re: Does Tenner remain ahead

Doesn’t matter. Vandy coming for that arse at the end of the year.

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UT’s best win is Alabama. Ole Miss’s best win is Georgia. UT has the better win.

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That doesn't really matter. Results against common opponents matters more. Ole Miss beat UGA, so if Tennessee loses to UGA, Ole Miss should jump them. Much like how if Tenn beats UGA, they should jump Texas (results against common opponent).

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That doesn't really matter. Results against common opponents matters more. Ole Miss beat UGA, so if Tennessee loses to UGA, Ole Miss should jump them. Much like how if Tenn beats UGA, they should jump Texas (results against common opponent).

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So, what about Tennessee's win over Bama in this scenario?

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That doesn't really matter. Results against common opponents matters more.

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Results against common opponents only matters so much.

UGA lost to OM head to head on the road. They also beat UK on the road and UK beat OM at OM.

UTk beat UK at home. OM lost to UK at home.

OM beat Arkansas on the road. UTk lost to Arkansas on the road.

Bama beat LSU on the road. OM lost to LSU on the road.

UGA lost to Bama on the road... who lost to UTk on the road... who in this scenario would lose to UGA on the road.

Bama lost to Vandy on the road while UTk would have beaten Vandy on the road in this scenario.

Head to head and different results against the same opponents really doesn't explain how those 4 10-2 teams should be ranked. You have to just look at their wins and losses as whole rather than head to head or common opponents because head to head and common opponents doesn't give an answer of how to rank those 4 teams.

head to head says that OM should be ahead of UGA but gives no ranking for UGA/UT/Bama.

Common opponents outside of head to head suggest UT over Bama, UT over OM, OM over UT, Bama over OM and UGA over OM.

It just doesn't work.

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You have to just look at their wins and losses as whole rather than head to head or common opponents because head to head and common opponents doesn't give an answer of how to rank those 4 teams

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Then it goes to SOS. The OP is talking about OM and Tenn, what Georgia has done has nothing to do with the conversation. If Tenn beats UGA, they should by the committees own rules be ranked ahead of OM and even Texas. If Tenn loses to UGA, they should be ranked behind OM.

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The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering:

- Strength of schedule,
- Head-to-head competition,
- Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory),
- Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.

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Thats why they're sitting their qb. So they can have an excuse.

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The smartest thing Tennessee can do is sit Nico and claim the Georgia loss only happened because of their backup.

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It absolutely does matter because they aren't ranking OM and Tenn in a vacuum. They're creating the overall ranking which will include UGA, Bama and a bunch of other teams.

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It's actually really simple. If Tenn beats UGA, they jump up to 3, maybe 2. If Tenn loses to UGA, then OM moves up and Tenn moves back. The committee isn't throwing "well Tenn Beat Bama" in there to justify OM jumping Tenn. Tenn would have the better win against UGA (on the road) and a better record. They move ahead of OM. Again, I'm not sure why you're dragging UGA into a conversation about Tenn and OM both beating UGA. If Tenn beats UGA, then UGA has 3 losses and wont be anywhere close to being in the top 12. It's a moot point.

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It's actually really simple. If Tenn beats UGA, they jump up to 3, maybe 2. If Tenn loses to UGA, then OM moves up and Tenn moves back. The committee isn't throwing "well Tenn Beat Bama" in there to justify OM jumping Tenn. Tenn would have the better win against UGA (on the road) and a better record.

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Some problems with your logic.

If Tenn loses to UGA, they have the same record as OM. They also have a BETTER win than Ole Miss (Alabama is ranked ahead of UGA).

If UT beats UGA it doesn't matter at all.

But Tennessee with a loss creates a situation with 4 teams with 2-losses from the SEC that are not easily ranked due to inconsistent results.

UGA beat Tenn who beat Bama who beat UGA.
UGA beat UK who beat OM who beat UGA.
Tenn also beat UK who beat OM.
Tenn also would have beaten Vandy who beat Bama.
OM would have beaten Arkansas who beat Tenn.

They're going to have to figure out how to sort those teams out if it does go down that way. They'll probably end up disregarding head to head and common opponents and just rank based on how good their wins and losses were overall. Or perhaps just choose the teams highest that they really want in the playoffs most.

Assuming Bama, UGA, TN, and Ole Miss finish as two loss teams, they should all be ahead of IU and Penn State (assuming they finish 11-1). Their best wins are over a currently 5 and 5 Michigan team.

If that holds and either get in over our teams, keep the conference schedule at 8 games and everybody needs to schedule 4 OOC cupcakes. SOS will clearly mean nothing.