The original argument, when the first CFP poll came out was that just us winning would not be enough. We would need things to happen, beyond our control. the fact that we were undefeated and ranked 10th was the proof. That's what the idiots are not getting. Nobody, NOBODY, ever said that Miami would not rise or not make it to the top 4. We said that just us winning, all by itself, would not be enough. And the proof to that was that the committee ranked us 10th, behind six 1 loss teams even though all we had done all season was win our games. Now you're acting like us being ranked 2nd is some kind of vindication, when in fact it is just more proof that the committee ****ed up the first rankings and had us WAY undervalued at 10.
We didn't pass Ohio State and Penn State because they played each other. We passed Ohio State because they got the **** beat out of them by unranked Iowa. That was **** beyond our control. We passed Penn State when they **** the bed against
#24 , 2 loss, Michigan State. **** beyond our control. USC didn't put the Pac12 out of the playoff hunt, 3 loss Stanford did that when they guaranteed a 2 loss Pac12 champion by upsetting Washington. More **** beyond our control. We didn't pass UGA or Alabama because they played each other, as you suggested would be the case. We passed UGA when Auburn beat the dog **** out of them.
My argument, from the very beginning, has been that we needed things to happen like those laid out above. Miami winning games had absolutely zero to do with those things. Us winning can only possibly account for us passing Wisconsin and Oklahoma. It's very hard to argue that us passing Clemson had anything to do with us escaping Virginia after trailing 28-14 in the 3rd, while Clemson won their game 61-3.
Your argument was that it was inevitable and that we controlled our own destiny. We controlled zero ******* percent of the results listed above. I never argued that it couldn't or wouldn't. I simply argued that it was out of our hands. Clemson passed us in the AP poll during their bye week when we beat the team that had just beaten them the week before. They should never been ranked ahead of us. Oklahoma lost to an unranked team. They should have never been ahead of us. TCU failed to score a TD against that same team. They should have never been ranked ahead of us. Wisconsin's marquee win was against a team that Duke, the 13th best team in the ACC blew out. They should have never been ranked ahead of us. Ohio State got blew out at home. They should have never been ranked ahead of us. Penn State lost to Ohio State and had zero quality wins. They should have never been ranked ahead of us.
Your proposition that the committee having us at 10, behind 6 teams that had already lost was not a direct slap in the face is as absurd today as it was then. We should have never been ranked lower than 4th in the CFP rankings. We were one of only three undefeated P5 teams, and the only 1 loss team that didn't have a "bad loss" was Notre Dame. Miami didn't prove that they belonged ahead of these teams by winning games. Those teams proved they didn't belong by losing games that they weren't supposed to. And we only had control in one of those games. That does not vindicate you. It vindicates me.
