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Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:32 pm to clamdip
Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:32 pm to clamdip
I know it's a message board and all but serious question...
are you just fricking around for funsies or do you ACTUALLY think that could happen?
are you just fricking around for funsies or do you ACTUALLY think that could happen?
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Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:43 pm to clamdip
2020 showed us that this wouldn't happen. #2 Notre Dame loses their final game before the playoffs in a rematch against a complete Clemson team (who was missing Trevor Lawrence earlier in the season when ND beat them by a TD in double OT) by 24 points. They drop two places to #4 in a four score beatdown against a team they already played. They go on to lose to #1 Alabama by 17.
Meanwhile, Texas A&M loses to Alabama the second game of the year by 28 and falls eight spots. They win out the rest of the year and are #5 when Notre Dame loses by 24. Notre Dame conveniently only falls two spots to stay ahead of #5 Texas A&M. The team in the #4 spot was likely just playing for the right to get skullfricked by Alabama in the playoffs, but A&M should have gotten the right. After all, Bama beat Georgia by 17 the next year in the SECCG, then lost to them in the NCG by 18. Likewise, Georgia lost to Auburn by 23 in 2017, then beat them by 21 in the SECCG. You never know, TAMU could have pulled it off.
It was feasible for Notre Dame to have played Clemson for a third time in a single year in the NCG, but A&M wasn't given the rematch against Bama? That was pure SEC fatigue.
I know we shite on aTm and Jimbo a lot, but they got robbed that year.
The committee would never allow even three, let alone four SEC teams in the playoffs. I doubt they'd even allow two if there was an even remotely semi-logistically feasible way, since it just happened last year. An undefeated TCU who gets killed 7–42 in their conference championship game wouldn't drop more than one spot if it meant keeping Ole Miss or Tennessee out of the running.
Meanwhile, Texas A&M loses to Alabama the second game of the year by 28 and falls eight spots. They win out the rest of the year and are #5 when Notre Dame loses by 24. Notre Dame conveniently only falls two spots to stay ahead of #5 Texas A&M. The team in the #4 spot was likely just playing for the right to get skullfricked by Alabama in the playoffs, but A&M should have gotten the right. After all, Bama beat Georgia by 17 the next year in the SECCG, then lost to them in the NCG by 18. Likewise, Georgia lost to Auburn by 23 in 2017, then beat them by 21 in the SECCG. You never know, TAMU could have pulled it off.
It was feasible for Notre Dame to have played Clemson for a third time in a single year in the NCG, but A&M wasn't given the rematch against Bama? That was pure SEC fatigue.
I know we shite on aTm and Jimbo a lot, but they got robbed that year.
The committee would never allow even three, let alone four SEC teams in the playoffs. I doubt they'd even allow two if there was an even remotely semi-logistically feasible way, since it just happened last year. An undefeated TCU who gets killed 7–42 in their conference championship game wouldn't drop more than one spot if it meant keeping Ole Miss or Tennessee out of the running.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:45 pm to clamdip
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Tosu/Mich winner loses B1G Championship to Illinois/Purdue.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:46 pm to TideWarrior
quote:The SEC Champ is getting a spot in the CFP.
Even if LSU wins the SECCG they are not a lock to go to the playoffs.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:48 pm to RT1941
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The SEC Champ is getting a spot in the CFP.
Most likely. Almost surely.
But not definitely. I mean I'd put money on it that they WOULD, but there is precedent for a 2-loss P5 winner with cache to sit at home in favor of a 1-loss team that didn't win their conference.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:51 pm to clamdip
If LSU beats Georgia by some miracle, and assume a shitload of bad calls for the dawgs, I could see lots of scenerios with 3 SEC teams in
Posted on 11/9/22 at 2:54 pm to TutHillTiger
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I could see lots of scenerios with 3 SEC teams in
there are literally zero scenarios with 3 teams from the same conference making a 4 team playoff
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