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

I haven't seen enough BYU hate going around, you shouldn't get to schedule nothing OOC then get dominated against the only elite team on your schedule and still get playoff consideration.

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The U is back to work said:
Doesn’t matter. National brand that they’ll always get the benefit of the doubt for the ratings.
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If it’s between 10-2 Miami and ND at the end of the year for the last spot, Miami should be in. It’ll be interesting to say the least. Not even being a homer but putting in ND over us will cause lots of controversy and discussion amongst the media. Owning the H2H should mean something. CFP will have to put their money where their mouth is. Miami is a national brand too and our ratings are through the roof on prime time big games.

Edit to add, I do think how we win matters. We need to continue to win impressively. If we are squeaking out Ws the last two weeks, I could see a scenario where we are left out.
 
The U is back to work said:
Doesn’t matter. National brand that they’ll always get the benefit of the doubt for the ratings.
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The Great 8
ND
Mich
ohio state
Alabama
Georgia
Texas
Oklahoma
USC

Those teams will almost Always be highest
Ranked 1 loss 2 loss 3 loss 4 loss team

Especially w AP as those writer biases run deep

There was absolutely NO reason for Texas to be back in top 10 before this week
But they were
**** if Michigan beats Ohio State
You can bet your bottom dollar they will climb right into the playoffs!

Miami know’s the rules
It’s up to them to not leave it in some f Ing committees hands!
 
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Angry Ibis said:
Almost like we shouldn’t have gone into the coaching not to lose turtle shell against ND, UF and FSU, etc since ND gets credit for the close losses…

Where did he hear that? Hmmm 🤔

As the season unfolds, we have 1 good win
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Well where’s Vandy’s good win? Tennessee’s good win? Tennessee has 3 losses and sits at #20. Vandy’s a bubble CFP team apparently. How about Oregon? Missouri? He’ll, even Notre Dame.

I guess the glass in CFB is “half empty” because a lot of these so called CFP locks or bubble teams have 0 quality wins but “quality losses”. Texas has 3 “quality losses” but sits only 2-3 spots behind us in the rankings. Sure, you can say things like “we did this to ourselves”. To an extent, sure. We didn’t play an absolute perfect game every week but neither did a lot of these clown teams I just mentioned, yet we seem to be getting a lot more **** for losing 2 games by an average of 4.5 points to teams who likely finish with 8-9 wins. There’s about to be a lot of 10-2 slap **** teams who won’t have a single quality win who might get chosen over us.

So I just gotta question how much we did to ourselves vs how much we’re getting ****ed by the AP rankings at this very moment. I’ll say it’s about 20/80 us getting ****ed.
 
The one that not a lot of people are talking about is Oregon.

If they beat USC next weekend but lose at Washington on the last week of the regular season, they could drop out. They have beaten literally no one this season. Their best win is a 6-4 Iowa. Could 10-2 Oregon drop below 10-2 Miami and the Big 10 only get 2 teams in? It’s possible.

I’ve been doing all the math assuming the Big 10 gets 3 in. But Oregon is -300 to make the playoff right now. That’s far from a lock. I wonder if losing the last weekend of the year pushes them out. Just another piece to track the next 2 weeks.

I’ll say this, a 10-2 Miami is finishing somewhere between #10 (last team in) and #12 (2nd team out). Gonna be real tight either way if we can get the next 2.

One small piece of optimism, although it’s not much. We were +400 to make the playoff yesterday morning. We went to +370 this morning. We’re currently +300 right now.

Go beat VT by 28 and let’s keep this thing going.
 
A loss to an ACC opponent is a bad loss. We have two of them. We don’t belong in front of equivalent record big 12 teams when their conference **** on ours in ooc matchups.

Make the argument that nd should be lower all you want, but our conference losses are worse than BYU/Utah, and their conference wins are better.

That isn’t the committees fault, that is our fault for losing as double digit favorites, and our conference’s fault for having a losing ooc record and multiple losses to mid majors.
 
canesd said:
They asked for more dominance and Miami gave it to them beyond what they could have expected, especially for a team coming off a bye week who just dominated Georgia Tech and beat UVA. Miami has a massive ceiling, a top 5 defense and have not been blown out in 3 years. They are in the same pod as ND and have the head to head. No real debate. They should do it now and just say Miami beat ND head to head and if they win their last 4, especially the way they won the last 2, they are in over ND. The media should be all over it but they will not as it now seems more real and they will back track based on Miami hate and ND love.

1. Ohio State
2. Indiana
3. Texas A&M
4. Georgia
5. Texas Tech
6. Ole Miss
7. Oregon
8. OU
9. Bama (even though they lost to FSU)
10. Miami
11. ND
12. BYU
13. Utah
14. Vandy
15. USC
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Would love for this and wrestling to be real. But we live in the real world
 
Ispyin said:
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......
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If USC beats oregon USC will be in playoff and Oregon should be out.

SMU was ranked 8th and had one loss entering conference champ game not at all the same.

It would require BYU/Utah beating ttu and then asking if Ttu should be in. Which they probably would be.
 
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TwentySix said:
I’m gearing up to start throwing live grenades in some group chats about how we should be ahead of Bama based on SP+, game control, and common opponent
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does it matter?
they either win sec champ or have 3 loses and probably out if a good 2 loss team is just out
there is no SMU rule with 3 loses
 
tdjones34 said:
does it matter?
they either win sec champ or have 3 loses and probably out if a good 2 loss team is just out
there is no SMU rule with 3 loses
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There are scenarios where they win out and don’t make the SECCG.

But also if they are 10-2 and go into the SECCG ahead of us they absolutely would not drop them.
 
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