Only 14 teams have a shot at a national title this year

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...so says ESPN reporter Heather Dinch, with the support of ESPN's stable of statisticians and analysts.

The only 14 teams that can win the College Football Playoff

And the 14 are, by conference:

SEC: Bama, Georgia, Auburn
ACC: Clemson, Miami
PAC: Washington, Stanford
B10: Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Michigan
B12: Oklahoma
Ind: Notre Dame

From this, a few observations:

(1) We need to get WVMule on suicide watch, stat!

(2) Way too much love for the B10, which has won a grand total of one (1) national title in well over a decade. A power house, they are not. And yet, over a third of the possible national champs reside there? Pshaw, Ms. Dinch. Pshaw.

(3) Notre Dame. Again. Really. They will never learn, these ESPN analysts.

(4) No USCw. That surprised me a bit. Not that they deserved inclusion, but that they are almost always included anyway (much like ND).

(5) And finally, of course, no Tennessee Volunteers. Ah well, fair enough. We'll catch you next year.

What do you think about this list?
 
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I think it’s odd we dropped out of the running completely. Guess our recruiting ranking from those couple of stud classes have finally mostly cycled out.
 
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It's a pretty list, but there will be some teams that are not on this list that could make a push to be in the College Playoffs. I think the national champion will probably come from one of these schools though.
 
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You lost me at "ESPN Reporter Heather Dinch"?!?!?

You made up that name.....right??
 
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The continued love for Notre Dame and the B10 amazes me. It's not since the 1960s that conference has really been dominant in college football.

And I checked.

Went back over the national titles from 1960 to present, to see what 'flavor' you'd have to give each decade based on who won. It comes out like this:

1960s - the decade of parity: (4 B10, 4 SEC, 2 PAC, 2 B12) -- the B10's last major claim to fame as a conference
1970s - the B12 decade (2 Nebraska, 2 Oklahoma, 1 Texas)
1980s - the Miami decade (3)
1990s - the Sunshine State decade (2 FSU, 1 Miami, 1 Florida)
.......... alternate: the Nebraska decade (3)
2000s - the SEC decade (5)
2010s - the Bama decade (4 so far)

The B10 doesn't figure prominently in any of that. Ohio State is usually lurking around. Once in a while Penn State or Michigan. But nothing like this, having 5 teams on the national title watch list, heh.

ESPN is waaaay too caught up in that conference's self-image (and ND gets dragged along with them, of course).




p.s. only counted AP and UPI champions, none of the NFF, Sagarin, Litkenhaus stuff.
 
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i dont see Miami, Mich St, Michigan, Wisconsin or Stanford winning the title. Notre Dame will lose a couple like they always do.
 
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They don't even include the defending champions in there so doesn't seem valid.
 
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she is not really making much of a statement. looks like she is pretty much taking the top 14 and rolling with that. no surprise team.
 
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It's Bama until it ain't (aight?), and then it's Georgia...for now.

ESPN. They stopped being all about sports, and relevant, a while back. I only turn on ESPN when the Vols are on one of their channels. Aside from that, I'd rather watch Shiwala and FlexSeal commercials before I'll listen to the self-righteous Uber Liberal talking heads out of Bristol.

Heather Dinch? Sounds like a strain of Irish weed to me.

Go Vols.
 
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Only reason the Big 10 has so many teams on this list is because no one knows which team will beat the others.
Also, all the teams in the Big 10 have the weakest out of conference schedules on that list.
Sit back and watch all of them beat each other and no one get in...HAHAHAAA
 
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IndianaVol said:
Only reason the Big 10 has so many teams on this list is because no one knows which team will beat the others.
Also, all the teams in the Big 10 have the weakest out of conference schedules on that list.
Sit back and watch all of them beat each other and no one get in...HAHAHAAA
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i hope urban liar never gets back in....
 
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These talking azzhats always think the B10/11 will win it. As well they always prop up Wisconsin. Every year
 
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IndianaVol said:
Only reason the Big 10 has so many teams on this list is because no one knows which team will beat the others.
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Absolutely, Indiana. Agreed.

So what the pollsters and ESPN's analysts are saying is that any of those five could win the B10 championship. And I wouldn't argue with that. It's possible.

But then they fail to take the important next step and ask, if each of those teams won the B10, could they then beat Bama, Oklahoma, and/or Clemson to win it all?

The answer for every team but Ohio State is, absolutely not.

No B10 homer is going to admit that, but it's true. And that's how we know Dinch and her analysts are too tied up with the B10 self-image.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
The continued love for Notre Dame and the B10 amazes me. It's not since the 1960s that conference has really been dominant in college football.

And I checked.

Went back over the national titles from 1960 to present, to see what 'flavor' you'd have to give each decade based on who won. It comes out like this:

1960s - the decade of parity: (4 B10, 4 SEC, 2 PAC, 2 B12) -- the B10's last major claim to fame as a conference
1970s - the B12 decade (2 Nebraska, 2 Oklahoma, 1 Texas) Also known as the Big 8 back in the day. Yeah, I'm getting old.
1980s - the Miami decade (3)
1990s - the Sunshine State decade (2 FSU, 1 Miami, 1 Florida)
.......... alternate: the Nebraska decade (3) Wait. Wasn't this UT's decade? The University released a DVD to commemorate our dominance.
2000s - the SEC decade (5)
2010s - the Bama decade (4 so far)
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