Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#82,777
VolNRaleighNC said:
5th seed is where you wanna be at. Easiest path outside being #1/2
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It's also the trickiest place to land.

You almost need to be in the top 3...lose your conference championship very closely (which isn't ideal, because the bye is worth more) then slide in just right.

Outside of that, I see someone like a PSU sneaking into it if OSU gets waxed and other things go their way.

For us to magically make it, we'd need tex to wax uga, oregon wax osu (not even sure if that'll be enough), psu and ND both lose this weekend. Crazier things have happened...
 
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Weezer said:
It baffles me that 3-loss Bama still has an outside shot of making it.
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Seems the precedent set is that the Vols won't drop that far if they lose to Vandy. Because a 3 touchdown loss to an Oklahoma team the Vols beat on the road is a worse loss than losing to Vandy who Bama also lost to. Not to mention Tennessee beat Bama. So even if we lost to Vandy we will be the #1 3-loss SEC team and get first dibs at that playoff spot should a 3-loss team get in. (Mostly tongue-in-cheek)

I fully expect the committee will drop us to 16 if we lost.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Texas beats A&M, then loses to GA, do we jump them or do they just switch spots?
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Eye test in that case.

UGA needs to pummel or TEX needs to pummel. The latter is obviously a lot better. 3 loss UGA off an ugly loss would fall behind us imo. 2 loss TEX that has only lost to 1 team all year, I think they could very well stay in front.
 
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JT3 said:
I think they just switch spots. Which is why I want A&M to beat Texas.
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Why A&M beat Texas?

I don't see a likely benefit. More likely 3 SEC teams end up ahead of us and we get knocked down a spot...less likely to host.
 
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Toledo just came back to tie it one a 95yd TD drives with 2mins left and have forced a punt. They were down 14-0 with like 5mins left.
 
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#82,789
No Way Sankey lets them put TN vs GA first round to cannibalize the SEC.. it's about money and ratings and no one wants to see that first round. They have to split us up.
 
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Devo182 said:
Why A&M beat Texas?

I don't see a likely benefit. More likely 3 SEC teams end up ahead of us and we get knocked down a spot...less likely to host.
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3-loss A&M beating Texas will not jump from #20, over Bama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina (who they lost to) over Tennessee.

It could very easily drop Texas below Tennessee.
 
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SoilVol said:
If you're keeping tabs at home, Georgia dropped 9 (NINE) spots after a 2td loss at then-16 Ole Miss.

Tennessee dropped 4 spots after a 2td loss at then-12 Georgia.

Bama dropped 6 spots after losing by 3tds at unranked, .500 Oklahoma.

So somehow Alabama's loss was worse than Tennessee's but better than Georgia's.
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It's all relative.

UGA dropped right behind 2 other 2-loss SEC teams...2 teams that beat them (Bama and om)...one of them badly and just then.

Bama dropped right into the group of 3 loss sec teams, ahead of USCjr who they beat and OM, who they began 2 spots ahead of. Yes I think they should've gone in between those 2 teams, with OM a spot ahead.

But I cannot say there's a team with 3-4 better wins than Bama. That will continue to help them it seems.

They're getting the worst of it with human rankings honestly. The computers love Alabama, not just FPI which we've all seen, but the BCS comps have them perfectly tied with us at 11th (overall BCS with human polls would have us 10th and Bama still 13th).
 
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knoxvol52 said:
The chairman just said Indiana played well, that's code for get over it their going to be in CFP playoffs.
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Fantastic. Them, Pedo State, G5 auto bid or Big 12 auto bid are the easiest wins. I hope we host any of the 4 but would also feel comfortable playing them on the road.

ACC winner is next easiest but I don't really want to play any of them. If we do, then it needs to be in the first round in Neyland. They don't play defense but they can all put up points and our offense can be shaky at times, especially on the road.
 
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SoilVol said:
3-loss A&M beating Texas will not jump from #20, over Bama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina (who they lost to) over Tennessee.

It could very easily drop Texas below Tennessee.
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Yes in a perfect world TAMU beats Texas BADLY and then loses to UGA.

It's a riskier road for us though. More openings for mutiple teams to stay ahead of us. Who knows...I just want to see us in an inaugral home CFP game in Neyland 🥳🙏😭
 
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Weezer said:
It baffles me that 3-loss Bama still has an outside shot of making it.
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It was said before the season that a 3 loss SEC team has finished in the top 12 every year of the playoffs.


How so many folks believed we couldn't even take 2 losses and still get in is still baffling to me. Maybe moving forward people will have a more realistic expectation (nahhh people will still be doom and gloom and ready to fahr everybuddy 😅🤣)
 
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