winning the remaining games

#51
#51
The good news is that Tennessee’s current strength of record is 10th. That is a very solid number. Their current strength of schedule is 28th, which is also very respectable.
 
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#53
10-2 will get us in. We aren't getting blown out by anybody with this defense. It will be a close win/loss @ Athens.
 
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Nico ee-ah-MAH-LAY-ah-va said:
College football is silly. Too many people said “oh the expanded playoff makes it where one loss doesn’t kill your playoff odds.”

Popularity contests are total bullcrap. SEC and top part of the B1G are where all the talent is. Look at the talent composites. Look at the viewer numbers.

A 10-2 SEC team faced waaaaaay more talent than your average Big 12 or ACC team.

Who has Clemson played? One good team that thrashed them. Who has Iowa State played? An okay Iowa team and that’s it. Who has BYU played? A bunch of sleep walkers.
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The Big Ten is whatever, at least they’ve got a few good teams, but the Big XII really pisses me off. Iowa State is mid as all get out, would be a B-tier team in the Big Ten and might be 6-6 in the SEC, but because they play in that pitiful plains conference they get to remain undefeated as they scrape by teams that SEC bottom dwellers blow out. That conference does not deserve an auto bid, let alone two teams getting in.
 
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The biggest problem I see if we go 10-2 with a loss to UGA is only having UTEP and Vandy to beat to get back in the top 12. If we beat UK and Miss st. Like we should I’d say we’ll be ranked around #5 so, “if” we lose to UGA we’d still most likely stay top 10 unless we get boat raced out of Athens. I still think we can beat UGA but not with 0 points in the first half!!
 
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The bottom line is that there is parity like never before. We should have figured out by now that every game is winnable and every game is loseable, if that's a word. I believe if the Vols finish 10-2, regardless of who the second loss is to, they'll probably get in.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
The Big Ten is whatever, at least they’ve got a few good teams, but the Big XII really pisses me off. Iowa State is mid as all get out, would be a B-tier team in the Big Ten and might be 6-6 in the SEC, but because they play in that pitiful plains conference they get to remain undefeated as they scrape by teams that SEC bottom dwellers blow out. That conference does not deserve an auto bid, let alone two teams getting in.
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Agreed. Big 12 is bush league. I think they have a fun conference because the talent is more evenly distributed compared to the ACC for example, but it is not a top end league. They were very fortunate the Pac 12 imploded otherwise they would have been the league on the chopping block.

Good basketball conference though.
 
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HighRockvol said:
Acc and big 12 is a one bid league who ever wins the conference gets there shot… no way either of those leagues deserve two bids they are cupcake leagues…
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I hope so but I cannot help think if Clempson wins the ACC then a 1 loss Miami and Clempson will make it in, taking away a spot we could have occupied. The way Miami is playing right now it is a very real possibility.
 
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mudhen said:
With the exception of Georgia, the Vols are predicted to win out. If we LOST to the dogs, (I am starting to detest Kirby Smart with the same intensity of Steve Spurrier), but held it close, is there a way to get into the playoffs? Oregon and Miami have cupcake schedules so they most likely will stay undefeated, but I see potential pitfalls with everyone else. Can a 2 loss Tennessee sneak in the back door? Mind you, I would not like to play LSU this year.
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Good question. None of us has been through a 12-team playoff before. Don’t know what to expect…except that they’ll probably screw it up and some teams will get shafted. If we beat GA, it’s a moot point, right?
 
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#61
Unless we just get absolutely throttled in Athens.. IMO.. a 10-2 record will definitely have us sitting in one of the final four spots. Even possibly hosting a game. Lots of weird games being played this year but I think that only helps us in long run. Multiple teams have weird losses just like our ARK game.
 
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It's been said in this thread previously, but why not just win out?

All the "what will happen if we lose again" does not make much sense if a loss is to uga because it is quite likely that uga would be in the playoff and so we might have to play them again which could happen even if we beat them.

Don't be a loser in your life. Just win.
 
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mudhen said:
With the exception of Georgia, the Vols are predicted to win out. If we LOST to the dogs, (I am starting to detest Kirby Smart with the same intensity of Steve Spurrier), but held it close, is there a way to get into the playoffs? Oregon and Miami have cupcake schedules so they most likely will stay undefeated, but I see potential pitfalls with everyone else. Can a 2 loss Tennessee sneak in the back door? Mind you, I would not like to play LSU this year.
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The SEC and Big Ten are going to make up 50% of the playoff atleast. I believe there will be multiple 2 loss teams from either conference in the Playoff
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Unfortunately our strength of schedule gets weaker by the week. NCST and OU are terrible. So if we lose to UGA, then win out, we will have one decent win. But what happens in Bama drops another game or two and drops out of the top 25 all together? Then we would have zero good wins.

I think we have to beat UGA and win out to make the playoffs.
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Screenshot_20241021_164933_Google.jpgThe Texas A&M versus LSU game is this Saturday October 26th. The loser's drops down. We play UGA on Nov 16th. Winner moves up. The SEC is right there for us to take. There will be some movement obviously. But our path is clear. Beat Georgia.
 
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this can get a little confusing but the standings will drastically change and teams will get beat.

Below are the remaining schedule for each team with a .500 or better record in the conference. I did not include games against the lower part of the SEC.

Having a 2 loss team in the SECCG is very possible. One of Texas A&M and LSU will at least have 1 loss. This does not consider upsets which if this year has shown, are very possible.

Texas A&M 4-0 - LSU, Texas, USC, AU
LSU 3-0 - Texas A&M, Bama, UF, Vandy, OU
UG 4-1 - UF, Ole Miss, UT
UT 3-1 - UG, Vandy, UK, Miss St
Mizz 2-1 - Bama, Ark, OU, Miss St, USC
Texas 2-1 - Texas A&M, Vandy, UF, Ark, UK
Vandy 2-1 - LSU, UT, Texas, AU, USC
Bama 2-2 - LSU, MIzz, OU, AU
Ark 2-2 - Mizz, Texas, Ole Miss, Miss St
UF 2-2 - LSU, UG, Texas, Ole Miss
Ole Miss 1-2 - OU, Ark, UG, UF, Miss St
 
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#66
I am going to make a BOLD prediction....

If we win the rest of the games this year we WILL be in the playoffs!
 
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Without upsets the standings would look like:

LSU 7-1
UG 7-1
Texas 7-1
A&M 6-2
UT 6-2
MIZZ 6-2
BAMA 6-2
OLE MISS 5-3
VANDY 4-4
ARK 4-4
UF 2-6

A&M could easily beat both LSU and Texas and be undefeated, which would put them both at 6-2. Add in upsets and the rest of this year could be total chaos....only option is to keep winning and see what happens.

Get high enough so a loss to UG only drops us to #9-#12, take the SEC CG week off to heal.
 
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EZE said:
I’d bet a large sum of money that 10-2 gets us in. Just go back and look at the end of season Top-25 polls over the years. A lot of the time, you are seeing 9-3 after the 10-spot.
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If we were rolling over people disagree with you. Our lethargic wins against Florida and Bama won’t yield the style points the committee votes for. We need to win out.
 
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