make the contenders earn it on the field?