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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
Not to diminish your point, but isn’t that the goal? Clearly establish the top of your conference for the championship game and the rest takes care of itself?
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I root for a bad thing just because it makes other people i'll never meet upset...........I didn't realize we were in the poli forum.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule
As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.
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SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule
As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.The College Football Playoff selection committee is just weeks away from releasing its final rankings and the first field of the 12-team era. As the football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.
As of this week, No. 3 Texas, No. 7 Alabama, No. 9 Ole Miss and No. 10 Georgia would all make the 12-team field. Tennessee is ranked No. 11, but would be on the outside looking in; No. 14 BYU would jump into the field as the fifth-highest ranked conference champion. The Big Ten would land the same number of programs in the field as the SEC based on the current rankings, with Big 12, ACC, Mountain West each sending conference champions as automatic bids and independent program Notre Dame landing at at-large. Three more SEC programs—No. 15 Texas A&M, No. 18 South Carolina and No. 23 Missouri—are also in the committee's latest rankings, although they're on the outside looking in.
It is no surprise that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey believes that his league should be getting a lion's share of the at-large bids. He took to X on Wednesday to make that clear, sharing a set of aggregated strength of schedule metrics that have six SEC programs up at the top.
The depth of the SEC is undoubtedly impressive, and the league has a host of teams with multiple losses as a result. Texas leads the way at 9-1, Texas A&M is 8-2 with a 5-1 SEC record and the next four teams are all 8-2 with both losses coming in league play.
Strength of schedule is just one factor, of course. It is hard to see undefeated or one loss Big Ten teams being left out, there four automatic bids outside of the SEC, and Notre Dame is almost guaranteed a bid if they don't slip up down the stretch. Sankey will likely do plenty of politicking over the next few weeks, but without a material change for the other schools in the mix here, it seems unlikely that he gets the five or six SEC teams that he wants in the field.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Urban Meyer Can't Fathom Lane Kiffin Assertion That Coaches Want to Avoid SEC Title
The Ole Miss coach said that some of his fellow SEC coaches are hoping to avoid the conference championship game ahead of the CFP.
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Urban Meyer Can't Fathom Lane Kiffin Assertion That Coaches Want to Avoid SEC Title
The Ole Miss coach said that some of his fellow SEC coaches are hoping to avoid the conference championship game ahead of the CFP.The College Football Playoff's expansion to 12 teams this season has changed the equation for teams looking to make the field, especially when it comes to conference championship games. For teams in leagues like the Big 12 and ACC, which may only receive single bids to the Playoff, winning the title game is essential. For the top teams in leagues like the SEC and Big Ten, some believe getting extra rest and avoiding a potential third loss on the résumé outweighs the benefits of potentially winning a conference championship and securing a bye as a top-four seed in the Playoff.
According to Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, some of his SEC counterparts are among that group.
"The conference championship could have a big impact both ways for people. I’ve talked to other coaches, so I’ll just kind of give you the feeling from some other coaches, that they don’t want to be in it," Kiffin said of the SEC championship game on Monday. "You know, the reward to get a bye [in the Playoff] versus the risk to get knocked out completely. I mean, that’s a that’s a pretty big—that’s a really big risk just to get a bye."
Former Ohio State and Florida coach Urban Meyer—a winner of two SEC championships and three Big Ten championships—acknowledged the risk that Kiffin and other coaches are concerned about, but cannot imagine a situation in which he wouldn't want to play for the league title. Meyer couldn't come to terms with the concept after his podcast co-host Rob Stone compared the situation to college basketball teams bowing out early in their conference tournament with their NCAA tournament bids already secured.
"I'll be honest, I'm shutting you out because I can't even think like that. What do you mean you hope you don’t go to the championship game?" Meyer said on The Triple Option podcast Wednesday. "You get up in the morning and as you’re driving to work, you say, 'Boy, I hope we don’t win the SEC Championship.' That doesn’t compute."
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Strength of schedule is real impressive when you get to just put all the SEC at the top for......reasons.
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SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule
As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule
As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.
The College Football Playoff selection committee is just weeks away from releasing its final rankings and the first field of the 12-team era. As the football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.
As of this week, No. 3 Texas, No. 7 Alabama, No. 9 Ole Miss and No. 10 Georgia would all make the 12-team field. Tennessee is ranked No. 11, but would be on the outside looking in; No. 14 BYU would jump into the field as the fifth-highest ranked conference champion. The Big Ten would land the same number of programs in the field as the SEC based on the current rankings, with Big 12, ACC, Mountain West each sending conference champions as automatic bids and independent program Notre Dame landing at at-large. Three more SEC programs—No. 15 Texas A&M, No. 18 South Carolina and No. 23 Missouri—are also in the committee's latest rankings, although they're on the outside looking in.
It is no surprise that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey believes that his league should be getting a lion's share of the at-large bids. He took to X on Wednesday to make that clear, sharing a set of aggregated strength of schedule metrics that have six SEC programs up at the top.
The depth of the SEC is undoubtedly impressive, and the league has a host of teams with multiple losses as a result. Texas leads the way at 9-1, Texas A&M is 8-2 with a 5-1 SEC record and the next four teams are all 8-2 with both losses coming in league play.
Strength of schedule is just one factor, of course. It is hard to see undefeated or one loss Big Ten teams being left out, there four automatic bids outside of the SEC, and Notre Dame is almost guaranteed a bid if they don't slip up down the stretch. Sankey will likely do plenty of politicking over the next few weeks, but without a material change for the other schools in the mix here, it seems unlikely that he gets the five or six SEC teams that he wants in the field.
The strength of schedule thing is based on a house of cards by only playing 8 conference games, and thus having a better overall winning % than the B1G and Big XII, who play 9.
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SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule
As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule
As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.
The College Football Playoff selection committee is just weeks away from releasing its final rankings and the first field of the 12-team era. As the football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.
As of this week, No. 3 Texas, No. 7 Alabama, No. 9 Ole Miss and No. 10 Georgia would all make the 12-team field. Tennessee is ranked No. 11, but would be on the outside looking in; No. 14 BYU would jump into the field as the fifth-highest ranked conference champion. The Big Ten would land the same number of programs in the field as the SEC based on the current rankings, with Big 12, ACC, Mountain West each sending conference champions as automatic bids and independent program Notre Dame landing at at-large. Three more SEC programs—No. 15 Texas A&M, No. 18 South Carolina and No. 23 Missouri—are also in the committee's latest rankings, although they're on the outside looking in.
It is no surprise that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey believes that his league should be getting a lion's share of the at-large bids. He took to X on Wednesday to make that clear, sharing a set of aggregated strength of schedule metrics that have six SEC programs up at the top.
The depth of the SEC is undoubtedly impressive, and the league has a host of teams with multiple losses as a result. Texas leads the way at 9-1, Texas A&M is 8-2 with a 5-1 SEC record and the next four teams are all 8-2 with both losses coming in league play.
Strength of schedule is just one factor, of course. It is hard to see undefeated or one loss Big Ten teams being left out, there four automatic bids outside of the SEC, and Notre Dame is almost guaranteed a bid if they don't slip up down the stretch. Sankey will likely do plenty of politicking over the next few weeks, but without a material change for the other schools in the mix here, it seems unlikely that he gets the five or six SEC teams that he wants in the field.
Ohio State vs Indiana is the 5th top 5 matchup of the season
It is also the last. There will be no more in the regular season
Of those 5, Ohio State will have played in three of them
Congratulations to the SEC, who managed the only other top 5 matchups of the season. Those two games (for their whole conference) involved three teams, one of which is still in the top 5
Ohio State and their three (B1G) top 5 opponents are all still in the top 5
To recap:
Ohio State played three top 5 games in the regular season
The SEC played two
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
The SOS thing seems made up. The fact that the three systems rank the teams differently tells me that there's no "right" way to rank them. And if there's no "right" way to rank them, then there's no "wrong" way to rank them. How about we rank teams based on distance they are from Columbus, Ohio? I bet Ohio State would be ranked pretty high on that list.
Imagine telling a team that is possibly the best team in the country that just happened to lose a game, because the ball is a funny shape and you don't know which way it will bounce, "Sorry, one of your opponents was bad, so we're going to take a team that had a better opponent." Ha. "Our opponents could beat up your opponents."
Like others have said, it seems like a way to use an argument that supports one guy's narrative. If it didn't support the SEC commissioner's goals, who here believes he would throw it out there and say, "Well, I guess we don't deserve that many teams in the playoff."
Imagine telling a team that is possibly the best team in the country that just happened to lose a game, because the ball is a funny shape and you don't know which way it will bounce, "Sorry, one of your opponents was bad, so we're going to take a team that had a better opponent." Ha. "Our opponents could beat up your opponents."
Like others have said, it seems like a way to use an argument that supports one guy's narrative. If it didn't support the SEC commissioner's goals, who here believes he would throw it out there and say, "Well, I guess we don't deserve that many teams in the playoff."
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And awfully convenient that he posts this before chickenshit Saturday, the day when most SEC sos numbers go down while those of most of the rest of FBS rise
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