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  1. 22 minutes ago, TexasPride10 said:

    As a Texas fan, I am obviously biased and think we should get in. But here is my best attempt at an un-biased take: 

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    If the committee ranks Vandy ahead of us tonight, I will riot. 

    I'd say Texas is superior to Vandy, ND, Miami, and whatever high school team gets in by way of conference championship (Virginia, Tulane), and at the same time none of this group is worthy of being in anyway.

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  2. 13 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    No. If we are looking at the quality of the wins to compare resumes, we know objectively that Auburn isn't a ranked win. Come on now. The point is to figure out what teams are the best and have accomplished the most, not brag over what were essentially preseason rankings. But shit, if we can just play pretend, I say we are still #1 because we were before week 1 was played. 

    That's not the rule. Nobody is making that game or making that ex-post claim.

    Is Ole Miss the de facto 2015 champion because they beat what would later, at the end of the season, turn out to be the #1 team in Alabama?

    The rankings are as-best-determined at at time of record. They are not retroactively updated at the end - almost nothing in life works this way.

  3. 1 hour ago, Alien Octopus said:

    I do not know if you are supposed to take the rankings  when a team played or when the season ends as  the comparison point?  The notable teams we beat were all top ten when we played them. OU beat Bama when they were top 10.  The other ranked teams they beat, mizzou, michigan, tennessee, are not likely ranked anymore. OU's offense has regressed as the year has progressed. They look worse than Iowa on that side of the ball. Not to say that Iowa has not improved. Not sure who I would pick if OU played Iowa today?!
    OU should probably be ranked below Vandy looking at the whole team. Pretty sure Texas would beat OU by at least two scores were there a rematch.  Either way, the only way Texas gets in is if the CFP corrects the horseshit of having Vandy and OU ranked above Texas. The chances are slim but certainly they can explain this if they do it.

    NCAA, ESPN, and the Texas Longhorns record the rankings contemporaneously.  IMO this makes sense, because teams trend and the rankings tries -- imperfectly as it does -- to best reflect them.

    You could argue that the earlier rankings are less reliable and try to unweight them, but the way its done is the way its done and is just as valid.

  4. 18 minutes ago, Alien Octopus said:

    The committee can easily fix this by ranking Texas above OU, due to our recent performance against the previously ranked # 3 team and OU's dogshit performance against an unranked LSU. The nail in the coffin should be our pasting of OU.  That is how they can save face. OU also has  some issue with the wr room. 

    OU beat 5 ranked teams: 3 of them came in the last 4 games; 2 of those were on the road; 1 of them was Alabama.

    Their 1 squeaker was against LSU.

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    TX beat 4 ranked teams: 2 in the recent half of the season; 1 was on the road.

    2 squeaker wins against opponents worse than LSU.

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    I think we're a better team than OU and would be on the favored side of a coin-flip, but you can see how their body of work can be vouched for. If hypothetical H-2-H performances is the determinant of playoff contender, we shouldn't even entertain Tulane, UNT, UVA in the group but so far nobody's strongly opposed to their inclusion? 

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:

    So I know nothing about F1, I’m fully a Netflix fan. But it seems to me that it kinda sucks that many races are mostly about pitting strategy vs actual racing / passing. Also, there’s something about the F1 cars not looking like “real” cars that makes it kind of overly clinical. 

    It's an engineering contest.

    F1 is a competition of which team builds the fastest cars, which determines the order. Driver variability adds +/- 2 places. Strategy adds +/- 2. Then luck does the rest. 

    So in a typical race where everything falls near the middle of the +/- distribution and there's no random shit you would see results like:

    Team A, A, B, C, C, B, D, D, E, F

     

     

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  6. On 11/28/2025 at 4:27 PM, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    The championship will be won by one of 3 teams. OSU, UGA, or Bama. 

    80% of champions come from top 3. 

    #4 has such a marginal probability of winning it all  

    expanding the playoff eliminates the controversy over which team deserves to have that final chance. 

    practically speaking, the 6 and beyond are a moonshot  if youre fighting to be #12 youve already lost. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, Derka said:

    either colt or VY was the last qb we’ve had who could do this. we’ve been waiting 15+ years for this. thank god we didn’t listen to surly and send arch to the portal after week five of his first year as a starter. limitless future.

    Jerrod Heard did it for, like, 1 game

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