Should be:
1. Bama
2. Washington
3. Clemson
4. Penn St
Will be:
1.Bama
2.Clemson
3.OSU
4.Penn St
ESPN has brainwashed the majority of America into thinking OSU is a Top 4 team by running up the score on Rutgers, Bowling Green, Maryland, Tulsa, etc. However, when they face a decent team or go on the road they barely squeak out a W (4 points over NW, 1 point over MSU, OT against Wisky, 2OT against Michigan). In fact, ESPN is right now all ready implying Penn St has very little chance of gen into The Playoffs, and should be happy with The Rose Bowl. It's really simple Penn St beat OSU head to head, and Penn St won The Big 10. The only reason the resumes of Penn St and OSU should be compared is if they never played head to head.
On the other hand, if you wanted to compare the resumes of OSU and Washington, then that would be much more logical because they didn't play each other. I have a feeling that Washington is going to get left out because they are going to point to non-conference schedules and say OSU beat the Big 12 Champ, Oklahoma on the road, and Washington's best win was against Rutgers. This was the argument that was made against TCU/Baylor in the first year. They said neither of the latter teams played anyone of substance out of conference, OSU at least played VTech (it ended up being a bad loss) but won The Big 10 Title Game by 50-60 points.
However, if Penn St is left out over OSU, then IMO the CFPC has lost all credibility in my eyes because it goes against everything they have stated that the last 2 years which are (1) SOS (2) head to head (3) winning conference title. Effectively they will be stating that winning the conference championship has no value. The only scenario that I could understand was if Wisconsin won tonight, and was left out for OSU because Wisconsin lost to both OSU and Michigan (The chances of the latter occurring on a regular basis are very very slim)