Does SEC championship lift LSU over Ohio State in College Football Playoff rankings?

The LSU Tigers beat the snot out of the Georgia Bulldogs. If that’s not enough for the Selection Committee to make LSU the No. 1 seed, then they’re blind.

LSU left no doubt they are the best team in college football after a 37-10 win over Georgia to win their first SEC title since 2011. This was the latest statement the Tigers needed to make to show the playoff committee they should be No. 1 in Sunday’s playoff rankings.

It should not matter what the Ohio State Buckeyes do in the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis vs. the Wisconsin Badgers. The LSU Tigers did beyond more than enough to be the No. 1 seed after navigating one of the toughest schedules in college football history.

The win over Georgia gives LSU five wins over AP Top-10 teams in a single season, joining 2015 Alabama, 1987 Miami and 1943 Notre Dame to have that much success against that many good teams. If LSU wins the national championship, they’ll run that total up to a whopping seven.

If that isn’t enough ammunition to move ahead of Ohio State to take the No. 1 seed in the playoff rankings, the committee must not be watching the same games as the rest of us.

On top of having gone undefeated through that schedule, Joe Burrow and the Bayou Bengals just ace the eye test with their record-breaking offense led by the future Heisman winner.

If they saw LSU beat Georgia in the manner in which they did and don’t think they’re the best team in the nation, they are blind and we should just find committee members for next year.

Consider what LSU just did to the team with the best defense in the nation.

Georgia had not allowed more than 20 points all year. Burrow and the LSU offense just put up 37 points on the Dawgs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in front of a 70-percent Georgia crowd. LSU has earned the right to play yet another game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where they will hang half a hundred on the Big 12 Champion Oklahoma Sooners in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

This was the biggest and most dominating win of the college football season. No. 2 just wiped the floor with No. 4 in a game where Georgia absolutely had to win if the Dawgs wanted any hope of reaching the College Football Playoff for the second time in three years.

Sure, Ohio State might have taken the pole position in recent College Football Playoff Rankings. However, we all know deep down that there is nothing the Buckeyes can do to take what is rightfully LSU’s. If you want that No. 1 seed, then you need to tell that Burrow, Ed Orgeron and everybody else who supports the Bayou Bengals. They’re not going to listen to any of your crap.

What LSU just did is the epitome of the eye test. They just crushed what had been a top-six team throughout the entire rankings process. Wisconsin might be the No. 8 team in the land, but Ohio State defeating the Badgers again in a neutral-site affair holds no water to the dismantling of Georgia in Atlanta on Saturday evening.

So if you think Ohio State deserves to be the No. 1 team in the 2020 College Football Playoff, you are kidding yourself, just like any member of Dawg Nation who thought Jake Fromm was going to hold serve against Burrow in this ball game. It’s the Year of the Tiger in college football.

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