as saban was saying on the broadcast the biggest mistake was ranking SMU as high as they did before this week, they had done nothing up to that point to be ranked so high they should have been right ahead or right behind Indiana who was #11, both teams pretty much had identical resumes
looks up computer rankings
Army is everywhere from 7 to 58
Everyoneās just clicking buttons.
omg
When asked for comment
āI really want to be a back up for 4 yearsā
one of his bros is at ohio state
maybe he just hates his family
but in this era, weird to go be a backup when you can probably start somewhere else, then transfer portal back up
Team A can be 12 and Team B 13 and B beats A. Repeat with progressively less obvious scenarios.
Agree the root of the problem was SMU was too high in the previous ranking.
Anyways, it would be interesting to take playoff rankings from previous years and simulate brackets using the CFP rules, then take sagarin power rankings and see what the win probability is for each bracket position. #5 is probably a good place to be year after year.
boise stateās best win (by far) is UNLV (admittedly, twice), which Sagarin Predictor (lol) has ranked #50. And they got a bye.
BuT tHeY eArNeD iT.
Boise led Oregon in the fourth @ their place, give up kick return TD and last sec FG to lose by 3. Jeanty rushed for 192 on them.
Narrative is totally different if they win that game instead. What if the refs donāt help UGA vs GT. All sorts of what ifās and things you can say to manipulate whatever you want.
and Boise might have the easiest path of any team. they probably will revist the auto bye part of things
i mean, shouldnāt alabama apply to join the mountain west or big 12 then?
if alabama is crying that boiseās schedule is too easy, alabama should join boiseās conference and get in that way.
right? i mean iām sure lsu and ole miss and bama fans would be happy with that, free trip to the playoffs every year!
that spot is there for the cinderella every year, and they should always have it. alabama or michigan or any top 25 brand is never getting left out with 2 losses. donāt lose more than that, or join the mountain west or sun belt or stfu.
in the case of boise state Iām not saying they shouldnāt have gotten in, Iām saying them getting the bye is a joke
seems like alabama could lock up a yearly bye by moving out of the sec then doesnāt it?
I think theyāll revist the auto bye part
they definitely should. let the 4 conference champs in + the 1 lower team but obviously just rank the top 4.
iām just enjoying bama tears
jesus man I get that everyone has a hardon from seeing bama get left out, Iāve already said literally 3 billion times that bama didnāt deserve to get in
Generally people donāt just willingly give a billion dollars away for nothing but who knows it might happen.
At least Oregon was given the easiest path to the title as a reward for being the only undefeated and top-ranked team who also won their conference. You love to see it.
i didnāt think about going independent! should def do this since you canāt win in the SEC anymore without sabanā¦
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