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

Angry Ibis said:
I get the frustration, but it seems like many have forgotten we are not in a Power 2 conference, and we can't even with the **** one we are in. We knew we had very little margin of error for a second loss and/or not winning the conference and now we sit in multiple threads upset about the playoff rankings or playing out different conference championship scenarios because we do not control our own destiny.

We’re basically an A-10 school in March yelling the ACC gets too many teams into the big dance.

It sucks, but we left it in someone else's hands. Win out and deal with it.
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Have they officially deemed it the “Power 2” yet? If not, then we have every right to be frustrated. I like your basketball comparison but that would be more applicable to football if every team in every conference played each other at least once, but we don’t even play half the teams in the ACC and neither do the other conferences even if we all add a game next year. This is causing problems for all these conferences since we decided it’d be a good idea to stack them with 18-20 teams but only play 8-9 league games. You’re always going to have a team who didn’t play the better half of the conference like Duke who’s somehow in the conference hunt despite being 5-5. Funny thing with basketball too, not only do they all play each other at least once during the regular season, there’s also a conference tournament in addition to the regular season. I think that might be worth looking into for football. Not sure what it’d look like however but it’d make more sense for football as opposed to basketball.

But even the basketball selection committee isn’t as insanely biased as the lovely football CFP. Maybe because there’s more money at stake? It’s just mind boggling to reward teams for “good losses” instead of “good wins”. So you’re telling me it’s a better idea to put a team who can’t beat good competition in the playoffs where there will be…good competition????

Make. It. Make. Sense.
 
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We better win these last 2, and convincingly.

Otherwise we’ll be reliving the embarrassment of the SMU loss again. We had people on our side (they had no choice) then we choked. Then the narrative was Miami being Miami again. Sucked.

We’re starting to get a little support. Narrative building that 10-2 Miami should be in. DON’T CHOKE AGAIN.

Don’t freaking do it.
 
deezydinh said:
Would love for this and wrestling to be real. But we live in the real world
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LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
Have they officially deemed it the “Power 2” yet? If not, then we have every right to be frustrated. I like your basketball comparison but that would be more applicable to football if every team in every conference played each other at least once, but we don’t even play half the teams in the ACC and neither do the other conferences even if we all add a game next year. This is causing problems for all these conferences since we decided it’d be a good idea to stack them with 18-20 teams but only play 8-9 league games. You’re always going to have a team who didn’t play the better half of the conference like Duke who’s somehow in the conference hunt despite being 5-5. Funny thing with basketball too, not only do they all play each other at least once during the regular season, there’s also a conference tournament in addition to the regular season. I think that might be worth looking into for football. Not sure what it’d look like however but it’d make more sense for football as opposed to basketball.

But even the basketball selection committee isn’t as insanely biased as the lovely football CFP. Maybe because there’s more money at stake? It’s just mind boggling to reward teams for “good losses” instead of “good wins”. So you’re telling me it’s a better idea to put a team who can’t beat good competition in the playoffs where there will be…good competition????

Make. It. Make. Sense.
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Not officially, but they have been flexing their muscles, mouths and power over the last few seasons. We all know the ACC sucks, but we also did not hold our own for our entire time in the conference - so we wait. We've been assured in the MegaThread that Miami is playing chess here, so we wait.

It does seem like they are "discounting" the early Week 0 / Week 1 losses. Like Texas loss to OSU and ND to us, even Bama to FSU -- seems 100% intentional and I don't know if it is simply the concept of wanting those high profile matchups to keep happening and not wanting to punish teams that lose for them.

Not thrilled to be on the outside looking in, but all we can do now is keep winning, looking good and staking our claim.
 
Another thing that I find relatively annoying. The old time argument by the SEC diehards that goes something like “If Miami were in the SEC, they’d be 5-7” or something moronic like that.

Actually, I think this is complete bull**** and think Miami could potentially thrive in the SEC if you consider the type of team Mario is building and the style he wants to play because that’s basically how the SEC plays football. Emphasis on physicality on OL/DL, good defense, offenses who control the game as opposed to lighting up the scoreboard. At the beginning of the season I predicted wins over ND and UF and was very confident in my predictions. People forget football is about matchups and that’s very important especially considering the parity we now have due to NIL/portal. ND does not matchup well with us with their slow developing run plays and our Dline. Yes, 2017 was a long time ago but has Notre Dame really changed much since in terms of style and recruitment? Not really. While I didn’t expect a 41-8 blasting I felt confident knowing the ND brand hadn’t changed much if at all, and we have Bain and Mesidor. Florida is just our little ***** and always has been. Even when they’re more talented, we give them **** (see 2019 and 2008 for reference)

And we all know Florida is the absolute LAST program on Earth who wants to see Miami in the SEC and I’m sure they’re not alone. If the Good Ole Boys want to say we can’t win in the SEC then why not let us play in it? I mean I know there’s much more to it and it isn’t simple but it’s just the fact that none of those big programs would want us in the SEC just because there’s potential for us to actually be good in it. TAMU had instant success when they first joined and have always finished around the top half of the league, sometimes coming close to winning it. Missouri, oddly enough did pretty good their first couple years there. Neither was a factor in the Big 12, like at all in the years leading up to the switch with the exception of Missouri and Chase Daniel in 2007.
 
There are a few weeks left for all of this to get worked out. The bottom 4 could all have 3 losses, Miami could end up in the ACCCG, etc.

Miami got its part needs to curb stomp VT and Pitt.
 
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Given how the media is talking about Texas, I’m not quite sure that Vandy will be ranked above them. But I expect us to be higher than Vandy.

Could see UVA getting stiffed here w/ a 7-3 Texas above them.
 
I'm not at all trying to be a downer but don't get your hopes up that the committee will do the right thing.

2025 CFB basically amounts to this: Are you in the SEC or Big 10? No? Proceed to the back of the line.

Now, yes we did this to ourselves before I get "well actually'ed" but Miami shouldn't have to exist in a separate framework and have different rules applied to them. Miami is the only team where head-to-head doesn't appear to matter. That's absolute trash no matter what Miami did or didn't do this season.
 
MedleyCane said:
I don't know the politics of selecting teams for the postseason, but I would think if it would be in the self-interest of SEC and Big10 schools NOT to have UM involved as, talent-wise, we can line up with their programs. If they have to include ACC, they would want UVA or SMU, who may be well-coached and have a good story to tell, but they don't stack up with the legit SEC and Big10 programs.
They are akin to the cute and cuddly teams invited to the college basketball tournaments.
And, of course, the ACC officials support this narrative, going out of their way to fck UM on
the field.
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That wasn’t the case last year with the ACC
 
What happens when Indiana gets exposed by Ohio State? Let's say they get beaten by 41-7 or something. Do they deserve to be in it still? Are they really at top 12 team?
 
The top 12 is littered with teams Miami beat or played similar opponents and outperformed all of them. That's my biggest issue if Miami is left out. If this whole thing is truly about getting the 12 best teams in, we have so many measuring stick examples.
 
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Essex Cane said:
USC is their only good win, we need USC to lose to Oregon. If they beat them then they can prop ND up even more.
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The whole thing with them using losing to us close week 1 irritates me. Either we are good or bad. The flip flopping to hurt us but benefit ND is mind numbing.
 
aelmiami said:
The whole thing with them using losing to us close week 1 irritates me. Either we are good or bad. The flip flopping to hurt us but benefit ND is mind numbing.
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We're being punished for beating them and their being rewarded for losing two close games with us and A&M lol. For some reason we don't get the same benefit of the doubt, SMU & L'Ville would def hang with ND or even split.
 
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