***OFFICIAL CFP Rankings Show Watch Thread***
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This is pretty good! How could you possibly schedule easier: Western Kentucky, USF, Mercer, and mediocre B10 team Wisconsin (and they won all of them!).
Ironically, if they had better non-con opponents they may have had a better argument to get in
Yeah I pulled up some stuff from another forum, really funny sh*t. Lots of talk about how strength of schedule doesn't matter and how the CFP brass will get the clue when nobody tunes in this year. They seriously think that since Bama isn't in it nobody's going to watch. Lol.
That is amazing.
Yeah, going 1-1 against Vandy and OU to make the playoff sounds like a nightmare scenario.
Maybe they’ll talk to Wazzu and Oregon State about joining their new Pac-12?
KidSilverhair
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As I mentioned earlier:
- SEC teams play only 8 conference games
- Alabama had Wisconsin on their schedule; not their fault Wisconsin was down this year, but still - THAT’S ONLY NINE P4 GAMES
- Their other games were Western Kentucky, South Florida, and Mercer
Getting away with a nine-game slate vs P4 teams while sobbing about how hard your schedule is is the best trick the devil ever played on mankind.
KidSilverhair
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Let’s have another super idiotic take:
I honestly love how these totally serious people believe Alabama's already weak noncon was the problem because it wasn't weak enough and not the fact that they lost to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma.
I know Alabama isn’t generally the smartest state in the world. But I am still having trouble fathoming them thinking their non-con scheduling was the reason they got left out of the playoffs.
It's like they can't figure out the only way they can actually weaken their schedule is to leave the SEC entirely.
They want to have their cake and eat it too - have all the talent that is in the Southeast to stay in the SEC... preferably with Alabama, but at least to stay within the footprint. They want all of the teams that bring in more $$$ to join the conference so they can line their pockets with more $$$, which is why over the last 15 years the SEC added 4 Big 12 schools: Mizzou, A&M, OU, and UT. Combine those factors together and you get a conference that is loaded from top to bottom, and so weaking the core of their SOS is never going to happen unless they leave for a weaker conference that pays less $$$.
All that said, losing to Vandy and OU is unacceptable and was what got them left out of the playoff.
Drop all the P4 schools from their schedule? They mean the "mid" Wisky team that they humiliated in their own stadium? It would be extremely hard for their noncon this year to be any weaker than it already was... yet somehow they should make what was already weak weaker because "SOS and SOR don't matter". As if what you would propose would fix the problem of losing to Vandy and OU.
You're right - people living in the Southeastern states - particularly Alabama - aren't very smart.
Meh. Forget the rankings.
Alabama beat more teams with quality records including SEC Champion Georgia (11-2), than SMU did with their best win being over Duke (9-3). Don't get me wrong, as I am not advocating for Alabama (they did not deserve to be in the CFP with 3 losses as an at-large team), but it was not about pre-season rankings.
IMO, BYU (10-2) should have been the last at-large team instead of SMU (11-2) due to the head to head win @ SMU. This is really the only issue I have with the CFP Committee. Otherwise, I though they choose, ranked and seeded as well as they could with the format with which they had to work.
Yeah, the ACC has been propped up all season more than it deserved.
The media that tried to kill the big 12 still really wants the #3 conference to be the ACC
My only issue with that though is what if SMU hadn't made it into the ACC title game and finished the season 11-1 to BYU's 10-2? I wouldn't think a two-loss BYU should get in ahead of a one-loss SMU. So if they get put in over an 11-2 SMU it's 100% punishing them for making it to the ACC title game.
I think they need to adopt some kind of policy mandating that a CCG loss is not considered equal to a regular season loss.
