Dreaming of a UT-Oregon playoff match-up

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I would love nothing more than for Michigan to lose to Illinois and then beat OSU to knock both of them out of the playoffs so we can get a Tennessee-Oregon first round playoff matchup. So sick of this bullcrap the national media is putting out about their resume being better than ours when we have two top 10 wins and the #1 SOS in the country. We would tear their defense to shreds and the game would be over at half.
 
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Sadly we are what we are. Our resume cannot improve by the 2 pedestrian teams 1 abysmal teams we finish with. Their resume if they win out gives them the chance to get wins against above average Washington and Utah teams and they inherit the winner of UCLA/USC in the Pac12 title game. Like it or not they will have a good resume too. Is it better than ours probably not but it will be very close. I wouldn't mind a match-up with serial SEC opponent bed wetter Bo Nix though.

Your scenario i see very unlikely. Illinois has little shot of beating Michigan. So Michigan or Ohio St is going to the playoff. We need some serious help to get in and I will be very uncomfortable watching the final playoffs rankings if the 2 spots after Georgia and Michigan/Ohio st winner are between Tennessee/Oregon/a 1 loss Big 12 champ/MichiganOhio st loser allbeit surely they should be longest shot with weakest schedules. Main thing is hope we win out or moot point and hope for Big 12 to cannibalize itself. 1 loss fpr TCU would go a long way.
 
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DeepSpringsVol said:
Sadly we are what we are. Our resume cannot improve by the 2 pedestrian teams 1 abysmal teams we finish with. Their resume if they win out gives them the chance to get wins against above average Washington and Utah teams and they inherit the winner of UCLA/USC in the Pac12 title game. Like it or not they will have a good resume too. Is it better than ours probably not but it will be very close. I wouldn't mind a match-up with serial SEC opponent bed wetter Bo Nix though.

Your scenario i see very unlikely. Illinois has little shot of beating Michigan. So Michigan or Ohio St is going to the playoff. We need some serious help to get in and I will be very uncomfortable watching the final playoffs rankings if the 2 spots after Georgia and Michigan/Ohio st winner are between Tennessee/Oregon/a 1 loss Big 12 champ/MichiganOhio st loser allbeit surely they should be longest shot with weakest schedules. Main thing is hope we win out or moot point and hope for Big 12 to cannibalize itself. 1 loss fpr TCU would go a long way.
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Color me crazy but I think the Big 12 champ will be 3-loss Texas or 3-loss Baylor. Think TCU will lose to both and lose again in the Big 12 Championship game when they play the winner of the Texas vs Baylor game.
 
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If Oregon wins out, I hope they are in the playoffs (with us). How often do we complain about teams playing cupcakes at the beginning of the season? If that 1st game against Georgia knocks them out of the playoffs, what team is going to schedule a top opponent in the 1st couple games of the season? JMO.
 
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We will end up getting Georgia in the first round if we get in. They will want to avoid another all-SEC natty.
 
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andywilson001 said:
We will end up getting Georgia in the first round if we get in. They will want to avoid another all-SEC natty.
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Meh. I'm not convinced that they care about that. The UGA-Bama game last season produced 3.5M more viewers than the OSU-Bama game did the previous year and the first UGA-Bama natty is the most viewed natty since the first one in 2015. If I'm them I'm more concerned about an all-SEC semi-final. If both teams win then they're clearly the best two teams and you should have a highly viewed natty.
 
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Regarding Oregon, no team in the history of the playoffs has ever lost by that wide a margin and made it into the playoffs. The closest was Notre Dame who lost to Clemson in the ACC title in 2020 by 24 points on a neutral field. 46 pt beat down imo disqualifies you from being in the discussion.

Regarding the “blowout” loss to Georgia from Tennessee; they lost by 14. Georgia lost last year to Bama in the sec title by 17. Hell Georgia lost by 23 pts to Auburn in 2017, Bama also lost to Auburn by 12 I believe in the same year; those two teams played for the national title with Bama winning by 3. Ohio state won the first playoff after dropping a game to Va Tech by 14.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
I don't. I think Ohio State is the best team in the country and they're being weirdly underrated this year.

I'd rather re-match Georgia than play Ohio State right now.

I would love for us to play Oregon or Michigan.
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You think OSU is better than UGA?
 
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DaddyChad said:
Regarding Oregon, no team in the history of the playoffs has ever lost by that wide a margin and made it into the playoffs. The closest was Notre Dame who lost to Clemson in the ACC title in 2020 by 24 points on a neutral field. 46 pt beat down imo disqualifies you from being in the discussion.

Regarding the “blowout” loss to Georgia from Tennessee; they lost by 14. Georgia lost last year to Bama in the sec title by 17. Hell Georgia lost by 23 pts to Auburn in 2017, Bama also lost to Auburn by 12 I believe in the same year; those two teams played for the national title with Bama winning by 3. Ohio state won the first playoff after dropping a game to Va Tech by 14.
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It is eerie how consistent the national media narrative has been on the UT loss - "the game wasn't nearly as close as the final score indicates". I can honestly not remember another team taking one loss and the media trying as hard to make it as if they were embarrassed. The lobbying for teams they would prefer in the CFP is sickening.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
I don't. I think Ohio State is the best team in the country and they're being weirdly underrated this year.

I'd rather re-match Georgia than play Ohio State right now.

I would love for us to play Oregon or Michigan.
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Did you even watch the Ohio St. - Northwestern game this past weekend? 1-7 Northwestern was giving St. a run for its money. They not that great.
 
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sami said:
It is eerie how consistent the national media narrative has been on the UT loss - "the game wasn't nearly as close as the final score indicates". I can honestly not remember another team taking one loss and the media trying as hard to make it as if they were embarrassed. The lobbying for teams they would prefer in the CFP is sickening.
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I think Tennessee also suffers from this being such a huge game and the build up about their offense and they did nothing. I think a beat down of Missouri will help some. I could see there being a regional bias though for television viewership and money.
 
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