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My fault, I know, I was zipping through SportsCenter to see scores and highlights and I caught a brief segment with Finebaum.

He was saying that Bama fans are finding to odd to root for a disliked opponent, but they should be rooting for Clemson in the ACC Championship Game. About the same time he’s saying this, there’s a graphic at the bottom with the annoying espn ‘odds of making the CFP’, which shows that Bama is 99.7% in if Clemson LOSES, and 72% if Clemson wins.

How in the Fuck can Finebaum come onto a CFP interview, a couple of days after the rankings came out, and not realize that the only way Bama gets left out is if Clemson beats SMU in a close game and SMU doesn’t drop below the Tide?

PAAAAAAAWWWLLL!!!
 
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BB73 said:
My fault, I know, I was zipping through SportsCenter to see scores and highlights and I caught a brief segment with Finebaum.

He was saying that Bama fans are finding to odd to root for a disliked opponent, but they should be rooting for Clemson in the ACC Championship Game. About the same time he’s saying this, there’s a graphic at the bottom with the annoying espn ‘odds of making the CFP’, which shows that Bama is 99.7% in if Clemson LOSES, and 72% if Clemson wins.

How in the Fuck can Finebaum come onto a CFP interview, a couple of days after the rankings came out, and not realize that the only way Bama gets left out is if Clemson beats SMU in a close game and SMU doesn’t drop below the Tide?

PAAAAAAAWWWLLL!!!
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You watched it, were moved to action by whatever it was he said and came online and talked about it.

His job was executed perfectly.

(His job isn't to be factually correct about college football any more than Rowdy Roddy Piper's job was to make Pipers Pit a credible source of news about the WWF scene)
 
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Jaxbuck said:
You watched it, were moved to action by whatever it was he said and came online and talked about it.

His job was executed perfectly.

(His job isn't to be factually correct about college football any more than Rowdy Roddy Piper's job was to make Pipers Pit a credible source of news about the WWF scene)
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LovelandBuckeye said:
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I know the transitive property of mathematics can't be used in football, but which was a bigger difference: Ohio State over Indiana or Ohio State over Tennessee? Or... Ohio State's win over the Big Ten #4 team vs. Ohio State's win over the SEC #3 team. To save you from looking it up, Ohio State beat Indiana 38-15 (23 points), scoring a late touchdown that made Indiana fans angry. Ohio State beat Tennessee 42-17 (25 points), with Tennessee scoring a late touchdown against Ohio State's 2nd and 3rd teams. Based on that information, alone, Indiana deserved to be there more than Tennessee did.
 
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RuGettinIt said:
It’s the narrative. Again IU beat the shit teams on their schedule and beat them soundly. Alabama, Ole Miss not so much. They want you to look at quality wins vs bad losses.
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I’d be willing to wager they used the opposite argument when they wanted to keep OSU out of the playoffs because they had a bad loss to Purdue and Iowa.

It’s just what they do. It’s propaganda, not peer reviewed research.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
shockingly one of the dudes on the SEC morning show just brought up a pretty good point.
the first round of playoffs could be at bowls and the 2nd round on campuses.

saying if you finished top 4, you earned the right to play infant of your home crowd. even if that means playing in a snowstorm in January.
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That's one thing that confuses me about this... the other thing of course is the auto top 4.... which I don't think is going to be around long. The other thing the committee needs to jettison is rewarding teams for losing in the CC games... I mean... who cares?
 
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