ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Impossible scenario. No way in hell do they put all four SEC teams on one side of the bracket.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
Ha - I didn't even notice. Also, 3 are in one quadrant.
It would ensure that the SEC gets to the Final Four, but I think you're right. They'll spread them out. And I think they should - if the SEC (or any conference, for that matter) is really as good as they say they are, let them beat the other conferences en route to playing each other in the semifinals and finals.
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CincyInterloper
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They need to change the seeding formula. Giving no.16 Iowa State a first round bye is idiotic.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
At Pitt is their only serious challenge though. It's a pretty sure bet that the ACC will get two this year and maybe three out of Cryami, Clemson and Pitt. B12 is clearly a one-bid league. B1G has four potential candidates. SEC is cannibalizing itself, but we all know how they'll pump up those good losses and try to give them four. And depending how things go for Army/Navy, there might be lot of cultural and media pressure to put in both of them, and if a 1-loss Boise is bringing along the lock for the Heisman, there might be a movement for 3 G5's if a lot of the B1G/SEC contenders have two losses. Three G5's has the whole world gone fucking crazy.
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Things schedule wise sadly line up pretty well for the SEC to possibly get 5. At least we really get to see how bad the comittees biases really are. Remember all the talk in the past from the SEC honks about how outside of the top 4 "didn't matter" when people would complain about the comical SEC bias in the rankings. (grand example when they only dropped Florida 1 fucking spot in 2020 when they lost to a 5-5 LSU team at home because they had to keep their SEC egg in play in case Florida managed to beat Bama in the SEC title game)
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
And if the B1G winner is Ohio State or the pedsters watch how they'll manipulate the seeding to prevent an SEC team from playing in the cold.
If they do get five in, everybody had better root for them to have a complete disaster or it will be the norm moving forward. Still think--depending how things end up--there will be immense pressure to put both academies in at the cost of a B1G, SEC or ACC team. Boise with a Heisman winner won't get that same consideration, but the second place academy team will.
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Oh yea that's absolutely going to happen. Like how they vaulted LSU ahead of us in 2019 and we got saddled with the much tougher Semi Game.
I fully expect them to get 5 teams and for a couple teams that shouldn't win their games to win via choke jobs by the opponent, the SEC seems to only have things go positively for them. I'll believe it stops when I see it. There's absolutely going to be seeding manipulation to try to push as many SEC teams as far as they can.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
So:
UGA, tejas, LSU, aggy, Bama and Tennessee
Navy, Army, Boise
B12 winner
ACC winner
B1G winner
A joke, but not really. It could happen.
Maybe, it's the year they throw the G6 a bone and let them have three (hoping they all get curb stomped) to shut them up for the next decade. These aren't your normal G6 teams from a viewership perspective Two academies and Boise with the Heisman winner would all be incredible tv draws, so they're really not losing anything in viewership--probably equal or better draws than a one-loss Indiana or two-loss Ohio State/pedster. Anyone in the media who questions both academies getting in gets silenced with the "why are you disrespecting the troops" crap.
Lotta in...lotta outs to this case. Lotta strands in Ol' Duder's head.
UGA, tejas, LSU, aggy, Bama and Tennessee
Navy, Army, Boise
B12 winner
ACC winner
B1G winner
A joke, but not really. It could happen.
Maybe, it's the year they throw the G6 a bone and let them have three (hoping they all get curb stomped) to shut them up for the next decade. These aren't your normal G6 teams from a viewership perspective Two academies and Boise with the Heisman winner would all be incredible tv draws, so they're really not losing anything in viewership--probably equal or better draws than a one-loss Indiana or two-loss Ohio State/pedster. Anyone in the media who questions both academies getting in gets silenced with the "why are you disrespecting the troops" crap.
Lotta in...lotta outs to this case. Lotta strands in Ol' Duder's head.
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Texas A&M just needs to beat 1 of LSU or Texas to keep at 2 losses because they aren't losing the other 3 games.
Same for LSU they get a W over A&M or Bama and they will finish with 2 losses
Tennessee you can almost lock in at having 2 losses (lose to UGA) unless you believe Vandy is going to beat them
Hell even Mizzou's schedule is set up pretty sweet for them to finish with no more than 2 losses. They play Bama but the other games are South Carolina, Oklahoma, Miss State and Arkansas
HOPEFULLY UGA manages to take care of business vs Ole Miss or they are finishing with 2 losses as well. It's hard to see UGA or Texas finishing with more than 2 losses at this point.
As always things set up perfectly for the SEC to maximize. Hopefully these teams manage not to execute though.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Maybe in a normal year but not this year. If they lose to the pedsters but beat IU, that leaves the B1G runner up with 1 loss and the winner undefeated and Ohio State with no extra data point from a championship game. Oregon and ped both get in. Between the way the SEC!SEC!SEC! is setting up this year and the possible huge pressure to get both academies in (not to mention possibly a one loss Boise with the Heisman winner), that is not a sure bet by a long stretch. Better hope for UNLV to beat Boise on Friday, and Notre Dame to curb stomp (not just beat) Army and Navy and some of the SEC contenders to pick up a third loss, not to mention that at least two of the three ACC contenders pick up two losses.
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If the 2nd loss is in the B1G title game i'd agree, if we lose a 2nd regular season game though I don't think it's anywhere close to a sure thing.
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Yea I feel bad for having to root for ND against the service academies but this is a year you really want them to beat both Army and Navy
It's hard to see Boise losing if UNLV doesn't get them. But I think all 3 of these teams are capable of laying a dud against someone unexpected.
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Hypothetically Texas taking a 2nd loss to A&M, if they weren't the Texas name and in the SEC they'd be talked about getting left out, their "best" win at that point would be against Vandy. Those wins over scUM and OU don't mean shit now, both those squads suck.
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