skrayper

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Which one had the purple haired boss bitch lady and the real villain in the movie was the patriarchy, with its outdated ideas like heroism and chivalry?

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The second one.

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Therefore, few have OOC wins vs playoff teams.

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I'm not even making that point.

One team didn't play a team from a major conference (the #1 seed)
Two teams played a team that went 2-10 (the #4 and #5 seeds)

Right there you have two byes and the highest rated non-bye team (getting the easiest opening game) for teams that had absurdly easy OOC opponents.

The next weakest OOC opponent was Alabama's FSU, and they're playing away against a team that already beat them.

The next weakest OOC P4(5) opponent was against a team that played one of the G5 playoff representatives.

But mostly the emphasis was on the ones that used an incredibly weak slate of OOC games to catapult into the most advantageous positions in the playoff (two byes and the easiest of the non-bye seedings).

Ohio State beat Texas by 7 while Georgia beat them by 25, and that was when Arch Manning was playing WELL.

The late season Texas would have at least held their own if not beaten Ohio State.

There were only three quality teams in the B1G this year:

Ohio State
Indiana
Oregon

Their big name OOC opponents were:
Texas (also lost to Georgia by 25 and lost to Florida)
Old Dominion? (Indiana's OOC slate is pathetic)
Either 2-10 Oregon State or 1-11 Oklahoma State

So how would we even know how good they are?

The biggest problem with punishing teams for playing good OOC opponents is that SOS will become an absolutely useless metric, but that's the route we're heading. Indiana is proving that playing a strong OOC opponent is meaningless.

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My understanding is there is an agreement that they get in if they are ranked in the top 12 of the final CFP poll.

If this is true it highlights again how traditional powers, aka blue bloods, get special privileges.

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Well, it highlights specifically how NOTRE DAME gets special privileges. I'm not sure how this benefits any other blue blood.

It’d be the most confusing coaching story of all time. To nearly screw the pooch and have so many close games only to actually be good enough to win the whole thing?

I’d start wondering what drugs our coaching staff is on.

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Bama also has triple the amount of losses we had sooo

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I was unaware anyone was advocating Alabama in OVER Georgia.

Weird point to try and make.

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Alabama @ Oklahoma

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Most surprising part is a rematch in round one.

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Miami @ Texas A&M

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Probably the most interesting matchup in round one.

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It's so funny to me that this wasn't ever even a hint of consideration just 2 years ago, when UGA went from winning 30 games in a row and being wire to wire #1 that year but lost by 3 in the SECCG and was bounced in the palyoffs,

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It’s funny to you that you don’t fathom that the playoffs changed drastically in those two years?

I’m not advocating for Bama, but you’re making an apples to oranges comparison here. 4 teams in vs 12 changes the criteria dramatically.

You should probably find a new hobby.

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Half of Miamis stadium was empty for their game against Louisville

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JMU puts more butts in the seats than Miami.