is the Jalen Hurts angle at play at all in favor of OU? a seeming castoff, he brings them to the playoffs while Bama sits at home.
assume that all the favorites win this weekend by the Vegas spread amount and that there is an eight team playoff.
what you got?
So UF and PSU are better off for not making their championship game. Georgia doesn't get penalized for losing in the championship game.
And that's part of why I was bitching yesterday about the committee dropping Alabama 7 spots for losing a close game to Auburn. Based on that, if Clemson were to lose to Virginia on Saturday (I know it's not going to happen), they should drop to #15.
And that's part of why I was bitching yesterday about the committee dropping Alabama 7 spots for losing a close game to Auburn. Based on that, if Clemson were to lose to Virginia on Saturday (I know it's not going to happen), they should drop to #15.
I mean being the champion of the ACC doesn't mean shit. Their starters are done halfway through the third quarter every week, having barely broken a sweat on the way to a 52-3 victory over the second best team in their division while Georgia, LSU, Florida, and Auburn are slugging it out for four quarters with each other. Clemson ran up bigger scores against the Atlantic Division than it did against its entire out of conference schedule, including UNC-Charlotte and Wofford.
How much 4th quarter time did Tua log in 2018?
I get the UGA angle from you, but don't get the Bama angle.
They always get the benefit of the doubt. For once, after playing the lamest possible OOC schedule and having no wins against ranked teams (best win was over 7-5 A&M) and having lost their best player, Bama deserves to get dropped. Also, now that they are out of the playoffs, Bama will have ton of players that are headed to the NFL draft skip their bowl game (at Bama, the priorities are: 1) Natty; 2) NFL; 3) Nothing else). So, if Bama was ranked higher and slid into a NY6 bowl, the story would be focused on all of the Bama players sitting, and they would likely get embarrassed like the Utah/Bama 2009 or the 2014 Oklahoma/Bama Sugar Bowl. Truth is that, given the circumstances, Bama is better off playing Minnesota in the Outback Bowl than getting worked by Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl.
I'm legit confused by this; you are complaining that the CFP committee ranked them #12, yet you have them #11
Fair enough. But you're not going to convince me that Baylor is better than Alabama because they've only lost one game and Alabama's lost two.
I think you are overrating Auburn. Severely.
Fair enough. But you're not going to convince me that Baylor is better than Alabama because they've only lost one game and Alabama's lost two.