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re: There's not much difference between 12-1 and 13-0
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:47 am to kingbob
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:47 am to kingbob
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False. Texas should thank Alabama. If Alabama hadn’t beaten Georgia, Texas would have been left out.
I completely disagree, but that's OK. First, Travis's injury changed the dynamics. If, FSU's 2nd stringer had gone Cardale Jones on Florida and Louisville, yes, FSU would have gone. But that didn't happen. FSU looked inept on offense in both games against bad teams.
The Alabama Georgia game was a play-in game. Pure and simple. FSU had no bearing on whether the Alabama/Georgia winner was going to go.
So, let's assume that FSU's 2nd stringer did go Cardale Jones on both Florida and Louisville, and FSU wins those games by 30 points and FSU throws for 350 yards and Alabama wins? The result would have been:
1. Michigan
2. Washington
3. FSU
4. Alabama
There was NO WAY a one-loss SEC Champ was being left out period.
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:57 am to Ten Bears
An undefeated Auburn SEC Champ missed out back in the BCS days.
Some programs are given the benefit of the doubt for more than others. Some programs are allowed extra chances, mulligans, and excuses. Others aren’t offered any margin for error.
This is why the subjective system for awarding championships in cfb has always been so asinine. A system needs to be devised to decide these things on the field, where EVERY team in FBS has a pathway to the playoffs.
Remember, this year there are TWO undefeated teams that won their conference which are not in the playoffs. Now, we all assume that neither of these teams could beat Alabama based on their strength of schedule, which may be true. But, wouldn’t you rather find out for sure by playing that game? I mean, it’s not like in the NFL teams with the best record always dominate. In fact, there have been many times when teams with less than stellar records went on an absolute tear in the playoffs and beat multitudes of significantly “better” teams. I know CFB doesn’t have the same relative parity, but you can’t tell me with a straight face that FSU on a neutral field has “no chance” against any of these playoff teams.
I think every conference champion should have a place in the playoffs, no conference should have a situation where teams are left out of the conference championship game because of subjective measures, and if some conferences are so lousy that they could never compete, then those conferences shouldn’t be in the same league, and we should relegate them to a league where they actually could compete for a title.
Some programs are given the benefit of the doubt for more than others. Some programs are allowed extra chances, mulligans, and excuses. Others aren’t offered any margin for error.
This is why the subjective system for awarding championships in cfb has always been so asinine. A system needs to be devised to decide these things on the field, where EVERY team in FBS has a pathway to the playoffs.
Remember, this year there are TWO undefeated teams that won their conference which are not in the playoffs. Now, we all assume that neither of these teams could beat Alabama based on their strength of schedule, which may be true. But, wouldn’t you rather find out for sure by playing that game? I mean, it’s not like in the NFL teams with the best record always dominate. In fact, there have been many times when teams with less than stellar records went on an absolute tear in the playoffs and beat multitudes of significantly “better” teams. I know CFB doesn’t have the same relative parity, but you can’t tell me with a straight face that FSU on a neutral field has “no chance” against any of these playoff teams.
I think every conference champion should have a place in the playoffs, no conference should have a situation where teams are left out of the conference championship game because of subjective measures, and if some conferences are so lousy that they could never compete, then those conferences shouldn’t be in the same league, and we should relegate them to a league where they actually could compete for a title.
This post was edited on 12/5/23 at 11:05 am
Posted on 12/5/23 at 11:01 am to Ten Bears
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I completely disagree, but that's OK. First, Travis's injury changed the dynamics. If, FSU's 2nd stringer had gone Cardale Jones on Florida and Louisville, yes, FSU would have gone. But that didn't happen. FSU looked inept on offense in both games against bad teams.
The Backups for FSU threw for more yards and more TD's than JJ McCarthy in the last few weeks.
be honest, the committee changed their criteria to get Bama in.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 11:07 am to Ten Bears
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There was NO WAY a one-loss SEC Champ was being left out period.
The SEC simply didn't earn it this season !!!!!!!!!
There were three undefeated conference champions and a one loss conference champion that beat you by ten points on your own field.
Michigan
Washington
Florida State
Texas
These four teams earned it.
So what do you have left?
"Alabama is more deserving?"
This post was edited on 12/5/23 at 11:08 am
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