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Memnon said:
I think if we win out, we're in.

Just remains to be seen how we'll perform on the Road @Heinz Field.

The Narduzzi has pretty much mailed in the rest of their season focusing the last 3 weeks solely on ruining Miami's playoff chances.

He wants to beat us more than anything.

That game is where we need to step up & play our best ball of the season, because if we let Pitt hang around at all, The Narduzzi will be energized with all kinds of evil mojo channeled into upsetting Miami.
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I can’t tell you how revolting it is to watch that Narduzzi Presser at which he tells the press that he’s mailing it in for Notre Dame. That’s Lolphins level stuff.
 
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I feel like we won’t win out so I am already prepared for disappointment.
 
CDWright40 said:
I really think that too many on this board think we will get a fair shake and have a shot at making the playoff. It’s not happening. If we were getting in we would be better positioned right now. Our quality points have happened. The committee has spoken loud and clearly that they do not want Miami in. They do this buy creating this fictitious 3 team gap where you can not compare teams outside that and then move the goal posts with regularity. They also manipulate the back end of the rankings to bolster resumes. Convenient how Pitt pops into the top 25 just before they play ND to give them a ranked win, or how Arizona state pops in to help the big 12 resumes.

Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share. Excellent breakdown.

Here’s how the rankings are manipulated with teams like Tennessee and Missouri.

Alabama is #10
BYU is #11
Miami is #13

“Alabama has to stay ranked high because of their FOUR ranked wins!”

Half of Alabama’s ranked wins are Tennessee and Missouri. Those two teams are a combined 0-6 vs. ranked opponents and have beaten ZERO bowl eligible teams.

Let’s simply replace Tennessee with a team like 7-3 Louisville (who beat #13 Miami, Pitt, and James Madison), and replace Missouri with a team like 7-3 Arizona (who just beat #25 Cincinnati on the road last week).

If you make those two little changes, Alabama suddenly now has just 2 ranked wins.

With Arizona ranked, BYU now also has two ranked wins. With Louisville ranked, Miami’s loss to them is no longer to a “horrible unranked team!”

So now you’d have:
8-2 Alabama with 2 ranked wins
9-1 BYU with 2 ranked wins
8-2 Miami with a Top 10 win over Notre Dame

BYU clearly jumps Alabama (should already be ahead of some Top 10 teams)

Then what you’d have to take into consideration is that Miami beat Florida State, while Alabama lost to Florida State by 14. Miami likely jumps Alabama too.

With just a small change to #20 and #22, taking out Tennessee and Missouri (who have ZERO wins over bowl eligible teams), and replacing them with Louisville and Arizona (who have FIVE wins over bowl eligible teams), the resumes and CFP cases of teams ranked #10-#13 change drastically.
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You know how the military has a Rapid Response team? Like in Vietnam some Special Forces Teams were designated as a Mike Force - ready to go at a moment's notice when other teams were in trouble.

Well, Canes Fans have long had a built-in "Mike Force" in their heads for being "Disappointed." The pathway and rationalization posts since the first loss are part of this current iteration.
 
Embrace the pain of being a cane. We ain’t making the playoffs we probably losing the last two games.
 
gogeta4 said:
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You know the reason. lol
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Because they were both DB’s?
 
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Memnon said:
He's made several bulletin board material comments throughout the season about Miami. He's undoubtedly the biggest ******* in CFB.

It just never gets any attention on our board because our fans are always foaming at the mouth focused on Fran Brown & Deion for whatever reason.

But the Narduzzi is a massive prick.
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Hold up. Can you please fill me in? I’m aware of the one he said about the ND game, but I didn’t know he had made any comments about us. Did it start this season, or has this been going on before this season?
 
Narduzzi does have a hard-no to beat Miami. No idea why.

It’s not like Miami had any great teams in the last 20 years to **** in his Cheerios.

He was DC at Miami (Ohio), Cincinnati, and Michigan State before getting the Pittsburgh job in 2015.
 
CDWright40 said:
I really think that too many on this board think we will get a fair shake and have a shot at making the playoff. It’s not happening. If we were getting in we would be better positioned right now. Our quality points have happened. The committee has spoken loud and clearly that they do not want Miami in. They do this buy creating this fictitious 3 team gap where you can not compare teams outside that and then move the goal posts with regularity. They also manipulate the back end of the rankings to bolster resumes. Convenient how Pitt pops into the top 25 just before they play ND to give them a ranked win, or how Arizona state pops in to help the big 12 resumes.

Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share. Excellent breakdown.

Here’s how the rankings are manipulated with teams like Tennessee and Missouri.

Alabama is #10
BYU is #11
Miami is #13

“Alabama has to stay ranked high because of their FOUR ranked wins!”

Half of Alabama’s ranked wins are Tennessee and Missouri. Those two teams are a combined 0-6 vs. ranked opponents and have beaten ZERO bowl eligible teams.

Let’s simply replace Tennessee with a team like 7-3 Louisville (who beat #13 Miami, Pitt, and James Madison), and replace Missouri with a team like 7-3 Arizona (who just beat #25 Cincinnati on the road last week).

If you make those two little changes, Alabama suddenly now has just 2 ranked wins.

With Arizona ranked, BYU now also has two ranked wins. With Louisville ranked, Miami’s loss to them is no longer to a “horrible unranked team!”

So now you’d have:
8-2 Alabama with 2 ranked wins
9-1 BYU with 2 ranked wins
8-2 Miami with a Top 10 win over Notre Dame

BYU clearly jumps Alabama (should already be ahead of some Top 10 teams)

Then what you’d have to take into consideration is that Miami beat Florida State, while Alabama lost to Florida State by 14. Miami likely jumps Alabama too.

With just a small change to #20 and #22, taking out Tennessee and Missouri (who have ZERO wins over bowl eligible teams), and replacing them with Louisville and Arizona (who have FIVE wins over bowl eligible teams), the resumes and CFP cases of teams ranked #10-#13 change drastically.
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This team made a choice of putting our loses in the hands of the referees.
 
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CDWright40 said:
I really think that too many on this board think we will get a fair shake and have a shot at making the playoff. It’s not happening. If we were getting in we would be better positioned right now. Our quality points have happened. The committee has spoken loud and clearly that they do not want Miami in. They do this buy creating this fictitious 3 team gap where you can not compare teams outside that and then move the goal posts with regularity. They also manipulate the back end of the rankings to bolster resumes. Convenient how Pitt pops into the top 25 just before they play ND to give them a ranked win, or how Arizona state pops in to help the big 12 resumes.

Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share. Excellent breakdown.

Here’s how the rankings are manipulated with teams like Tennessee and Missouri.

Alabama is #10
BYU is #11
Miami is #13

“Alabama has to stay ranked high because of their FOUR ranked wins!”

Half of Alabama’s ranked wins are Tennessee and Missouri. Those two teams are a combined 0-6 vs. ranked opponents and have beaten ZERO bowl eligible teams.

Let’s simply replace Tennessee with a team like 7-3 Louisville (who beat #13 Miami, Pitt, and James Madison), and replace Missouri with a team like 7-3 Arizona (who just beat #25 Cincinnati on the road last week).

If you make those two little changes, Alabama suddenly now has just 2 ranked wins.

With Arizona ranked, BYU now also has two ranked wins. With Louisville ranked, Miami’s loss to them is no longer to a “horrible unranked team!”

So now you’d have:
8-2 Alabama with 2 ranked wins
9-1 BYU with 2 ranked wins
8-2 Miami with a Top 10 win over Notre Dame

BYU clearly jumps Alabama (should already be ahead of some Top 10 teams)

Then what you’d have to take into consideration is that Miami beat Florida State, while Alabama lost to Florida State by 14. Miami likely jumps Alabama too.

With just a small change to #20 and #22, taking out Tennessee and Missouri (who have ZERO wins over bowl eligible teams), and replacing them with Louisville and Arizona (who have FIVE wins over bowl eligible teams), the resumes and CFP cases of teams ranked #10-#13 change drastically.
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the thread title is funny.. as if the last 20+ years hasn't done enough to prepare us for disappointment....
 
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