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Playoff Selection Final Rankings 12/20 11am


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7 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

A&M wasn't going to get in if it was even close between them and ND.

1. Name recognition. Blue blood vs. non blue blood. The committee proved that it mattered in that TCU/Baylor year. A&M is an afterthought on the national stage with zero TV pull. 

2. Second best win comparison. #15 UNC vs. fired coach Auburn. The ACC was actually better than the SEC this year.

3. Best win comparison - shaky Florida who lost to skeleton crew LSU at home vs. Clemson sans Lawrence.

4. No CCG appearance. You can argue about Lawrence missing the first game, but they at least had to play an extra game. If A&M plays Bama twice, they lose twice. Badly. Even if Bama has to play its back up QB. It's not like DJ Ukelele is a scrub out of the stands. That dude can ball. 

5. ND played two more games than A&M. 

6. Nobody wanted to see them rematch against Bama. That first game was less competitive than the Clemson/ND II. 

7. aggy=cult with hive mind.  ~BOMC

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55 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

Anyone got posts from aggy board?  Should be glorious.....

found one guy that will probably be banned

 

Style points matter. Tight game vs a later 0-9 Vandy and got manhandled at Bama. We just didn't have enough domineering games.

Looking forward to BTHO Dirty Feet!

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26 minutes ago, n64ra said:

The best part is if aggy stayed in the Big 12, they'd probably beat blowU (and everyone else) and make the CFP over ND.

But, aggy's team would be marginally weaker bc it wouldn't be stocked with Texas kids who wanted to play in the SEC SEC SEC. 2020 was best case scenario for aggy.

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6 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

But, aggy's team would be marginally weaker bc it wouldn't be stocked with Texas kids who wanted to play in the SEC SEC SEC. 2020 was best case scenario for aggy.

Aggy’s best team since joining the SEC was their first team with Heisman Johnny.  A team 100% made up of  players who were recruited and signed to play as a Big 12 team.

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39 minutes ago, n64ra said:

The best part is if aggy stayed in the Big 12, they'd probably beat blowU (and everyone else) and make the CFP over ND.

There's no evidence in the past 20 years that this would have occurred.

Aggy had some talented teams in the Big XII.  They always found a way to fuck it up, aside from 1998.

This is the way.

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12 minutes ago, ABSR said:

Aggy’s best team since joining the SEC was their first team with Heisman Johnny.  A team 100% made up of  players who were recruited and signed to play as a Big 12 team.

Maybe, but my guess is a few of these kids wouldn't be in Collie Station without SEC aggy. The 2012 team definitely had a better offense. 

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11 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

This. While the big XII was certainly down this year, there would have absolutely been 1-2 wtf moments on their season. Further, I will never be keen on complimenting Ousux, but while the Big XII was terrible this year, so was the SEC. I think Ousux would have worked aggy.

ousux got better throughout the season.  That's not something we Texas fans are really used to.  If the ags had played them in week 1 or 2 they probably would have won.  If the ags played them right now, sooners would beat them pretty handily.  Turns out, good coaching matters.

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Bama is going to destroy Notre Dame in a similar fashion to when they met in the BCS Championship years ago. Notre Dame beating Clemson the first time was on account of numerous key Clemson players being held out for COVID, the second matchup clearly demonstrated that. If ND couldn't hang with a full strength Clemson they definitely can't hang with Bama. Looks like another Bama/Clemson playoff battle in store.

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58 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

A&M wasn't going to get in if it was even close between them and ND.

1. Name recognition. Blue blood vs. non blue blood. The committee proved that it mattered in that TCU/Baylor year. A&M is an afterthought on the national stage with zero TV pull. 

2. Second best win comparison. #15 UNC vs. fired coach Auburn. The ACC was actually better than the SEC this year.

3. Best win comparison - shaky Florida who lost to skeleton crew LSU at home vs. Clemson sans Lawrence.

4. No CCG appearance. You can argue about Lawrence missing the first game, but they at least had to play an extra game. If A&M plays Bama twice, they lose twice. Badly. Even if Bama has to play its back up QB. It's not like DJ Ukelele is a scrub out of the stands. That dude can ball. 

5. ND played two more games than A&M. 

6. Nobody wanted to see them rematch against Bama. That first game was less competitive than the Clemson/ND II. 

#1 is the most important.  These bowl games are TV events and Aggy realizing they might not be a national brand is funny. There’s a reason for the annual mental gymnastics around Ohio State.  Aggy is regional at best and then only really Texas.

Committee got a year where they could justify three big brands.  That’s a good year all things considered.

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9 minutes ago, Chad said:

Bama is going to destroy Notre Dame in a similar fashion to when they met in the BCS Championship years ago. Notre Dame beating Clemson the first time was on account of numerous key Clemson players being held out for COVID, the second matchup clearly demonstrated that. If ND couldn't hang with a full strength Clemson they definitely can't hang with Bama. Looks like another Bama/Clemson playoff battle in store.

Yeah it'll be worse than what Clemson just did to them.

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