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I swear someone posted this was going to happen like a week or 2 ago here or on twitter or somewhere and assumed some idiot making things up. Or like Crabtree I just dreamed it in my head.
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Skipper replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
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I don't see how ND, Miami, BYU, Bama, Texas. OU, Vandy etc. aren't comparable teams despite the fact that I agree with you the committee will claim that they weren't in order to justify ranking. At the end of the day, the committee reverted to head to head with OU-Bama and Texas-Vandy order and then with Miami and Notre Dame. But I think where they slotted ND/Miami/BYU within that grouping (which had to be Miami ahead of Notre Dame) was just the committee ignoring the rest of what was supposed to matter for comparable teams and doing what they wanted.
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I'll agree with you that the committee has done and will continue to whatever the fuck they want. Whether or not that has historically followed computers or "BCS proxy" I don't know and don't care. The below is what they were supposed to follow per their own guidelines. If they actually followed the below correctly, ND would have been behind not only Bama and Miami but also Texas, BYU and Vandy. PRINCIPLES The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering: Strength of schedule, Head-to-head competition, Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory), and, Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.
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Sorry, I must have missed the section in the 'playoff committee principals' where they look at "Massey Ratings" or a "simulated BCS" that takes into account the morons that vote in the worthless AP and Coaches polls.
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Strictly by the numbers that are supposed to matter (SOS, SOR) Texas, BYU and Vandy all have better claims than ND and Miami.
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Where are the receipts for this slight Domer is throwing this massive tantrum about? What did they actually do? Assuming they didn't post the equivalent of "Fuck Notre Dame" on Twitter I'm not sure what the bitching is about. The ACC has an obligation to lobby for its actual conference teams to get in (you know, where the conference will benefit from revenue unlike a ND playoff slot). Lobbying for a conference team should have been expected by anyone with a brain. Only Notre Dame is tone deaf, self-absorbed and arrogant enough to not understand that. I've never been a true Notre Dame hater but this pathetic reaction to a just outcome the last 24 hours may have turned me into one. I'm actively rooting for Texas and every other relevant program to cancel the series and black ball them going forward. Fuck them.
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The latter 2 are head-to-head against meaningful NFL games as well. That is the reason Aggy got screwed with an 11AM kick. I fully expect ratings for both the later games to be embarrassing.
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That's fine. Let them. If money is equal, let them convince top players playing a bunch of mediocre programs with shitty ratings and only stepping up to real competition in the playoffs is a better opportunity than playing for Texas, Bama, UGA, Michigan, OSU etc. and being the focus of the CFB world multiple times per year. It wouldn't have an immediate impact, but multiple years of shit schedules like next season, if combined with no playoff success, and their 'brand' will continue to fade.
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There is talk that USC wants out as well. Again, that's what I'm curious about in all of this. ND AD is blowing things up with the ACC like he has leverage, so either he's already cut a deal better than what he has or he's totally misreading his hand or acting overly emotional after a snub to appease boosters. I just don't see why either of the B1G or SEC wants anything to do with ND (absent full partnership in the B1G). I'm hoping ND misplays this and we look back at them like they are Blockbuster Video 10 years from now.
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It's a different calculus though for a Big 12 or ACC team. They may very likely miss any top 10 matchups in conference play. For an SEC team, now particularly with 9 conference games, you are pretty much guaranteed multiple top 10 and numerous top 25 matchups on your schedule every year. Again, to be clear, a 2 loss Texas team (including the loss to Florida) would have been in over both ND and Miami given quality of other wins that neither could match. Texas would have been slotted at 8 above OU. Committee set precedent that H2H is important but only in a tiebreaker scenario. That is consistent throughout placement of the top 15.
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This I agree with. Too much money to be made by networks. I didn't think expansion to 24 was realistically on the table but that, combined with greater emphasis on SOS, would likely create enough of a buffer that schools like Texas, UGA, Bama, Ohio St., Michigan, etc. would keep those games on the calendar.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Points we probably didn't really deserve last night but I'll take it! I took my kid last night and in early 2nd, a buddy pinged me that his corporate glass seats weren't being used so my son and I sat down there rest of the game. We were behind the goal to Otter's left for that shootout performance which was sweet. My spoiled ass kid getting to go to multiple games per year and now sitting on the glass (that was only the 3rd time I've ever sat front row) doesn't know how good he has it. -
We just better work on punt protection this time if we schedule NC state.
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I don't understand why the BIG or SEC would cut any formal deal with ND at this point absent conference membership. The SEC doesn't need them period. SEC absolutely killed TV ratings weekly this year and adding an additional conference game to ESPN's inventory is going to keep Disney/ESPN more than happy. Big 10 shouldn't offer anything other than full membership. I'm sure the Big 12 would cut the same deal with Notre Dame that the ACC has but that isn't going to fix ND scheduling issues if SEC and BIG teams blackball them. I'm sure we wouldn't do anything without Sankey's blessing as he's about to enter playoff expansion negotiations but both Texas and USC announcing cancellations of future games with ND would be sweet.
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