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TampaBuckeyes said:
I didn’t look at the sec standings. It is actually possible that the SEC ends the regular season with 6 1 loss teams and it’s very likely that they end with 4 or 5 11-1 teams. That would knock ND out and 11-1 teams from the acc or b12. The SEC teams at the top don’t play more than 2 other top teams and they split a lot of those games.
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Aggy and Ole Miss with their schedule I think at this point are almost locks to finish with 1 or zero losses (in aggys case)

Bama has shown they can play down to mediocre teams, i wouldn't put it past them to lose to LSU or Oklahoma and UGA still has to play @ Ga Tech.

Really need Texas to take out Vandy this weekend and for OU to beat Tennessee. Those 2 get scrubs until they play each other after that. Those results would decrease the SECs shot at 5 by quite a bit
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
Aggy and Ole Miss with their schedule I think at this point are almost locks to finish with 1 or zero losses (in aggys case)

Bama has shown they can play down to mediocre teams, i wouldn't put it past them to lose to LSU or Oklahoma and UGA still has to play @ Ga Tech.

Really need Texas to take out Vandy this weekend and for OU to beat Tennessee. Those 2 get scrubs until they play each other after that. Those results would decrease the SECs shot at 5 by quite a bit
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Love that the conference of mediocre defense that can no longer out-talent everyone is still dominating the conversation.
 
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exhawg said:
I hope when they set the playoff field, they put tOSU, Indiana, and Oregon in different parts of the bracket. It would be great if 3 of the final 4 are Big Ten teams and no SEC teams.
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Let's say Ohio State wins out, including winning the conference championship. They'll be #1.
Indiana wins out, except they lose to Ohio State in the conference championship. They could fall to #4 or #5. (No difference.)
Oregon wins out. They'll be #2 or #3.
USC wins out, unless they play Oregon or Indiana. They could be #7 or #10, if Oregon is #3, or #6 or #11, if Oregon is #2.
The Big Ten is then in all 4 quadrants.
I doubt the committee allows for this. They'll figure out a way to put all 4 in the same half of the bracket.
Given the above scenario, Ohio State will drop to #2, with Oregon #3. Indiana will drop to #6 or #7. USC will be #10 or #11 - whichever doesn't play Indiana in the first round.
 
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Would wish that the B10 teams are put in separate brackets. Unfortunately, going by history, the schedule makers put at least two B10 teams where they will cannibalize each other. So it goes. If it was my world, they'd put the four B10 qualifiers in separate brackets, and the semis would be all B10. But my world doesn't claim any sort of reality, only my wishes. Go Bucks!
 
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Zurp said:
Let's say Ohio State wins out, including winning the conference championship. They'll be #1.
Indiana wins out, except they lose to Ohio State in the conference championship. They could fall to #4 or #5. (No difference.)
Oregon wins out. They'll be #2 or #3.
USC wins out, unless they play Oregon or Indiana. They could be #7 or #10, if Oregon is #3, or #6 or #11, if Oregon is #2.
The Big Ten is then in all 4 quadrants.
I doubt the committee allows for this. They'll figure out a way to put all 4 in the same half of the bracket.
Given the above scenario, Ohio State will drop to #2, with Oregon #3. Indiana will drop to #6 or #7. USC will be #10 or #11 - whichever doesn't play Indiana in the first round.
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Oregon ain’t sitting at 2 unless they sneak into the CCG with IU and OSU dropping 2 games. They lost to IU at home. They might sneak ahead in the AP but the committee will respect the win if records are the same.

Also why 10-2 Miami will get in over a 10-2 ND even if ND is above them in the AP.
 
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BB73 said:
Almost everybody has Oregon written into the playoff bracket in magic marker.

But they still play AT Iowa (who lost to Indiana in the last couple of minutes) and AT Washingon.

If they drop both of those, they’ll most likely be out of the playoffs,
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They have been the team I most question the bona fides of all year.

Still riding 2024's rep. Have done exactly nothing in 2025 and made IU look a lot better than they are.
 
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BB73 said:
Almost everybody has Oregon written into the playoff bracket in magic marker.

But they still play AT Iowa (who lost to Indiana in the last couple of minutes) and AT Washingon.

If they drop both of those, they’ll most likely be out of the playoffs,
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Oregon is 100% out with 3 losses. They would not have any good wins at that point and wouldn't even be in the conversation even if there were room for a 3 loss to sneak in.

I don't think Oregon is as good as last year but it's still hard to see them losing both of those games
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
Oregon is 100% out with 3 losses. They would not have any good wins at that point and wouldn't even be in the conversation even if there were room for a 3 loss to sneak in.

I don't think Oregon is as good as last year but it's still hard to see them losing both of those games
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At Iowa, at Washington and USC. They are likely favored in all of them right now but damn that’s a tough road.
 
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