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  1. 5 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    There’s a lot of wriggle room in “won’t punish teams for playing in the CCG.” Under strictly legalistic terms, you’d say “no team should slide even one slot no matter the result of a CCG.” But that seems fairly stupid and by that reading Ohio State-Indiana has no meaning whatsoever save the conference trophy. 

    A less legalistic reading might be “if you were in the field before the game, losing won’t make you drop out.” (Which explains more of Bama’s rise than the bullshit “we did it cuz we felt like it.”) But even that hardly seems sustainable long term. 

    Agree. Seeding is fair game. And once Bama ended up first in the SEC standings winning the four way tiebreaker on conference strength of schedule it was enough to put them in the field and guarantee them a spot. If they lose to UGA it’s a perfect reason to swap them with ND to avoid the rematches. And aggy gets to show its true ass when bama blows them out.

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  2. Tech will get the SMU treatment. If you're in before the CCG you don't lose that spot if you lose the game. Does not apply to BYU, UVA, and certainly not Duke, because none of them are currently in the field. The only thing that looks like it could plausibly change is if BYU wins it knocks ND out. I also assume they'll change the seeding to avoid two season rematches.

  3. 1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    House on the line and you have to make the playoffs do you want to play Texas or do you want to play Texas St?  I understand you hate us, but be honest. Programs like Ohio St, Texas, ND, Georgia, expect to win every game.  Yours?  Not so much

    That’s literally my point. The conversation is that bluebloods will stop scheduling other bluebloods. I disagree because each side expects to win. Also I don’t hate UT, I’ve been on surly/shaggy for more than a decade because this place is cool af. You’re my second favorite team every 2nd Saturday in October.

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  4. Newsome needs to record one of these dick sucking sessions. Not that it would change anything because the voters in this country are beyond any semblance of salvation but because it would make me lol.

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  5. Wow $38M to get rid of Stoops who did about as good as should be expected at UK? Although I assume that and Kelly's can go down if they get another job ala Franklin. I bet Stoops will get picked up even if it's at G5 level.

    BTW, what ever happened to Mike Stoops? Did he officially give up? Choke on a dick while gobbling them up? Feel like he completely disappeared.

  6. 18 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Well the reason is because they get extra special treatment.  Until the committee actually leaves them out at 10-2 or the new format in 2026 and beyond eliminates the special ND carveout,  they have no incentive to do it. 

    Isn't it more their sweetheart TV deal with NBC? They'd make far less in the ACC with its shitty contract. They've spurned the BIG enough that they may have given up and have already expanded to 18, but I suppose they'd still go to 19 if ND agreed. It's the only move that would remotely make sense. They aren't a cultural fit for SEC, and the Big XII while better than ACC doesn't pay enough (in addition to similarly being a bad cultural fit).

    I took a look and their next years' schedule looks similarly shitty. Better in 2027, could be salty in 2028.

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  7. 15 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Well, to be fair you have four teams from every Texas HS district get in the playoffs. That kind of eliminates any chance of error. We're trying to seed a 12-team tournament from 125+ teams. There are 247 Class 6A high schools in Texas right now -- 128 of those make the playoffs, I think.

     

    This is sarcasm, right?

     

    Agreed. I hated seeing FSU get left out due to the QB getting hurt. They were 13-0 after all. I would've had no big issue with them getting in as long as it was FSU vs Bama for the fourth spot and not FSU vs Texas as we feared. Fortunately, the H2H with Bama appears to have been a factor but Travis getting hurt might've just given the committee the out it was looking for. It would've been criminal for Bama to be in the Final 4 and not Texas. The issue was that FSU getting in effectively gave somebody a huge advantage in the semifinal, if not a full-on "bye" to reach the championship game.

    Also, if Ole Miss doesn't make it because Kiffin left that would be a goddamn travesty. In reality, Ole Miss's resume isn't that great. The one win of note is beating OU in Norman. The Rebels have played two games against teams in the current Top 25.

     

    2 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    What was Ole Miss before Kiffin? You don't think the head coach matters? That's literally one of the criteria for ranking teams. 

    Also, if Texas gets left out before of its 3rd loss, there is no reason for an SEC or B1G team to schedule tough non-conference games. They have enough SOS playing in those conferences. Why risk a 3rd loss?

    In both situations, I have a problem with the assumptions. That's not how sports work anywhere else. The NFL doesn't kick a team out of the playoffs if a key player gets hurt in Week 17. Its part of the broader conversation of the complete clusterfuck that is CFB.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    Conferences and the NCAA. This is pretty simple idea that I think most people see as an issue. Unfortunately, nothing gets fixed in college sports until there is a major controversy 

    Again, why would the LSU's of the world give a shit about harm to the Ole Miss level programs? Why would they agree to hamstring their own coaching searches for the benefit of the poachee programs?

  9. 2 hours ago, South Austin said:

    That makes sense, because apparently the church's official position on caffeinated soda was released in 2012.

    NPR: Can Mormons Drink Coca-Cola?

    Alcohol, tobacco, and too much meat make sense, but hot drinks? That's stupid af. Even back in the day there was plenty of teas without caffiene, and ancient teas often had positive medicinal properties (real and imagined). Such arbitrary nonsense, like ancient writings on pork, shrimp, and wearing clothes of mixed materials. 

     

    MARTIN: Bowman says it goes back to Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith, who said he received a revelation from God forbidding Mormons to consume hot drinks, alcohol, tobacco or too much meat. Over the years, the meaning of hot drinks has come to mean tea and coffee.

  10. 3 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    I feel like leaving Ole Miss out would also be good for CFB. That would make the powers that be really look into this situation. CFB needs to look to the NFL for guidance. I would love to see coaches off limits during the season. Saban went off on this topic recently. 

    I've seen those discussions, but who would enforce this new calendar? The NCAA is an empty shell these days. It would require a new agreement of all programs to be bound by the new calendar and the more power schools aren't going to give up their advantage of poaching from other schools as early as possible for the benefit of the poachee programs. 

  11. 6 minutes ago, txexlonghorn23 said:

    Knowing when to call the right play at the right time and going off intuition of the game makes a huge difference that not every offensive play caller can do.

    Yeah, some are better than others, and some are way better than others, but to assume that the remaining staff is completely incapable of running an offense to the extent they'd leave a one loss team out in favor of a 3 loss team (or even two loss team if we're disregarding tOSU) is just wrong IMO. I maintain that UT's chance is in comparison to ND and OU.

  12. Leaving Ole Miss out because of the coaching change would be far more controversial than UT being left out. I didn't agree with undefeated FSU being left out because of a QB injury but at least that is the most important position on the field and it can be reasonably expected to affect their ability to play well and win (although Tua and Gilbert might disagree). I often think people have too magical a view of playcalling, as if it's some magic ability that only a handful of people can do. The staff and players still knows the playbook. I'm not willing to say with any level of certainty that they can't run an offense anymore. The players earned their way into the playoff.

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  13. Just now, cabowabo said:

    If we aren't gonna make it (and I don't think we are) I want to know tonight to I can root for the appropriate teams on Saturday to cause maximum chaos.  Would be rooting for BYU, Georgia, Duke to all win big.  

    I'm rooting for Duke so that two G5 champs make it which is the definition of chaos lol. Match one with aggy and they might even win. Alternatively, as much as I don't like Tech, I'd root like hell for them to blow out aggy if they got matched.

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