CFP Rankings part 2

Bro if we slide to 5 just after some championship games happen if we don’t go to the SECCG that’s the best spot in the entire playoff. Home game against a low ranked team.

If Utah is ranked #1 I’d want to be the 5 seed but if Georgia is ranked #1 I’d prefer the 6 seed

Agree on that front.

It seems to be clear that the CFPC is considering SOS in a major way. This and the 24 team playoff are ways of encouraging tougher OOC scheduling and interest in the regular season.

In their minds Alabama has 4 ranked wins (UK, USC, MSU (pre Taylor injury), LSU). They also have a razor thin loss, with egregious reffing vs their #1 team. The other loss was the next week vs #7 and seriously injured (#1 player RCW, game-changing NT, shutdown corner, key center, others). It’s also important that the injuries are not season-ending, most returned by LSU, yielding a big road win.

They are sending a clear message - and IMO, the correct one. This is a welcome major development.

In light of the 24 team field, these developments help the regular season to retain much of its relevance but for different reasons than the past. Games, rivalries will lose some or much of their intrinsic importance, but will gain playoff related importance in the form of seeding. I.e., getting byes and hosting games will be of great importance going forward. This had already begun. even in the 4-team playoff format, e.g., while Bama fans certainly care about beating AU, one of the fiercest rivalries in college athletics, the 2017 loss is almost an afterthought in view of the playoffs made and the NC won that year.

Different things will be the focus, ultimately the playoffs and all related to that. It will be much more like the most popular sport in the country - the NFL, and will give hope to most of the entire country. They may have stumbled into a good thing. Some things lost, others gained.

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Haha man people are going to really lose their minds

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If refs hadn't screwed us against UGA we'd be #1

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I feel like they are taking that into account. On paper we have lost to the two best teams on our schedule, so it's kind of strange they have us at #3. But we lost to UGA because of ref frickery and anyone who saw that shite knows it. They can't just pretend we won the game, so they're doing the next best thing by not holding it against us and treating us essentially like a team that is 7-1 right now instead of 7-2.