IMHO about the cfb playoffs

[Vol4life2]

If there was better coaching, more teams would work their way up in the rankings.

Let me tell you about a team called the Tennessee Volunteers. They aren't loaded with 5* talent and they were one disastrous game from going to the playoffs. What they have is a great coach, players who bought into what that coach is doing, and helluva lot of heart.

It's called good coaching. Bama was trash for several years until..... good coaching. Clemson was nothing until..... good coaching.

Keep your eyes on that Tennessee team, I'm predicting a bright future.

Oh I am watching them every chance I get. One of the few things we agree on. Football, basketball, baseball primarily. Love‘em til I die.

Go Vols!

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

Oh I am watching them every chance I get. One of the few things we agree on. Football, basketball, baseball primarily. Love‘em til I die.

Go Vols!

And I get the idea of a bigger playoff ($$$$$) but I'm uncertain the players will. I'm uncertain someone with NFL first round potential wants to risk injury beating the crap out of Utah or Kansas State, particularly linemen or RBs who see a bunch of contact.

They're expanding the playoffs and if I live long enough we can revisit this in a few years to see if anything like parity comes from it. I'm betting we see some head scratching coaching decisions and lots of second stringers in the second halves.

 

[lexkyvol]

No way vols go above bama with hooker out. Hate it but its true.

sounds like a VOLS fan with no faith in Milton or the work the staff has doen and will continue to do with him

 

[lexkyvol]

THIS....

 

[Vanhalo]

Next fall you will being saying Overthrow Joe just like the rest of us. Notice where the poster is from.

 

[Behr]

I argue it the other way, this year is perfect for a playoff. So many teams have surprising losses that probably don't happen the same way if played again. Conferences are not in talent parity so overall records aren't great predictors.

Better to expand the field and end the discussion.

I don't get a vote, but I Agee. I think 6 would be the perfect number at the most 8. 12 just seems like 2 many. That's why it'll probably be 12.

 

[lexkyvol]

The loss by TN to South Carolina was awful.

The REASON they'll be ranked is because both TN and Clemson didn't take care of routine business, not because South Carolina had some kind of magical improvement.

We were favored by 21, Clemson by 14....... because South Carolina shouldn't be close to either of us.

They annihilated TN. Embarrassed us, NOT because they're good but because we played horribly. They squeaked by Clemson at home because Dabo is too proud to bench DJ, his very marginal QB, who had an awful game, NOT because South Carolina is good.

Saying, "well they're ranked now" so they're not awful because two ranked teams choked against them will never fly. South Carolina isn't good. They deserve to be 6-6.

they def improved and it shows. no need in hating on their improvement

 

[Ref4Life]

Hooker and 63.
We could have lost to SC in a close game and avoided losing Hooker…
We still had a shot but not now.
Alabama deserves it over us.
They just barely lost in both of their games…both were away games and ranked teams.

South Carolina is ranked #20 right now

 

[Eastknox865]

VFL Jason Swain agrees that Alabama should be ranked ahead of the VOLS. You can't Shat the bed and complain

 

[Stephen Gray]

they def improved and it shows. no need in hating on their improvement

It’s both I think. They have improved but we also blew it when it was a game we should win. Even that would not feel quite as bad if we hadn’t lost in historically bad fashion. Teams lose to teams they probably should beat all of the time. Setting new records in the wrong direction though happens a lot less.

I do think the freshness makes it harder to give South Carolina credit than to criticize Tennessee. Also our guys can only handle their own business, what SC is or is not doing in terms of improvement is out of the teams control.

That means internally I think it makes sense to focus on the bad our team did and work on fixing those things. As fans though, we can afford to look at both sides if we want. It seems fair to do so to me, but I understand why others might not want to do so.

 

[VolCalls]

We will not pass Bama because of this:

• Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.

 

[Stephen Gray]

We will not pass Bama because of this:

• Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.

Also the strength of schedule and possibly strength of record metric they use could matter. Not all models do SOS/SRS the same. I wonder if the committee agrees about to look at resume or if it’s individual and not formal, so two people could both be factoring a team’s SOS and SOR but come to different conclusions.

 

[luthervol]

Here is a list of Week 13 games that had playoff relevance:
GA - GT
Mich - Oh St
TCU - Iowa St
LSU - TX A&M
USC - Notre Dame
Bama - Auburn

Here is a list of Week 13 games that had no relevance BUT WOULD HAVE with a 12 team playoff:
Fl St - FL
UCLA - Cali
Clemson - SC
TN - Vandy
PN St - Mich St
Oregon - Oregon St.
Kansas St - Kansas
Wash - Wash St
Utah - Colorado
Ole Miss - Miss St
NC - NC St
Tulane - Cincy
Baylor - TX

 

[NeverWe'llSever]

All TN had to do was beat SC PERIOD.

And for USC to lose. Committee f***s us over at 11-1 on the final day if USC wins out. Guarantee it.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

We will not pass Bama because of this:

• Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.

This is just subjective and wrong and even includes coaches???? How about just going by what happens on the field. It opens up pandorah’s box and lets committee latitude to discredit wins or excuse loses to teams during the season due to injury or apparent coaching changes, this will lead to absurdity. Putting that in just gives the committee more ability to further manipulate true results on the field. We play the game to win, a win is win and a loss is a loss.