Because some people have been randomly asking, here are the only 2 scenarios that could result in UT being in the SECCG going into this Saturday.

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#76
TrueOrange said:
Probably not, given again, those scenarios would have required things like #3 Texas losing a second game to Kentucky and potentially a 3rd game to A&M, #7 Alabama losing a 3rd game to OU or Auburn, #9 Ole Miss losing (which did happen), which would mean Tennessee in turn would have moved up to around the #6 or #7 spot, possibly the #8 spot.

Again, based on the last 10 years of what we have seen, the CFP committee has recurringly shown a trend/tendency to drop the conference championship game loser, on average, 1-2 spots (they’ve shown they pretty much don’t punish the teams that have to play in the conference championship games as roughly as they do a normal rest-of-the-season loss, almost in realization of “hey, these teams had to play an extra, 13th game that most of the other teams did not”…in context, they’ve treated it as a 10-2 team that had to play an additional 13th game the others didn’t, not a team that lost 3 regular season games.)

Sitting at #6, #7, or #8 going into the conference championship game week, even at 10-3 Tennessee would easily be able to weather that average 1-2 spot post-conference-championship-game-loser drop that the committee’s shown over the over the last decade and still make the playoffs in the scenario.
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Lasy year and undefeated UGA lost the SEC CG and was left out.....
 
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#79
TrueOrange said:
No we wouldn’t.

It’d be a 4-team tie between A&M, Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee.

Since the 4 teams didn’t all play each other and all 4 had the same record against their common opponents (Florida and Mississippi State, which all four teams beat), it would go to A&M would win the 4-team tiebreaker based on conference opponents’ conference win percentage (A&M’s would be 0.4688, UGA’s would be .4531, Texas’s .3906, and Tennessee’s 0.3750).

With A&M separated into the conference’s top spot, it would then become a 3-team tie between Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee…while they didn’t all play each other (Tennessee didn’t play Texas), Georgia beat both and would win the tiebreaker.

(Tennessee would actually then end up in 4th place behind Texas in the end due to the record against common opponents tiebreaker…both played Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Arkansas, and Oklahoma: Texas went 6-1 vs these teams, Tennessee went 5-2 vs these teams.)
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We don't want to make Atlanta anyway. If the SEC runner Up has 3 L's, they are out of the playoffs. As of now we should get in without taking that risk!!!
 
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#89
Lane Kiffin gets his wish: Ole Miss will not play in Atlanta. Ole Miss accepted a bid to the Egg Bowl today and plenty of tickets are available.
 
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#92
StuckInBamaVol said:
I just could care less about lesser sports. But I see by your name you enjoy golf, exciting.
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You "couldn't care less" saying you could care less is actually saying that there is less caring you could do.

Plenty exciting to me since playing golf all over the country is my career. Been damn good for the bank account for the last 22 years
 
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