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Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:29 pm to PaperTiger
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:29 pm to PaperTiger
They cannot decline invitation
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Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:32 pm to jchamil
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What precedent did they just set?
Lose as least as possible and don't get blown out
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:33 pm to ceretonia
Did not know that if true.
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:34 pm to Irons Puppet
The bottom line is that the same things matter that the committee has always said mattered. The problem is that people just don't want to fricking listen.
1. The mission is to pick the 4 best teams.
2. Conference championships matter if a choice is close.
3. Alabama and OSU, according to what Hocutt said about the committee's deliberations, were NOT close.
People just hear what they want to hear.
1. The mission is to pick the 4 best teams.
2. Conference championships matter if a choice is close.
3. Alabama and OSU, according to what Hocutt said about the committee's deliberations, were NOT close.
People just hear what they want to hear.
This post was edited on 12/3/17 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:35 pm to jchamil
Good catch. But my point remains, just because it happened one year doesn't mean it's written in stone that it's the criteria. It seems as if there are as many faults with this system as the BCS, when it comes down to teams not really understanding what gets them in and what doesn't.
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:37 pm to BamaGradinTn
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Alabama and OSU, according to what Hocutt said about the committee's deliberations, were NOT close.
But that's why I think most people aren't listening. He said the #5 team at the time and the #8 team weren't close. This is the same two teams that were listed #1 and #2 in the ESPN FPI rankings.
I mean that's pretty close
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:42 pm to BreezyDawg
Like last year with OSU-PSU, the lesson is that the number of losses and how bad you lose can be decisive when teams are close. Conference championships do still matter as Clemson, OU, and UGA had to win that game to get in with a loss coming in, but it can be trumped by a consensus of experts that these jimmies would beat those joes on a neutral field, as was echoed pretty unanimously by coaches and Vegas.
I think also coloring this is that Alabama and OSU have been extraordinarily consistent and dominant teams for a decade to where OSU would get the benefit of the doubt over PSU but not over a peer like Alabama.
I think also coloring this is that Alabama and OSU have been extraordinarily consistent and dominant teams for a decade to where OSU would get the benefit of the doubt over PSU but not over a peer like Alabama.
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:48 pm to PaperTiger
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Did not know that if true.
If you didn’t know something as basic as that, you need to just shut the hell up about any of this.
Posted on 12/3/17 at 12:57 pm to Tidegirl
Hahaha. A team choosing to decline participate in their conference championship game to save bodies for the playoffs........ 
Posted on 12/3/17 at 1:02 pm to Irons Puppet
If OSU just loses in a respectable way 7-5 Iowa, they are in. It literally took a conference champion having to be embarrassed by 30+ points to a sorry team to get passed. It means a lot, else Bama would have been in no discussion
Posted on 12/3/17 at 1:07 pm to bamafan1001
Why did Bama make it over Wisky?
Wisky has the better loss and more wins
Wisky has the better loss and more wins
Posted on 12/3/17 at 1:08 pm to Tidegirl
Yeah. Tech doesn't make too many so I'm not as knowledgeable as you I guess
Doesn't change the fact that what I said it's going to happen. Guarantee conferences start writing in clauses for this
Doesn't change the fact that what I said it's going to happen. Guarantee conferences start writing in clauses for this
Posted on 12/3/17 at 1:20 pm to lsupride87
Did you watch the game last night.
Whisky is a team who couldn't beat L7U. And everyone knows that a shite storm L7U is.
Whisky is a team who couldn't beat L7U. And everyone knows that a shite storm L7U is.
Posted on 12/3/17 at 1:32 pm to lsupride87
The committee got it right, where they fricked up was last week. Alabama should have dropped to fourth and whisky should have been fifth.
Posted on 12/3/17 at 1:51 pm to lsupride87
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Wisky has the better loss and more wins
Wisconsin played a really bad schedule
Posted on 12/3/17 at 2:16 pm to PaperTiger
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This is the same two teams that were listed #1 and #2 in the ESPN FPI rankings.
I mean that's pretty close
And what's the ESPN FPI rankings?
"The Football Power Index (FPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season. FPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Projected results are based on 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season using FPI, results to date, and the remaining schedule."
The fact that it has Alabama #1 should be enough to tell you that it's a pretty worthless measuring stick. And it has Auburn ahead of Oklahoma right now.
If you're paying attention to things like the ESPN FPI rankings, again, you're not listening to what the committee has been saying. It's just some meaningless computer ranking system that some computer geek at ESPN came up with. It literally is worth shite.
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