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Sports folks raising big ?'s: "Why is Texas ranked ahead of UGA?"
Posted on 11/20/24 at 1:12 pm
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Posted on 11/20/24 at 1:14 pm to JetDawg
Georgia has two losses. Simple.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 1:22 pm to Monsusta
quote:Indiana and Army should be ahead of Texas
Georgia has two losses. Simple.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 1:23 pm to narddogg81
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Indiana and Army should be ahead of Texas
The college football professionals don't agree with you.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 1:58 pm to Monsusta
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Georgia has two losses. Simple.
There is that and there is the fact that their second loss is more recent than their head to head victory over Texas.
A more recent loss almost always drops you behind the team you beat in a head to head if that team keeps on winning after you beat them... and provided there are a few weeks between the two games.
Been that way forever.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:05 pm to JetDawg
Most excellent question
If Yexas loses to their little brother they have no business making the playoffs.
If Yexas loses to their little brother they have no business making the playoffs.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:08 pm to JetDawg
We still have two games left people. You will all be more comfortable with this at that time.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:09 pm to JetDawg
Hopefully your alma mater beats Notre Dame and a SEC team (it will be Tennessee) doesn't get screwed out of the playoffs.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:09 pm to LSUintheNW
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If Yexas loses to their little brother they have no business making the playoffs.
None of us have questioned that.
We only play trash cream puff teams.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:10 pm to JetDawg
Why is Bama ranked ahead of Vandy?
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:16 pm to JetDawg
The 7 spot difference between them is nuts.
It's even worse than the blanket "W=move way up and L= move way down" with little regard to opponent logic that informs the AP/Coaches Polls.
I would hope that in their final poll, the committee is able to do a little better job in not ignoring simple little stuff like every team didn't play 3 of the Top 10 teams AWAY.
It's even worse than the blanket "W=move way up and L= move way down" with little regard to opponent logic that informs the AP/Coaches Polls.
I would hope that in their final poll, the committee is able to do a little better job in not ignoring simple little stuff like every team didn't play 3 of the Top 10 teams AWAY.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:38 pm to JetDawg
Why is Notre Dame ranked ahead of Northern Illinois?
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:41 pm to Monsusta
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Georgia has two losses. Simple.
ok...then why is bama ranked ahead of miami?
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:42 pm to JetDawg
I think it's going to be interesting when Texas wins it's last two games, A&M loses it's last two and is unranked, then Texas takes another beat down in the SECCG. I can't imagine keeping them in over a 2 loss, Alabama, Tennessee, Ole Miss or UGA.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:42 pm to wm72
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he blanket "W=move way up and L= move way down" with little regard to opponent logic that informs the AP/Coaches Polls.
-We lose on the road to ole miss and drop 9 spots. Miami losses to shitass tech and only drops 5 spots
-We beat a top 7 ranked UT and move up 2 spots. Bama beats Mercer and moves up 3 spots
This committee is so frickin dumb they operate with zero consistency whatsoever.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:47 pm to JetDawg
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Posted on 11/20/24 at 2:49 pm to JetDawg
Eye test, name test, record test. They like to combine all three in the least consistent way possible.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 3:02 pm to AUTubaHerd
Pre-Texas, the SEC was a gauntlet from 1-14 and every team was in a war every Saturday for the past decade.
Now it’s a schedule of cream puffs if Texas goes 7-1 and shouldn’t count for anything because it wasn’t a hard schedule.
Meanwhile, in reality, Texas is pushing for the 9 game SEC schedule but the same people whining about our schedule don’t want to lose their guaranteed non-conference FCS win
Now it’s a schedule of cream puffs if Texas goes 7-1 and shouldn’t count for anything because it wasn’t a hard schedule.
Meanwhile, in reality, Texas is pushing for the 9 game SEC schedule but the same people whining about our schedule don’t want to lose their guaranteed non-conference FCS win
Posted on 11/20/24 at 3:13 pm to JetDawg
it's like yall forgot you lost to ole miss
Posted on 11/20/24 at 4:01 pm to Monsusta
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Georgia has two losses. Simple.
This is true, but it's also not a great answer.
The reality is that if you're going to account for the fact teams have different schedules, then UGA should be ranked ahead of Texas.
UGA has beaten 2 ranked teams in conference. Texas hasn't beaten any.
UGA has beaten 1 ranked team OOC. Texas has beaten 0.
UGA beat Texas head to head on the road.
Both of UGA's losses are ranked ahead of Texas's only loss.
If anyone were to logically look at anything past a simple number of losses, UGA should be ahead of Texas. The only reason they have more losses is they played a LOT more ranked opponents.
But the playoff committee is simply looking at the number of losses... which is much more simplistic than what they are supposed to do.
It's fine. UGA isn't going to the SECCG and is going to make the playoff, so where they are ranked really doesn't matter. If Texas loses to A&M they'll drop below UGA and if they win it's fine if they're ranked ahead of UGA. So it really doesn't matter.
But there's not really any logical reason beyond the fact Texas has a weak schedule strength compared to UGA for Texas to be ranked ahead of a team with better wins, better losses and a head to head victory.
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