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Top 25 wins seems to be the #1 metric for the committee, bases on this Jeff Long interview.
Top 25 wins seems to be the #1 metric for the committee, bases on this Jeff Long interview.
What do I win?
And why do you think TCU is better than Bama?
Lol FSU falls to 3.
Not an FSU fan but can you imagine if defending champ was from SEC and remains undefeated and yet drops from 2 to 3 being jumped by Oregon which has a loss?
ESPN would probably raise hell if that happened, am I wrong about that?
Top 25 wins seems to be the #1 metric for the committee, bases on this Jeff Long interview.
Not an FSU fan but can you imagine if defending champ was from SEC and remains undefeated and yet drops from 2 to 3 being jumped by Oregon which has a loss?
ESPN would probably raise hell if that happened, am I wrong about that?
It's really dumb that FSU fell to number 3. FSU is undefeated. And they've played quality opponents in and out of conference: Clemson, Louisville, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State. What the öööö? I'm fed up with the Subjective Committee already.
A 1 loss Oregon team, ranked ahead of an undefeated FSU.
A 3 loss LSU team ranked ahead of 2 loss GT, 2 loss Clemson, and 1 loss Duke.
Screw the voting committee and their anti-ACC shenanigans
ACC teams won't move up beating other ACC teams unfortunately...all gotta win rivalry week.
this. If we go 3-0, we'll make some ripples.
Would love to see that but not really confident that it will happen
Fact is, ACC has wet the bed so many times in recent years the conference perception is still bad nationally
ACC teams won't move up beating other ACC teams unfortunately...all gotta win rivalry week.
Exactly! It's not only about how many losses you have. It's more about who did you beat. The ACC is very weak on competition compared to other conferences, which explains FSU's slide. I hope GT beefs up their OOC schedule because they can't rely on the ACC to provide enough quality opponents every year.
On the one hand I agree with you, but on the other hand, many of the teams that are ahead of us are just beating other SEC opponents. Like CPJ said in a presser a few weeks ago - when the SEC gets 6-7 preseason top 25 teams every year, they beat each other up and then several teams get "top 25 wins". Even though we all know preseason rankings and ridiculous and meaningless when it comes to order, it DOES have an impact on how teams are ranked later in the season.
Just a BS system...
They only managed to win against TCU by 3, after a pass interference penalty brought them to within field goal range as the last seconds ticked off the clock. TCU led that game for all but 11 seconds in the second quarter when Baylor tied it at 24. When a head to head win is that threadbare, you can't use it as justification to concretely place one team over the other. Baylor is in the conversation because of it, but it doesn't make them the automatic winner.
So I look at Baylor's loss. They got dominated by WVU. Outgained by 150 yards (held to 318), ended up losing by 2 TDs despite being +3 in turnover margin. TCU doesn't have a mark like that on their resume. Their performance against WVU was much better, and they just finished dominating a dominant Kansas State team.
At the end of the day we can weasel the numbers to make any point we want, it's basically politics, but IMO TCU is the stronger team of the two and is good enough to be #4 over Baylor and Alabama both.
If this really is the case then it will sort itself out in bowl season when overrated SEC teams get matched up against underrated non SEC teams.