12/1 AP POLL - UT #6

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Orange defense said:
Where are you getting an 8 seed at? The coaches poll and the ap poll has Bama coming to Knoxville right now. That’s all we have at this point. #11 Bama at #6 Tennessee for now. It’ll probably change, but for now, that’s what I see.
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Well you’re Stevie wonder because the rankings are NOT the seeding.

Matchups would be:

Penn State vs Arizona State
Notre Dame vs Bama
Georgia vs Indiana
Tennessee vs Ohio State
 
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JPL said:
Hopefully it stays that way. Bama has the 2 worst losses of anyone in the current Top 20, no business being in there. This is no longer Saban’s bama squad so let’s drop the bias
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Saban still wields a huge influence in his position with ESPN. He’s essentially a biased influencer who carries a lot of weight in the pro-Bama regime.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Correct there is no down side for Georgia. They win, they are 2 seed. They lose they hold serve and stay the 7 seed. The SEC title has zero risk to Georgia’s standing.

You’re not gonna see Georgia get penalized for losing in Atlanta when the team that would benefit from their drop would be a team that lost to Georgia. The head to head will matter.
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I don't buy it. Head to head doesn't matter if you have more losses than the other team.

Georgia wouldn't even be in the title game if Alabama AND Ole Miss hadn't choked it away. They backed in. They should get no benefits from that or needing 8 overtimes to beat an unranked team at home.
 
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Golfprovol said:
No, rankings and the bracket are different. Plus Oregon, Penn State, Texas, Georgia all play and 2 of them have to lose. We really want Oregon and Texas to win. That moves us up to #6 playing likely Arizona State l
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We will not be #6 and we won’t play Arizona State. We will be #7 at best and #9 at worst. Likely hosting Ohio State or Indiana.
 
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UT97Vol said:
LMAO.

Are you sure you know the rules? Not being one of the top four conference champs means they would go into the playoff with an autobid based on where they are ranked. Which is BEHIND ALABAMA heading into this weekend.
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UT97Vol said:
LMAO.

Are you sure you know the rules? Not being one of the top four conference champs means they would go into the playoff with an autobid based on where they are ranked. Which is BEHIND ALABAMA heading into this weekend.

Seriously love when someone calls out someone else for not understanding when they themselves don’t understand. LMAO.
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You are right. I thought there was a team out of the top 12 that had an auto bid as well. I was wrong. I forgot about SMU in the ACC.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
This is a great sign they put OSU behind us! We still want Georgia to lose the SECCG. We shouldn't need it if they rank us 6 but it cartainly will help it Georgia gets a 3rd loss.

I'm feeling MUCH better about hosting a game now.
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I would think that we just need Penn St to lose to Oregon to secure our home game. They would have 2 losses and no win better than our win over Bama. They're the 1 team ahead of us that has no argument to stay ahead of us with a loss
 
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89 VOLS grad said:
You are right. I thought there was a team out of the top 12 that had an auto bid as well. I was wrong. I forgot about SMU in the ACC.
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No worries brother. This system is a bit convoluted.

After seeing this play out this year I’m ready for them to just go ahead move this to 16 teams and give home games to the top 8 for the first round and be done with the all the nonsense.
 
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901 Orange said:
I would think that we just need Penn St to lose to Oregon to secure our home game. They would have 2 losses and no win better than our win over Bama. They're the 1 team ahead of us that has no argument to stay ahead of us with a loss
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I agree if these voters make any sense. Indiana plummeted when OSU beat them. If Oregon beats PSU it should not matter that it happened in a championship game or the regular season. A loss is a loss.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Correct there is no down side for Georgia. They win, they are 2 seed. They lose they hold serve and stay the 7 seed. The SEC title has zero risk to Georgia’s standing.

You’re not gonna see Georgia get penalized for losing in Atlanta when the team that would benefit from their drop would be a team that lost to Georgia. The head to head will matter.
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Head to head should only matter when u have the same record. The none risk for playing the SECCG is that you don't miss the playoffs with a loss. That doesn't mean u can't fall in the rankings with a loss. Teams have fallen in the rankings after a conference loss for generations.
 
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901 Orange said:
Head to head should only matter when u have the same record. The none risk for playing the SECCG is that you don't miss the playoffs with a loss. That doesn't mean u can't fall in the rankings with a loss. Teams have fallen in the rankings after a conference loss for generations.
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This. Georgia will still make the CFP if they lose but they should NOT get to host with a 3rd loss
 
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901 Orange said:
Head to head should only matter when u have the same record. The none risk for playing the SECCG is that you don't miss the playoffs with a loss. That doesn't mean u can't fall in the rankings with a loss. Teams have fallen in the rankings after a conference loss for generations.
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And Georgia won’t with a loss. The record doesn’t matter when it comes to committee seeding teams. If Georgia loses, you’d be picking between Georgia - Tennessee for 7th and 8th seed which are at large seeds. There is one common factor between both of them and it’s a head to head result.

Them having 1 loss more than us while we have played 1 less game than them isn’t a factor. The head to head will be the factor.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
And Georgia won’t with a loss. The record doesn’t matter when it comes to committee seeding teams. If Georgia loses, you’d be picking between Georgia - Tennessee for 7th and 8th seed which are at large seeds. There is one common factor between both of them and it’s a head to head result.

Them having 1 loss more than us while we have played 1 less game than them isn’t a factor. The head to head will be the factor.
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If this is the logic then Penn St losing the B10 will allow them to still host (only having 2 losses and one being in the title game) If that is true then there's literally zero chance Tennessee will get to host a game no matter what happens the rest of the way and I simple don't believe that is true.

It also means the championship games are completely meaningless to play.
 
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