A couple of things. One I don’t think the committee has defined what these groups/pools/quadrants are. Ie., is it 1-4, 5-9 or 1-3,4-6, 1-4, 5-7,8&9….whatever. You’re just buying into the narrative. We could be ranked 1 behind ND and they could say we’re in different groups. They’ve tipped their hands that ND is getting in unless Stanford beats them. Second, we need someone else to drop, but even that isn’t a sure thing because if Bama drops a 3rd and Texas beats #3 they’ll push Texas ahead of us in a heartbeat. Our only real chance is to get lucky, back into the ACCCG and win it.
Regardless they knew all of this coming in. They gladly ate up the media attention during the 3 week bye period/FSU game and then came out and laid an egg against Louisville and then played like **** against Stanford and even more embarrassingly got beat by a glorified G5 SMU team. I’m glad they started playing better because I’m told they’re not doing much different as far as play calling.
Our chance to get in goes through Charlotte. Otherwise they need to do what they can to get to 11 wins and just push the we got cheated narrative in the offseason. I’d also drop the ND game and any other OOC that isn’t a guaranteed 40 point win.