donnybrah
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Doomsday scenarios for how each Power 5 conference could get left out of the playoff
Article talks about how major conferences could not be represented in the Playoff.
Doomed if: The Coastal Division champ wins the ACC title. Doesn't matter who it is -- Duke, North Carolina, Pitt. Take your pick. Any one of those teams would likely put a dagger in the league's playoff hopes because they'd each have at least one loss, and the only truly impressive win would be in the title game. This scenario is the very reason the CFP didn't want automatic qualifiers in the playoff, because a conference champion isn't always one of the best teams in the country. According to ESPN's Football Power Index, Duke's best wins are against Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, which are a combined 7-11. UNC lost to South Carolina. And Pitt just dropped out of the AP Top 25 after losing to North Carolina.
Don't think Coastal chaos can happen? Then you haven't been paying attention to the ACC, where Miami just beat Duke with eight laterals in one of the worst-officiated games in the sport's history.
At least the last line isn't terribly biased towards Duke this time :U5PyXda:
Article talks about how major conferences could not be represented in the Playoff.
Doomed if: The Coastal Division champ wins the ACC title. Doesn't matter who it is -- Duke, North Carolina, Pitt. Take your pick. Any one of those teams would likely put a dagger in the league's playoff hopes because they'd each have at least one loss, and the only truly impressive win would be in the title game. This scenario is the very reason the CFP didn't want automatic qualifiers in the playoff, because a conference champion isn't always one of the best teams in the country. According to ESPN's Football Power Index, Duke's best wins are against Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, which are a combined 7-11. UNC lost to South Carolina. And Pitt just dropped out of the AP Top 25 after losing to North Carolina.
Don't think Coastal chaos can happen? Then you haven't been paying attention to the ACC, where Miami just beat Duke with eight laterals in one of the worst-officiated games in the sport's history.
At least the last line isn't terribly biased towards Duke this time :U5PyXda: