Vols stay at #7 in the playoff poll

[barrylee]

Flippin Penn State plays one game which it lost and no one left on their schedule!

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

They have a bye this week lol

Look at their schedule, they've had byes for 2.5 months....

 

[mrmax86]

If we win, we hop to 4th, right? Right behind Texas.

 

[allvols4life]

What a bunch of ********

 

[driscokid]

Just win the damn game and prove you deserve to be in the playoff. Same as in 2022…

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

We are out if we lose Saturday night. They want bammer in there.

Idc if bama is in their bc I do think they are a top 12 team, but they should do 5 sec teams not 4 sec and 4 big 10. That penn state ranking is an absolute joke and it’s going to cost us a playoff spot

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

BYU should've lost and jumped us. That's got to be a joke. CFP committee has proven to be corrupt year after year honestly. They have no consistency in their criteria at all.

It’s the big 10 bureaucrats making sure the lame big 10 has just as many teams as the sec . Even tho we all know it’s crap.

 

[Boca Vol]

Does not matter! Beat UGA and win out.

 

[Orange931]

Idc if bama is in their bc I do think they are a top 12 team, but they should do 5 sec teams not 4 sec and 4 big 10. That penn state ranking is an absolute joke and it’s going to cost us a playoff spot

There should only be two Big 10 teams in the playoff. This might be hard to take for fans of other conferences, but the SEC should have 6 teams in this playoff.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

There should only be two Big 10 teams in the playoff. This might be hard to take for fans of other conferences, but the SEC should have 6 teams in this playoff.

I agree Oregon, and the winner of Ohio st/indiana .
That’s rightfully how it should be.

 

[tnburban]

To quote Al Davis

"Just win baby"

Crazy how that solves all this whinning and crying...

 

[Eastknox865]

Georgia is now a must win game. And it’s likely we’re going to have to do it with the 2string QB. Opportunity to achieve legendary status.

If you think Nico isn't playing your crazy

 

[volfan102455]

Let's be honest, win or lose Saturday we will either stay the same or drop.

The goal is 4 B1G teams.

 

[D-Vols]

It would look fantastic if the last 4 teams in were SEC after embarrassing the pig pen

 

[fossilfiction]

What??

What do you mean what? Conference champions get a bye. Everyone else cycles through who they play in the round one based on ranking. You know this right?

 

[DC_Vol]

If you think Nico isn't playing your crazy

Call me crazy then. I think it’s more likely he doesn’t play than he does.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

There's no Indiana game this weekend.

Next weekend, whatever. Don’t matter, they will get smoked.

 

[TrueOrange]

We are out if we lose Saturday night. They want bammer in there.

Bama's also currently beaten 4 teams currently ranked in the committee's rankings: #12 Georgia (7-2), #21 South Carolina (6-3), #22 LSU (6-3), #23 Missouri (7-2). That's alot of what keeps buoying them up so much at 2 losses.

Does anyone else in the current rankings even have 3 wins against currently ranked teams?

 

[deatojl]

One thing to take away from this, the committee very notably pointed out with Ole Miss that they hold/value good wins much more/higher than they do bad losses.

Ole Miss's 28-10 win over now #12 UGA easily more than balanced out their 20-17 loss to a currently 3-6 Kentucky team. (Not to mention 6-3 South Carolina now being ranked also further boosts their resume)

Once a team is no longer undefeated, their having wins over really good teams seem to be more of determining factor than bad losses / losses to bad teams.

Except with us, our win over Bama doesn’t seem to be carrying much weight at all. Ohio state and Tennessee are the only two 1 loss teams with a top 10 win. They are #2 while we are #7.

 

[KeyVol14]

Why doesn't Ole Miss get punished for losing to UK at home who are much worse than Arkansas.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Why doesn't Ole Miss get punished for losing to UK at home who are much worse than Arkansas.

Bc everyone is so impressed with ole miss win at Georgia , a knee jerk reaction to a win in November.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

I know we don’t want to admit it, but our SOS isn’t the greatest and our loss is bad. Shouldn’t have lost to Arkansas. We’d be #1 or #2 at this point and not having this conversation. Gotta just play the games in front of us.

Committee seems to value big wins over bad losses. Ole Miss lost to 3-6 KY and a falling lsu but comfortably back in

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

To all the Vol fans complaining, our team brought this upon themselves. Had we beaten Arky and then lost to UGA, this wouldn’t be a conversation. But we crapped the bed and now we are paying for it. Does it suck? Yep. But it is what it is.

We had some bad luck hit us this year. Nobody expected NC ST and OU to be this horrible. We have to win out. Like the saying always goes, just win and it will take care of itself.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Committee seems to value big wins over bad losses. Ole Miss lost to 3-6 KY and a falling lsu but comfortably back in

Our win over Bama is equal to OM win over UGA.

 

[Eastknox865]

Call me crazy then. I think it’s more likely he doesn’t play than he does.

Hype said he was with the team yesterday and he expects him to play