re: Playoff Rankings

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Facts don’t cease to be facts just because someone doesn’t understand them.

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Oh I agree. It's why I post a thread annually to inform people on how the committee operates since they haven't deviated yet in 8 years yet some people still don't get it.

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Basic math shows that it’s further from the #1 spot to the #5 spot than from any other spot at top of rankings.
So there’s room to stumble

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the committee ranks based on a team's resume at that exact point in time through that part of the season. Tennessee objectively has the best resume in CFB right now, thus they are #1. I do think us and OSU should be swtiched but again, it's irrelevant right now. "Stumbling room" is fun to watch week after week but it truly doens't matter until after CCG weekend.

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This can pay off big time like it did for us last year, and like it has done for Alabama before. But since the committee is smarter than the AP, the Coaches, and Las Vegas, Tennessee will get the potential benefit instead rather than Georgia.

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This just isn't apples to apples at all. Last year we were undefeated and #1 heading in to CCG and lost. The only reason we still made the playoffs is becuase there wasn't a viable replacemnet to put over us after OkSt got upset in the big 12 title game. In 2017 alabama made the playoffs wiht 1 loss above a conf champion that had 2 losses (1 of which was an atrocious loss). In 2022, if UT loses to us and doesn't play int he CCG, the only prayer they have whatseover of making the playoffs is to have other P5 champs have multiple losses. Same as any other year. If there are four P5 champs with 0/1 loss, UT is out. Period. Done. Set in stone. And whether they are ranked 1 or 2 or 3 as of right this minute doesn't change any of that.

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The only thing Tennessee did to deserve it was to be a new shiny object, the new flavor of the week that hasn’t had a chance in playoffs yet.

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Their best wins are 1) close over alabama 2) beatdown at LSU 3) beatdown over kentucky. Our 3 best wins are 1) beatdown over oregon 2) uh, beatdown of SC, I guess? they used to be ranked 25th last week 3) Florida? They are only .500 and unranked but they have name appeal