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  1. 7 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

    It's a joke but it's politically correct. Everyone except me is pretending that the ACC kept us out of the college football playoff, because they lobbied for a total of one team in the playoff.  Isn't that their job? 

     

    We were actually kept out of the playoffs by SEC #5.  The SEC has so much power in the media that, l no one is questioning whether the $EC deserved its 5th best team in the top 12.  You have a good conference but it is not so good that number five is head and shoulders above anyone else. 

     

    And the helmet cancels any question about whether Alabama really was the 5th best team.  Could Texas beat Auburn by more than one touchdown?

    Well, just because they did not call this targeting does not mean there were no concussive effects. 

     

     

    Bama finshed the regular season at the top of the SEC after the tiebreakers, hence why they were the home team in the CCG. OU was the fifth team becasue they had two regular season conference losses. They were safely in the field because they beat Michigan in the non confererence game (hence how big noncon matchups can help if you win). Bama was never going to be left out when they had to play UGA because of tiebreakers and Ole Miss and aggy with the same conference record weren't forced to risk anything. Ole Miss especially, if they got blown out days after the coaching change fiasco, they might possibly be excluded, but they got to sit at home and deal with that situation because their SEC SOS was lower than Bamas and UGA's.

  2. 18 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    So now explain BYU

    Bama was in the field before the CCG and they weren't going to be excluded for a third loss in that game while Ole Miss and aggy with the same pre CCG conference record sat home safely because of a convoluted 4-way SEC tiebreaker. BYU was already out of the field before the CCG and it was widely known they had to win to move up into the field.

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  3. 25 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

    ND probably kills the ACC - they’re holding a press conference and I bet they cancel their ACC membership. 

    That league can’t survive without them. 

    Nah the ACC has far bigger problems than whether a few of them play ND in any given year. The bigger problem would be for ND having to add 5 new opponents on short notice in a world where most P4 noncon schedules are set multiple years out. They also just set fire to their reputation and could prevent big names from scheduling them even if they could rearrange their existing contracts.

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  4. 18 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    We don’t need AI for that, the math and formulas have always been there. The real issue is that sports guy talking heads, conference reps, and fans will not like doing it that way and will melt down when the math doesn’t work their way. 

    I mean they’ve been melting down for years now and directing their ire at people, at least the computer is what it is and can’t be accused of its own bias (programming maybe but everyone would have agreed to the programming). One solution is for programs who get left out to stop overreacting like little bitches every year. Sitting out a bowl game is as bad as it’s been, fuck ND and their pansy ass admins. Even FSU put out a team a few years ago after being decimated by the portal and opt outs.

  5. 22 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Cal's season is one of the most nonsensical things I have seen in a long time. They lose 34-0 to San Diego State and get destroyed by Stanford...yet take down Louisville and SMU and finish 7-5 and get a vacation in Hawaii.

     

    Let me introduce you to OKST 2018. Beat No. 17 Boise State, No. 5 Texas, No. 7 WVU, and lost to No. 6 OU by one point in Norman 47-48. Lost to everyone else in the bottom half of the conference standings (Baylor, TCU, KSU, Tech). All with a former walkon at QB. Beat No. 24 Mizzou in the Liberty Bowl.

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  6. 11 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    They had a 5 loss champion because their conference has too many teams and it was stupid 5 way tiebreaker that got Duke in there. SMU had a chance to get in easily but couldn't beat a shitty Cal team. Miami beat Notre Dame. That should matter and it did. Notre Dame can easily solve all of this by joining a conference so they too will have to be in a championship game with risk. The committee wasn't leaving out the ACC. Where they screwed up was having Notre Dame ranked ahead of Miami last week. It would've gave them easy cover to exclude Notre Dame regardless of the ACC championship or to swap them and piss off Miami if Virginia had won on Saturday. 

     

    9 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said:

    All conferences should go to a CFP based tie breaker when there are 3 or more teams tied atop the standings to get the best CCG participants and this would not be an issue. ND Bama and Miami all get in if the matchups are:

    Miami vs Virginia

    Georgia vs Ole Miss (& Lane)

    Big 10 and Big 12 stay the same. 

    Wasn’t the ACC 2nd place tiebreaker the same as what the SEC used in its first place tiebreaker? Conference opponent sos? Considering conference rankings should be based on conference activity it makes as much sense as possible in the new ridiculous world of mega conferences and unequal conference scheduling. Miami lost to now unranked SMU and Louisville. Fuck them, one good noncon win doesn’t undo those losses. Not to mention using CFP rankings to break ties is just giving the committee that everyone is hating on so much today more power and influence.

  7. It would seem that with ai and other advances a BCS type formula could be far improved than the prior iteration. The big question is how to agree on how to program it and how to weigh certain things like noncon games or conference games with unequal scheduling. UT’s beef is the tOSU loss. Should the computers disregard it entirely or give it a weight? Should the weight be on a sliding scale? A noncon loss to the No. 2 team should be less detrimental than to the No. 10 team, or No. 20, or No. 25, etc., but it likely cannot be ignored entirely. Would admins and conferences agree to the computer weighing wins over FCS very lightly or possibly ignoring them altogether? How about computer rankings set the bracket and a committee is formed with the sole job of determining if other factors require an adjustment and the vote must be unanimous to alter the computer ranking and explained on paper in a professional manner like a legal brief or arbitrators decision instead of putting some jagoff on camera to yammer away like a dolt.

  8. 35 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    There has been a big fight over the amount of autobids. ACC and BIg 12 both wanted two spots and for the BIG and SEC to only have 3 spots. BIG and SEC have been pushing hard for 4 spots each. They will get that now. 

    Good lord do you literally not read anything? This is so false. Only the Big 10  wanted auto bids. The Big XII was with the SEC wanting 5+11. The ACC is a fucking disaster and just proved that 2 auto bids would be ridiculous. If you want to exclude G5 altogether make that argument but I doubt it flies. Tell the ACC to stop sucking maybe?

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  9. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    If I'm getting a Peace Prize, I definitely want it to be awarded by an organization with a history  of racketeering, fraud and money laundering indictments.

    I honestly can’t tell whose bribing who here.

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  10. 4 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

    Well, that sucks.

     

    Hope OSU fans aren't too bummed out by their new Coach, OC & QB performance tonight.

     

    I’m not. Tulanes defense looked pretty good and it was closer than the score because of the the calls. Mestemaker also has three years left, he’ll get better, after the adjustment to P4. And upside is Morris should be full time in Stillwater now.

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