2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #3 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)

['stache 21795]

I'm really looking forward to the first true tiebreaker fiasco with the new divisionless megaconference setup. I think I saw that both the Big XII and SEC have a "conference strength of schedule" tiebreaker somewhere along the line. Seems like some serious bullshit since a program has no control over the schedule and how good those teams end up. At the beginning of the year everyone thought the strongest Big XII schedules would be those with OSU, Utah, UA, and/or KU on them, and the weakest would include ASU and CU, yet here we are, lol. 

[Js1 85276]

7 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I'm really looking forward to the first true tiebreaker fiasco with the new divisionless megaconference setup. I think I saw that both the Big XII and SEC have a "conference strength of schedule" tiebreaker somewhere along the line. Seems like some serious bullshit since a program has no control over the schedule and how good those teams end up. At the beginning of the year everyone thought the strongest Big XII schedules would be those with OSU, Utah, UA, and/or KU on them, and the weakest would include ASU and CU, yet here we are, lol. 

Remember how long it took the Big 12 last year to clarify Texas had clinched spot?

The B1G just took 2 days to work through all the tiebreakers to announce Oregon had clinched a spot. 

If it is taking conference officials 2-3 days to figure out their own rules, the rules are stupid AF. 

[campcrunk 2437]

On 11/19/2024 at 8:52 PM, GabrielsHorn said:

She really is a beating. I don’t know how she got pushed into national coverage at multiple locations when her analysis is generally trash. Dinich is significantly superior but doesn’t look like a Hollywood star so…
 

 

Her only real redeeming quality is that she sort of looks like Aubrey Plaza

['stache 21795]

10 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Remember how long it took the Big 12 last year to clarify Texas had clinched spot?

The B1G just took 2 days to work through all the tiebreakers to announce Oregon had clinched a spot. 

If it is taking conference officials 2-3 days to figure out their own rules, the rules are stupid AF. 

I remember that even the notnothing.net algorithm was wrong in determining second place scenarios. It's going to be a complete clusterfuck at some point.

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[Js1 85276]

Just now, 'stache said:

I remember that even the notnothing.net algorythm was wrong in determining second place. It's going to be a complete clusterfuck at some point.

Because all conferences use really weird wording that has two or three meanings. 

The mega conference scheduling is so fucked without divisions or pods. 

[Huckleberry 32848]

It's possible for there to be a 3-way tie of undefeated teams in conference play with these super conferences if they don't use pods to rotate divisions. Imagine that situation. One team will be left out because of a schedule they don't control and will be an undefeated power conference team that doesn't get a bye. 

And the team that loses the CCG will be rated even lower than the undefeated team that missed it because now they have a loss. Obviously this is unlikely to ever actually happen but if your structure makes it a possibility then your structure sucks. 

[Hagbard Celine 10850]

1 hour ago, Hayduke said:

Lil ol' private school in the heart of fancy Dallas whose best years were based on throwing illegal money around to ED and CJK5H? Salty about the big state school just down the road, the poors who suddenly became new money because of oil discoveries on PUF land 100 years ago?  Who since, under everyone else's watchful eyes, have built a campus and football program with a history and promise second to none? 

That's a real head-scratcher. You'd think those Dallas high-society types would be pleased that a little investment and hard work paid off for their no-longer-country cousins. Not our fault we had to move to a bigger neighborhood to maintain our business and social ties.

if anyone has an axe to grind with pony it's aggy who might have done something in 82 (dickerson's senior year was sherrill's first)

[closetojumping 62557]

45 minutes ago, campcrunk said:

Her only real redeeming quality is that she sort of looks like Aubrey Plaza

Generally, she's a good journalist who puts in the work to verify claims and sources and facts and wild shit like that. She's even won awards for it. Legacy media and even much of sports media could learn from her on those fronts. As a commentator on XM 84 and elsewhere, she's not normally taking a position as a journalist, and she's a Michigan alum, so for sure she's going to be far less redeeming in that context for us as Texas fans. 

[Hagbard Celine 10850]

1 hour ago, Hayduke said:

But Houston and TCU were right up there

if so then dry, wacker and sullivan were the worst cheaters in the galaxy

[NorthLoop 14181]

Let's not pretend Dinich is good either. She's trash. All of her research and hot takes are just her repeating whatever Paw says. 

[DanTheHorn 4914]

I have been of the opinion that if you are not one of the best 8 teams in the country then you do not deserve to be in a playoff. The thing I liked about the 12 team playoff is that 4 teams were filler and anyone outside of the last four had as much argument as last 4 to make it into the playoff so who cares. So the BIG XII, ACC and GROUP of 5 take a spot even though they are outside the top 12 fine let them have their fun. You think you were the 9th best team in the country but did not get in since the committee thought someone else was the 9th best team do better next time. Bottom line I agree with Saban the top 5 or 6 teams with a realistic chance to win it all are always going to make it into the play off.

Now that Texas is being talked about as having a chance to end up outside the top 8 and possibly out of the top 12 if god forbid they lose to aggy will I stick to my guns and not be pissed off. Of course not since standing on principal only works until one is affected.

[Js1 85276]

TeXaS pLaYs NoBoDy

 

In the top 12, Texas would rank 7th in SOS, closer to Penn State than Oregon is to us. 

Can the internet and the committee start bitching about Oregon and Notre Dame and Miami and Boise instead? 

Edited 6 minutes ago by Js1