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2013 Preseason and regular polls

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Jake said:
While everyone is focused on Alabama or Florida State losing a game the team being overlooked is Auburn. Ask yourself this question: if Auburn beats Alabama, then wins the SECCG, do you think the voters won't vault a one-loss SEC champion - who dethroned the two-time BCS champs - into the BCS title game?

I think you can pretty much bet everything you have on Auburn getting an NC bid in that scenario, no matter who is undefeated at that point. And it won't matter how many points Ohio State scores or allows in their wins.
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Bravo, Jake, bravo. You just jinxed the pumpkin out of Auburn :lol: (provided Georgia can hold on for the next 1:49)
 
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Auburn's hopes of playing for the NC may be more realistic than ours, in that they probably have more control over them. It's hard to imagine them being left out of the NC game if they can knock off Bama and win the SEC with one loss. Recent history suggests the voters would bump them into it.

Can't believe Georgia gave it up on 4th and 18. :facepalm:
 
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It will happen in the human polls if Stanford wins, but it won't happen in the computers. It is ridiculous, but I'm fully prepared for it to happen. That said, the computers should keep us ahead of Stanford, but won't hold off Baylor.
 
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Jake said:
While everyone is focused on Alabama or Florida State losing a game the team being overlooked is Auburn. Ask yourself this question: if Auburn beats Alabama, then wins the SECCG, do you think the voters won't vault a one-loss SEC champion - who dethroned the two-time BCS champs - into the BCS title game?

I think you can pretty much bet everything you have on Auburn getting an NC bid in that scenario, no matter who is undefeated at that point. And it won't matter how many points Ohio State scores or allows in their wins.
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I find that highly unlikely
 
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After Ohio State's laxkadaisical performance yesterday, I agree with Jake that a 1-loss Auburn could pass Ohio State.

Where I have difficuties is that we would attribute that outcome entirely to conspiracies against Ohio State, or for the SEC. I think that we confuse ourselves if we accept the inevitabilities of these conspiracy theores. I don't deny the financial motivations of ESPiN. I'm saying that they can't control poll votes to the degree that is assumed. The stories appearing about Ohio State yesterday actually downplay what we all saw.

A national championship team does not give an offense ranked among the ten worst its best day of the year. It is not the only time that this team failed to show up for work against an overmatched team. If there is any hope left, it comes from the individual effort of Hyde, especially those two last TDs, and Bosa, who I pray is not seriously hurt.

We can keep presenting these negative arguments, but an Ohio State that wiped out its last 3 opponents with stifling defense and more than 50 points a game would not be passed on the coaches poll and I don't think the Harris poll either. Now, I don't know if they can make it even if Alabama and Free Shoes lose.
 
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I don't think there's a conspiracy theory. The various media outlets are simply plugging their own interests while claiming to be "unbiased".
Due to BTN, we don't have any such interest -- instead we've drawn their ire for taking away some of their revenue. Moreover, BTN can't legitimately campaign while pretending to be "unbiased".
At the end of the day, it's simple economics. No conspiracy involved.
The argument that we have a weak schedule doesn't hold up - Baylor's is even worse; last I checked every BCS computer had their conference record below ours. And their schedule deliberately terrible as well. We at least scheduled 2 major conference opponents; we can't control that Vanderbilt are chickens and Cal decided to suck. Baylor scheduled Wofford and Monroe.
While the defense' inconsistency is disappointing, I still fail to see how this game can objectively be used to criticize our position at #3. Particularly on a day when Baylor had to come from behind and Alabama looked non-existent. The discrepancy in headlines in the media does show a clear bias... 'Bama stumbling against MissSt is "taking care of business"; Baylor coming from behind is "tough" and "rolling"; Ohio State starting off 28-0 and finishing 60-35 "shows soft underbelly". Even MSU beating Nebraska 41-28 is "weak"... in a rather obvious attempt to pre-empt our showdown in Indianapolis.
There is nothing objective about those narratives.
 
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Listen... I don't know what in God's green whatever I'm doing awake right now, but last night made one thing perfectly clear (now that I'm mostly sober):

Anything can and will happen. This is still college football and we are not getting jumped by a one loss team. Just keep winning and I like our chances of playing for it all. I'm not thrilled about being ranked #3 while riding a 22 game winning streak, but at this point it doesn't look like #1 is going to hold up when it's all said and done.

Just win, baby. The rest will fall into place.
 
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