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Buckeyes lost to an undefeated team just below them, they have to drop at least to #2.
Bama was at #9 and lost to #3, so it‘s a different scenario.
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1. I wasn't being entirely serious.
2. Your explanation may explain why Ohio State dropped, but it doesn't explain why Alabama didn't.
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The incocsistency of the committee is better questioned by pointing out that:
Bama lost to #3 by 21 in a CCG and didn’t drop below ND
BYU lost to #4 by 22 in a CCG and dropped below Miami
That combination allowed ND and Miami to get next to each other and have the head-to-head result come into play.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
No one knows what went on in the heads of the 'Committee', but would have liked to be a fly on the wall. Elevating a 3 loss team, over a surging #2 loss team seems to be confounding (to me at least). Getting smushed by GA should have been a warning to the overall health of Bama, yet they persevered. SEC bias? Almost certainly. Warning to ND that a) join a league; b) don't believe that you're that solid. Anyway, that part of the season has been written in stone, so guess we'll pop some corn and watch things unfold. PS, listening to the talking heads say things like 'we're not going to penalize teams for early season losses', well, losing to Miami in what, first game of season for ND, seems to have been the deciding point between Miami and ND. And gotta laugh, when Duke won the ACC, Miami appears to be the rep.....
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Didn’t see a bowl game thread so I’m going to put this in here.
This is crazy. Are we about to see a nuke of the bowl system or just a year with a lot of coaching and personnel changes?
This is crazy. Are we about to see a nuke of the bowl system or just a year with a lot of coaching and personnel changes?
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CincyInterloper
Hall of Fame
I think the answer is that the committee started with the result they wanted, then rationalized their selections by adjusting the evaluation criteria until it provided that result. In their defense, we all do this to some extent. Sometimes without even realizing it.
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I think the committee decided to throw the ACC a bone and not leave them completely out. Think if UVA had won ND would be in
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And we could see it coming the week before, when they moved Bama ahead of ND after they barely survived at Auburn while ND obliterated Stanford. The only justification was that an ND loss got a little less forgivable once aTm was no longer undefeated. But losing to a #7 team as compared to a #3 team (aTm before they lost) isn’t much of a difference. They just wanted Bama ahead of ND to protect them prior to their upcoming loss to UGA.
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BigWoof31
"Barkin' up the wrong tree"
The committee has ALOT to answer for this season. I’m all for bringing back the computers to determine our Top 12.
But the fact that Bama didn’t move at all after losing by 21 and Georgia didn’t move it all after winning by 21 is pretty indicative of a “let’s just get through this bullshit so we don’t have to answer any more questions” mindset from the committee.
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