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Scenarios for Final CFP Playoff Rankings

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Gcashwell said:
The rest of the nation will have to catch up first!

who else should have gotten in? I could understand anybody saying the top 4 should be in a different order, but I think once again, the committee for the participants correct.
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Oregon would be in if they didnt travel to Texas for a 'neutral' game and/or play a 9th Conference game.
Nothing special at all about SEC this year.
Clemson and Ohio State are the best teams in the playoff.
Georgia would've finished 3rd in B1G West, 3rd or 4th in B1G East. But in a weak SEC, they rise to a fraudulent #4 in polls.
That's why they made sure LSU would dodge one of us with the Atlanta home game followed up by Championship at home.
 
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kujirakira said:
Oregon would be in if they didnt travel to Texas for a 'neutral' game and/or play a 9th Conference game.
Nothing special at all about SEC this year.
Clemson and Ohio State are the best teams in the playoff.
Georgia would've finished 3rd in B1G West, 3rd or 4th in B1G East. But in a weak SEC, they rise to a fraudulent #4 in polls.
That's why they made sure LSU would dodge one of us with the Atlanta home game followed up by Championship at home.
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I am not a conspiracy theorist but if we have SEC officials and LSU OU have ACC officials I may buy in.
 
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Onebuckfan said:
They play NFL games in January in North. That’s why I call it provincial you never hear the SEC and ACC comment on each other’s scandals. The rest of our conference think we are the Black Death and wouldn’t support us for anything .A and M became insulated from controversy since joining SEC.
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They do. And people that aren’t from the north generally don’t go to them.
 
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Palpie said:
Is this supposed to be a playoff or an exhibition game to get midwesterners to the south or west? Maybe we can switch March madness and have southeast, atlantic, southwest, and west regions. Can't ask anyone to travel to the scary cold midwest in march, there might still be snow some places.
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Umm, it’s all a money grab. We all know this. You can’t make money if people don’t come.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
It's done now but the last thing I'll say about the CFP polls this year is that if you watched that SEC CG and came away thinking that UGA is the 5th best team in the country then you really shouldn't be in the business of judging football teams.
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Man that’s it in a fucking nutshell.

GA at #5 right now is absolutely laughable. Yet there is a fairly large majority that believe it.

I’d take Wiscy straight up on a neutral field.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
It's done now but the last thing I'll say about the CFP polls this year is that if you watched that SEC CG and came away thinking that UGA is the 5th best team in the country then you really shouldn't be in the business of judging football teams.
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We were simply reminded that if the records are equal the advantage goes to the SEC team.
 
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kujirakira said:
Our OOC is fine.
It's the conference' scheduling that is beyond stupid imo. Starting with the 9game schedule that only hurts all of us.
Where do you think Penn State is ranked if they don't play Minnesota?
If Michigan didn't play Wisconsin?
They'd be ranked in top 10 instead of top 15ish.
Indiana would be in Top 25.

And then it goes with the idiotic scheduling of back-back big games that puts everyone under pressure, leads to more injuries, and doesn't let any team put their best foot forward. I made a post earlier showing ~10 of 14 teams had back-to-back games that set them up for failure.

If there's no punishment for Chickenshit Saturday... we're stupid for not implementing it.
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Damn, forgot to use the sarcasm font in my post.

So yeah - the Big Ten, Big 8/10/12/10, and the SEC have the same problem - there just isn't a geographic split that puts balance into the divisions. For the Big Ten, all three POTENTIAL CFP teams play in the East. And splitting Michigan and Ohio State into East and West costs the teams, and the conference, the premier college football TV game of the season. You can replay Ohio State - Wisconsin/Iowa, but to have Ohio State and Michigan go back at it a week later doesn't work.

For the SEC the three and a half Potential CFP teams, Alabama, LSU, Auburn all play in the West and Georida plays in the East.

There's no way to put Texas and Oklahoma into different divisions.

The ACC suffers from only two teams being serious about football and one of them refuses to belong as a full member. The Pac 12 is lost without USC, which leaves them with the winner of the Oregon/Washington war - that and the inability to play games at a time slot where they can put butts in the stands and eyes on the screen.

So the NCAA needs to insist that all conferences agree to nine or eight games - and again, that only matters in the Big Ten and the SEC because the ACC only has one full member that gives a shit about football and the Big 8/10/12/10 doesn't have enough teams.

The FCS bullshit needs to be outlawed along with selling jockstraps for tattoos.

The suicidal Ohio State v Penn State, followed by Ohio State v Michigan, followed by the CCG, kind of schedule is insane.

On the other hand - it does say that the Big Ten doesn't play favorites as the SEC schedule reveals.

No sarcasm font needed in this post except when talking about the ACC and maybe a couple of other references.
 
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Gatorubet said:
Who would not want to come to Minnesota or Detroit in the winter? That is why tens of thousands of Southerners move North when they retire.
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You’re missing the point. The NATIONAL playoffs are still the property of the bowl games, bowl games created during the Jim Crow era to make Tourist Money. The games were called exhibitions and the NC was based on polls prior to the exhibition games.

That era is over. It’s time to put the playoffs in NATIONAL venues. If the SEC fans don’t want to travel, that’s their right and we’ll gladly pack the house with Yankees.
 
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All the manhours and speculation and here is how things went down Saturday night:

Chairman: How many undefeated power 5 teams do we have?

Answer: Three

Chairman: Do we have any one loss teams?

Answer: Just one sir.

Chairman: Perfect, we will make them the #4 seed.

Chairman: Are any of the undefeated teams from the SEC?

Answer: Yes sir, LSU

Chairman: Great. They are the one seed. We are done here.

Committee: But sir, what about 2 and 3?

Chairman: What difference does it make- they play each other in Phoenix. Flip a coin.



It was that simple.
 
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