Four BEST Teams

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Majors said:
Mediocrity and lost the biggest game. Not sure earned is the appropriate term. Media manipulation would be accurate based on schedule and results.
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What is mediocre? You keep saying the same thing and it’s just an opinion. They beat every team on their schedule, a schedule that was tougher than the mighty SEC champs or Big 10 champs schedules.
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
What is mediocre? You keep saying the same thing and it’s just an opinion. They beat every team on their schedule, a schedule that was tougher than the mighty SEC champs or Big 10 champs schedules.
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What is their best win? “SEC champs” didn’t lose, so not all things are equal.
 
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Vanhalo said:
UGA
Michigan
TCU
OS

I think these are the matchups they want.

Tennessee doesn’t belong in the CFP now.
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And if TCU is out I'd give a slight edge to Alabama. They have zero embarrassing losses and if there is such a thing 2 good losses. I don't think they want a 2 loss team though.
 
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BreatheUT said:
And if TCU is out I'd give a slight edge to Alabama. They have zero embarrassing losses and if there is such a thing 2 good losses. I don't think they want a 2 loss team though.
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Except lost to LSU, who TN and UGA made made rap out to the tune of 20+
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
The #19 team is barely bowl eligible?
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They had to win the 3 of the last 4 games (2 against top 10 teams) to make a bowl. Tell me with 5 weeks left in the season and 5 wins you thought USC would be 8-4......

They were 5-3 with games against US, Clemson, Florida, and Vandy......
 
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Majors said:
Except lost to LSU, who TN and UGA made made rap out to the tune of 20+
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You think that makes a difference? Playing LSU in Death Valley in a night game? The LSU that was just in the SEC Championship game whether they deserved it or not?
 
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I admire the amount of optimism this board has had since the South Carolina loss, but there is a 0% chance we make the Final 4 today. Like, I doubt our name even came up in conversation during the deliberations this week.
 
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BreatheUT said:
You think that makes a difference? Playing LSU in Death Valley in a night game? The LSU that was just in the SEC Championship game whether they deserved it or not?
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I don’t think anything outside of raising your hand that these are the teams we want make sense. Believe what happens on the field gets you in the conversation after that it comes done to humans being humans.
 
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Golfprovol said:
They had to win the 3 of the last 4 games (2 against top 10 teams) to make a bowl. Tell me with 5 weeks left in the season and 5 wins you thought USC would be 8-4......

They were 5-3 with games against US, Clemson, Florida, and Vandy......
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It doesn’t matter what I thought their record would be before they faced Tennessee. They blew us out and beat Clemson. They are now ranked in the top 20, and they earned that right. They peaked at the end of the season. Some teams do that. The ranking at the end of the season is much more important than the ranking halfway through the season.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I admire the amount of optimism this board has had since the South Carolina loss, but there is a 0% chance we make the Final 4 today. Like, I doubt our name even came up in conversation during the deliberations this week.
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I'm not sure if its par for the course to focus on fantasies on the board or realistic things? Normal I guess to have 25 threads about it. Oh well.
 
#62
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Majors said:
I don’t think anything outside of raising your hand that these are the teams we want make sense. Believe what happens on the field gets you in the conversation after that it comes done to humans being humans.
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Well if that's the case then the South Carolina game solidified that.
 
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BreatheUT said:
Well if that's the case then the South Carolina game solidified that.
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Yep. We didn’t handle our business, but others didn’t either. Just comes down to zig and zag on losses to validate positioning of whose loss was worse. Head to head should alway be the first judgment as that’s true for the year. Not opinion or weekly computer data.
 
#64
#64
As, I believe, a wiser someone stated previously, 2023 we will run more. And be good at it. Why? Joe is a long ball threat. Even if he is a hit or miss one, it forces defenses to not stack the box. They have be wary of his down field shots to a fast bevy of WRs. Which means more open lanes for the RBs. Our RBs aren't bruisers, but they're a dangerous first chain moving bunch. And Javelin Joe will be a major reason for this.

Cue the Milton haters.
 
#65
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Majors said:
We dropped 4 spots after losing to UGA, #1 ranked team in polls. Even in a championship game loss there should be criteria of 2-3 spot drop. If you don’t drop them there’s no reason for the playoff rankings. A loss is a loss
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I see people say this a lot. When Tennessee dropped though we dropped from the top undefeated team to become the top 1 loss team, we dropped 4 spots because there were still 4 undefeated teams at the time. The difference here is TCU had a 2 loss cushion, they may fall behind OSU, but they still have one less loss than us or bama
 
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GA
Michigan
TCU
tOSU
I really want to see GA/tOSU and MI/TCU in 1st round. Those would be great games.

TN, Bama, Clemson, Utah, USC, KState, Tulane, Penn State round off my 12 for the future playoff.
Can’t wait!
 
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Majors said:
What is their best win? “SEC champs” didn’t lose, so not all things are equal.
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I said HAD they lost they would’ve still be in, as would have Michigan. The same standard should apply to TCU when they actually would’ve achieved their results against better competition. Their best win is against a top 10 Kansas State team earlier this year. The same Kansas State team that beat them by a FG in OT.
 
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Golfprovol said:
They had to win the 3 of the last 4 games (2 against top 10 teams) to make a bowl. Tell me with 5 weeks left in the season and 5 wins you thought USC would be 8-4......

They were 5-3 with games against US, Clemson, Florida, and Vandy......
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So they’re barely bowl eligible because they weren’t bowl eligible after only 8 games? Interesting take.
 
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CincinnatiVols said:
I see people say this a lot. When Tennessee dropped though we dropped from the top undefeated team to become the top 1 loss team, we dropped 4 spots because there were still 4 undefeated teams at the time. The difference here is TCU had a 2 loss cushion, they may fall behind OSU, but they still have one less loss than us or bama
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Don’t bring nuance into this. The standard is to drop 4 spots no matter what!
 
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CincinnatiVols said:
I see people say this a lot. When Tennessee dropped though we dropped from the top undefeated team to become the top 1 loss team, we dropped 4 spots because there were still 4 undefeated teams at the time. The difference here is TCU had a 2 loss cushion, they may fall behind OSU, but they still have one less loss than us or bama
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Weaker conference, no championship and lost to an inferior team based on rankings in overtime, meaning couldn’t get it done with extra time. Only one win by a team currently ranked in the Top 25 in Texas at 21. Not all losses are them same and not all schedules are the same.
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
I said HAD they lost they would’ve still be in, as would have Michigan. The same standard should apply to TCU when they actually would’ve achieved their results against better competition. Their best win is against a top 10 Kansas State team earlier this year. The same Kansas State team that beat them by a FG in OT.
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So extra time needed to lose to a team they beat earlier. Better than average team much like Ole Miss but not one of the best teams.

Michigan won, no need for hypotheticals
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
Don’t bring nuance into this. The standard is to drop 4 spots no matter what!
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Didn’t say the standard, but did say drop. All games regular season and championship count. Said 2-3, had they been 1-2 or then they would have a better argument. Except they were #3, which would bump them between 5-6
 
#75
#75
Georgia, Michigan, TCU, and Ohio State. TCU will get killed by any of the other 3. The powers to be have been squawking about TCU getting left out for 2 or 3 years now. I am fine with them being in this year if the butt-whipping they get will shut the squawking up. TCU is a good team but they are not one of the best 4 teams in the nation, they just aren't. JMHO
 
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