So who do we gotta root for tomorrow and next week?

Alabama

Everyone we have won against, especially Missouri.

problem is mizzo play Okla and its which teams win helps us the most

Kentucky (5-5) at No. 14 Vanderbilt (8-2)
2:30 p.m. on ESPN in Nashville,
Root for: Vanderbilt

This result actually has great significance to the Crimson Tide. If Vanderbilt wins, a win over Auburn should all but put Alabama in the SEC Championship Game. But if Kentucky wins this game, it opens the door for the possibility of the Crimson Tide missing the conference title game even with a win over Auburn. Then if Arkansas beats Missouri the following week and Tennessee beats Vanderbilt (with all other favorites winning their SEC games), the Crimson Tide would finish fourth in the SEC, according to this helpful calculator. Georgia would get the second spot in Atlanta because of conference opponent win percentage.

Here’s an explanation, and buckle up because it’s not simple:

In a scenario where Georgia, Ole Miss and Alabama each finish 7-1 in conference play, the tiebreaker gets more complex than head-to-head because Alabama and Ole Miss didn’t play each other. (Alabama has a win over Georgia but Georgia has a win over Ole Miss). The round-robin scenario in the first level of tiebreakers doesn’t apply then. So for that group of three, the SEC has to move to the next tiebreaker, which is record against all common conference opponents. But that doesn’t break the tie either because they didn’t all three play the same opponent. So it moves to the next tiebreaker, which is “record against highest (best) placed common conference opponent in the conference standings, and proceeding through the conference standings among the tied teams.” Again, that doesn’t work either because they don’t all three have a common conference opponent.


So it’s onto the next tiebreaker, which is “cumulative conference winning percentage of all conference opponents among the tied teams.”

Georgia would have the edge in this scenario.

But if Vanderbilt beats Kentucky, Alabama should be on track to get the No. 2 spot in the SEC and a spot in the SEC Championship Game because of the conference opponent win percentage tiebreaker.

So if you want Alabama to play for the SEC title, root for Vanderbilt against Kentucky. If you don’t want Alabama to play for the SEC title, root for Kentucky against Vanderbilt.

No. 22 Missouri (7-3) at No. 8 Oklahoma (8-2)
11 a.m. on ABC in Norman, Oklahoma
Root for: Missouri

No. 20 Tennessee (7-3) at Florida (3-7)
6:30 p.m. on ABC in Gainesville, Florida
Root for: Tennessee (but if you don't, I would not blame you)

No. 13 Miami (8-2) at Virginia Tech (3-7)
11 a.m. on ESPN in Blacksburg, Virginia
Root for: Virginia Tech

No. 15 Southern Cal (8-2) at No. 7 Oregon (9-1)
2:30 p.m. on CBS in Eugene, Oregon
Root for: Southern Cal

Syracuse (3-7) at No. 9 Notre Dame (8-2)
2:30 p.m. on NBC/Peacock in South Bend, Indiana
Root for: Syracuse

Kansas State (5-5) at No. 12 Utah (8-2)
3 p.m. on ESPN2 in Salt Lake City, Utah
Root for: Kansas State

No. 18 Michigan (8-2) at Maryland (4-6)
3 p.m. on Big Ten Network in College Park, Maryland
Root for: Maryland

No. 11 BYU (9-1) at Cincinnati (7-3)
Root for: Cincinnati

And of course like the first replay post said: Alabama

The only team we need to win the next 2 weeks is Bama. Win and we’re in.

Admittedly I would absolutely love to see Southern Cal get blown out and drop out of the top 25, giving Notre Dame zero ranked wins and Vandy winning out forcing the committee to say “well it doesn’t matter if they have no good wins, they have better losses and a weak schedule”

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Admittedly I would absolutely love to see Southern Cal get blown out and drop out of the top 25, giving Notre Dame zero ranked wins and Vandy winning out forcing the committee to say “well it doesn’t matter if they have no good wins, they have better losses and a weak schedule”

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100% this. I don’t think we want a 2 loss Oregon and 2 loss USC sitting there if we lose the SECCG.

IMO, we want Cinci to win today, Oregon to win today (can root for Washington to beat them next week), OU to drop either Miz or LSU, Miami to lose to Pitt next week (or an inspired VT this week given excitement about Franklin…not likely), Utah to drop one of the Kansas games the next 2 weeks, and Houston to lose just to make B12 look weaker with less ranked teams. Vandy winning this week and UT winning out (yuck) would help as well.

So, did today's results help us assuming Tennessee and Pittsburgh finish and win theirs? We need BYU to win or lose?

if we lose to texas am in the sec they will bump us

When they placed us behind Notre Dame they said win or go to a crap bowl game.

Losing the SECCG and having BYU win tonight and then beat Texas Tech in the Big 12 CG is the only plausible scenario that probably keeps us out if we beat Auburn.