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re: Steele gives his CFB playoff predictions on Bulldog Roundtable on 680 the fan
Posted on 6/20/16 at 9:45 am to danfraz
Posted on 6/20/16 at 9:45 am to danfraz
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NO WAY that comittee BS crap puts two teams from the same conference in. NO WAY
They may have no choice.
What if Alabama, LSU, and Tennessee all go undefeated in games not against each other? Say you have a situation like this:
12-0 LSU
11-1 Alabama (loss to LSU in Baton Rouge)
12-2 Tennessee (loss to Alabama at home and LSU in Atlanta)
If you really want to make things complicated, then ponder what would happen if Tennessee lost to Alabama in the regular season, but beat LSU in Atlanta.... it'd look like this:
12-1 Tennessee (loss to Alabama at home)
12-1 LSU (loss to Tennessee in Atlanta)
11-1 Alabama (loss to LSU in Baton Rouge)
Regardless, if these 3 teams somehow finish the year only losing to one another, its going to be pretty difficult for the committee to not take at least 2 SEC teams. Only if the conference champion of one of the other Power leagues is undefeated does it sort itself out.
Watch out for Houston or San Diego State. Both teams are good enough and have schedules easy enough to run the table and go undefeated. The media might champion their right to play for it all if they want to try to keep an extra SEC team out.
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Posted on 6/20/16 at 10:06 am to BHMKyle
If the scenario of 2011 repeats (undefeated LSU, 1 loss Bama), there will likely be 2 SEC teams in the playoff. They only way it won't is if the ACC, B10, B12, PAC have 3 undefeated teams.
Just being honest, I don't think LSU gets a mulligan if Bama is undefeated and LSU has only the 1 loss.
Just being honest, I don't think LSU gets a mulligan if Bama is undefeated and LSU has only the 1 loss.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 12:33 pm to BHMKyle
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Regardless, if these 3 teams somehow finish the year only losing to one another, its going to be pretty difficult for the committee to not take at least 2 SEC teams. Only if the conference champion of one of the other Power leagues is undefeated does it sort itself out.
OSU last year had this scenario and didn't get in, and got passed by a 2 loss conference champ in fact. The system is designed to get 0 or 1 loss conference champs in. The problem is, and always has been, you don't know which conferences are good until the end of the season, when you can't rearrange the playoff field. The system is probably as good as it can be for 4 teams in, but it's not perfect by any stretch
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