Brother your talking different eras and different selection systems, it hasn't been the same process for selecting the NC the whole time. The AP poll champion system then the Bowl coalition to the bowl alliance to the BCS to the current CFP system. Each had different processes. So you can't look at the decades and look at it all the same.
The way you are looking at it is as if it was the same process through all the years which it wasn’t. So, how it was determined in the 80’s was different during the early 90’s which was different in the later 90’s which was different in the early 2000’s which is different now in the latter 2000’s!
So to answer your question no, OSU would not have shared it in 1994 because they would have played in the Rose bowl which was not part of the bowl coalition which decided the NC. Read below.
More specifically, the Bowl Coalition consisted of five conferences (the SEC, Big 8, SWC, ACC, and Big East), independent Notre Dame, and seven bowl games (the Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Gator, John Hancock/Sun, and, for the 1992 season only, the Blockbuster bowl).
It did not include the champions of the Big Ten and Pac-10, both of whom were contractually obligated to play in the Rose Bowl. The Coalition's founders tried to get the Tournament of Roses Association to release the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions to play in a title game if one of them was ranked #1 or #2 in the Bowl Poll, but it refused to do so due to concerns about this potentially violating its television contract with ABC.
So it basically came to contractual obligation and not a scam committee conspiracy theory, at least in 1994!
Of course ESPN runs it. They paid BILLIONS of dollars or the exclusive broadcasting rights to the CFP and have financial ties to the SEC and ACC...It is in their best interest from a business standpoint to make sure their product (SEC channel and ACC channel) get the most hype and the easiest path to a playoff birth and if possible 2 teams from one of those conferences get in at the expense of the B1G or Pac 12...Even Texas has their own network as well so they want to limit their exposure because they are the competition. To think otherwise is just being stupid and naïve...
Also, it had nothing to do with how the conferences were set up, it had to do with how the conferences and the bowl agreements were set up to determine the NC in the 90's. Which is totally different than how the BCS was and now the CFP!
I agree on how the bowls were set up. I’m saying had Ohio st or Michigan been undefeated they would’ve got a share. Regardless when we ever come up short even when undefeated we always were stuck behind one of the teams I said. 68, 68, 74, 94, 2016 all behind the teams I mentioned. I understand how the bowls worked at that time. Joe knew we’d always take a backseat that’s why he wanted a playoff system.
By the way that is why yours truly here isn't watching any of it. I didn't watch the sham last year and I won't watch the sham this year either...The biggest joke is that fraud Saban sits at a presser pontificating that he is against an 8 team playoff...Of course he is because he has an automatic ticket to the final every year the way the current system is set up...They want no parts of the B1G champ because they remember the butt whooping Ohio State put on them and want to make sure nothing like that ever happens again...So it's the same 5 or 6 teams in every year...Hand picked to ensure the ACC and SEC teams get into the final to perpetuate the myth...Sorry folks but I ain't buying into it and I ain't watching it...It's a sham and a farce...
Of course ESPN runs it. They paid BILLIONS of dollars or the exclusive broadcasting rights to the CFP and have financial ties to the SEC and ACC...It is in their best interest from a business standpoint to make sure their product (SEC channel and ACC channel) get the most hype and the easiest path to a playoff birth and if possible 2 teams from one of those conferences get in at the expense of the B1G or Pac 12...Even Texas has their own network as well so they want to limit their exposure because they are the competition. To think otherwise is just being stupid and naïve...
Actually ESPN would make more money if the Big Ten and PAC-12 conferences made the title game. That would bring in a ton of viewers from the west coast and midwest/northeast areas. It's why the Ohio State / Oregon CFP final was the highest rated championship game. By a lot, had of 38 million viewers as compared to every CFP final since that had under 30 million.
Highest rated BCS final? USC v. Texas.
The Rose bowl routinely garners high TV ratings for exactly this reason, two teams from different regions of the country. It would make no sense for ESPN to continually push schools within 100 miles of each other into the finals, they'd be seriously limiting their audience.
By the way that is why yours truly here isn't watching any of it. I didn't watch the sham last year and I won't watch the sham this year either...The biggest joke is that fraud Saban sits at a presser pontificating that he is against an 8 team playoff...Of course he is because he has an automatic ticket to the final every year the way the current system is set up...They want no parts of the B1G champ because they remember the butt whooping Ohio State put on them and want to make sure nothing like that ever happens again...So it's the same 5 or 6 teams in every year...Hand picked to ensure the ACC and SEC teams get into the final to perpetuate the myth...Sorry folks but I ain't buying into it and I ain't watching it...It's a sham and a farce...
Ummmmmm....
1. Alabama lost to Ohio State by 7 points, and had the ball with a chance to tie at the end of the game. Hardly a "butt whoopng"
2. The next year Alabama played the Big Ten champion and hammered them 38-0 🤣 🤣 🤣
I mean... facts?
Nah Roam...I disagree...It is more lucrative for them to perpetuate the myth for their channels...That way they draw the viewers in to watch the SEC and ACC channel at the expense of the "inferior" B1G and Pac 12 conferences...
Nah Roam...I disagree...It is more lucrative for them to perpetuate the myth for their channels...That way they draw the viewers in to watch the SEC and ACC channel at the expense of the "inferior" B1G and Pac 12 conferences...
That would assume the SEC fans wouldn't watch their teams play if Alabama didn't make the championship. Which is absolute nonsense. You're telling me Florida, Georgia, Ole Miss, etc. fans aren't going to watch their teams play because Bama lost in the Semis? Please.
No one outside of conference fans are watching those channels anyway, it's backed up by viewership numbers. And the Big Ten Network actually has the highest ratings of any of those networks, but how could that be if they aren't making CFP finals?
