If Ohio State beats Michigan

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volfan_28 said:
We were ranked as the #1 team in the country at one point in the season by the only group that matters, so the answer to your question is "yes". Since then, we've had one more loss than Ohio State. If they lose at home to a team that's worse than Georgia, they aren't going to be ranked ahead of us, whose loss came on the road to the #1 team in the country.
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The Michigan/Ohio State loser is currently holding UT's playoff spot as long as we finish 11-1, with convincing victories against South Carolina and Vandy. Starting out number one has it's priveledges. Undefeated TCU as a conference champ should not get snubbed. I will leave the rest alone until I have to worry about LSU somehow beating UGA. Which would be the only real monkey wrench I can see right now. USC is not ascending up to the top 4 as they don't have the big game anywhere on their schedule required to move up. We good if we hand out two more big L's in these last two weeks.
 
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ScornedPapaVol said:
The Michigan/Ohio State loser is currently holding UT's playoff spot as long as we finish 11-1, with convincing victories against South Carolina and Vandy. Starting out number one has it's priveledges. Undefeated TCU as a conference champ should not get snubbed. I will leave the rest alone until I have to worry about LSU somehow beating UGA. Which would be the only real monkey wrench I can see right now. USC is not ascending up to the top 4 as they don't have the big game anywhere on their schedule required to move up. We good if we hand out two more big L's in these last two weeks.
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This is where I'm at as well. I'm just entertaining other ideas because it's fun to talk about :)
 
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ScornedPapaVol said:
The Michigan/Ohio State loser is currently holding UT's playoff spot as long as we finish 11-1, with convincing victories against South Carolina and Vandy. Starting out number one has it's priveledges. Undefeated TCU as a conference champ should not get snubbed. I will leave the rest alone until I have to worry about LSU somehow beating UGA. Which would be the only real monkey wrench I can see right now. USC is not ascending up to the top 4 as they don't have the big game anywhere on their schedule required to move up. We good if we hand out two more big L's in these last two weeks.
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I think USC could potentially jump us w/ 3 straight Wins versus ranked opponents. That said, I think they catch an L this weekend against UCLA.
 
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volfan_28 said:
I hear that, but I don't think the committee is going to bump TCU down below us after winning the Big 12 Championship Game while we were sitting at home eating popcorn.
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Once the 4 teams are chosen they will try to find a way to get the most eyeballs on the matchups more than likely. People would want to see Vols vs Ohio State
 
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GetEmVols said:
Once the 4 teams are chosen they will try to find a way to get the most eyeballs on the matchups more than likely. People would want to see Vols vs Ohio State
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I understand that, but for the sake of public perception they have to have something else they can point to as justification for dropping them from 3 to 4... They can't just come out and say, "Yeah we just thought Tennessee vs Ohio State would be more attractive to TV viewers".

But to your point it may be that TCU struggles down the stretch and we blow everyone out.. In that case I could see them moving us up because they could just say something like "Tennessee has bounced back since the UGA game and looks stronger than before, whereas TCU has struggled in recent games".
 
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Daniel_Lincolns_Foot said:
The rivalry itself is just like any other rivalry. But I believe the lore behind it has embedded itself into American culture like few others have--I think it has become synonymous with rivalries. You ask a casual fan the biggest rivalry in college football? They'll say Michigan/OSU. Basketball? They'll say Duke/UNC. Baseball? Red Sox/Yankees. It's not that the games are always greater or the teams are always better, it's simply that it has reached a point where when people think "rivalry," they think of those I listed. I think of it like the fact that Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player to ever play. It's not true (the answer is Barry Bonds, btw) but it has become a thing of legend and a general consensus to the point where it is simply considered fact.

So when I say the SEC doesn't have anything that really comes close, I mean it in that sense. Of course Bama/Auburn or UT/Georgia or LSU/Florida are equally heated and a great rivalry. They just don't garner the same national intrigue of a Michigan/OSU.
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Fair enough. Thanks for the insight.
 
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Daniel_Lincolns_Foot said:
The rivalry itself is just like any other rivalry. But I believe the lore behind it has embedded itself into American culture like few others have--I think it has become synonymous with rivalries. You ask a casual fan the biggest rivalry in college football? They'll say Michigan/OSU. Basketball? They'll say Duke/UNC. Baseball? Red Sox/Yankees. It's not that the games are always greater or the teams are always better, it's simply that it has reached a point where when people think "rivalry," they think of those I listed. I think of it like the fact that Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player to ever play. It's not true (the answer is Barry Bonds, btw) but it has become a thing of legend and a general consensus to the point where it is simply considered fact.

So when I say the SEC doesn't have anything that really comes close, I mean it in that sense. Of course Bama/Auburn or UT/Georgia or LSU/Florida are equally heated and a great rivalry. They just don't garner the same national intrigue of a Michigan/OSU.
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Nobody I know would say that's the best rivalry in football.
 
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