Positive news from the playoff committee still

#27
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volbound1700 said:
The one concern is Alabama and LSU

If both start losing, our wins won't look as great.
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I get the feeling both will win out until LSU loses in Atlanta. LSU has found its groove with Kelly and Daniels, and Alabama has something to prove the way the media is killing them, and Young will close the season strong.
 
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VolForLife83 said:
Why was a 1 loss Bama ahead of TCU, but a 1 loss Tennessee not? That should have been asked.
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Yes that should have been asked. If TCU had been above Bama the first week it would make sense. A follow-up question would be if Bama had won would TCU be 4 or still behind Bama? Or would Bama have jumped to 4 above a team that beat them?

I think if Bama had won it would have been:

UGA
OSU
Michigan
Tennessee
Bama
TCU
 
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LittleVol said:
We don't need all that...
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“Well, as you know, conference championships, head-to-head competition are all part of it,” said Corrigan.

So IF a one loss Oregon, USC, or UCLA win the Pac-12, they could jump us. They would have beaten each other, which gives them 2-3 more Top 25 wins, plus the conf title.
 
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volbound1700 said:
The one concern is Alabama and LSU

If both start losing, our wins won't look as great.
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I don't see Bama losing any more unless the team falls completely apart. We will see if LSU is real or just rose to the occasion with Bama at home starting this week. Both Arkansas and Texas A&M are on the road and while neither are having the season they had hoped for, they do have the players if they put it all together.
 
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VOLfrombama said:
“Well, as you know, conference championships, head-to-head competition are all part of it,” said Corrigan.

So IF a one loss Oregon, USC, or UCLA win the Pac-12, they could jump us. They would have beaten each other, which gives them 2-3 more Top 25 wins, plus the conf title.
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The losers of those games will drop - maybe not out of the top 25 but they will not end up in the top 10. If Bama and LSU continue to win, they will remain in the top 10. The teams on the bottom will be very fluid with teams entering and dropping out over the next 4 weeks. There were 4 who dropped out and 4 who entered last week.

Washington loses to Oregon, - they will drop out of the top 25. Washington wins they rise and Oregon remains but falls down in the rankings after losing to the #25 team.
Texas loses to TCU - they may drop out of the top 25 with loss number 4. They win both them and TCU remain in the top 25 with TCU dropping after losing to the number 18 team.

That is how it is going to play out over the next 4 weeks.

So to be honest there is no way to predict who will be in the top 25 when the season ends
 
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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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If LSU beats Ga., very good chance LSU leapfrogs us according to a lot of articles I've been reading. Also Oregon will probably leap frog us if they
win an extra game (their league championship game)

our best bet is for Oregon to lose and UGA to win out.
 
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#34
Hook 'em Horns. Buckeyes boat race the Wolverines. Ducks drown in Pacific Ocean. Vols annihilate Misery, Cocks and commode doors. We're in. Then play Puppies again at a neutral site.
 
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CFB wants the Vols back, as I said before in another thread. Our Fan$ bring it to local economies. Our Fan$ also bring unmatched passion. When the Vol$ do well, the fan$ are as much of a must-watch phenomenon as our team. I'm not just lip flapping, it's a fact. CFB wants us back.
 
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DynaLo said:
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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If we are dominant enough to play subs for a whole quarter or so that should not hurt us.
 
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#39
It feels like 98 with a lot of action left to determine who goes on to the playoffs.

We need to handle our business and realize the importance of controlling our own destiny.

I expect we will get another shot at Georgia.
 
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The committees assessment is only of the current resume, as it stands today. We‘re not guaranteed anything just because we win out our regular schedule, assuming it goes the way we expect, we still need some help. TCU could drop a game but if they win the Big 12, they will be in serious consideration with us, and the committee is on record saying conf championships carry a lot of weight. A one loss Pac 12 champ will get serious consideration too. I think, emphasis on THINK, our twelve game resume compared to a 1 loss Big 12 or Pac 12 thirteen champ still gets a spot in the playoffs, but it‘s no slam dunk. But that’s just my stupid opinion.
 
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Agree that Boo will wordsmith his way into whatever the committee decides. TCU has to lose. Oregon will get in over us if both teams win out. For that matter, so will USC and UCLA. They will be a one loss conference champ. I’m not sure how they will play the OSU/MI loser. Think we have a fair shot there since both teams would be a second conference team. I could be wrong, but we know that conference politics factors in more than the committee will ever admit. They decide on the teams, then find a justification for it.
 
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volfan102455 said:
You always appear to be looking for that one thing to put Tennessee down. Why?
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Clayton is a known troll.

We pretty much have him nailed down as a closet Georgia fan. But even if that's not right, he's definitely a fan of one of our rivals.
 
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Orange defense said:
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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That’s today but Oregon’s toughest games are in front of them, outside of UGA. They’ll lose somewhere but if they don’t then their wins might match up closely with ours in the end.
 
#44
#44
Nothing to do but let it play out. With 3 weeks and Champ.week games, the results will never match what we expect. They never do.
TN just need to take care of business and not lose a game they should win. It'll get shaken out different in 4 weeks.
 
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Orange defense said:
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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TCU losing would make it hard for them to get back into the top 4. If they lose, they likely fall to 8-9, behind Clemson and the 1 loss Pac 12 teams.
 
#49
#49
I wish Vol fans were as worried about Mizzou and SC as they are the playoff committee. I remember getting to the Georgia Dome in 2001 and all these Vol fans waking around with yellow roses and thinking, “I got a bad feeling about this.”
 
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Allvols1996 said:
I wish Vol fans were as worried about Mizzou and SC as they are the playoff committee. I remember getting to the Georgia Dome in 2001 and all these Vol fans waking around with yellow roses and thinking, “I got a bad feeling about this.”
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EXACTLY
 
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