Vols stay at #7 in the playoff poll

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AntiochVol81 said:
Penn State and Indiana has played no one lol
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I read an article this morning where the head of the playoff committee said that they moved Indiana and BYU ahead of Tennessee because they had better wins last Saturday than Tennessee did. Indiana played Michigan and won by 5 points. Michigan has only won 5 games. BYU beat Utah, who has a 4-5 record. Admittedly, both Michigan and Utah have better records than Mississippi State, but the margin of victory was a lot closer than Tennessee's. It really feels like they are doing everything they can to keep Tennessee in a position to be eliminated if they lose another game.
 
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bigorangepoppa said:
I read an article this morning where the head of the playoff committee said that they moved Indiana and BYU ahead of Tennessee because they had better wins last Saturday than Tennessee did. Indiana played Michigan and won by 5 points. Michigan has only won 5 games. BYU beat Utah, who has a 4-5 record. Admittedly, both Michigan and Utah have better records than Mississippi State, but the margin of victory was a lot closer than Tennessee's. It really feels like they are doing everything they can to keep Tennessee in a position to be eliminated if they lose another game.
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translation: "we made this adjustment so if TN loses to Georgia, we can knock them out of the playoffs"
 
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Volbrando said:
translation: "we made this adjustment so if TN loses to Georgia, we can knock them out of the playoffs"
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Yes. As I said in a previous post they didn’t expect Georgia and Miami to lose this past weekend and planned on bumping us out of the playoffs if we lost to Georgia. They had to figure out another way to keep us from being ranked too high to justify bumping us out.
 
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bigorangepoppa said:
I read an article this morning where the head of the playoff committee said that they moved Indiana and BYU ahead of Tennessee because they had better wins last Saturday than Tennessee did. Indiana played Michigan and won by 5 points. Michigan has only won 5 games. BYU beat Utah, who has a 4-5 record. Admittedly, both Michigan and Utah have better records than Mississippi State, but the margin of victory was a lot closer than Tennessee's. It really feels like they are doing everything they can to keep Tennessee in a position to be eliminated if they lose another game.
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Here is the quote you are referring to, absolute garbage, SMU and Kansas State? Really? No mention of us beating Bama? Whatever. BYU and Indiana would be .500 teams in the SEC.



On BYU and Indiana moving up while Tennessee stayed put with blowout win:


"I can say no to the injury to Tennessee's quarterback. It had nothing to do with it. It really came down to the play last week of both Indiana and BYU, both winning big games on their schedule. Tennessee, the offense has struggled some the second half of the season, not being consistent early in the year, and we just felt as a committee that at this time Indiana has been playing very well, a close win against Michigan, but other than that, they've dominated everyone they've played. BYU, obviously undefeated, two wins against top-25 opponents, at SMU and against Kansas State. In looking at it, as we assessed all the teams, we just felt that Indiana and BYU earned the 5 and the 6 slot, and Tennessee stayed where they are."
 
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Jpcisco said:
Here is the quote you are referring to, absolute garbage, SMU and Kansas State? Really? No mention of us beating Bama? Whatever. BYU and Indiana would be .500 teams in the SEC.



On BYU and Indiana moving up while Tennessee stayed put with blowout win:


"I can say no to the injury to Tennessee's quarterback. It had nothing to do with it. It really came down to the play last week of both Indiana and BYU, both winning big games on their schedule. Tennessee, the offense has struggled some the second half of the season, not being consistent early in the year, and we just felt as a committee that at this time Indiana has been playing very well, a close win against Michigan, but other than that, they've dominated everyone they've played. BYU, obviously undefeated, two wins against top-25 opponents, at SMU and against Kansas State. In looking at it, as we assessed all the teams, we just felt that Indiana and BYU earned the 5 and the 6 slot, and Tennessee stayed where they are."
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I can’t argue with anything he said.
 
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VolCalls said:
I can’t argue with anything he said.
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What he said translates into he dislikes the SEC/Tennessee but he thinks Tennessee would beat both of them. That raises strong concerns about how anyone could believe that the best 12 teams will be playing for the National Championship. He should be removed from the Committee.
 
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bigorangepoppa said:
I read an article this morning where the head of the playoff committee said that they moved Indiana and BYU ahead of Tennessee because they had better wins last Saturday than Tennessee did. Indiana played Michigan and won by 5 points. Michigan has only won 5 games. BYU beat Utah, who has a 4-5 record. Admittedly, both Michigan and Utah have better records than Mississippi State, but the margin of victory was a lot closer than Tennessee's. It really feels like they are doing everything they can to keep Tennessee in a position to be eliminated if they lose another game.
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Of course Michigan is considered a good win by a committee whose chairman is the current AD at Michigan...
 
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VolCalls said:
I can’t argue with anything he said.
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Give Indiana and BYU our schedule and they're both looking at 6-6 records. We're going to have another TCU vs UGA outcome in a few rounds of the playoffs with the way they are doing these rankings.
 
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As I said in another thread, if we start winning the games we're supposed to win, nobody is on here b!tching about the committee every week. We have nobody to blame but ourselves for losing to Arkansas.
 
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VolCalls said:
As I said in another thread, if we start winning the games we're supposed to win, nobody is on here b!tching about the committee every week.
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I see what you're saying, but also, our margin of error shouldn't unnecessarily be smaller than others for no good or logical reason. That's why we're mad.
 
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They’re determined to prop up the big 2. The SEC is so dominant (especially this year) that in order to keep viewership they have to make sure it’s not 8 SEC teams and 4 automatic bids every year.
 
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Carp said:
They are both undefeated and in power 4 conferences. Not that crazy. If they win out, they will be ranked in the top 5 and get a BYE as well.
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They will get a bye ONLY IF they win their conference championship game. BYU has the better chance. IU will have to beat OSU and then beat Oregon to get a bye.
 
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08Vol said:
Guess we shouldn’t have lost to effing Arkansas then. LSU scored 31 on them. Ole Miss scored 63 on them. We only scored 14, same as what Auburn was able to score on them.
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I can guarantee you even if we had beaten Arkansas, IU and BYU would be in front of us in the polls because they were pushed up on purpose
 
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volfan102455 said:
I can guarantee you even if we had beaten Arkansas, IU and BYU would be in front of us in the polls because they were pushed up on purpose
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This might be the most absurd thing I’ve read on this board, and that’s saying something. You and many others are unable to think rationally because there’s absolutely nothing you can do about our ranking and the loss to Arkansas that led to it.

We were #3 when we lost that game. If we were 9-0 right now we’d be no worse than #2, and everyone knows it.
 
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rdk4121 said:
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.
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rdk4121 said:
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.
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If we had won like that against Utah we would have lost positions. GBO
 
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