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CFP Weekly Rankings - Nov 10 Week 2

Jonnyblaze said:
THEU01 said:
You can tell they’re just pushing the strength of schedule narrative. They want everyone in the future to just schedule as many marquee matchups as possible. Texas has 2 BAD losses but in the committees eyes as long as you have “strong wins” the losses don’t matter. It’s tough because SEC gets the boost of being so big and mighty but at the end of the day most of them are overrated. Mississippi state not a good win, ole miss (team is no better than wake forest, probably even worse) and Missouri (they’re about the same as SMU in my eyes when comparing to ACC). Give Texas OSU and Tennessee but putting them ahead of Miami is asinine.
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Not quite because the “it only matters who you beat, not who you lost to” only applies the to SEC.
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that’s true, and by constantly boosting the SEC teams it’s impossible for them to get eliminated as a conference. Feels like they have guaranteed 4/5 spots guaranteed and they just interchange the bottom 2/3
 
I think the Notre Dame at #11 last week was for two reasons. The first was that if Notre Dame lost they could kick them out. The second was that if Miami lost they could justify dropping them much lower than had Notre Dame been ranked #4 or #5.

Alabama and Notre Dame are the same except Notre Dame has a win over the #1 team and Alabama lost that game. How do you put them over Notre Dame?
 
arwinga said:
I understand these rankings “mean nothing now” but I don’t agree. They mean everything! Bama at 3 means they are getting a buy no matter what unless they lose as a double digit favorite. Thats the problem!
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If Bama gets owned by UGA like they did in last year's SEC Championship game I doubt they put them at 4.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
So what needs to happen for us to get a bye?

- Win out, obviously
- Texas loses to LSU this week
- Utah loses at Arizona this week

That’d be a solid start. I think, unless UGA loses, our ceiling is #3. We’re not jumping UGA if they win out. We’re not jumping ND if they win out.

Honestly, finishing #3 would be a huge win. We’d get a bye, would get the winner of 6 vs 9, and sets up a possible rematch with ND.

I want Indiana in the quarterfinals. ND in the semis. And who cares in the natty, just win it.
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We would be lucky to get a bye. Heck, 50/50 show we don’t even make it.
 
dycane said:
We almost lost to FSU and UNC. We did lose to ND. 4 quarterbacks, including 2 absolute scrubs, looked like Day 1 picks against our defense. Our only quality win is WF. I’m not going to complain about 7.
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GA basically lost to USF. A win is a win. I don’t like the way the defense looked the last few weeks besides second half of last game. But we have one loss without the best player in CFP. Who will be back so it should be higher then freaking Texas.
 
No team should get a top 4 bye if they don’t even qualify to play in their conference championship game, and Bama is currently in line to do just that.
 
The ‘plan” of the committee is to set it up so that after the 4 automatic bids, using their byes, 3 or more SEC teams get home games in the first round. UGa gets the number one seed and Bama plays a home game against Texas Tech. UT plays at home against BYU….
 
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Hoyacane1620 said:
They won’t penalize them for finishing second in conference championship.

I hate to be negative but I don’t think we can get a bye. They will give the SEC winner, Big 12 Big 10 and ND the byes.
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It’s unlikely, but it's not impossible. Assume we win out and win the ACC championship game.

Utah is very gettable. If they drop a regular-season game and then win the Big 12, I’m not sure they’re ranked ahead of us. If BYU or Texas Tech beats them in the Big 12 championship game, I think we’re ranked ahead of all three.

In the Big Ten, we’ll need Indiana to lose to USC this week. UCLA is a paper tiger, and I expect whoever faces them in the championship game to beat them. I don’t think a 2-loss Indiana or a 3-loss Oregon, even as Big Ten champion, would be ranked ahead of us.

The big problem is Bama. WTF are they doing ranked No. 3?
 
Just handle business and we’re right where we wanna be. History tells you a bye is not beneficial, the 1-4 seeds are a combined 1-7 in the 12 team playoff. Only one bye team has won.

However, in our case, it’s all about Mali.

If we don’t get a bye, playoff game 1 is 12/18 or 12/19. That’s 6 weeks for Mali.

If we do get a bye, the quarterfinals are 12/30 or 1/1. That’s almost a full 8 weeks since his surgery. He should be pretty close to 100%. Probably a good chance we have OJ, Buchanan, and Antoine back by then. Would be massive, obviously.

Just win the next 4 and we’re gonna be just fine.
 
Flynell7 said:
Almost isn’t a loss. We only have one loss which is to ND. Texas lost to a team that can’t complete a forward pass and another one with a backup QB.
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I understand the argument. But we just don’t look that impressive. If we win out, we’ll most likely be in the top 4 with our signature win being WF.
 
CFP Committee Week 1: Indiana #4

CFP Committee Week 2: Indiana…

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This ranking doesn’t matter because we all predicted it and Hunter Y is such a poor spokesman it’s like a cucking ritual they make him do. They all have to be in on it- he’s that’s bad.

Regardless, 7 is fine and it’ll change as we win and others lose. Just beat Duke-please.

But if nothing changed that bracket looked so nice lol. Home against BYU, then against Utah lol before the semi’s. Would much rather face those trenches to start than SEC ones given our current issues on the line
 
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