re: If Bama doesn't fall out of playoffs with a loss, should UGA keep top 4 seed with a loss?

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If Bama wins, they will be bumped to #2, IMO.

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nobody can beat Georgia if we beat them twice that eliminates a loss and a half

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Except UVA is currently ranked. Duke sucks

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Missed that. Thanks!

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two games. 24-15 win at Florida (rivalry game) and a 16-6 win over No 14 Louisville in ACC title game. Great defense. Would have matched up well against Michigan.

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Not great enough to justify getting in over a 1 loss SEC champion who just beat a UGA team that hadn’t lost in about 3 decades.

I’ve generally been anti playoff expansion, but that year showed it needed to be at least 6-8. With the parity that exists today, I honestly think it needs to be 16. A 2 loss SEC team should never be left out of the playoffs…they’re just not that different than most of the 1 loss teams (schedule matters a ton). And leaving out a 2 loss Miami team for the 2nd year in a row is a bad look. Miami could beat every other team in the field on a given day and they didn’t really have any truly bad losses like ND’s last year to Northern Illinois.

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If Bama doesn't fall out of playoffs with a loss, should UGA keep top 4 seed with a loss?

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if whatever rules are ignored and we are just rating the football teams....if bama swept UGA

1. OSU/IU winner
2. Bama/UGA winner
3.OSU/IU Loser
4. if Georgia Lost.....if Georgia won then Texas tech

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I think we need to do whatever we can to take the human element out of the selection process as much as possible

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what makes me so mad is its not hard to have a human element but still look at it fairly....I am a bama fan but it's not hard to apply simple logic to this thing.....the biggest issue is Notre dame and Miami and you simply cannot explain away ND being in. Vandy beat LSU when they were still engaged and at least a challenging foe....OU barely squeezed by a LSU team that obviously had mailed it in and was a shell of themselves....

THE SEC is clearly the best conference and that should be a factor....in this particular tournament any 2 loss sec team should be in. Bama/OU/AND vandy should be in even if that boots Miami and Notre dame......no way a 2 loss conference -ess team and a 2 loss ACC team should be in over any 2 loss SEC team this season unless that team happened to be A&M

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if a team loses their championship game, 56-0, they wouldn't be penalized?

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I mean we have history of this even with the BCS. Kansas State dog walked Oklahoma and they played for a natty a month later.

The issue is bama and Georgia have the same conference record as Texas A&M, Ole Miss, and Oklahoma. All 3 are locked into the playoff and none have a chance at losing Saturday. So no, aside from seed shuffling nobody is going to be dropped from the playoff

The committee is covering both sides. They have also clearly said they won’t ignore the results of the game.

They will use them either way to get what they want and justify it. If they allow no SEC to have a bye, going to be a problem.

Does that justify Bama jumping 5 spots if they win? No.

Does it justify leaving Georgia if they lose to the same team again? Not really.

Does Georgia deserve a 4 seed with 2 losses to a shitty Bama team (both being at home essentially)?

Depends on the game outcome. If Bama ekes out a win I’d say two of the top 4 teams just played the game so BOTH should be in the top 4.

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Bama will be in because if losing a conference championship game bumps an SEC team from the playoff, it will kill conference championship games and forever restructure college football.

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I agree, but I think everyone can see how this might be problematic in the future.

If a blowout loss does not penalize a team, what is the point? Likewise, if you have to play an extra game and risk penalty, how on earth is that a risk versus reward that makes any sense?

If conference games matter, they should matter.

No system will be perfect, but there needs to be a definite/automatic perk for winning the SECCG and a potential risk if you get demolished.

In the past we saw teams that were clearly weaker playing in the SECCG when we had divisions, but with this many teams, I tend to think the number one versus number two will always be a strong game --- so there should be more of a reward for playing and winning in it.

What that reward is, I cannot say, but right now it just seems like no one is planning for the different scenarios that will unfold in the future if we keep playing conference games.