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CFP Semifinal: Washington vs Alabama, Sat 12/31 @ 3p ET, ESPN

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Gcashwell said:
The Performance of the SEC so far does not bode well for the Tide. It proves those right that say Bama hasn't beaten anybody.
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Jaxbuck said:
The same metric isn't exactly covering the PAC12 and UW in glory either
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Gcashwell said:
True. I don't care about Saturday as much as 1/9 though.
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If conference bowl performance is valid, then we're fucked, as the ACC is currently 5-1 (per tonight's game) so far in bowls, with the B1G being 3-3. Still, I like our chances...
 
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Gcashwell said:
The Performance of the SEC so far does not bode well for the Tide. It proves those right that say Bama hasn't beaten anybody.
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I don't think that games lost by 6-6 teams against 10-2 teams count much against the SEC either. The lower order in the B1G and the SEC will always be up against teams that did better in lower power conferences, because the SEC and B1G will always have a team in the CFP. The B1G has done better than the SEC so far. Indiana played terribly and took Utah to the brink. A couple of unexpected wins. The PAC12 is the conference exposed so far, in my opinion.

Things go in cycles and the B1G is back on top right now. That doesn't mean that Alabama doesn't win it all. Any of these four teams can win on a given night against the others. I'm with Mili, who I think will also agree that Ohio State and Alabama still look like they get through.
 
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YIKES. Alabama will be without defensive tackle Dakota Bell against Washington because he shot an index finger off two weeks ago while hunting in Georgia. Yes, that's exactly what you just read.



"I shot my finger off with a 12-gauge shotgun," he said matter of factly.

His left hand was still heavily bandaged, but he isn't shy about showing the picture of his missing index finger. A row of staples closed the gap where his index finger once was.

"It's completely gone," he said. "I shot it right at the knuckle and blew it off."

But how?

"I was tying a rope around the barrel and around the stock to keep the shotgun from falling out of my lap," Ball said. "I was tying rope around the barrel and it just went off. I didn't have my hand on the trigger."

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/skull...urban-meyer-social-media-eric-glover-williams
 
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Gcashwell said:
The Performance of the SEC so far does not bode well for the Tide. It proves those right that say Bama hasn't beaten anybody.
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It's been Bama and a bunch of nobodies filling sec top 25 quotas all year. The announcers kept mentioning arkansas had to play 8 straight top 25 teams as if those teams were still in the top 25. Gotta keep fueling the hype machine though. Bama is the only team to back it up
 
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OregonBuckeye said:
It's been Bama and a bunch of nobodies filling sec top 25 quotas all year. The announcers kept mentioning arkansas had to play 8 straight top 25 teams as if those teams were still in the top 25. Gotta keep fueling the hype machine though. Bama is the only team to back it up
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I'm not totally sold on only using end of year rankings. Teams change for better or worse throughout the year.
 
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Gcashwell said:
I'm not totally sold on only using end of year rankings. Teams change for better or worse throughout the year.
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They do but the sec was pretty stagnant throughout the year. Just a bunch of mediocre teams living off past reputation. The B1G and ACC were far and away the superior conferences this year followed by the SEC with the Pac-12 and Big-12 bringing up the rear
 
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Gcashwell said:
I'm not totally sold on only using end of year rankings. Teams change for better or worse throughout the year.
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Exactly right, which is why not every higher ranked team is predicted to win vs lower ranked teams on a neutral field. In my mind, the end of year rankings are a reflection of what a team has done throughout the year. Sort of like an average, not a snapshot of current strength.

Pre-season rankings might be closer to Vegas odds, but without the benefit of ever actually seeing a team play. In other words, useless for both predicting strength of team compared to other teams, and useless for judging how well a team has done in games they never played.
 
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OregonBuckeye said:
They do but the sec was pretty stagnant throughout the year. Just a bunch of mediocre teams living off past reputation. The B1G and ACC were far and away the superior conferences this year followed by the SEC with the Pac-12 and Big-12 bringing up the rear
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I don't need think you could be more incorrect. Many Sec teams suffered and recovered from key injuries much more than usual.
 
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Gcashwell said:
I'm not totally sold on only using end of year rankings. Teams change for better or worse throughout the year.
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Meh. I get what you're saying, but no way should Appalachian State get credit for beating a top-5 Michigan in 2007. No team had ever gone from so highly-ranked to unranked before. That team was not a top-5 team.
 
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