OT: CFP spot reserved for the SEC?

[RedStickHusky]

It's a house of cards. Every year you're just supposed to believe the SEC is better than everybody else, because that's what ESPN tells you to believe.

Amen.

 

[metsfan2323]

The SEC has a losing record against other P5 teams, so why is an SEC's schedule tougher than a Pac 12 team's? Or is the SEC just better because it is better, and we shouldn't bother playing the games? Does Alabama pass the eye test? They lost to Texas at home and needed a miracle to beat Auburn a week after Auburn got blown out by New Mexico State.

Washington, Michigan and Texas should be locks. FSU should be in with an ACC championship, but they will get demolished by Michigan.

Washington barely beat Arizona State and had close calls against a bunch of other relatively weak teams. They have had a great season but only four teams get in. A deserving team will get left out.

Bama, Texas and Michigan should be locks. The last spot goes to Georgia, Fla State, or Washington.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Washington barely beat Arizona State and a bunch of other weak teams. They have had a great season but only four teams get in. Someone is getting screwed.

The level of SEC brainwash by college football fans is sad. Have you looked at some of Alabama's wins? They beat Arkansas by 3 and USF by 14. Apparently that is equivalent to beating the 85 Bears and the 99 Rams.

This isn't really that complicated. There are 3 undefeated major conference champions, and two 1 loss teams that played each other and Texas won.

Otherwise, just send Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan based on popularity and don't bother playing the games.

 

[RedStickHusky]

This isn't really that complicated. There are 3 undefeated major conference champions, and two 1 loss teams that played each other and Texas won.

Spitting truth.

 

[metsfan2323]

why is an SEC's schedule tougher than a Pac 12 team's?

Is this a serious question? The heck with the computer rankings, they are obviously flawed. We're talking about a conference that is on its deathbed. Bye Bye PAC12.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The announcers at the Florida game started talking about the number of 1st round picks on Georgia and Alabama? Is that a criteria? If future pro stars is the most important factor in deciding which teams deserves a championship, then that would explain why Kentucky basketball has won every national title since Calipari got to Lexington. Oh, wait.

 

[How Sway?!]

Washington barely beat Arizona State and had close calls against a bunch of other relatively weak teams. They have had a great season but only four teams get in. A deserving team will get left out.

Bama, Texas and Michigan should be locks. The last spot goes to Georgia, Fla State, or Washington.

Alabama barely beat Arkansas and auburn.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Is this a serious question? the computer rankings, they are obviously flawed.

Which computer rankings? Colley has the Pac 12 above the SEC.

 

[metsfan2323]

Alabama barely beat Arkansas and auburn.

So you don't think Alabama is getting in when they just beat the #1 team in the country? Good luck with that.

 

[How Sway?!]

So you don't think Alabama is getting in when they just beat the #1 team in the country? Good luck with that.

Nah I'm saying if Alabama gets in, Washington should too

 

[shizzle787]

1. Michigan (undefeated P5 champ)
2. Washington (undefeated P5 champ)
3. Florida State (undefeated P5 champ)
4. Texas (one-loss P5 champ with head to head win over remaining one-less P5 champ)

 

[metsfan2323]

Nah I'm saying if Alabama gets in, Washington should too

Who are you leaving out?

 

[metsfan2323]

The level of SEC brainwash by college football fans is sad. Have you looked at some of Alabama's wins? They beat Arkansas by 3 and USF by 14. Apparently that is equivalent to beating the 85 Bears and the 99 Rams.

I can assure you I am not brainwashed and could not care less about the SEC.

Bama punched their ticket today, sorry.

 

[GampelGladiator]

Perhaps being left out will be the final push FSU needs to leave ACC.

 

[superjohn]

The best 4 teams are Bama, Georgia, Michigan, and Texas.

That said I wouldn't give a darn if Georgia were left out and undefeated Florida State got in. Washington's schedule is too weak and they have had too many close calls to get in IMO.

This is a terrible take.

 

[ecasadoSBU]

maybe a silly question but I'm genuinely curious: is there any motivation for a school to declare a QB "season-ending injury" when it opens the possibility for them to be hurt in the CFP rankings? why not lie or hide it until after the final CFP Rankings?

it feels wrong to discount/devalue a whole team's season due to a single player's injury (yes, its the QB but still)

 

[pepband99]

1. Michigan (undefeated P5 champ)
2. Washington (undefeated P5 champ)
3. Florida State (undefeated P5 champ)
4. Texas (one-loss P5 champ with head to head win over remaining one-less P5 champ)

1) This should happen.
2) This will never happen.

2 obviously corrupt things in play which will decide the playoff rankings.

1) The obvious SEC bias. I get the sense that FSU will get the shaft. This has the potential to kill the ACC, as we know it.
2) There will be a tremendous amount of pressure to get a Michigan / Washington semifinal in the Rose Bowl. It will make no mathematical or real sense at all, but watch it happen.

 

[coachcap]

maybe a silly question but I'm genuinely curious: is there any motivation for a school to declare a QB "season-ending injury" when it opens the possibility for them to be hurt in the CFP rankings? why not lie or hide it until after the final CFP Rankings?

it feels wrong to discount/devalue a whole team's season due to a single player's injury (yes, its the QB but still)

That's the Kink in College football & it's happened before. In the mid-70s, Both Ohio State & Michigan were undefeated going into the final regular season game. Michigan's qb went out with a separated shoulder late in the game, which ended in a tie. Ohio State had represented the B1G in the previous year's Rose Bowl. & the B1G had a written rule that whichever school had NOT been to the Rose Bowl more recently would be the conference's representative. A couple of days after the game, the conference commissioner proclaimed the Buckeyes as the team to go to Pasadena based on the injury to Michigan's qb. So much for written rules

 

[UCFBfan]

Projecting the College Football Playoff committee's final top 6

All the games have been played. Now it's time to forecast the committee's final round of rankings that will decide the four playoff teams.

www.espn.com

It's an ESPN+ story I just realized by the gist is they dropped FSU to 6, behind Texas, Bama, and UGA (in that order). Yet their reason was silly:

Why they could finish here: Florida State found a way to win again, this time with its third-string quarterback and an elite defense. The Seminoles have three wins against CFP top-25 teams, including Clemson, LSU and now Louisville, but they simply didn't look like a team capable of winning a national title. In 2014, when Ohio State was down to its third-string quarterback, the Buckeyes cracked the top four for the first time all season in large part because they embarrassed Wisconsin with a 59-0 drubbing in the Big Ten championship game. Against Louisville on Saturday, Florida State couldn't get a first down until late in the first half. The defense played at a championship-caliber level, but there were mistakes on offense that extended beyond the play of first-time starting quarterback Brock Glenn, who was replacing Tate Rodemaker, who was replacing Jordan Travis. If FSU is snubbed, it would be the first time an undefeated Power 5 team has missed the playoff. The Noles should still finish ahead of No. 7 Ohio State, No. 8 Oregon, No. 9 Missouri and No. 10 Penn State.

I love that they keep mentioning their Championship caliber defense. Why are you keeping them out then? There have been plenty of teams, the Ravens who won the Super Bowl, who won championships with defense and an offense that does enough to win. So because they're down to their third string QB, doing everything else they needed to do.means nothing.

Man I hope FSU gets left out and the ACC goes to crap.

 

[Chin Diesel]

maybe a silly question but I'm genuinely curious: is there any motivation for a school to declare a QB "season-ending injury" when it opens the possibility for them to be hurt in the CFP rankings? why not lie or hide it until after the final CFP Rankings?

it feels wrong to discount/devalue a whole team's season due to a single player's injury (yes, its the QB but still)

FSU didn't have to make any statement about Travis. Every human being who watched the clip knew he was done for the season.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Perhaps being left out will be the final push FSU needs to leave ACC.

I agree and started a thread on this topic before I read this post.

 

[billybud]

ESPN and FSU have had a mini war all season. And FSU isn't getting much love from the ACC head shed after they told the world that they would love to bolt.

ESPN's main property, that they sell endlessly, is the SEC...whether fan paranoia or real, FSU folks believe that ESPN talking heads are scripted...

I don't think that a 13-0 P5 conference champ will be left out..but there is drumbeat from PO'd Alabama-Georgia fans and their ESPN sounding boards.

 

[JellyBean]

Three teams (Florida State, Texas, and Alabama) and only 2 spots. Heck I would even throw in a 4th team, Georgia, for one of those two spots. Last year, TCU didn't win their conference title game and got into the CFP. Heck, same with Ohio State. They didn't make it to the Big Ten Championship game last year and they got into the playoffs. We are about to see how much weight the SEC has. But whichever team is left out today, they will have every right to be angry, and in the case of two (Florida State & Alabama), their absence in the CFP would be unprecedented.

 

[Zissou]

Mich, Wash, and Bama.

Last spot FSU or Georgia. Who is the better team? Does anyone doubt who is the better team?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Mich, Wash, and Bama.

Last spot FSU or Georgia. Who is the better team? Does anyone doubt who is the better team?

I pray you are right. Texas getting hosed by a ridiculous selection process would be both delicious and bring college football, the most corrupt sport in the world, crashing down.