MEGA There’s Still Hope for the ACCCG/CFB Playoffs Mega Merge Thread

[Uncut Co Cane]

I don’t know a single person outside this board who thinks a 10-2 ND gets in over a 10-2 Miami. The head to head will break the tie after all games are played.

I share this thought...and could very well be wrong! But IF Miami wins out and looks impressive then I think that's when it will put the committee in a tough spot with a lot of teams because the common opponent with teams is interesting too. First things first tho Miami HAS to handle their business

 

[Angry Ibis]

Look i get it we're fans and it's easy to be ****ed about our mistakes, but we're debating multiple teams with multiple losses... everyone "did it to themselves". Bama dominated yesterday and lost because of turnovers and penalties, basically our lville loss. Texas lost to ******* Florida and people are still saying they could make it in. ND lost to the only two good teams they played, one of which is us.

I think most reasonable people just want to be held to a consistent standard, and these clowns are obviously biased against us, regardless of who did it to themselves.

What kind of consistency are you looking for?

2023 - FSU is 13-0, but due to injury they don't feel ACC FSU is one of the top 4 teams to go to the playoffs.
2024 - Miami vs. Bama - due to failure down the stretch, do not feel ACC Miami is one of the top 12 teams to go to the playoffs.
2025 - Miami vs. Bama, ND, Vandy, OU, etc -- due to failures against perceived lesser teams, ACC Miami is left out of the top 12 teams to go to the playoffs

Seems pretty ******* consistent to me.

Do you feel Miami is one of the Top 11-12 teams in the country (accounting for conference champs and G5) right now?

 

[JayCane20]

Vandy’s best win is a Missouri team who didn’t have their starting QB. They have zero ranked wins.

We should be #13 this week. I don’t expect us to jump Utah yet, even though we should. But at the end of the year, if we’re both 10-2, I think we get a nod.

Only reason we wouldn’t is because their AD is the new chair of committee, which is bull****.

if we don’t jump Utah this week I’m not sure it’s gonna happen. Their AD on the committee doesn’t help at all.

Even with Vandy, Utah, and BYU - we need another to fall. Gonna have to be Bama, ND, or Oklahoma. Maybe Oregon… plus holding off USC if they were the ones that beat Oregon. Oregon could probably lose to USC and stay ahead of us even though they’ve beaten no one.

Everyone else has a loss to give and still stay ahead of us.

 

[Glow]

 

[bdcane4eva]

It's not the 12 best teams...it's the 12 picked teams. Cfp has nothing to do with actual football.

 

[canes_226]

It’s our conference. Horrendous leadership and the Big 10 commish and SEC commish run circles on these voters.

Who has ND beat?

 

[SFbayCane]

To Notre Dame's credit, they only lost to Mario and Dawson once. The Canes lost to them twice.

I can see why the committee would favor the domers for that last spot.

 

[The U is back to work]

Who has ND beat?

Doesn’t matter. National brand that they’ll always get the benefit of the doubt for the ratings.

 

[Genghis Cane]

if we don’t jump Utah this week I’m not sure it’s gonna happen. Their AD on the committee doesn’t help at all.

Even with Vandy, Utah, and BYU - we need another to fall. Gonna have to be Bama, ND, or Oklahoma. Maybe Oregon… plus holding off USC if they were the ones that beat Oregon. Oregon could probably lose to USC and stay ahead of us even though they’ve beaten no one.

Everyone else has a loss to give and still stay ahead of us.

Honestly, the path to the ACC championship game is starting to seem likelier than a At-large bid….

 

[BishopEli]

What kind of consistency are you looking for?

2023 - FSU is 13-0, but due to injury they don't feel ACC FSU is one of the top 4 teams to go to the playoffs.
2024 - Miami vs. Bama - due to failure down the stretch, do not feel ACC Miami is one of the top 12 teams to go to the playoffs.
2025 - Miami vs. Bama, ND, Vandy, OU, etc -- due to failures against perceived lesser teams, ACC Miami is left out of the top 12 teams to go to the playoffs

Seems pretty ******* consistent to me.

Do you feel Miami is one of the Top 11-12 teams in the country (accounting for conference champs and G5) right now?

So a sample of 2 is consistent? And yes, I think Miami is better than Utah, byu, Vandy, OU and ND so that would put us in the top 12... probably ole miss and Oregon too

 

[Genghis Cane]

Didn’t the Arkansas AD get the chairman position?

Thought it was Utah’s guy. I could be wrong, though.

 

[aelmiami]

It's not the 12 best teams...it's the 12 picked teams. Cfp has nothing to do with actual football.

I’m just numb to it at this point. Play at tough OOC schedule and it doesn’t help. Our two losses could be to a 9 & 10 win team. Yet Bama loses to a team that’s fighting for bowl eligibility and it doesn’t ding them at all. BYU, Utah, Vandy play the little sisters of the poor OOC and they turn a blind eye.

Yet we play ND, USF and UF and win all of them and it doesn’t matter. Maybe they jump us Tuesday over those three but I highly doubt it. I bet we move to 14 and they will regurgitate that we lost recently, recent play, blah blah blah.

 

[canes518]

We need more of this. Have to call out the inconsistencies in the rankings over and over again until the final week

 

[Reyrey]

SIAP

For the best case for ACCCG, and it’s totally possible, PITT and Lousiville win next week.

If that happens, we only need Duke or Virginia to lose the last week.

I think if GT wins, we’re cooked. Just SMU, there’s a chance.

At large, All eyes on BYU @ Cincy though. If Cincy wins, BYU is out and Utah likely plays TT again in b12 championship. They lose twice they won’t be in.
Think there will be some more shake up in the SEC. Oklahoma vs Missouri and LSU. Vandy @vols. Something tells me not to sleep on egg bowl or iron bowl. Oregon USC is iffy. Don’t know how the upset would shake things up. I how far would Oregon drop in comparison to us and would usc jump us (we have a common opponent advanced). A lot to happen so focus is ACC.

*team shouldnt be in this spot

 

[Calinative]

IF that happens then there is hope. Maybe they see 3 games of holding an opponent under 150 yards and the offense coming together against a team over .500 as “what they’re looking for”.

But with Utah and BYU splattering their opponents I don’t see it. Jumping Vandy isn’t happening. They’re SEC.

My actual "prediction" for this week is: (I don't think committee in general is putting 2 loss teams ahead of 1 loss teams. Even though I don't think oregon deserves to be rated so highly, they probably will. OU beating Bama really ****ed **** up cause it likely cemented Ole Miss as in, even with a loss. OU is almost certainly in now too. I think 1 of Oregon/USC will definitely be in. And you know the committee will do whatever they need to to keep Bama in. I think the committee will slowly move us up closer to meeting ND, and if at the end of the year we are both 10-2 we will jump them. Whether that gets us in is a different discussion....

1. Ohio St
2. Indiana
3. Texas A&M
4. UGA
5. Texas Tech
6. Ole Miss
7. Oklahoma
8. Oregon
9. Alabama
10. Notre Dame
11. BYU
12. Miami
13. Utah
14. USC
15. Vanderbilt
16. GTech
17. Michigan
18. Texas
19. Tennessee
20. Virginia
22. Missouri
23. Illinois
24. Houston
25. Pitt / Some Team from American / JMU

 

[aelmiami]

What kind of consistency are you looking for?

2023 - FSU is 13-0, but due to injury they don't feel ACC FSU is one of the top 4 teams to go to the playoffs.
2024 - Miami vs. Bama - due to failure down the stretch, do not feel ACC Miami is one of the top 12 teams to go to the playoffs.
2025 - Miami vs. Bama, ND, Vandy, OU, etc -- due to failures against perceived lesser teams, ACC Miami is left out of the top 12 teams to go to the playoffs

Seems pretty ******* consistent to me.

Do you feel Miami is one of the Top 11-12 teams in the country (accounting for conference champs and G5) right now?

I would say yes. I’d say we’re probably the 9-11th best rn. Pretty much controlled ND, yes they are better but I’d make a very strong argument our defense is better now. Curb stomped USF and manhandled UF. Yes UF is bad, very bad. But they’ve beaten UT, and gave UGA and Ole Miss more competitive games than they gave us.

Could we get beaten by any team ranked ahead of us? Absolutely. But I’d wager from ND to Vandy, we’d beat every team more than 6/10 times.

 

[Calinative]

if we don’t jump Utah this week I’m not sure it’s gonna happen. Their AD on the committee doesn’t help at all.

Even with Vandy, Utah, and BYU - we need another to fall. Gonna have to be Bama, ND, or Oklahoma. Maybe Oregon… plus holding off USC if they were the ones that beat Oregon. Oregon could probably lose to USC and stay ahead of us even though they’ve beaten no one.

Everyone else has a loss to give and still stay ahead of us.

Pitt beating GTech and re-entering top 25 would greatly help. That'd be another "quality win" while they play yet another nobody.

 

[AtrainCane]

My point is

It was ticky tack bs. They all moved and Jojo wasn’t set for a full one count before Bauman went in motion. By the rule it was a penalty. Though there is normally some grace given. That said attention was drawn to it because our slow *** pace had the clock at 5 or so before they shifted and he went in motion. It looked frantic and that’s what drew attention and the flag. If we get set with 12-15 seconds left he motions without issue and it’s a TD.

man they literally changed the definition of a catch to help SMU. the sht is comical at this point.

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

if usc beats oregon they will be in the mix based on a ton of metrics the committee uses. not saying i like it but doesn't make me wrong

also remember the SMU rule- if you area ranked power 4 team (and have to be in the top 10 due to the conference champs rule) and you then lose your title game, you dont get penalized out of the playoff spot. so if byu/utah get to 10 and then lose to texas tech......

That’s not a “rule”. That’s something the committee says to cover their ***. If BYU or Utah get to the Big 12 championship game and lose, they’ll be behind 10-2 Bama and 10-2 OU. Book that.

 

[aelmiami]

Doesn’t matter. National brand that they’ll always get the benefit of the doubt for the ratings.

That’s the problem though. They are playing an ACC schedule with USC and Navy sprinkled in. Even then, they are playing to absolute bottom of the ACC barrel. The CFP can’t knock us, GT, SMU, whoever because we play the ACC. ND has played two T15 teams and lost both times. Yet they are considered the 9th best team in the country? It makes no sense.