THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]

[Had Enough 2066]

You can only beat who you play. FSU had LSU, Florida, and Clemson on their regular season schedule. Any other year, that's a big schedule.
Alabama scheduled one good OoC game and lost. The entire SEC's biggest OoC win was against [checks notes] Louisville.
What else was FSU supposed to do here?

Win impressively. Don’t skate by a mediocre Clemson because their walk-in kicker misses a 30 yarder (outgained by 100). Never ever schedule North Alabama. Don’t get outgained by 100 yards against BC. Get Southern Miss off the schedule.

Start there.

They got lucky too. Duke QB injured. UF QB out. Miami playing so well they benched their QB.

All that before Travis got injured (except the UF game).

They’re unlucky in that most years they are in.

[atomheartbevo 89547]

3 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

Homelander: The Early Years

[G650 14164]

39 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

You can only beat who you play. FSU had LSU, Florida, and Clemson on their regular season schedule. Any other year, that's a big schedule.

Alabama scheduled one good OoC game and lost. The entire SEC's biggest OoC win was against [checks notes] Louisville.

What else was FSU supposed to do here?

Play a shit ton more impressive in their games.

 

The thing that people always miss, is you have to watch every player on every play, how they execute. That is the only way to grade this sport were everyone plays such disparate and disconnected games and opponents. Is that what the committee does? No. But it's what it actually takes. It would be overstating it to say record doesn't matter, but it definitely doesn't matter as the arbiter, it's merely a data point.

 

If FSU won 66 to nil every game, they would be in. That's what they could have done.

[Deej 76691]

50 minutes ago, EuroHorn said:

On that warchant YouTube channel they are saying fsu needs to leave the acc and join the big 10 or sec.  Even though they admit that fsu would have been in with the 12 team playoffs starting next year.  I get that they are upset but they need to step off the ledge 

Imagine this board if we'd been left out

 

[Stunns38 3456]

NSIAP
 
 

Not trying to over analyze anything but is the player up front not celebrating X? If so, I wonder if he’s really injured. It could just be that some people don’t show emotion but just wondering.


Now, LFG.

[Guest]

Just now, po elvis said:

Since head-to-head is part of the guidelines, it would have to be Texas. There would have to be extraordinary evidence that Bama had improved enough and Texas hadn't since that game, but there isn't. Beating Georgia could just tell us more about Georgia than we were able to ascertain from their schedule.

I agree with this’ however the screaming elephant shit in the room is no SEC team in that Top 4.  There was zero chance that was happening.  I said yesterday with family when Bama won, that the FSU didn’t mean shit.  It should be Mich, Wash, Tex, & Bama.  Those are the 4 ‘eye test’ teams.

I despise the beauty pageant/ cheerleader tryout bullshit, but the 4 correct teams made it.  If Georgia had won, I feel like Texas would have( incorrectly) been left out. 

[Alien Octopus 516]

23 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

The ACC has been weak for years. Lots of poor QB play too. Top to bottom it’s a poor conference.

All the teams in are from major conferences. It’s sorta bad luck on FSUs part. The selling point isn’t even that we’re better. It’s we won against our crappy schedule. Never mind Georgia you got Bama; we got Louisville.

FSU wants out of that conference. Now they have ammunition to question it’s viability as a power 5 conference.

[Deej 76691]

8 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

how super lucky is Bama with the miracle win vs. Auburn.  I hate Saban even more. 

It don't make a shit.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8815]

FSU beat the teams on their schedule, that were scheduled 5-10 years ago. Like LSU, Clemson, & Florida, 3 BCS/CFP National Champions. Not their fault they all sucked.
Compare this to Georgia canceling playing OU. FSU played more BCS/CFP SEC National Champions than Georgia did. 
It was a hard choice. You can't penalize a team for scheduling hard games, that is what makes college football. 

I honestly don’t care about the schedule as much as I care about a heisman candidate got injured and the shit they replaced them with. If these last 2 weeks were the first 2 weeks of the season, would Florida state drop in the rankings? I would they they would.

[The_Great_Hornsby 3238]

Just now, slorch said:

I agree with this’ however the screaming elephant shit in the room is no SEC team in that Top 4.  There was zero chance that was happening.  I said yesterday with family when Bama won, that the FSU didn’t mean shit.  It should be Mich, Wash, Tex, & Bama.  Those are the 4 ‘eye test’ teams.

I despise the beauty pageant/ cheerleader tryout bullshit, but the 4 correct teams made it.  If Georgia had won, I feel like Texas would have( incorrectly) been left out. 

If FSU had looked halfway decent yesterday they wouldve been in. 

[Nicole44 22030]

Committee would never leave out an SEC team. Been in it all ten years. 
 

Heartbreaking for FSU. The statement from Travis man…perfectly written. Just so poignant. Glad we did our part yesterday and crushed Okie Lite and are on an upward trajectory. We made history! Jumping from 7 to 3 and clinched our final Big 12 trophy. Hook’em! I’d have picked FSU to advance, whether it was an inevitable beatdown for them or not. ESPN owns SEC rights now and there has always been an SEC bias. I like to think of us as being in the SEC but on our own island.
 

And no, I will NOT be chanting SEC ever. We are in their conference and I will root as @BevoAbyss posted for Texas only. 

Edited December 3, 2023 by Nicole44

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

I kinda respect ESPN for running a 4 hour show and putting the part people watch in minute 20.  Don’t understand it but I respect it.  

[LCHorn 2594]

6 minutes ago, Shaggy3.0 said:

more from my old pics

 

This is old news but what made those extra awful was that it took profits charged on textbooks to buy ‘em that would otherwise have been resulted in cheaper textbooks or more money going into the Co-op scholarship fund.  

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13562]

[The_Great_Hornsby 3238]

Just now, Nicole44 said:

Committee would never leave out an SEC team. Been in it all ten years. 
 

Heartbreaking for FSU. The statement from Jarvis…man…perfectly written. Just so poignant. Glad we did our part yesterday and crushed Okie Lite and are on an upward trajectory. We made history! Jumping from 8 to 3 and clinched our final Big 12 trophy. Hook’em! I’d have picked FSU to advance, whether it was an inevitable beatdown for them or not. ESPN owns SEC rights now and there has always been an SEC bias. I like to think of us as being in the SEC but on our own island.
 

And no, I will NOT be chanting SEC ever. We are in their conference and I will root as @BevoAbyss posted for Texas only. 

Travis

We jumped from 7 to 3

[Hondo 682]

5 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

I was the flag bearer of bitching people out. lol

As if being a pretentious, smell-your-own-farts, know-it-all douchebag isn't enough, now you're making sure you're not deprived of internet message board recognition for it?  

My god, man.  The real world probably eats you alive.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

If FSU had looked halfway decent yesterday they wouldve been in. 

Bama was not in over Texas. You can’t just ignore an actual h2h result…in Tuscaloosa,no less.

If Bama was in, so was Texas.

Edited December 3, 2023 by slorch

[Nicole44 22030]

1 minute ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Travis

We jumped from 7 to 3

Typing without my glasses on…no excuses. But was in a rush on my phone. 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10198]

4 minutes ago, G650 said:

Play a shit ton more impressive in their games.

 

The thing that people always miss, is you have to watch every player on every play, how they execute. That is the only way to grade this sport were everyone plays such disparate and disconnected games and opponents. Is that what the committee does? No. But it's what it actually takes. It would be overstating it to say record doesn't matter, but it definitely doesn't matter as the arbiter, it's merely a data point.

 

If FSU won 66 to nil every game, they would be in. That's what they could have done.

 

2 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

If FSU had looked halfway decent yesterday they wouldve been in. 

If Georgia has won yesterday FSU would have been in.

[The_Great_Hornsby 3238]

Just now, MonkeyDoughnut said:

 

If Georgia has won yesterday FSU would have been in.

1000% agree

1 minute ago, slorch said:

Bama was not in over Texas. You can’t just ignore an actual h2h result…in Tuscaloosa,no less.

Correct

[dcar00 14101]

They did get unlucky that Florida sucked and LSU was kinda average this year.  They scheduled 2 normally very good P5 teams.

With Clemson flailing the ACC became the worst conf by far this year.

their SOS was 55 for a reason

[po elvis 2070]

No matter who out of the 3 was left out, there would have been an uproar about the committee being unfair. It is more an indictment of this whole 4 team playoff system than the committee being unfair.

[The_Great_Hornsby 3238]

1 minute ago, Hondo said:

As if being a pretentious, smell-your-own-farts, know-it-all douchebag isn't enough, now you're making sure you're not deprived of internet message board recognition for it?  

My god, man.  The real world probably eats you alive.

It doesnt

[troph 24744]

9 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Yeah it is fucked up that the committee did this to FSU the path was clear it should have been 3 FSU 4 Texas and left the SEC out.

This is 100% what the decision should have been. 

[Huckleberry 32807]

Just now, Hondo said:

As if being a pretentious, smell-your-own-farts, know-it-all douchebag isn't enough, now you're making sure you're not deprived of internet message board recognition for it?  

My god, man.  The real world probably eats you alive.

It's probably harder out there for idiots who are confidently wrong about obvious stuff.

[ApocalypseTexas 297]

3 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

I kinda respect ESPN for running a 4 hour show and putting the part people watch in minute 20.  Don’t understand it but I respect it.  

Well they are up against the NFL so it’s either the college selection show or bowling.  Easy choice.

[George 491]

When do the rest of the rankings and NY6 pairings get released?

[bullet 1596]

1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

So he wrote that in 3 minutes?

Well if his commissioner had supported a CFP expansion instead of an alliance with the Pac 12 and Big 10, we probably would have had a 12 team playoff this year.

[SarkAfterDark 1688]

So based on what the committee decided had Georgia won, Texas would still be in. But I honestly don’t think that is true. They would have went with the 4 undefeated conference champions. The final result happened because they couldn’t stand to leave the SEC out. Bunch of pussies

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

Just now, George said:

When do the rest of the rankings and NY6 pairings get released?

ESPN  CFP show will have those at at 230 eastern...

[TKthunder2 4981]

 

 

[aggie08 21470]

5 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

 

If Georgia has won yesterday FSU would have been in.

Over Texas? I doubt it, but probably more likely than over Bama.

[G650 14164]

The irony about FSU clamoring to leave the ACC is too fucking rich. They joined the conference in the first place so they could have a conference to run up the score on cupcakes to look better in the polls.

[Grande Mart 510]

Is Texas SEC ready yet?

[TKthunder2 4981]

Who doesn’t want to be there more?

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

I said it an hour after the OU disaster and never waivered, win out and we would be in.  The bitchassedness around here the last two months was getting ridiculous.  FFS we had people wanting UGA to win yesterday.  Idoits.

[Had Enough 2066]

FSU wants out of that conference. Now they have ammunition to question it’s viability as a power 5 conference.

Starting next year win ‘em all, you are in.

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

1 minute ago, TKthunder2 said:

 

 

That's gonna be a JOJA mauling...

[TheRRKid 227]

43 minutes ago, SarkAfterDark said:

If the committee was going to go this route with FSU they should have excluded them from the top 4 the moment Travis got hurt. But to have them remain undefeated and win their conference and then decide to drop them out the top 4 makes no sense. Sets a terrible precedent IMO. What if Milroe, Penix, Ewers got hurt in practice leading up to the playoffs. Do either of those teams no longer belong? 

Gave them a shot to demonstrate competency with a backup QB. They did not

[dcar00 14101]

1 minute ago, TKthunder2 said:

 

 

the ultimate "neither team wants to be there" Super Bowl

[Surly Bevo 24891]

8 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

I kinda respect ESPN for running a 4 hour show and putting the part people watch in minute 20.  Don’t understand it but I respect it.  

They kind of have to if they are really going to keep the final 4 a secret until the reveal.  All the other bowls have to get in line behind those choices before they can make theirs (for the most part, of course some real low level bowls can grab participants but the bigger ones have to see who goes CFP and Non-CFP NY6 first)

[Horn Dogg 3823]

Now that we’re in the Motherfucker, let’s win the Motherfucker!

[TKthunder2 4981]

1 minute ago, BillyGoatHill said:

That's gonna be a JOJA mauling...

That’s what the committee wants. Proves they made the right call if the team Bama just beat, beats FSU.

[po elvis 2070]

1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

the ultimate "neither team wants to be there" Super Bowl

mix that with the 3 or guys on each side who skip out on the game to prepare for the draft.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

Who doesn’t want to be there more?

Evidently Michigan… when the Tide was announced as the 4 seed.

[dcar00 14101]

Norvell should spend the month coming up with 3 different packages for 2nd string, 3rd string QB, and wildcat.  

Ga may have a tough time with that D.  

[Jersey Man10 3528]

[bullet 1596]

38 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

 

 

 

Well Phillips shouldn't have vetoed the 12 team playoff!  We would have had one if Phillips, Warren and Kliavcoff didn't stop the expansion for a year.

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

47 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

 

Love to see their reaction when they saw Texas at #3. 

[Dahobbs 17502]

5 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

 

 

Honestly, both teams should view this as their chance to prove they should have been in. I expect FSU's defense to give Georgia a lot of trouble. Unfortunately for FSU, it'll score about as much as Iowa did yesterday.