Prediction of 4 Playoff teams

[DuckInAPen]

Because they lost their best player for the season. Same thing happened to Cincinnati for the 2000 NCAA Tournament. They had been the dominant #1 team all year but national POY candidate Kenyon Martin goes down in the conference tournament and they get a #2 seed in the dance.

Moving from a 1 to a 2 seed in a 64 team tournament is hardly equivalent to being excluded altogether from a four-team playoff.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Moving from a 1 to a 2 seed in a 64 team tournament is hardly equivalent to being excluded altogether from a four-team playoff.

Yeah that isn't even remotely in the same conversation.

 

[VolCalls]

Moving from a 1 to a 2 seed in a 64 team tournament is hardly equivalent to being excluded altogether from a four-team playoff.

My point is key injuries always matter, as they should. You want the best of the best playing for all the marbles, and the four teams in the playoff are arguably above everyone else. Only Georgia & Ohio State should have a beef because of when they lost.

 

[Matt2496]

I think they were hoping for an easy FSU win.

 

[Pennheel]

12 teams will fix all this controversy. Yep.

Probably not,but I'll take it over a 4 team playoff every year. 8 would have been perfect, but the top 4 had to have their byes so it is what it is.I think they should use the computers to figure it out next year like the BCS,but they wont.

I'm just glad this is the only sport that can decide the 4 "best" teams like this(until next year).

 

[ftsandersvol]

This isn't going to make FSU want to stay in the ACC.

It is also going to kill recruiting in the ACC. What player will want to go to a conference where their top team does everything right, i.e., win all their regular season games and their conference championship game, and not get rewarded for playing their hearts out and even overcoming the adversity of losing one of their best players for the year?

 

[volbound1700]

It is also going to kill recruiting in the ACC. What player will want to go to a conference where their top team does everything right, i.e., win all their regular season games and their conference championship game, and not get rewarded for playing their hearts out and even overcoming the adversity of losing one of their best players for the year?

Possibly but most recruits are more interesting in playing time and draft status (some with NIL now as well) than they are winning the National Title.

 

[JCHateSteve]

It is also going to kill recruiting in the ACC. What player will want to go to a conference where their top team does everything right, i.e., win all their regular season games and their conference championship game, and not get rewarded for playing their hearts out and even overcoming the adversity of losing one of their best players for the year?

The playoff expansion should help with that. But, you're not wrong. It makes the ACC look 2nd class.

 

[ftsandersvol]

Possibly but most recruits are more interesting in playing time and draft status (some with NIL now as well) than they are winning the National Title.

Then I wouldn't want to draft those players anyway. True competitors are what builds championship teams. If they aren't competitors in college, they will not have learned what it takes to win in the NFL.

 

[EasternVol]

Who did Georgia beat? Outside of Georgia who did Bama beat?

That wasn’t the question though.

 

[AthensVol2007]

My point is key injuries always matter, as they should. You want the best of the best playing for all the marbles, and the four teams in the playoff are arguably above everyone else. Only Georgia & Ohio State should have a beef because of when they lost.

What about the Bama that showed up last week vs Auburn? Are they above everyone else? The nation and committee were prisoners of the moment and looked at what happened yesterday only (or at minimum with significantly more weight) compared to the entirety of the season. If they didn’t, then explain how the Bama team that escaped Arkansas, Auburn and USF can be labeled as unequivocally better than FSU. Bama was a miracle away from losing to a team who put on an offensive performance (passing specifically) on par with FSU yesterday and FSU plays as good if not better defense than AU.

 

[VolCalls]

What about the Bama that showed up last week vs Auburn? Are they above everyone else? The nation and committee were prisoners of the moment and looked at what happened yesterday only (or at minimum with significantly more weight) compared to the entirety of the season. If they didn’t, then explain how the Bama team that escaped Arkansas, Auburn and USF can be labeled as unequivocally better than FSU. Bama was a miracle away from losing to a team who put on an offensive performance (passing specifically) on par with FSU yesterday and FSU plays as good if not better defense than AU.

FSU would’ve lost convincingly to Auburn the way both teams played last week. Hell they had to rally to beat a crappy Florida team. Bama beat Auburn. You can call it luck all you want, but Milroe and Bond also made a great play which takes a lot more than luck - there’s plenty of skill involved.

 

[BreatheUT]

Forget the top 4 but is Louisville really the #15 team and Oklahoma State #19? There are some other questionable one. The Vols lost to 3 top 10 teams.

 

[AthensVol2007]

FSU would’ve lost convincingly to Auburn the way both teams played last week. Hell they had to rally to beat a crappy Florida team. Bama beat Auburn. You can call it luck all you want, but Milroe and Bond also made a great play which takes a lot more than luck - there’s plenty of skill involved.

But they struggled to beat them is the point. A team that is unequivocally a top 4 team shouldn’t be struggling to beat multiple .500 and sub .500 teams the way Bama did. You’re discounting FSU’s defense which is significantly better than Auburn’s. So what says FSU doesn’t hold Bama down to 27 or less points as well?

 

[AthensVol2007]

FSU would’ve lost convincingly to Auburn the way both teams played last week. Hell they had to rally to beat a crappy Florida team. Bama beat Auburn. You can call it luck all you want, but Milroe and Bond also made a great play which takes a lot more than luck - there’s plenty of skill involved.

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