Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Checker_the_Shire said:
I agree except all these projections assume there’s nothing crazy that happens. But if A&M runs the table and goes to and wins in Atlanta, I have zero confidence the committee rewards us and punishes TX or UGA or another non-SEC team. That’s just my thoughts. But I hope I’m wrong. However, in order to be wrong, we gotta win Saturday. So let’s hope that’s then ultimate outcome, for now!
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I also have 0 faith in this committee, but Texas will get punished for losing to A&M. They WILL drop behind Georgia and SHOULD drop behind TN. Whether or not they punish Georgia for losing to A&M is a question. Probably depends on how it looks.

I don't think A&M beating Texas would be enough for them to get into the playoffs. I don't see the committee moving them ahead of the other 3-loss SEC teams, especially since South Carolina beat them, baaaad.

So an argument could be made that A&M beating Texas and making Texas look bad on the field, then Georgia shellacking them in the SEC championship game, would be enough for the committee to finally say, "It is clear that Georgia is the best team in the SEC and Tennessee is second best."

UGA would get the bye. Tennessee would be a host. Texas would have to travel.
 
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Mostly surprised Penn St stayed put. Thought ND should move ahead of them. They've been more dominant and now have 2 road/neutral ranked wins.

Could even make a case of UGA/UT above them, but wasn't expecting it as much given this week's opponents. But PUMMELING a ranked team on a neutral field is miles ahead of (should have lost) to Minnesota.

Outside of that, very chalk imo. Would still have Ole Miss ahead of Bama. Also surprised Clemson moved up 5 spots, but USCjr only 3(?). MULTIPLE H2Hs hurting the Gamecocks clearly. It seems silly, given they were 17, 18 last week...but we also don't know what the margin between them was last week, so I'll pass on it...same as (?) surrounding the gap between ND and PSU last week.

Imo that's the next step toward transparency. Like the AP and coaches poll, give us total voting numbers, not just spots. Total votes tells us the true story. Margins between ranking spots matter, as we see in the AP poll. Without that level of granularity, every spot's margin from the next appears the same, when it rarely is.
 
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The idea that we would have to play UGA at home again to get in is the dumbest thing on that whole playoff map right. Now. The thought the we would then have to play the best BIg10 team to go to the next round is the most biased slate for teams like Tejas and Ohio state one could imagine. It may not shake out that way, but if it does it is horse ****.
 
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DD4ME said:
The idea that we would have to play UGA at home again to get in is the dumbest thing on that whole playoff map right. Now. The thought the we would then have to play the best BIg10 team to go to the next round is the most biased slate for teams like Tejas and Ohio state one could imagine. It may not shake out that way, but if it does it is horse ****.
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It won’t shake out that way, just beat Vandy and I think we’ll like what we got.
 
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SoilVol said:
I also have 0 faith in this committee, but Texas will get punished for losing to A&M. They WILL drop behind Georgia and SHOULD drop behind TN. Whether or not they punish Georgia for losing to A&M is a question. Probably depends on how it looks.

I don't think A&M beating Texas would be enough for them to get into the playoffs. I don't see the committee moving them ahead of the other 3-loss SEC teams, especially since South Carolina beat them, baaaad.

So an argument could be made that A&M beating Texas and making Texas look bad on the field, then Georgia shellacking them in the SEC championship game, would be enough for the committee to finally say, "It is clear that Georgia is the best team in the SEC and Tennessee is second best."

UGA would get the bye. Tennessee would be a host. Texas would have to travel.
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Bingo!
 
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SoilVol said:
There's just no way the committee will move Texas A&M from #20 to #6 for beating Texas at home. A&M's only shot is to win out and get the bye.

And losing to A&M should be enough to drop Texas to 3rd in the SEC pecking order.
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Yea A&M losing in the SEC Championship game as a 4 lost team definitely keeps them out even with a win over Texas.
 
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SoilVol said:
I also have 0 faith in this committee, but Texas will get punished for losing to A&M. They WILL drop behind Georgia and SHOULD drop behind TN. Whether or not they punish Georgia for losing to A&M is a question. Probably depends on how it looks.

I don't think A&M beating Texas would be enough for them to get into the playoffs. I don't see the committee moving them ahead of the other 3-loss SEC teams, especially since South Carolina beat them, baaaad.

So an argument could be made that A&M beating Texas and making Texas look bad on the field, then Georgia shellacking them in the SEC championship game, would be enough for the committee to finally say, "It is clear that Georgia is the best team in the SEC and Tennessee is second best."

UGA would get the bye. Tennessee would be a host. Texas would have to travel.
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I think a&m gets texas this weekend. Crazy atmosphere and their qb is injuried (again).
 
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Ashevolle said:
I would hope so but I've seen them as the 8 and us as the 9 playing in more than one projection so far.
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These aren't final seedings, these are just this week's current seedings.

No more meaningful (hardly) than the us vs IU seeding a couple weeks ago. It means very little as to final matchups.

We have 2 full weekends left of CFB. The odds of them staying at 8 and us at 9 is insanely small (or them at 7 and us at 10, etc.). I have a hard time even imagining how it happens.

Much more likely we host (maybe even them), they get a bye, or one of us is isn't in it at all.
 
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csprig9 said:
Bama, ole miss would hammer Indiana
But they have three losses and don’t deserve to be in

Indiana is gonna get beat bad in the first round and make the committee look dumb and then they will change their criteria
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How do you know that? Ole Miss lost to freaking Kentucky and Bama got worked by Candy and Oklahoma's 5th string receivers.

I've actually watched Indiana a few times and they're not this garbage team every one is talking about. It's especially silly to me how certain everyone is that they're so bad when literally everyone in college football has been wildly inconsistent.

I mean we have looked AWFUL at times and so has EVERYONE in the SEC. Oregon only beat Idaho by 10 and needed a 4th quarter comeback to beat Wisconsin.

I mean what are we measuring it by? Pure SEC bias? Recruiting rankings? Yeah those sure have mattered this year (see Vandy)

Ok Indiana beat Nebraska 56-7

Nebraska lost a heartbreaker to Ohio State

Like...how do we explain that?
 
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JT3 said:
Yea A&M losing in the SEC Championship game as a 4 lost team definitely keeps them out even with a win over Texas.
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Honestly, I’d rather play anyone in the field but Georgia. We just don’t match up well. I’m going to hold my nose and hope they win the SEC so that we avoid them in the first round. I’d gladly play TX/ND/Pedo St.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
The real question is. . . how would Bama, Ole Miss, Mizzou and A&M do vs Indiana?
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They could beat them. Especially Mizzou and A&M.

At least Indiana didn't lose to sh*tbag teams like Candy and Kentucky 🤷‍♂️ they blew out everyone else.

Miami beat down Florida otherwise....? Miracle referee led comebacks against Cal and Virginia Tech?

SMU needed a dbl digit 4th qr comeback to bear 3-8 Nevada and couldn't score a touchdown on much maligned BYU.

HOW are they any different? Beating a couple more teams from the ACC with winning records and a Florida team that was awful to start the year?
 
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