Other Saturday 11/29 Games Thread

[tdubs_truckernutz]

Tie breaker wasn't the issue as much as the schedule. Virginia and Duke make ACC title despite not playing any of the top 5 ACC teams. Needs fixing.

you cant know that ahead of time who is going to be in the drivers seat when the schedules are set 5 years or so in advance. too many teams to play everyone. tie breaker rules have failed

 

[Lokest]

They do not need to be ranked. If there is a not a ranked option the committee selects from the unranked choices.

Jesus christ this is sickening how did we end up in this mess

 

[tdubs_truckernutz]

ahh I didn't realize they used AP polls

theey dont im just using that as a proxy on what the committee will probably do. easy decision to rank someone when they are already ranked in ap/coaches

 

[tdubs_truckernutz]

They do not need to be ranked. If there is a not a ranked option the committee selects from the unranked choices.

true but the teams i mentioned would almost certainly be ranked, which would put them in as top conference champion

 

[cookies]

At least Stanford is preventing notre dame from using the lame “we beat em by 50 instead of 40,” argument that Notre Dame loves. For the record, we beat Stanford by 35; Notre Dame is up by 36 with Stanford in field goal range.

 

[RyanCane26]

you cant know that ahead of time who is going to be in the drivers seat when the schedules are set 5 years or so in advance. too many teams to play everyone. tie breaker rules have failed

Divisions, conferences, pods. NFL seems to manage.

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

If Lane Kiffin takes LSU job and declines to coach Ole Miss in the playoffs, the committee HAS to drop them a few spots, no?

 

[cookies]

lol ofc a ref throws a flag for that

 

[cookies]

If Lane Kiffin takes LSU job and declines to coach Ole Miss in the playoffs, the committee HAS to drop them a few spots, no?

That’s what I’ll be praying about. Hopefully he plans to take the whole team and staff with him.

 

[cookies]

ND having to decide between a TD and FG here is absolutely hilarious.

 

[Lokest]

ND having to decide between a TD and FG here is absolutely hilarious.

Bobbled snap and we officially have another larger win margin against common opponent lmao

 

[scane]

ND having to decide between a TD and FG here is absolutely hilarious.

And ended up with neither, beating Stanford by less than we did.

 

[cookies]

Bobbled snap and we officially have another larger win margin against common opponent lmao

Lmaooooo. Cannot wait to see how they contort themselves now

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

Lmaooooo. Cannot wait to see how they contort themselves now

Well one good thing happened, I guess.

 

[cookies]

So the team that beat Boston college by 15 points only has a larger margin of victory against Syracuse. In other words, a bad opponent is boosting their total margin of vicotry against common opponents.

We beat them (closely; just like when we played em!) in the margin game against Pitt, Stanford, and NC State.

They really should be in the playoffs; they’re better than Bama and OU; but those 3 schools should be stressing — not us.

 

[cookies]

Well one good thing happened, I guess.

Small victories :/

onto the media circus of the next 72 hours

 

[IncaneInTheBrain]

The more I think about it, the more I think we jump ND on Tuesday.

5 of our 12 games were against common opponents or each other. We obviously beat them, and beat the common opponents by more in 3 of 4.

3 of ND's non-common opponents finished 2-10 (BC, Purdue, Ark). Meanwhile, we only had 2 non-common cupcakes (Bethune and Vtech, both of which finished better than 2-10).

So ND's only argument is that going 3-1 against Navy, A&M, Boise and USC > us beating them, playing 1 fewer high school team, and going 3-2 against SMU, Lville, UF, FSU, and USF.

 

[Garnacho]

Auburn might be the dumbest team in the country

LSU was mind-blowing dumb last night as well

 

[IncaneInTheBrain]

Also, if Bama losses to UGA to go to 10-3, we might jump them too. We're not dead yet

 

[MT-hurricane]

Nothing went our way whatsoever lmao.

For 2 weeks almost nobody in top 12 lost - that is rare and very unlucky. That included a lost of close matchups for those teams as well. Pretty unbelievable.