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re: Scheduling Tough OOC games
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:24 am to stitchop
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:24 am to stitchop
By that same logic a team could schedule every team from the top 12 go 9-3 with the clear #1 SOS and saying they lost to the #1, #2, and #3 team is the reason they are out over a 10-2 team that had the #45 SOS.
This isn't the NFL where parity exists and in theory everyone plays a similar SOS and this isn't the pre BCS of top 4 BCS era.
In a 12 team playoff where P4 AND G5 teams can get in there is significantly more risk to play a top 5 program in OOC than the benefit of playing and beating that team. High High risk very low reward.
This isn't the NFL where parity exists and in theory everyone plays a similar SOS and this isn't the pre BCS of top 4 BCS era.
In a 12 team playoff where P4 AND G5 teams can get in there is significantly more risk to play a top 5 program in OOC than the benefit of playing and beating that team. High High risk very low reward.
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Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:24 am to FootballFrenzy
You are in with a much worse seed yet still in.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:27 am to Harry Boutte
You cant win the playoffs without the bullshite committee giving you the chance to make the playoffs.
ND lost to both teams with a pulse on their schedule as did BYU.
Texas went 3-2 against top 15 teams (or teams that made or were on the bubble of making the playoffs) proving Texas can win the playoffs. Only losses were away which to win the playoffs you will be neutral most of the way.
ND lost to both teams with a pulse on their schedule as did BYU.
Texas went 3-2 against top 15 teams (or teams that made or were on the bubble of making the playoffs) proving Texas can win the playoffs. Only losses were away which to win the playoffs you will be neutral most of the way.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:28 am to FooManChoo
I will say it 1000 times as it bodes 100% true. A 10-2 Texas team with the exact same schedule and outcome while swapping a 7 point loss to OSU in September with a W (regardless of how it happened) to a cupcake P4 like 95% of the other country schedules puts that 10-2 Texas team in the playoff.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:31 am to Dawgs2122
Really, a 10-2 Texas team going 3-2 against top 15 teams best record since 19 LSU isnt in over OU who they beat H2H or Miami (same record and Texas better SOS, SOR) or Bama (better record since thats clearly what the committee cares about and somehow better loss Fl destroyed FSU).
Put the resumes up and answer me this Dawg 2122, Of those teams 3 get in which is left out Texas, OU, Bama, Miami
Put the resumes up and answer me this Dawg 2122, Of those teams 3 get in which is left out Texas, OU, Bama, Miami
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:32 am to TexasWranglers
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You cant win the playoffs without the bullshite committee giving you the chance to make the playoffs.
:wrong:
Win all your games and don't leave it up to the committee.
The problem with the expanded playoffs is the inclusion of all the losers.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:32 am to TexasWranglers
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You are in with a much worse seed yet still in.
I don’t know. ND would be in over us, Vandy probably would be, BYU very easily could be, and Texas might be.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:36 am to Harry Boutte
Would you agree a top 5 schedule is not the same as a top 60? If the committee doesn't punish the top 60 schedule team than why should the top 5 schedule team risk playing the #1 team at their house?
We can go round and round. The fact remains a 10-2 Texas team is in with H2H over Vandy and OU this year with everything the same except swapping going to Columbus.
We can go round and round. The fact remains a 10-2 Texas team is in with H2H over Vandy and OU this year with everything the same except swapping going to Columbus.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:38 am to FootballFrenzy
All this tells me is the teams you listed were screwed this year and this will go to a 16 team playoff.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:41 am to TexasWranglers
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why should the top 5 schedule team risk playing the #1 team at their house?
To prove their mettle like men.
Also, to provide quality entertainment for the fans.
Maybe Texas should just reform the SWC and play a bunch of Texas teams all year like y'all did for your first hundred years of football.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:43 am to Harry Boutte
Cool, play a top 5 SOS year in year out and be left out of the playoffs and do nothing like 95% of LSUs existence before 2003 for entertaining the fans.
Texas can prove their mettle like men by playing an SEC schedule year in year out and do what 95% of the rest of college football does and 90% of the SEC already did and schedule cupcake P4 teams OOC.
You do you LSU
Texas can prove their mettle like men by playing an SEC schedule year in year out and do what 95% of the rest of college football does and 90% of the SEC already did and schedule cupcake P4 teams OOC.
You do you LSU
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:48 am to TexasWranglers
You're afraid of losing games, I want to win. That's the difference.
That's what I'm talking about.
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You do you LSU
That's what I'm talking about.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:49 am to Dr RC
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bullshite. A&M is 11-1 but only ranked #7 in the CFP poll. Take away our win vs Notre Dame and make it a win against somebody like Tulsa and there is a very real chance we aren't in the playoff at all.
So you think 11-1 A&M falls out of the playoffs? No chance, and that is the whole point.
If A&M lost to ND? Yes, likely out.
There is only added risk with little to no benefit.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:00 am to Harry Boutte
And you will sit at home if they dont change from a 12 team playoff since there are too many logjams of teams that will finish 11-1 or 10-2 from shitty conferences OR finish 10-2 in the BIG and SEC and will cannibalize themselves.
To each their own though. Work smarter not harder.
You have any Heisman and NFL All Pro WR running around LSU these days, if not good luck with that strategy.
Also, I am not afraid of losing games. I am pointing out College Football has changed and the committee is not changing with it
To each their own though. Work smarter not harder.
You have any Heisman and NFL All Pro WR running around LSU these days, if not good luck with that strategy.
Also, I am not afraid of losing games. I am pointing out College Football has changed and the committee is not changing with it
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:03 am to stitchop
I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Tx and A&’em fans on here, but they’re right, and your shite is dumb. The playoff committee doesn’t care if you play all top 10 teams or all unranked teams. They lied when they said they were accounting for strength of schedule.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:06 am to BigBro
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So you think 11-1 A&M falls out of the playoffs? .
Yes. I think we would have been the team to get dropped for Notre Dame. Our SEC schedule was weak as hell and if we didn't have the Notre Dame win we never would have shot up into the top 10 so early into the season.
W/o the Notre Dame win the only wins A&M has over a teams w/a winning record are 8-4 Mizzou and 7-5 LSU and Mizzou didn't have their starting Qb.
UTSA - 6-6
Utah State - 6-6
Auburn - 5-7
Miss St - 5-7
Florida - 4-8
Arkansas - 2-10
LSU - 7-5
Missouri - 8-4
USCe. - 4-8
Samford 1-11
We would have been the easiest drop for the CFP committee to ever make if that ND win is turned into a game against somebody like La Tech.
This post was edited on 12/11/25 at 11:13 am
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:08 am to fwtex
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Uhh, maybe because driven competitive people want to play the best.
Maybe because intelligent competitive people want to optimize their chances of winning championships?
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:25 am to TexasWranglers
Vandy, Chokelahoma and UTrans all went 6-2 in SEC games. Vandy lost to a ranked UTrans and a ranked Bama. Chokelahoma lost to a ranked UTrans and a ranked Ole Piss. UTrans lost to a ranked Georgia and an unranked Florida.
Chokelahoma got the game because they beat Bama and Vandy lost to Bama.
Both of Vandy's and Chokelahoma's losses were to ranked teams. UTrans had a bad loss to an unranked team. Chokelahoma and Vandy would have got the game before UTrans.
The CFP committee was not going to let 6 SEC teams into the playoffs. That would be half of the available spots going to the SEC and they were not going to do that. If they did, Vandy likely would have gotten in before UTrans
tOSU loss had nothing to do with it.
SOS is important. Losing to a team that actually hurts your SOS is really bad.
Chokelahoma got the game because they beat Bama and Vandy lost to Bama.
Both of Vandy's and Chokelahoma's losses were to ranked teams. UTrans had a bad loss to an unranked team. Chokelahoma and Vandy would have got the game before UTrans.
The CFP committee was not going to let 6 SEC teams into the playoffs. That would be half of the available spots going to the SEC and they were not going to do that. If they did, Vandy likely would have gotten in before UTrans
tOSU loss had nothing to do with it.
SOS is important. Losing to a team that actually hurts your SOS is really bad.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:34 am to stitchop
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Just stop.
Scheduling tough OOC games doesn't "hurt" you.
Loosing those OOC games is what hurt you
You're an idiot.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 12:25 pm to TexasWranglers
Don't care. You didn't win the games you were supposed to win. You barely showed up against Georgia. Lost to the Gators. Had a bunch of near misses against bad teams. Just play better. Your crying is really sad TBH
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