GA's injury laden roster was set up for them to have an excuseable home loss against us. and we should have. Maybe the diff was the two calls that kept the game in GA's corner. We folded after those calls instead of digging in. And our offense went home during half time. We've only broke 30 once in conference play. So we either have personnel issues, or coaching issues.
Gentle reminder that Arkansas is 5-5 and plays La Tech this weekend and finishes with a winnable game against Missouri.
Unless those games go the way they should. Both B1G teams likely playing for their titleare already top 12 and will stay. no effect. ACC and B12 won't be too much an impact. The teams they have in the current 12 are low on the pole, so if SMU and BYU win their conference for instance, Miami and Boise will drop out by losing those games. Just be a swap. TAM can muddle things a bit if they beat TX in their game and get in the SEC game. SEC is the only conference that may can bump us out. But, if we win out like we should we will be looking to gain a spot or two maybe and stay in the 12, cause teams ahead of us still have head to head coming.
My favorite game to play is giving more legitimacy to what we think would happen in a hypothetical scenario than to what actually happens in real life. An alternate version of this game consists of assuming lopsided negative results leading up to a game, then largely discounting the actual results based on how we think a team looked while winning said game.
So, we gave them a sound beating in the first quarter by going on a 10-0 run? Did Alabama give Georgia a sound beating because they went on a 30-7 run in the first two quarters or did Georgia give Alabama a sound beating by going on a 27-11 run the last two quarters, even though they lost the game? I'm sorry, these partial game results are difficult for me to keep up with.
I kind of agree, but kind of don’t. It’s the committees job to put the best 12 teams in. Not the teams with the prettiest record, but the 12 teams that make for the best, most competitive CFP. We use that argument when we talk about other teams not playing the schedule we do. It’s gonna go both ways. We have halves of games where we look like we can’t spell football, let alone play it. We went 3 games with 0 points in first half I believe? Looked lost against Georgia second half. If we get left out it’s bc we don’t pass the eye test some games and you can’t blame them. If we struggle at Vandy we may really be hurting.
Technically, I do agree with that. But, there could be some anomolies if said loser was already low in the 12. But, if everyone in the conference finishes their season properly, it may be SMU and Clemson in the title game and with SMU ranking the highest of the 2 at 13, the winner will bump someone, and Miami and Boise sit at 11/12. Currently Miami is highest ranking ACC team at 11.
GA rebounded and played well compared to the UM game. They will push them back up as high as they can explain away. We're getting a lot of love for our D, but the performance of our O in conference will be a drag. There is still some things that can happen the lat two weeks. If we stay insode 14/15, I think we may still have a shot slipping in. Hopefully, that being a road loss at GA and a strong 1st half will carry some consideration. However, I don't agree with the pecking order on the Bama, GA, UM, UT AP rankings right now. We should be in front of UM.
I do agree with you on the recency bias aspect and how it will be viewed by the committee. Who really knows, though. The way this committee has ranked teams from one week to the next has had no consistency nor set criteria. It seems they basically just place teams where they want, then create their criteria on a case by case basis to justify their rankings.
When looking at the teams currently in the top 25, it is very difficult to come up with any criteria to place anyone beyond A&M(15th) ahead of us this week and teams like A&M, SMU and BYU take a bit of a stretch to justify. I think the absolute worst case scenario would have us at 13 tomorrow which is really not much different than anything up to 10 since the seeding would still have us as the first team out.
