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Tennessee is also ranked No. 5 in the latest College Football Playoff top 25 poll.

Georgia (1), Ohio State (2), Michigan (3) and TCU (4) are the top four teams in the College Football Playoff rankings.

Oregon is No. 6. The Ducks’ lone loss this season came in Week 1 versus Georgia. The Bulldogs defeated Oregon, 49-3, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

Boo Corrigan, College Football Playoff selection committee chair, met with media Tuesday following the announcement of the second College Football Playoff top 25 poll.

Corrigan discussed Tennessee and Oregon’s common opponent loss against Georgia. The Vols led Georgia 3-0 in the first quarter and the contest was played in rain during the second half.

Below are Corrigan’s analysis comparing Tennessee’s contest at Georgia to the Bulldogs playing Oregon on a neutral field.

The Tennessee and Oregon comparison, both playing Georgia, you did mention both games that you thought Georgia had control of that game and it was kind of one-sided, but do you factor in Tennessee actually had a lead in that game? It was early, 3-0 in the first quarter; do you look at that? Also, do you factor in the elements with the rain in that game?
“Yeah, we’re going to look at everything associated with it. You’ve got to take the total 60 minutes when you’re watching the game and making sure that you’re doing an evaluation from that standpoint. Again, really good — Tennessee is a really good team with big wins at the top. Hendon Hooker has had a great year to date. Their defense is giving up about 22 points a game and playing well. Again, as we look at it, it’s not this quarter here’s what the score was; everything changed. At this point we’re looking at the totality of the game and making sure that we’re making the right decisions as a group.”

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What specifically separates Tennessee from Oregon at 5 and 6?
“I think the wins. As a committee, as we talk about it, the wins over Alabama, the win over LSU and Kentucky, in looking at that, with Oregon you’ve got eight consecutive wins, a win over UCLA, but at this point as we’re looking at it, I think that was the primary reason. As we were looking at two really, really good football teams, we felt that Tennessee was deserving of the 5 and Oregon of the 6.”
How much does the committee look at margin of defeat to common opponents, with the obvious one in this case being your No. 5 and No. 6 teams, Tennessee and Oregon, both having lost to the same team?
“As a committee I think we’re looking at the game itself, and is it more one-sided. From our standpoint, it’s not this one was X number of points and this one was X number of points from that standpoint. You look at the overall game, the flow of the game, and making sure that we’re doing the evaluation on the overall big picture as opposed to a late score or an early score, that type of thing.”
 
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What conversely went into the decision to keep Tennessee up there pretty high, still the highest of the one-loss teams?
“Looking at the Alabama win, looking at the LSU win, looking at the Kentucky win, we do value wins. TCU with their record, six wins over .500 teams, teams above .500, what they’ve done, what Max Duggan has done at TCU, again, I don’t think it was as much what Tennessee didn’t do as much as what TCU did do, and Georgia played really, really well, as everyone saw, and what they did with their defense versus the Tennessee offense was incredibly impressive.”
 
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Boo Corrigan, College Football Playoff selection committee chair, met with media Tuesday following the announcement of the second College Football Playoff top 25 poll.

So, Boo Corrigan is giving us a heads up on what is to come. It just sounds like to me again, if we win out, we are in. Does that sound like it’s to you?
 
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We need TCU and Oregon to lose ASAP. We also need UCLA, USC, and Maybe LSU to have another loss.

Fortunately they all have some pretty tough games left to play. I like their chances of all dropping at least 1 game.

Any of those teams win out and we get left out IMO.
 
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VOLfrombama said:
We need TCU and Oregon to lose ASAP. We also need UCLA, USC, and Maybe LSU to have another loss.

Fortunately they all have some pretty tough games left to play. I like their chances of all dropping at least 1 game.

Any of those teams win out and we get left out IMO.
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LSU will lose to UGA. I believe Texas will beat TCU. I think Oregon will lose one of their three games. Michigan/Ohio state will play each other. I think we will be fine.
 
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Orange defense said:
LSU will lose to UGA. I believe Texas will beat TCU. I think Oregon will lose one of their three games. Michigan/Ohio state will play each other. I think we will be fine.
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I also think Texas beats TCU. I also think Oregon loses to one of their next 3 opponents (Wash, Utah, Ore St). Heupfully UCLA beats USC and then they will be out of it and I dont think UCLA can jump up that high.

The only one that I think stays above us with a loss is Ohio State. That one concerns me because they are always media darlings, despite their easy schedule.
 
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Orange defense said:
Boo Corrigan, College Football Playoff selection committee chair, met with media Tuesday following the announcement of the second College Football Playoff top 25 poll.

So, Boo Corrigan is giving us a heads up on what is to come. It just sounds like to me again, if we win out, we are in. Does that sound like it’s to you?[/QUOTE

You forgot this question and answer:
Would the committee say that both those games were one-sided? (Tennessee at Georgia, Oregon versus Georgia)
“Yes, I would say so.”
So if Oregon wins out and wins the pack 12 championship they will have a championship as well as a loss to Georgia which was viewed as the same as the Tennessee lost to Georgia so there's a big chance Oregon could leapfrog Tennessee who didn't even win their own division.
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We need some other teams to drop a game and we need style points, not just scoring points, on both sides of the ball to show Georgia was a one off bad game.

Simply put, we need our next 3 games to be dominant repeats or better of what we did to the UK kittens.
 
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Orange defense said:
Boo Corrigan, College Football Playoff selection committee chair, met with media Tuesday following the announcement of the second College Football Playoff top 25 poll.

So, Boo Corrigan is giving us a heads up on what is to come. It just sounds like to me again, if we win out, we are in. Does that sound like it’s to you?
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you forgot the other question
Would the committee say that both those games were one-sided? (Tennessee at Georgia, Oregon versus Georgia)
“Yes, I would say so.”
 
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VOLfrombama said:
We need TCU and Oregon to lose ASAP. We also need UCLA, USC, and Maybe LSU to have another loss.

Fortunately they all have some pretty tough games left to play. I like their chances of all dropping at least 1 game.

Any of those teams win out and we get left out IMO.
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LSU has two losses. Even if LSU beats UGA, I’d be shocked if LSU got in over multiple 1 loss teams (especially one such UT team that throttled them).
 
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Boo will push whatever narrative they want week-to-week. Let's say for tickles and giggles that UT beats on Mizzou 45-17 or something like that and Oregon ramrods Washington 52-21.

Then Oregon jumps UT in the polls this week and the narrative will be, "well Oregon has to get credit for beating a 7-2 Top 25 rated Washington team." They'll say whatever they want. Tennessee needs UGA to win out, OSU/Michigan game to be a blowout (preferably OSU blowing out Michigan), TCU to lose, and EITHER the Pac 12 winner having 2 losses OR the ACC winner to have 2 losses. At that point it wouldn't matter if Tennessee wins big or not over these last 3 games as long as they win.

But in order to ensure they make it I honestly feel like the above things need to happen. You could argue that if TCU loses that Tennessee would be in no matter what but it leaves the door open for a close loser in the Michigan/OSU game sneaking in ahead of UT because of the SEC fatigue and then a 1 loss Pac 12 or 1 loss ACC champion could get the other playoff spot. Still lots of football to be played but I said for 2 days before the CFB rankings came out that we needed a lot more help than people wanted to believe and it didn't surprise me to see TCU jump us at all. And the LSU narrative is being propped up in case they win out and beat UGA in the SECCG. LSU could lose this weekend against Arkansas and Ole Miss beat Bama and if they run the table they could beat UGA in the SECCG and they'd certainly jump into the playoff over UT. A lot of moving parts.
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
LSU has two losses. Even if LSU beats UGA, I’d be shocked if LSU got in over multiple 1 loss teams (especially one such UT team that throttled them).
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That's not what the media wants everyone to believe. I can't tell you how many times I've read the ol "I'm not sure how you keep the SEC champ out" narrative. Obviously they have to win out and Beat UGA.
 
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VOLfrombama said:
We need TCU and Oregon to lose ASAP. We also need UCLA, USC, and Maybe LSU to have another loss.

Fortunately they all have some pretty tough games left to play. I like their chances of all dropping at least 1 game.

Any of those teams win out and we get left out IMO.
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Much as we might not like it, we also want Alabama to win out, and for LSU to win out and only lose in Atlanta. Even Kentucky winning out would be good, as Georgia could take that loss and still be #1 or 2 after winning in Atlanta, and our KY win would look even better. All this and our SOS would be through the roof.
 
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Clayton said:
you forgot the other question
Would the committee say that both those games were one-sided? (Tennessee at Georgia, Oregon versus Georgia)
“Yes, I would say so.”
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Yeah, but one was a whole lot more one sided-er than the other. Plus, I think Oregon's strength of schedule will be lower than ours--even after their next few tougher games. We have wins over two current top ten teams, one on the road. I think the commitee will keep that in mind, but we gotta take care of business.
 
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sami said:
Much as we might not like it, we also want Alabama to win out, and for LSU to win out and only lose in Atlanta. Even Kentucky winning out would be good, as Georgia could take that loss and still be #1 or 2 after winning in Atlanta, and our KY win would look even better. All this and our SOS would be through the roof.
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Ole Miss def needs another loss. I think Georgia needs to win out to keep our hopes alive. If they lose, then they will be the one loss SEC team to get in over us IMO.
 
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VOLfrombama said:
Ole Miss def needs another loss. I think Georgia needs to win out to keep our hopes alive. If they lose, then they will be the one loss SEC team to get in over us IMO.
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I have a feeling that Bama will take care of that this week.

Regarding Georgia, if they win out after a KY loss and win in Atlanta, they'll still take a second 1-loss SEC team unless TCU is unbeaten and Oregon, USC, or UCLA win out. It would be the OSU/MU winner, UGa, and two out of that group, which includes us, and our resume is the best.

That's how I see it, anyway.
 
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VOLfrombama said:
We need TCU and Oregon to lose ASAP. We also need UCLA, USC, and Maybe LSU to have another loss.

Fortunately they all have some pretty tough games left to play. I like their chances of all dropping at least 1 game.

Any of those teams win out and we get left out IMO.
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We don't need all that...
 
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