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#51
#51
OrangeEtBlanc said:
I think Saban was pretty correct in that it was right to not drop SMU out for losing the ACCCG, but that they shouldn’t have been ranked so high in the first place. Now, I am giddy that the Tide didn’t make it, but the overall argument is sound. Indiana & SMU should both have not been ranked so high, and 2 out of Alabama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina should have been in. The committee screwed themselves with the initial high ranking of weak teams with poor schedules but good records.
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There is some truth here. The fact that Indiana was ranked so high is one of the main reasons OSU get credit for "top 10" win and hosts over us.
 
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Nerwen Aldarion said:
I honestly don’t have a problem with the teams that made it to the playoffs given the guidelines we have

My issue has always been how they chose to seed certain teams and the inconsistency of why they chose certain teams for certain spots.

It makes no sense to have Penn State over Ohio State. Ohio beat Penn, they beat more ranked teams and have the same win/loss record.

But Penn State gets the higher seed? Why? Because they went to the Big 10 championship and lost?

It’s just stupid.
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They knew all along that Penn would lose in CG game and had to stay ahead of OSU to keep UT from getting home game, All politics all the time. Who did PSU beat all year. No one
 
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Dadof2Vols said:
They knew all along that Penn would lose in CG game and had to stay ahead of OSU to keep UT from getting home game, All politics all the time. Who did PSU beat all year. No one
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Yeah it’s fairly obvious that the committee had certain teams with certain spots in mind and just picked a chose whatever criteria they could use to justify it week to week.

If SMU had won or lost in a spectacularly bad fashion I have no doubt they’d have but Bama in.
 
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I was scanning an article on the interweb this morning concerning the top 50 players in the CFP. After going through it once I went back again looking for the Freshman WR Williams from Alabama and suddenly it dawned on me why he wasn't on the list, Bama isn't in the CFP. 😂
 
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www.espn.com

Bama AD tells fans to 'fight back,' help fund NIL

After narrowly missing the expanded College Football Playoff, Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne is urging Tide fans to "fight back" and help fund the school's NIL fund.
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Although we have been competitive from an NIL standpoint, our competition has us in their sights and are actively trying to surge ahead with NIL," Byrne said in the letter. "You have heard examples of other teams using promises of million-dollar paydays to lure away our players or convince them not to come to Alabama. It is time for the Bama Nation to fight back."

Byrne encouraged Alabama fans to give to "Yea Alabama," the athletic department's NIL entity, and noted the school was focused "on providing our fans with a legitimate product rather than booster inducements."

"At Alabama, we've not measured ourselves against our competition," Byrne said. "We are the standard, and that measurement is against the mirror and against a rich and proud history, but it's impossible to ignore what is taking place in college athletics. Hungry fan bases are acting decisively to give their respective programs competitive advantages. We must respond. We are Alabama."
 
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WillisWG said:
www.espn.com

Bama AD tells fans to 'fight back,' help fund NIL

After narrowly missing the expanded College Football Playoff, Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne is urging Tide fans to "fight back" and help fund the school's NIL fund.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

Although we have been competitive from an NIL standpoint, our competition has us in their sights and are actively trying to surge ahead with NIL," Byrne said in the letter. "You have heard examples of other teams using promises of million-dollar paydays to lure away our players or convince them not to come to Alabama. It is time for the Bama Nation to fight back."

Byrne encouraged Alabama fans to give to "Yea Alabama," the athletic department's NIL entity, and noted the school was focused "on providing our fans with a legitimate product rather than booster inducements."

"At Alabama, we've not measured ourselves against our competition," Byrne said. "We are the standard, and that measurement is against the mirror and against a rich and proud history, but it's impossible to ignore what is taking place in college athletics. Hungry fan bases are acting decisively to give their respective programs competitive advantages. We must respond. We are Alabama."
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Is Byrne suggesting they take out 2nd mortgages on their trailers?
 
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Bama AD crying over teams offering their players money. They had no problem offering Drake May $4 million two years ago thou.

Even Nickie says on NFL draft pick “we tried to talk him into going in the portal”
 
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wmcovol said:
Bama AD crying over teams offering their players money. They had no problem offering Drake May $4 million two years ago thou.

Even Nickie says on NFL draft pick “we tried to talk him into going in the portal”
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Alabama is synonymous with buying players. Also synonymous with lying.

Saban had Bama all-in on NIL and the portal the entire time he was making speeches to convince other teams’ fans to hate and not to support NIL.
 
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LouderVol said:
really the only thing different is everyone else can play by their rules now and they don't have an unfair advantage anymore.

that plus losing Saban and they don't know what to do.
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Yea, it's going to be a tough decade for our friends to the south. Saban couldn't even follow Saban at bama and he knew it. Lets all have a moment silence for them after we beat them in Tuscaloosa next year....after we plant the UT flag of course.
 
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The issue with CFB is too many teams and the fact that the teams from the B1G and SEC aren't required to play in the regular season.

Think NFL, you know a 12-5 team or 13-4 team is good because they played good teams. In college, there are too many frauds with 11-1, 12-0, 10-2 type records that don't play anyone.

I disagree that going to 9-10 conference games will solve it. The issue is you don't have SEC teams playing B1G teams, B1G teams playing ACC teams, etc. Not enough cross conference games.

IMO, SEC schedule should have 1 B1G team, 1 Big12/ACC, and 2 mid-majors or go to 9 conference games and reduce it to 1 mid-major.

Move mid-major leagues to FCS level. I am sorry, Boise State should NOT have gotten an autobid. If you can't average 50k fans a game, you need to move to FCS level. I a fan of taking MAC, Conf USA, Sunbelt, MWC, etc. and moving them to FCS level.
 
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rjd970 said:
There is some truth here. The fact that Indiana was ranked so high is one of the main reasons OSU get credit for "top 10" win and hosts over us.
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Ohio State also beat Penn State, who ended the regular season ranked as a top 4 team.
 
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#70
They are already saying this on tidefans. Still think ole miss would have been better than the gumps but whatever
 
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#71
dieseldaddy said:
They are already saying this on tidefans. Still think ole miss would have been better than the gumps but whatever
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It might have been better matchup wise, but good teams don’t lose to 4-win teams whose only other wins are against an FCS team, a MAC team, and a 1-win Sun Belt team.
 
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TrueOrange said:
It might have been better matchup wise, but good teams don’t lose to 4-win teams whose only other wins are against an FCS team, a MAC team, and a 1-win Sun Belt team.
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I agree but I think ole miss - penn state would be a great game
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
I do agree that strength of schedule should matter. I do think that P4 vs P4 should be encouraged. I don't enjoy watching us play cupcakes. If we are gonna do that, we should rotate between UT Martin, UTC, TN Tech, ETSU, and Austin Peay and keep the money instate. But if you're going to be punished because you play a tough schedule, then we will start seeing people stop scheduling those games.

However. Losing to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt will also kill those chances. So...maybe don't do that, Bama.
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The primary problem isn't OOC games, it's the disparity in conferences. Indiana and Penn State feasted on the awful Big 10, losing the only tough game they had all season in OSU. Miami and SMU did the same in the joke that the ACC is, and ditto for the Big 12.

There are any gimmes in the SEC, especially on the road. Maybe Miss. St. this year and Kentucky once they quit, but the Big 10 is at least half patsies, then a few mediocre teams, and then Oregon and OSU. Scheduling tougher OOC games will only make it that much harder for SEC teams to get in as long as idiocy like "strength of record" is a factor.
 
#75
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rjd970 said:
I don't understand this either, their losses were in conference, which they can't control. What is a weaker OOC schedule supposed to fix?
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Truth. Even the AD's don't see the primary problem of conference disparity. Kiffin gets it, but no one takes him seriously.
 
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