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  1. In the 12-team playoff era, the bowl games are dead, not just for the fans, but to the players themselves who deem them worthy of sitting out to avoid injury ahead of NFL prospects. Will I watch? Yes. Do I expect to be able to glean much from the result? No.
  2. w/ one added caveat: “IF, and only IF, you are a blue blood”….
  3. Miami favored at A&M is interesting. No love for the Aggies from me, but I thing I’d go “wrong team favored” there, but who am I compared to Vegas?
  4. Just absolute, complete, fucking nonsense
  5. Well, I’m “not happy” for JMU and Tulane. Definitely lose the 5th conference champion guarantee. Frankly, I would lose the 4th as well. If you want to guarantee conference champions “only in the top 15”……OK, but that wouldn’t be my 1st choice. If I’m ESPN, be real. You don’t want to be stuck selling JMU v Oregon, Tulane v Ole Miss to advertisers. Hell, Miami at A&M is even a harder sell than ND v A&M. Forget the inclusivity. It’s just a bad product
  6. I would argue Notre Dame passes the eye test RIGHT NOW, in August/September not so much. But who the hell knows what criteria THIS committee is using on a team-by-team basis, much less the entire field
  7. The committee is a moving target year-to-year so it’s hard to speak w/ any convention as to their criteria week-to-week much less annually. They DID hang their hat on “Conference Championship game participants will not be punished due to a loss” a year ago. This season, and in the past week, Yormark specifically has played it close to the vest in interviews revealing almost nothing to give the public an inside look at committee criteria down the stretch so all we can do is guess. If it’s the eye test, Bama’s finish vs OU, Auburn, & Georgia didn’t exactly light the world on fire. But in a world of speculation, one can only wonder what ACTUALLY tips the scales…..eye test? good matchups for TV ratings? Who knows, but I would bet the committee, already staring at Tulane & James Madison ruining 2 of the 4 1st round matchups, doesn’t want to flirt with a 3rd choosing BYU over Alabama
  8. I don’t think Texas is getting in, but I do think they’re at least worthy of consideration. I mention that because I do sense a concerted effort among talking heads the past week plus to not mention Texas at all in such discussions. THAT feels like an injection of collective bias that shouldn’t be present among the committee members and the media, but who are we kidding here. Compare it to the way 3-loss Bama was debated up to the release of the final playoff rankings a year ago
  9. Citrus Bowl has 1st dibs among non-playoff bowls and due to bowl ties will be selecting an SEC vs Big Ten game. It’ll almost certainly will be Texas v Michigan in the Citrus
  10. From everything I’ve heard, Bama remains in despite a loss
  11. If anyone is paying attention, fair or not, Texas isn’t even part of the National conversation for the playoff anymore. They’ve been effectively crossed off. I do think there’s a “slight” chance that things get interesting today if Duke wins (does the committee and the networks REALLY want 2 of 4 1st RD matchups irrelevant and unwatched with Tulane, James Madison in the field because that’s what they’d be staring at staying the course)
  12. Matt Campbell has impressed me as much as any coach in CFB the past decade putting multiple star players in the league from freaking Ames, Iowa while playing in a second tier conference. Great get by Penn State. The only question is whether Campbell’s magic only works doing more with less instead of having first dibs on top recruiting and transfer talent. These highly sought-after coaches that choose to stay at less relevant programs (Whittingham is another example) are really interesting to me. Campbell’s could’ve gone anywhere over the past 8 years or so, but he consistently passed. One wonders what made Penn State right for him…..or perhaps Penn State’s timing was just right. As for Iowa State, odds are the magic is over and it’s back to complete irrelevancy
  13. What I’ve found amusing in the short (2) years of the 12-team playoff is how everyone complains about the quality of playoff matchups which they don’t watch after fighting and politicking so hard to give the have-not’s a seat at the table at the end of the reg. We’re spiraling towards something like a Tulane at Oregon & Virginia at Ole Miss. That’s half of the 1st RD that college football consumers will likely outright skip, and it gets worse than that if Duke wins the ACC title game. Cancel the 5th conference champion auto-bid. It’s simply a better product, and better for business
  14. Not this year then……got it……….
  15. The show didn’t discuss Texas at all. Didn’t want to touch it
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