Nov 2 Othergames Thread

Hoping Miami beats Duke so they are undefeated when we play them. I don't think them losing would make them any easier to beat but a win
would make a possible win by us look more impressive beating a top five team.
 
Kcs_Tech said:
Hoping Miami beats Duke so they are undefeated when we play them. I don't think them losing would make them any easier to beat but a win
would make a possible win by us look more impressive beating a top five team.
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Here's the Kool Aid Question of the Week: if GT finishes the season by beating 2 playoff contenders to go 8-4, do we get an at large bid?
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
Here's the Kool Aid Question of the Week: if GT finishes the season by beating 2 playoff contenders to go 8-4, do we get an at large bid?
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Unlikely but it would give our staff some good talking points when recruiting. Here is another question I've wondered about. There are 7 open
spots when you subtract power 4 champs and the group of five pick. How many losses could one of the yearly favorites like Alabama have and
still have a shot at an at large spot.
 
Kcs_Tech said:
Unlikely but it would give our staff some good talking points when recruiting. Here is another question I've wondered about. There are 7 open
spots when you subtract power 4 champs and the group of five pick. How many losses could one of the yearly favorites like Alabama have and
still have a shot at an at large spot.
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Probably as many as 4 in a really favorable year. Since 2019, a handful of 3 loss teams have made the top 12 at the end of the regular season, including such prestigious names as Utah and Kansas state.
 
Kcs_Tech said:
Unlikely but it would give our staff some good talking points when recruiting. Here is another question I've wondered about. There are 7 open
spots when you subtract power 4 champs and the group of five pick. How many losses could one of the yearly favorites like Alabama have and
still have a shot at an at large spot.
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A 3 or 4 loss Bama team gets in or Greg Sankey breaks your knees with a crowbar.
 
00Burdell said:
A 3 or 4 loss Bama team gets in or Greg Sankey breaks your knees with a crowbar.
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SEC and Big10 always start off with so many ranked teams that a 3 or 4 loss team is always going to appear to have better quality losses than
a ACC or Big12 team with the same number of losses. I wish we could drop the ND leaches from our non conference schedule so we could add
either a more winnable game or an SEC opponent. The deal with ND is for their benefit not ours. We don't need ND to schedule quality opponents.
 
PSU QB doing a belly flop slip n slide maneuver on every run. Gotta have fun I guess.
 
Gonna be garbage on the field at some point in this game. These refs are being dicks.
 
VPI QB out and RB not playing. I guess we beat them up a little last week.

JRjr
 
Kcs_Tech said:
SEC and Big10 always start off with so many ranked teams that a 3 or 4 loss team is always going to appear to have better quality losses than
a ACC or Big12 team with the same number of losses. I wish we could drop the ND leaches from our non conference schedule so we could add
either a more winnable game or an SEC opponent. The deal with ND is for their benefit not ours. We don't need ND to schedule quality opponents.
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That’s a stretch. AP/Coaches Polls mean nothing to the CFP formula.

Example: Indiana despite being 1 of 2 teams who have never even trailed this year, is being criticized for a conference schedule they had no control of. They could very well only lose to tOSU, and tOSU may finish with 2 losses and get in the CFP over 11-1 Indiana.

If you want to counter the argument that a brand name with the same record may get in over an Indiana, Pitt, SMU, etc that’s possible. But that same argument will get a 2 loss non ACC champion Clemson in over Indiana too.

SOS is the formula that matters the most. ACC from top to bottom is doing OK record wise. But there’s still a month to go.

Best case scenario (worst case scenario for the CFP) is 3/4 of Clemson, Miami, SMU, Pitt finish with 1 loss. ACC would have an argument for a minimum of 3 teams getting in. That leaves the CFP committee and the SEC/B1G and ND in a bind.

Projections by every “expert” now is the B1G/SEC are locked in with 4 each, ACC (2), B12 (1) and Boise State. That leaves ND on the outside looking in at 11-1. I’d laugh at ND getting left out considering more than likely TAMU is 1 of the 4 the SEC is likely getting in.

Still a lot of football to be played. Good news is, the SEC may knock themselves out of 4 bids.

1. Loser of Bama/LSU is out with 3 losses. The winner could still lose a 3rd game.
2. Tennessee could lose 2 more games to finish 9-3.
3. Ole Miss, Mizzou have 1-2 more losses left to finish 9-3, 8-4.

The above would leave the SEC with only 3 bids (Texas, TAMU uga).
 
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