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The Polls (AP, Coaches, & CFP, etc.)

Clemson is not a playoff team this season, meanwhile Notre Dame is (thanks in large part to their soft schedule).

It will be Bama, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Notre Dame in the playoff this season.
You obviously don't SEC, bro. They'd drop both Ohio State and Oklahoma to get in an additional SEC team or two in a heartbeat. Catholic Central Tech University, aka Notre Dame, is the only team immune to such shenanigans...
 
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Clemson is not a playoff team this season, meanwhile Notre Dame is (thanks in large part to their soft schedule).

It will be Bama, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Notre Dame in the playoff this season.

With Murray I do think Oklahoma is the class of the Big XII and potentially a top 4 team; however, they haven't played any really good teams yet and did let ISU and Army stay close. In addition, they still have Texas, @ TCU, Okie Lite, @ the hillbillies, and probably the conference championship game (and it is rough to beat a good team twice in the same season). If they do go undefeated I think they should be the #1 seed unless Alabama is also undefeated.

Just sayin': The Big XII might have screwed itself (and Oklahoma) this year with a conference championship game.
 
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Yup. You can see it forming already.

Better yet -

I think 4 1-loss SECSECSEC teams is still possible.

Bama ---> Loses to Auburn, Beats LSU
Auburn ---> Loses to LSU, beats Bama
LSU ---> Loses to Bama, Beats Auburn
UGA ---> Loses SECSECSEC Championship against the SEC west winner

ESECPN wet dream right there.

Except Georgia draws both Auburn and LSU out of the west this year. But watching the chaos from 3 three 1-loss SEC teams would be glorious. Not to mention all the SEC! SEC! SEC! that is going to happen when the first rankings come out ala 2014 when Miss. St., Auburn, and Ole Miss were all top four in the first ranking.
 
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Except Georgia draws both Auburn and LSU out of the west this year. But watching the chaos from 3 three 1-loss SEC teams would be glorious. Not to mention all the SEC! SEC! SEC! that is going to happen when the first rankings come out ala 2014 when the Miss. St., Auburn, and Ole Miss were all top four of the first ranking.

Yeah I got that now. I didn't feel like putting in the effort to find that out honestly.
 
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Lots of football to be played. The SEC for the most part has stacked all of their big games to the end. LSU and Auburn will have 2-3 losses each. Bama and Georgia 0-1 losses each. SEC east is such a cake walk. Just can't have a 1 loss team not make the championship game.
If ND goes undefeated, they will take the spot over a 1 loss conference champion, but it will be fun to see an undefeated ND and undefeated Clemson battle it out. I think undefeated B10 and B12 champ take president over both. A 1 loss SEC champ also might.
 
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Anyone believe that:
I bet Fickell is the coach putting us at #1

In the AP Poll it was a Rutgers writer:



AP Top 25 poll ballot: A new No. 1? Why Ohio State and Notre Dame earned plum spots over LSU, Clemson and Oklahoma

There's a new No. 1 team on my ballot this week.

For the first time this season, Alabama wasn't penciled in the top spot. The Crimson Tide remain unblemished after their 56-14 win over Louisiana, but Nick Saban's squad was bumped down a notch in favor of a Big Ten team.

Ohio State survived the type of controversy that saw its head coach, Urban Meyer, get suspended for the first three games of the season. The Buckeyes’ resume includes four wins over Power-5 Conference foes (Oregon State, Rutgers, TCU, Penn State) and two wins over then-Top 15 opponents (TCU, Penn State) on the road.

Their 27-26 win over No. 9 Penn State in Happy Valley caps a wild six-week span for the Buckeyes, who are now the presumptive favorite to win the Big Ten East Division.

Entire article: https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/...poll_ballot_a_new_no_1_why_ohio_state_an.html
 
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