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Posted on 12/2/24 at 11:40 am to ValueTiger
Posted on 12/2/24 at 11:40 am to ValueTiger
Seems like Ole Miss is the one getting robbed here. Scar lost to both OM and Bama and should quietly go away
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Posted on 12/2/24 at 11:41 am to madmaxvol
BYU’s resume is as good as any of these 4 teams. Also USCe’s worst loss is by 24 points to Ole Miss
Posted on 12/2/24 at 11:47 am to NickPapageorgio
Lol wat..one of those teams just beat #12 away.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 11:57 am to Utah_CUtiger
Clemson would frick IU up also I think yes
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:02 pm to Freon
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Clemson would frick IU up also I think yes
Clemson hasn't beaten a team with a pulse the entire season. Their 3 best wins are 7-5 Pitt, 6-6 NC State and 6-6 Virginia Tech.
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Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:07 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Same boat for IU, best win is a 7-5 Michigan squad followed by 6-6 UW and Nebraska. If it’s on a neutral field I think Clemson would win comfortably. Probably southern team bias followed by rather casual analysis but whatever.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:18 pm to Freon
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Same boat for IU, best win is a 7-5 Michigan squad followed by 6-6 UW and Nebraska. If it’s on a neutral field I think Clemson would win comfortably. Probably southern team bias followed by rather casual analysis but whatever.
It's really not about all this stuff.
They will want to appease the max number of conferences so there will be an attempt to get some parity in the selections among conferences.
I suspect they will go for 4 B1G, 3 SEC, 2 ACC. 1 BiG 12, 1 G5 and Notre Dame.
They may push an ACC back to make SEC/B1G bids equal in number.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:29 pm to ValueTiger
I think there is a good argument for any of Bama, SC and Ole Miss. Bama and Ole Miss each have an elite win over UGA that SCar doesn’t have, but SCar has much better losses than both of those teams, with the OM loss to Kentucky and the Bama’s losses to Vandy and OU. Yes, SCar lost to both teams, but in this case, to me, you have to look at the entire schedule. Also, SCar also has a really good OOC win over Clemson, and neither Bama nor OM has a quality OOC win. Wisconsin was not good at all this year.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:33 pm to Landmass
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Alabama has a blowout loss to terrible-arse OU. (This should immediately disqualify them)
OU is at least a bowl team. You lost to truly terrible-arse Kentucky who finished 4-8 & 15th in the SEC.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:48 pm to ValueTiger
Also interesting to consider how much more convoluted it would have been had LSU and A&M won their OOC games. A&M would have the best OOC win of the bunch, but a terrible loss to Auburn and a dominating loss to SCar, but they have H2H over LSU.
LSU would get no extra credit for the USCw win, and the Bama score would be the most damaging, but would also have H2H over both OM and USCe, and would also have two wins over two of the three teams that beat Bama, so, very convoluted.
LSU would get no extra credit for the USCw win, and the Bama score would be the most damaging, but would also have H2H over both OM and USCe, and would also have two wins over two of the three teams that beat Bama, so, very convoluted.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:49 pm to ValueTiger
If Clemson wins, Southern Methodist is in the mix for the last spot.
In my office this morning, I gave a blind resume of six teams (Alabama, Ole Miss, South Carolina, BYU, Miami and Illinois) to three other CFB fans and all picked Alabama. SC/Ole Miss/Miami were all 2nd through 4th but in three different orders.
All picked BYU last. Illinois has a better case than BYU.
All that to say, I think Alabama is the team - unless SMU loses and then its between SMU and Alabama.
In my office this morning, I gave a blind resume of six teams (Alabama, Ole Miss, South Carolina, BYU, Miami and Illinois) to three other CFB fans and all picked Alabama. SC/Ole Miss/Miami were all 2nd through 4th but in three different orders.
All picked BYU last. Illinois has a better case than BYU.
All that to say, I think Alabama is the team - unless SMU loses and then its between SMU and Alabama.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:49 pm to gamecockman12
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The loss at home to Kentucky at home is a beyond bad loss.
Specifically, it is the worst loss in the SEC this season.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:52 pm to REBEL5 AC
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USC or Ole Miss deserve it
No evidence whatsoever to support any of that mess.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:54 pm to AlterDWI
Maybe, but a close second would have to be losing by 3 TDs to OU, at home or on the road. I mean the loss itself isn’t the worst thing ever, but losing like that to a team with only one other conference win is not good.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:57 pm to Tigerpaul1969
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Who Gets the Last Spot?by Tigerpaul1969
Also interesting to consider how much more convoluted it would have been had LSU and A&M won their OOC games.
In that scenario if Notre Dame goes on and loses to NIU, they are out opening up an additional playoff spot.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 1:20 pm to FootballFrenzy
Bama got hosed by Oklahoma. Lost to Vanderbilt. They should be out just for those two things alone, let alone a third loss.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 1:48 pm to ValueTiger
Everyone forgetting about Bama getting their cheeks clapped last week 24-3 by OU is absurd.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 1:49 pm to ManBearSharkReb
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Everyone forgetting about Bama getting their cheeks clapped last week 24-3 by OU is absurd.
First time since 2011 I think that they didn’t score a td. Yet they think they deserve a playoff spot.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 3:29 pm to NickPapageorgio
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They won't jump the two 3 loss teams immediately ahead of them that they lost to head to head.
Yes they will because they beat #12 Clemson last week. They will absolutely jump over you and Alabama tomorrow.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 3:37 pm to ManBearSharkReb
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Everyone forgetting about Bama getting their cheeks clapped last week 24-3 by OU is absurd.
I guess that also includes the committee because Bama was ahead of Ole Miss in the rankings last week.
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