CFP rankings are trash

What if LSU screws up and loses one of it's final 3 regular season games? Stranger things have happened.
 
GoGATech said:
What if LSU screws up and loses one of it's final 3 regular season games? Stranger things have happened.
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What-have-you-done-for-me-lately. You can clearly lose badly early in the season and still get in if you slap enough makeup on the pig in November.
 
GoGATech said:
LSU loses one of the final 3, Dwags lose to us then beat LSU. Bama loses to Auburn. Who's in?
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Probably the mutts. I can't envision a world where the committee leaves out an SEC champ, even if that team lost to us. It would be especially bad, because they'd get in over a 1-loss OU and a 1-loss Oregon.
 
Allen Koholic said:
Probably the mutts. I can't envision a world where the committee leaves out an SEC champ, even if that team lost to us. It would be especially bad, because they'd get in over a 1-loss OU and a 1-loss Oregon.
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I meant to say they lose to Auburn too. So that would be a 3 loss SEC champ with 2 losses to losing teams. You still think they get in?
 
There’s really no point at all in getting asshurt about the cfb playoff spots before the conference championships have even been played, the teams that win those get a huge SOS boost. Literally nobody except sec fans want 2 sec teams in the playoffs, remember that Bama vs Lsu rematch in 2012 was the least watched National title game ever.
 
Allen Koholic said:
Probably the mutts. I can't envision a world where the committee leaves out an SEC champ, even if that team lost to us. It would be especially bad, because they'd get in over a 1-loss OU and a 1-loss Oregon.
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Your right, that world doesn’t exist
 
GoGATech said:
I meant to say they lose to Auburn too. So that would be a 3 loss SEC champ with 2 losses to losing teams. You still think they get in?
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If we manage to beat those mouth-breathers, we will have officially entered the Twilight Zone, so at that point, chaos reigns anyways.

However, in a not unrealistic scenario -

Two-loss UGA beats one-loss LSU in the SEC title game and Bama finishes with just one loss? Sadly, I expect both Bama and UGA to get in, over a one-loss OU and one-loss Oregon.
 
Allen Koholic said:
If we manage to beat those mouth-breathers, we will have officially entered the Twilight Zone, so at that point, chaos reigns anyways.

However, in a not unrealistic scenario -

Two-loss UGA beats one-loss LSU in the SEC title game and Bama finishes with just one loss? Sadly, I expect both Bama and UGA to get in, over a one-loss OU and one-loss Oregon.
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I will then become an honorary member of the dwagvent, and incessantly call for Kirb's head.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
Yeah I just saw the updated CFP rankings -there has to be an underlying SEC-biased something going on here, unless it’s the old adage, if you’re going to lose, lose early.
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There is a huge SEC bias because the emphasis this year is to reward "quality wins" more than punishing losses. This biases automatically towards the SEC because any SEC win is considered a quality win in the committees eyes. In any given week, half the SEC is getting quality wins. The extreme bias seems to be when the SEC wins OOC. They seem to be rewarded more for the OOC win compared to that same team losing to a non-SEC team. Case in point UGA has been rewarded immensely for it's narrow ND win vs how it was viewed when UM destroyed ND.

Now if I were to be completely honest, I do think the SEC has 2 or 3 teams that could win the CFP but I believe only conference champs should get in if we limit it to four teams. We will never know how strong the other conferences are if they are always shut out of the CFP.
 
They way they have slotted everyone tells me that they have determined to shut the big 12 out, but would like to get the Pac 12 in, which makes sense. At some point, West Coast fans are going to disengage from the whole process if they don't. But they are leaving the door open to sneak in a second SEC team in the event of a stumble by Clemson or a 2 loss Pac12 champ.
 
thegtstunner08 said:
Even if the dogs get in, they aren't beating Clemson, Ohio St, or LSU.
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If they get in, they will have already beaten LSU once. I don't believe a 2-loss team has much of a chance this year, unless these last few weeks are utterly insane, so it's still pretty simple as far as the dwags are concerned: they win out, they're in; they don't, they're not.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
There is a huge SEC bias because the emphasis this year is to reward "quality wins" more than punishing losses. This biases automatically towards the SEC because any SEC win is considered a quality win in the committees eyes. In any given week, half the SEC is getting quality wins. The extreme bias seems to be when the SEC wins OOC. They seem to be rewarded more for the OOC win compared to that same team losing to a non-SEC team. Case in point UGA has been rewarded immensely for it's narrow ND win vs how it was viewed when UM destroyed ND.

Now if I were to be completely honest, I do think the SEC has 2 or 3 teams that could win the CFP but I believe only conference champs should get in if we limit it to four teams. We will never know how strong the other conferences are if they are always shut out of the CFP.
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Ranking "quality wins" was what the computers were especially good at.
 
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