What if we go 11-2?

GoTech19

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We'd probably need a little help....but I would think we'd be 6th or 7th at worst. Of course, 6th or 7th gets you nothing.

We'd definitely need ugag to win the SECCG. Ole Miss would need to win the Egg Bowl. It would also help if either Oregon or Ohio State lost. I think we'd get in ahead of Baylor/TCU.
You're kidding right???
 

ThisIsAtlanta

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We are clearly very inexperienced at this expectations thing when it comes to having a good team.
 

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Oh no, I highly doubt we'll even be considered. But if a 3 loss UGAg beats a 2 loss Ole Miss for the SECCG, it's almost impossible to have any $EC teams in the playoff.
 

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Probably not, unless the committee values conference championships above all other criteria.
And beating two top 10 teams in the final two weeks. But it seems like losing to someone that's good carries more weight than beating someone that's good.
 
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GoTech19

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Oh no, I highly doubt we'll even be considered. But if a 3 loss UGAg beats a 2 loss Ole Miss for the SECCG, it's almost impossible to have any $EC teams in the playoff.
Mark my word, if that scenario played out, there would be an SECSPN team in that playoff.
 

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You all need to start repeating after me:
"If you can't win your own Conference, you shouldn't be playing to win the national title"
And especially
"If you can't win your own DIVISION" you shouldn't play for a national title.
 

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The simple answer is that yes, there IS a path to the playoff for Georgia Tech. As long as FSU does not fall before they meet us, there is not another 2 or 1 loss team in the country with a tougher remaining schedule.
 

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You all need to start repeating after me:
"If you can't win your own Conference, you shouldn't be playing to win the national title"
And especially
"If you can't win your own DIVISION" you shouldn't play for a national title.
I believe most everyone agrees with you with the exception of the SEC homers. All rules apply to everyone else but those guys
 

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You all need to start repeating after me:
"If you can't win your own Conference, you shouldn't be playing to win the national title"
And especially
"If you can't win your own DIVISION" you shouldn't play for a national title.
It doesn't make sense from a statistical standpoint. You could be the best team in the country, but lose one game and not win your division or league.

This is just a platitude.
 

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It doesn't make sense from a statistical standpoint. You could be the best team in the country, but lose one game and not win your division or league.

This is just a platitude.
That's not our fault. If you are the best team in the country and your conference doesn't have a good enough system to have you win the conference then that's their fault.

There is literally zero point to having a conference if not to determine who the best team from that conference is so they can then go play against the best teams from other conferences to see who the best in the country is.

If we've already determined that you're not the best team in your conference, why would we put you in a playoff to determine who the best team in the country is?

And if an undefeated team loses to a 3-loss team in the conference championship game, and you want to complain about that, maybe you should find a better way of determining your conference champion.
 

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It doesn't make sense from a statistical standpoint. You could be the best team in the country, but lose one game and not win your division or league.

This is just a platitude.
I'd argue that if you only lost one game, and the team that beat you wins the division, then you weren't better than them anyways.

Deal with it and win the games.
 

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The simple answer is that yes, there IS a path to the playoff for Georgia Tech. As long as FSU does not fall before they meet us, there is not another 2 or 1 loss team in the country with a tougher remaining schedule.
Certainly. It would just require a lot of things to go our way. We aren't going to leapfrog teams with one loss ranked 10-12+ spots above us right now simply by beating UGA and FSU. They're going to have to lose as well.
 

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We aren't going to leapfrog teams with one loss ranked 10-12+ spots above us right now simply by beating UGA and FSU. They're going to have to lose as well.
Why not? Alabama leaped to #1 by beating Miss St. So Tech can't leap to #4 by beating the #10 and #3 team in consecutive weeks?
 

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Why not? Alabama leaped to #1 by beating Miss St. So Tech can't leap to #4 by beating the #10 and #3 team in consecutive weeks?
It's just not going to happen. We aren't leapfrogging teams like Ohio State if they remain with 1-loss, especially since they'll also have a conference championship game. We need several teams to lose in order to move ahead of them.

Let's keep in mind that Clemson was our first win of the season against a ranked team, we have two losses to unranked teams, and we're currently #18. We aren't making the playoff without lots and lots of help.
 

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So Ohio St will ride the Mich St win into the finals with a loss to a team Tech beat but Tech beating three ranked teams in a row - two top 10 - should take their seat at the kiddie table?

As improbable as Tech winning the next two...
 

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So Ohio St will ride the Mich St win into the finals with a loss to a team Tech beat but Tech beating three ranked teams in a row - two top 10 - should take their seat at the kiddie table?

As improbable as Tech winning the next two...
Ohio State would also have a win over Wisconsin and half as many losses as us. I just wouldn't get your hopes up over getting in over power 5 teams with fewer losses than us.
 
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