I was trying to figure out why Michigan was playing such a low ranked team for the Big 10 Championship. Instead of asking on here (most of you probably know) I did my own investigation. Because the Big 10 has an east and west conference, Iowa gets to play them for the championship. If they don't give UM a game, I would rather see the UM play one of the other higher ranked teams instead, OSU or even Penn State, both ranked much higher than Iowa. But the Big 10 isn't sending me any checks for any consulting fee so they can do as they please. But it just seems odd playing the 16th ranked team when two others within the conference have a much better ranking.
Strength of Schedule (SOS) gets a lot of discussion as to who should be in the playoffs. FS, UM, and UG all have pretty low SOS compared to some of the others (63, 53, 58, respectively). Big 12 Champs Texas with the highest SOS at the list I looked at looks pretty good with one loss, even compared to undefeated teams with SOS list in the 50s or 60s. Undefeated Pac 12 champs UW at number 23 on the SOS list looks pretty impressive. Seems like they would have a case being higher than number 3 with their SOS and 5 wins over teams ranked within the top 20.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, with a few more championship games being played later today.