re: Playoff Rankings

Rankings this week are meaningless. Whoever wins this weekend will be #1 next week. With that said, the Dawgs are gonna be choppin' some wood this weekend!

Putting OSU over us is a bad move, but otherwise, I don't really care. If we're really #1, we'll show it this weekend and be rewarded in the next rankings.

What matters is being in the top 4 in the final ranking before the playoffs begin.

If Tennessee loses, style points matter.

@pitt
Uf

And then how they look against
Mizzou
@southcarolina (night game?)
@vandy

The playoff committee won't be looking to do Tennessee any favors.
If they deserve top 4, they would get top 4. But that is as much other teams screwing up than Tennessee fighting their way back in.

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Clemson isn’t going to lose.

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They have looked like poo all year and they are traveling to ND this Saturday….I wouldnt “isn’t” because they could lose that game. Also, who knows what will happen in the ACCCG….

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Facts don’t cease to be facts just because someone doesn’t understand them.

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Oh I agree. It's why I post a thread annually to inform people on how the committee operates since they haven't deviated yet in 8 years yet some people still don't get it.

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Basic math shows that it’s further from the #1 spot to the #5 spot than from any other spot at top of rankings.
So there’s room to stumble

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the committee ranks based on a team's resume at that exact point in time through that part of the season. Tennessee objectively has the best resume in CFB right now, thus they are #1. I do think us and OSU should be swtiched but again, it's irrelevant right now. "Stumbling room" is fun to watch week after week but it truly doens't matter until after CCG weekend.

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This can pay off big time like it did for us last year, and like it has done for Alabama before. But since the committee is smarter than the AP, the Coaches, and Las Vegas, Tennessee will get the potential benefit instead rather than Georgia.

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This just isn't apples to apples at all. Last year we were undefeated and #1 heading in to CCG and lost. The only reason we still made the playoffs is becuase there wasn't a viable replacemnet to put over us after OkSt got upset in the big 12 title game. In 2017 alabama made the playoffs wiht 1 loss above a conf champion that had 2 losses (1 of which was an atrocious loss). In 2022, if UT loses to us and doesn't play int he CCG, the only prayer they have whatseover of making the playoffs is to have other P5 champs have multiple losses. Same as any other year. If there are four P5 champs with 0/1 loss, UT is out. Period. Done. Set in stone. And whether they are ranked 1 or 2 or 3 as of right this minute doesn't change any of that.

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The only thing Tennessee did to deserve it was to be a new shiny object, the new flavor of the week that hasn’t had a chance in playoffs yet.

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Their best wins are 1) close over alabama 2) beatdown at LSU 3) beatdown over kentucky. Our 3 best wins are 1) beatdown over oregon 2) uh, beatdown of SC, I guess? they used to be ranked 25th last week 3) Florida? They are only .500 and unranked but they have name appeal

Do I need to link the Al Pacino speech from Any given Sunday? This is a game of inches. And two spots in the rankings is a lot more than a couple of inches. It’s potentially the Grand Canyon. This stupid first ranking can be the difference between back to back national championships for us and a Sugar Bowl against TCU or something. And you’re just gonna concede the inch?frick that.

Also, you can think Tennessee deserves #1 all you want, but when they are a 9 point dog to us on Saturday and Georgia is still #1 in both the AP and Coaches polls, it’s safe to say that the committee’s rankings are controversial. Or probably more accurately, a f’n tv gimmick.

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Basic math shows that it’s further from the #1 spot to the #5 spot than from any other spot at top of rankings.
So there’s room to stumble

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Here's another issue I have with this. The committee in their intial ranking shows us that wins and losses matter. They don't put "eye test" above all else. Bama is a prime example here. IS there anyone on earth that thinks bama wouldn't absoultely demolish the shite out of clemson if they palyed thsi weekend? Probably not. It'd be a massacre. Yet clemson is ranked higher, simply due to being undefeated while bama has a loss. So the whole "UT is ranked 1st so they won't drop that far with a loss" thing....why not? Doesn't it stand to reason that if we win this weekend UT would be no better than 5th? UGA/OSU would certainly be 1/2, while clemson and michigan would be 3/4 would they not? And UT would have to be ranked above bama due to having the same record but a head to head win.

The committe isn't the archaic coaches poll that feels like you can only move someone up or down a certain number of spots based on some unknown criteria. If UT loses this weekend why would they still be in the top 4 with a loss over an undefeated clemson/michigan, both of which are currently above a 1 loss bama?

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But since the committee is smarter than the AP, the Coaches, and Las Vegas, Tennessee will get the potential benefit instead rather than Georgia.

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Isn't it fascinating that there's an apparent "Georgia fatigue" factor already, even though we never experienced the Bama version that was richly deserved?

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Isn't it fascinating that there's an apparent "Georgia fatigue" factor already, even though we never experienced the Bama version that was richly deserved?

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Wanna know the initial rankings in 2017?



There's undefeated UGA over an undefeated alabama, despite bama starting the year #1 and us 15th.

I just remember LSU losing to a bad FSU, UT struggling with Pitt and UF Bama struggling with Texas and Tamu....

Its a smoke screen.