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Does the ACC need to go undefeated to make the playoff?

Hoyacane1620 said:
This is where your schedule will come in to play. And how you won. Definitely going to be interesting- but there are a lot of games left to play - strange things can happen.
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This is why we can’t take our foot off the gas and we must continue to dominate opponents. FSPoo has dropped in the polls two weeks in a row after less than stellar performances, even though they won. If it comes down to the final week of the season and there’s several teams fighting for that final spot we need our resume to stand out. I realize there’s a long ways to go, but I’m just talking hypotheticals here. Mario seems to have this team focused so I’m not too concerned with a let down at this time.
 
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You want to be in the power 5, have a strong schedule, your loss to have occurred to a highly ranked team in the regular season while being highly ranked yourself, and win your conference championship game against a highly ranked opponent.

That would probably get you in most yeas in my opinion.
 
Empirical Cane said:
In 4 team playoff for this year, yes.

IF Miami goes undefeated this year, I'm not certain they get the #4 slot.
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If you go undefeated and are in the Acc you’ll 100 % be in the playoff especially this year when it’s very weak at the top. A lot of mediocrity. You act like this is some g5 conference. History has shown going undefeated gets you into the playoff or National title game. That said I seriously doubt we go undefeated.
 
Cribby said:
If you go undefeated and are in the Acc you’ll 100 % be in the playoff especially this year when it’s very weak at the top. A lot of mediocrity. You act like this is some g5 conference. History has shown going undefeated gets you into the playoff or National title game. That said I seriously doubt we go undefeated.
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As of today, the santeria chicken bones tell us...

- Jawga (win out)
- Texas (win out)
- USC/Wash (win out)
- OSU/PSU/Mich (win out)

As unlikely as above might be, there is no room for a win out Miami in the top 4 coming from #18 slot. The voting simps will go PAC-12.

Maybe not?
 
Empirical Cane said:
As of today, the santeria chicken bones tell us...

- Jawga (win out)
- Texas (win out)
- USC/Wash (win out)
- OSU/PSU/Mich (win out)

As unlikely as above might be, there is no room for a win out Miami in the top 4 coming from #18 slot. The voting simps will go PAC-12.

Maybe not?
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That’s a lot of ifs my guy.

If we were to win out the ratings would be going crazy, and CFB needs a storyline after the Deion hype train derailment. Miami would fill the gap easily as the rising dark horse contender.

But I really really doubt we are both undefeated and there’s also 4 other teams who are undefeated this year at the end of the regular season. Too much chaos.
 
ajkreider said:
No. Here is my dream scenario (that doesn't involve the Canes going undefeated).

We lose to FSU, but beat them at a neutral site in the championship game - both 1 loss.
TAMU (or LSU) run the table, and beat UGA in the championship game - both 1 loss.
Washington drops a game, but beats USC - both 1 loss.
Michigan beats OSU. OSU beats Penn St. Penn St. beats Michigan in the championship game. Two of those teams have 1 loss.
UT and Okie do an FSU/Miami situation - both 1 loss.

People's heads will explode. It's also a scenario where no SEC goes, since their conference champ might have lost to the ACC champ.
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Empirical Cane said:
As of today, the santeria chicken bones tell us...

- Jawga (win out)
- Texas (win out)
- USC/Wash (win out)
- OSU/PSU/Mich (win out)

As unlikely as above might be, there is no room for a win out Miami in the top 4 coming from #18 slot. The voting simps will go PAC-12.

Maybe not?
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Undefeated UGA and Texas are locks. If the Pac top teams remain strong, the Pac-12 will also be a lock. Last spot will go to best resume between Big10 champ or ACC champ.

Miami quality wins:
-Generic SEC team
-UNC
-FSU
-Clem
-Louisville
-NCST
-ACC Champ

If we go undefeated and play Duke in the ACCCG, along with Syracuse doing their usual tumble, it will result in us playing and beating the top 6 teams in our conference (not counting us of course).
 
Astcloud11 said:
Undefeated UGA and Texas are locks. If the Pac top teams remain strong, the Pac-12 will also be a lock. Last spot will go to best resume between Big10 champ or ACC champ.

Miami quality wins:
-Generic SEC team
-UNC
-FSU
-Clem
-Louisville
-NCST
-ACC Champ

If we go undefeated and play Duke in the ACCCG, along with Syracuse doing their usual tumble, it will result in us playing and beating the top 6 teams in our conference (not counting us of course).
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You see Duke in ACCCG?

Bold my friend.

I like it.
 
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Cribby said:
If you go undefeated and are in the Acc you’ll 100 % be in the playoff especially this year when it’s very weak at the top. A lot of mediocrity. You act like this is some g5 conference. History has shown going undefeated gets you into the playoff or National title game. That said I seriously doubt we go undefeated.
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Exactly. Let’s all relax and enjoy our season so far. There’s a ton of ball to be played still and we all know how cfb goes especially in November.

How many times have teams totally botched games at the end to miss out on championships. Happens all the time.
 
I don't think so, at least not this year. Unlike years-past, this season lacks top, high-end teams. Bama is down. Georgia is good, but likely not as good as last year. USC has a great QB, but questionable defense. And there isn't high-end QB play among other teams that have dominated the top spots (like Clemson and OSU). Michigan is good, but they seem to squeeze by a lot of games.

I could see a one-loss ACC team in a playoff.
 
This is a 2 to 3 loss team if we look at our remaining schedule. Road games at UNC, NC State, and Tally. Home games against Clemson and an improved Louisville squad. We are more likely to lose 2 of those matchups than going undefeated. That’s just reality.

It doesn’t mean we haven’t made significant improvements. We have. We are MUCH improved over last year. This is a signficanlty better team in all facets of the game.

We should not get hung up on wins/losses. The focus should be on how we play for the remainder of the season. More specifically, if we win the games we are expected to win comfortably (GT, UVA, and BC) and we win say 3 of those 5 difficult matches and are competitive even if we falter, then this team will exceed my expectations.
 
A little too early to be discussing 13 & 0.
Later, I got a slew of honeydo's so you 'all
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The Pac12 all play each other. Hard to imagine any of them coming out of there undefeted.
UGA and Bama actually have easier schedules the rest of the way so UGA could be undefeated and Bama one loss. And we know they can get in with 5 losses.
FSU could go undefeated
Penn St, Mich and OSU all have to play each other.
Texas not likely to lose unless they seriously flop.

When it all plays out the SEC could have 2 teams, once again, and we know they will do whatever they can to make that happen. Bama with one loss will likely get in over any other one loss team. Hoping they both pick up a loss the rest of the way.

The best part for football fans is there are some really great games coming up.
 
Empirical Cane said:
As of today, the santeria chicken bones tell us...

- Jawga (win out)
- Texas (win out)
- USC/Wash (win out)
- OSU/PSU/Mich (win out)

As unlikely as above might be, there is no room for a win out Miami in the top 4 coming from #18 slot. The voting simps will go PAC-12.

Maybe not?
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Has there been a season where all five P5 champions were undefeated in the last 25 years? Very unlikely for all four of those schools to win out.

I’d be shocked if we won out but if we did we’d 100% be in CFP and probably one of the higher seeds
 
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