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

caneingville said:
Normally, I would agree with you.

However, ESPN still builds the bias into this particular GC metric by using their preseason ranking system to evaluate GC from the beginning of the season, and it continues to impact even after the CFP rankings are released. If ESPN determines GC by putting Miami up against how ESPN believes the average Top 25 team should perform, and the Top 25 ranking is full of unfair bias, then the GC metric is also inherently flawed.

I probably posted this in the wrong place yesterday, but this post pretty much summed up why I think ESPN needs to GTFO out of all of this. The conflict of interest is insane and I can’t believe there’s not an antitrust suit yet.

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RVACane said:
Oh good lord, again, Lane is in the SEC at Ole Miss with a way harder path than Mario at Miami the past to seasons in the pathetic ACC. As soon as I get a good usable image for you, as your avatar isn’t ideal for this, you are going in the Passover dinner here amongst the St. CoRchibal purists.

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I’m not going to argue against Lane in favor of Mario. However, I am starting to think that Lane doesn’t have a harder path to the playoffs than Mario, given what we are seeing. If the SEC is getting so many more spots in the CFP, and the ACC is struggling to even get one, is...
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The ESPN metric isn't what the committee uses though, pretty sure
 
There really is not some great argument for Mizzou or ASU being above SMU/Louisville btw lol. And giving Utah credit for the win against ASU when Leaving was out is hilarious. ASU probably deserves to be rated, but Mizzou doesn't at all.
 
I think its best for our at large odds in the ACC is if SMU and Pitt win. They both legit could end up in the top 25 if that is the case. Which A) strengthens our Loss to SMU, and B) will strengthen our next win to Pitt. Those two factors could easily bump us ahead of Utah AND BYU. And if that happens we will be close enough to Bama for us to probably jump all 3. Like if it came down to an At Large because we lose tie breaker to not make ACCCG, we WANT SMU to win the conference. The we'd have an OT loss on road to ACC champ who is a it's guaranteed top25 team, and we'd have beaten another Top35 team in Pitt (if they beat GTech) and the win against USF and ND obviously...

The key will continue to be us jumping BYU+Utah. Once that happens I think we are setup well. We really want them to both drop a game or at least the teams they have beaten to keep losing too. We want ASU to lose to Colorado and Arizona. We want Iowa St to lose to Kansas (who we want to beat Utah)...
 
caneingville said:
This particular ND home-and-home series of games are not through the ACC. UM and ND scheduled them alone.

That being said, Dan has been awfully quiet during all this controversy, per usual. God forbid he look out his window in South Carolina and do his job.
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Correct on the original 1 home-1 away-1 neutral series that concluded this year.

Going forward, the scheduling arrangement is via the ACC, not Rad or Beta Blake.
 
caneingville said:
I saw another one yesterday where a ND fan said all the ACC schools are all begging ND to be in the ACC so we can all play them every year or something.

They really are rivaling the Gators for most delusional fanbase.
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I mean...the ND fan has a point. Maybe "begging" is strong, but that fan isn't wrong.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I mean...the ND fan has a point. Maybe "begging" is strong, but that fan isn't wrong.
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You think so? Seems we can schedule them on our own, as can Clemson and BC. And why would all the “lesser” ACC teams want to have a guaranteed loss to them?

I’m not convinced.
 
aelmiami said:
I’ll take back everything bad I said about Fran Brown if they play ND somewhat tough after we handled them. Same with Stanford. If we blow out Pitt we’d have four common opponents vs each other. As well as the H2H. Just gotta keep rolling the team in front of us.
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Would be hilarious to see Fran Brown referencing Mario the way that he did with Dabo in 2024...
 
caneingville said:
You think so? Seems we can schedule them on our own, as can Clemson and BC. And why would all the “lesser” ACC teams want to have a guaranteed loss to them?

I’m not convinced.
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Somewhere along the line, ND seems to have pushed the ACC to give them mostly "quality" teams, it's why UM, Clemson, and F$U (vomit) have so many guaranteed matchups with ND over the next decade.

I know what you're saying...but the reality says something slightly different...
 
canadacanes said:
Stop blaming the refs and blame the offensive coaching staff for not coming up with a decent gameplan. Blaming refs is such a soft excuse.
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The two things are related. Poor coaching (i.e., too slow, too few possessions) allows bad ref calls to have a disproportionate impact on the outcome.
 
DREW! said:
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Seems like the ground swell is growing behind our case. If any conference is going to hate ND skating through on an independent schedule it’d be the SEC. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I wouldn’t be the least bit shocked if Sankey comes out not necessarily name supporting us but supporting our cause indirectly before the season ends. Bama has played UGA, Vandy, Tennessee, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Winning 4/5 of those. Yet ND has one ranked win and is ahead of Bama? It makes absolutely no sense.
 
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