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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
If you want in the playoffs, it's pretty simple.
There's 2 ways in:
1. Win your conference. Then, hope you're ranked as one of the 5 best conference winners.
2. Win your games.
In some ways, #2 helps you to get #1. But not for Notre Dame. They're throwing all their eggs into Basket #2. Then they didn't do #2 enough. If you don't win a conference, and you don't win all your games, you're telling the committee that they have to make a decision. That decision didn't go their way. Boo-hoo, nerds.
You know who else didn't win enough games? Wisconsin. Penn State. Bowling Green.
That's right: I compared you to Bowling Green.
What are you going to do about it?
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Geez, I get tired of the media types like Saban, DiNardo, and others bitching about not getting the ‘12 best teams’. That wasn’t the deal.
They expanded to 12 to get more TV money. They gave the little guys a guaranteed spot for at least 1 of the 5 conference champions, in order to sell it, appear to be more inclusive, and avoid potential litigation. Everybody agreed to that arrangement.
The fact that the ACC never imagined that their CCG winner would be left out, and that they were idiotic enough to have a 5-loss team win a tiebreaker to get into that game, is the ACC’s problem. So that allowed 2 teams not in the top-12 to get in instead of the 1 that would almost always be included.
So if you’re weren‘t in the top-10 you’re out, Those are the breaks, win more games and quit your bitching. Or take your ball and go home.
They expanded to 12 to get more TV money. They gave the little guys a guaranteed spot for at least 1 of the 5 conference champions, in order to sell it, appear to be more inclusive, and avoid potential litigation. Everybody agreed to that arrangement.
The fact that the ACC never imagined that their CCG winner would be left out, and that they were idiotic enough to have a 5-loss team win a tiebreaker to get into that game, is the ACC’s problem. So that allowed 2 teams not in the top-12 to get in instead of the 1 that would almost always be included.
So if you’re weren‘t in the top-10 you’re out, Those are the breaks, win more games and quit your bitching. Or take your ball and go home.
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"Best" is a highly subjective matter. If the ESPN personalities had their way we'd have 4 loss SEC teams rolling into the playoff.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Well, the SEC totes the water for ESPN. So naturally, ESPiN wants more SEC teams in. Believe there's five this year, with a 3 loss Bama edging out a 2 loss ND. Still not clear on why the playoff includes one or two "little guys", unless a neat trick to avoid being a monopoly...PS, have you noticed that the ESPN stations do not air many or any of the B10 games or reruns?
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ND should join a conference if they don't want to get left out for 3 loss teams who took their extra loss in a CCG game.
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TampaBuckeyes
Assistant Coach
I agree that losing in the CCG shouldn’t move a team relative to teams that didn’t play in their CCG.
So why in the F did BYU get dropped? It’s because when Duke became the ACC champ the conference was going to get left out. They decided that the ACC needed to get in and the only way to do that was to get Miami and ND next to each other and the only way to do that was to punish BYU for losing their CCG.
This just confirmed what we already know. The committee decides what they want to do and then finds the reasons for it.
They are (like every other poll) a loss sorter. 0 losses get compared, then 2 losses get compared, then 3 losses get compared. Only difference is an SEC 3 loss CAN be bundled with the 2 loss teams and an ACC or B12 1 loss WILL get bundled with the 2 loss teams. ND is likely a better team than Ole Miss. it’s just ND played 2 good teams and Ole Miss played 1.
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