re: Playoff Rankings

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If they lose to Georgia, they’re still in the top 4 thanks to starting at #1 and will have a good shot at making the playoff without even going to Atlanta.

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this is the point I continue to hammer year after year...you simply cannot say that one way or the other without knowing who the other P5 champs are. Period. If you have four P5 conference champions with 0/1 loss, they are in and UT is out. NEver in playoff history has a non-conf winner made the playoffs over a P5 champ with an equal record. Never been done.

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Tennessee stays in top 4 win or lose Saturday

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they very well might. It's still irrelevant until after CCGs are played. The committee judges based on resumes, not "best teams". CCG Weekend is a massive, monumental notch on a team's resume adn the rankings will bare that out accordingly. UT could be 3 or 4 (after losing ot us) going into CCG weekend and get left out entirely that Sunday as other P5 champs move up.

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So…..Theres no way around it. We have to beat UT Saturday, or we most likely miss the playoff.

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If we don't win our division then yeah, we will likely miss the playoff unless there is a lack of worthy P5 champs. Which we have seen before.

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But it’s an incredible pile of bull shite that the the AP voters, the coaches, and vegas all have Dawgs ahead of vols, but because a “committee” wants to spice things up for buzz, we get put to the side at f’n #3 when UT and OH state haven’t blown out a current top 10 team like we did.

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Again I just don't udnerstnad the gnashing of teeth on this. If UT or UGA want to make the playoffs, they're going to have to either win the SEC, or if they do not win the SECCG they're going ot need other P5 champs to have multiple losses. That's the case now just liek it was last week, last month, and will be a month from now.