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That Miami ranking is fucking laughable. 

I'd love to bitch more than that but the fact is SMU was never getting any respect this season. Need to get to Charlotte and take care of business. 

I'm not sure what it says that I think the AP ranking is better. 

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1 minute ago, BigOrange1 said:

is it just me or would anyone else take the current draw right fucking now, no questions asked?

Yeah, if Texas wins out and wins SEC then we would be the #2 seed with a bye until Dec 31 or Jan 1st.  🤘

 

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7 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

is it just me or would anyone else take the current draw right fucking now, no questions asked?

Yeah looks good to me. The real thing will probably turn out something like that anyway as long as we take care of business. Rankings will be shuffled around, and maybe SMU wins the ACC instead of Miami. I think Indiana will dispatch Ohio State and finish #2.

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With the "champs" by that list, as i understand, being Oregon, Texas, BYU and... ND (?does that ranking get ND a bye week without having to play a ccg???) Or does it go to Miami. Honest question.. but ND or Miami...

Yeah man, I'd take that group 

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Just now, BurntEyes said:

With the "champs" by that list, as i understand, being Oregon, Texas, BYU and... ND (?does that ranking get ND a bye week without having to play a ccg???) Or does it go to Miami. Honest question.. but ND or Miami...

Yeah man, I'd take that group 

ND isn’t eligible for a bye bc they aren’t in a conference 

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2 minutes ago, Bevo14 said:

Yeah looks good to me. The real thing will probably turn out something like that anyway as long as we take care of business.

I'm sure I'll sound crazy and be shit on, but I'd prefer Oregon to IU in the post season. 

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2 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

With the "champs" by that list, as i understand, being Oregon, Texas, BYU and... ND (?does that ranking get ND a bye week without having to play a ccg???) Or does it go to Miami. Honest question.. but ND or Miami...

Yeah man, I'd take that group 

Miami or SMU would be the ACC champ. Notre Dame at best can only ever host a home game. Now if Boise State is ranked higher than the ACC champ, they would be the #4 team if they won their conference. 

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Just now, Js1 said:

ND isn’t eligible for a bye bc they aren’t in a conference 

Okay, thanks for the clarification. So it would be Miami if that was hypothetically a final. 

Yeah I'd be good with those but the quarter finals would have some blow outs favoring the "underdogs" imo. By underdog I mean the conference Champs would by underdogs to some much better teams in the quarters, imo.

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1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Miami or SMU would be the ACC champ. Notre Dame at best can only ever host a home game. Now if Boise State is ranked higher than the ACC champ, they would be the #4 team if they won their conference. 

That what I thought but it ND so some fucked up rule might have applied.

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1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Miami or SMU would be the ACC champ. Notre Dame at best can only ever host a home game. Now if Boise State is ranked higher than the ACC champ, they would be the #4 team if they won their conference. 

I sure hope Notre Dame loses another regular season game so they are left out of the playoffs...  😎

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Just now, BurntEyes said:

That what I thought but it ND so some fucked up rule might have applied.

Nah they gave up the chance for a first round bye by not joining a conference. Can only ever be ranked as high as 5, even if they were the only 12-0 undefeated team

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7 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Yeah, if Texas wins out and wins SEC then we would be the #2 seed with a bye until Dec 31 or Jan 1st.  🤘

 

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I'm sure i could look it up but are there conference alignments to the Quarter finals? (Like old school) 

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1 minute ago, LTtxfan said:

I sure hope Notre Dame loses another regular season game so they are left out of the playoffs...  😎

I don't.  I want the shitties filling up slots if we win the conference.

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Nah they gave up the chance for a first round bye by not joining a conference. Can only ever be ranked as high as 5, even if they were the only 12-0 undefeated team

Good, fuck them. 

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1 minute ago, Bevo14 said:

I don't.  I want the shitties filling up slots if we win the conference.

Miami, BYU, ND, Ohio State, Penn State are all teams I think Texas would be favored to win and I'd be happy as a fan to have in the playoffs. 

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25 minutes ago, mdmost said:

 

Thanks a lot Texas!  Just like you always do, you had to fuck it up for the rest of us.  They warned us that it’s always only about you. 

- the rest of the SEC

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7 minutes ago, 89Horn said:

Thanks a lot Texas!  Just like you always do, you had to fuck it up for the rest of us.  They warned us that it’s always only about you. 

- the rest of the SEC

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This season is going to make Sankey more against a 9 game conference schedule. Hell, they will consider rigging the schedule so top teams play only 1 other top team through early November. The Big Ten logjam is due to their season scheduling. 4 teams in the top 5, only two games between them so far, 3 for the whole season. In a round robin it would be twice as many total losses. 

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5 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

This season is going to make Sankey more against a 9 game conference schedule. Hell, they will consider rigging the schedule so top teams play only 1 other top team through early November. The Big Ten logjam is due to their season scheduling. 4 teams in the top 5, only two games between them so far, 3 for the whole season. In a round robin it would be twice as many total losses. 

Truth. The SEC isn’t going to allow a “you are what your record says you are” mindset. If the system is just stacking everyone up by wins and losses then this system won’t make it past 2026. CFP may be dooming themselves.

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SMU = Rodney Dangerfield of college football. 

Fortunately SMU is in a spot where they control their own destiny and don’t have to worry about perception to control whether they make the conference championship game.

Miami is ass, my dude, and SMU will stampede their asses, but what I don’t understand is how Miami, 2nd place in the ACC, is listed ahead of the first place team in their conference. 

It just doesn’t make any sense. 

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38 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

This season is going to make Sankey more against a 9 game conference schedule. Hell, they will consider rigging the schedule so top teams play only 1 other top team through early November. The Big Ten logjam is due to their season scheduling. 4 teams in the top 5, only two games between them so far, 3 for the whole season. In a round robin it would be twice as many total losses. 

If anything, the SEC should schedule more top games earlier. Get them out of way and be primed to move up when the BIG teams beat each other up late. 
the BIG will have 2 in the top 5 and SEC will have 3 after the conference championship games. Book it 

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14 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

SMU = Rodney Dangerfield of college football. 

Fortunately SMU is in a spot where they control their own destiny and don’t have to worry about perception to control whether they make the conference championship game.

Miami is ass, my dude, and SMU will stampede their asses, but what I don’t understand is how Miami, 2nd place in the ACC, is listed ahead of the first place team in their conference. 

It just doesn’t make any sense. 

A&M is tied for first place in the SEC and Georgia, Bama, and Ole Miss are ahead of them. That's just a feature of big conferences. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

I'm sure i could look it up but are there conference alignments to the Quarter finals? (Like old school) 

Yes, SEC champ to Sugar, B1G to Rose, then I’d assume ACC to Peach and Big 12 or whoever to Fiesta.

1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

This season is going to make Sankey more against a 9 game conference schedule. Hell, they will consider rigging the schedule so top teams play only 1 other top team through early November. The Big Ten logjam is due to their season scheduling. 4 teams in the top 5, only two games between them so far, 3 for the whole season. In a round robin it would be twice as many total losses. 

I have this concern as well, and am doubtful the nine-game league schedule makes it across the line.

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4 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

2 of the top 6. It’s always going to be the case that only 1 team from the SEC and BIG each will get a bye, and they will pretty much always make up the majority of the top 10. Getting the 5 seed over the 6 seed will also be a big advantage since 5 seeds gets to play the G5 team. 

 

The 5 and 6 seeds are going to be the place to be. This can’t happen now but there was definitely a big part of me rooting for us to win out but lose out on a ~4th tiebreaker to make the SEC championship game.* A one loss Texas team that missed their conference championship after losing a deep tiebreaker would be an easy sell to give the 5 or 6 seed to and you get to skip getting banged up in the CCG game.
Being the 5 or 6 seed allows you knock off any rust from a 3 week layoff against the weakest team in the playoff.

And you’re primed to go 10 days later against the worst conference champ that is coming off a 24 day break.

A one or two seed is going to lose in the quarters because of that break and a slow start while a team that is more “game ready” having played 1.5 weeks before comes out firing on all cylinders.

 

*Are teams that are bowl-eligible, but not in their conference championship games, allowed to practice the week between the end of the regular season and the conference championship?

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6 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

 

The 5 and 6 seeds are going to be the place to be. This can’t happen now but there was definitely a big part of me rooting for us to win out but lose out on a ~4th tiebreaker to make the SEC championship game.* A one loss Texas team that missed their conference championship after losing a deep tiebreaker would be an easy sell to give the 5 or 6 seed to and you get to skip getting banged up in the CCG game.
Being the 5 or 6 seed allows you knock off any rust from a 3 week layoff against the weakest team in the playoff.

And you’re primed to go 10 days later against the worst conference champ that is coming off a 24 day break.

A one or two seed is going to lose in the quarters because of that break and a slow start while a team that is more “game ready” having played 1.5 weeks before comes out firing on all cylinders.

 

*Are teams that are bowl-eligible, but not in their conference championship games, allowed to practice the week between the end of the regular season and the conference championship?

You’re really overrating the impact of that first game for the next round. 6 seed is not where you want to be at all. You’ll be playing a BIG or SEC team of similar skill level. That extra game against a similarly talented team drastically decreases your odds of winning the title. Then you’ll likely be facing a Miami team that is ranked 9th or 10th by most advanced metrics. Not nearly the pushover of whoever the 4 seed Big 12 champ is that the 5 seed will play. 
 

The 5 seed is a good spot to be. 6th seed is not anywhere near as good. The BIG is almost definitely getting the 5 seed this year, so anything short of winning the SEC will put us in a tough spot. 

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11 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

Yes, SEC champ to Sugar, B1G to Rose, then I’d assume ACC to Peach and Big 12 or whoever to Fiesta.

 

Assume Texas is SEC champ and #2 seed.

would they align the BIG champ to play in the Orange bowl in the semis? Or depends who it is before deciding if they’d be aligned to go there or Cotton?

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I tend to agree with the take above that we won't see a 9 game SEC schedule without playoff expansion that does not increase auto bids (i.e., adding 2 or 4 more at large).

What's becoming clear is due to Michigan and OU sucking (the latter can't help it obviously), absent an upset like USC/ND or PSU/MN (or something else completely random like Ole Miss or Bama losing as heavy favorites), Texas is going to have to win @ aggy to make the playoffs.  We could probably end up losing one of the other 2 and still get in with a W at Aggy.  But a loss there is probably going to knock us out barring upsets.  The narrative that Texas doesn't have a quality win is just going to grow louder.

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47 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

You’re really overrating the impact of that first game for the next round. 6 seed is not where you want to be at all. You’ll be playing a BIG or SEC team of similar skill level. That extra game against a similarly talented team drastically decreases your odds of winning the title. Then you’ll likely be facing a Miami team that is ranked 9th or 10th by most advanced metrics. Not nearly the pushover of whoever the 4 seed Big 12 champ is that the 5 seed will play. 

Unless the refs rape SMU, Miami won’t be in the playoffs.

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5 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

 

The 5 and 6 seeds are going to be the place to be. This can’t happen now but there was definitely a big part of me rooting for us to win out but lose out on a ~4th tiebreaker to make the SEC championship game.* A one loss Texas team that missed their conference championship after losing a deep tiebreaker would be an easy sell to give the 5 or 6 seed to and you get to skip getting banged up in the CCG game.
Being the 5 or 6 seed allows you knock off any rust from a 3 week layoff against the weakest team in the playoff.

And you’re primed to go 10 days later against the worst conference champ that is coming off a 24 day break.

A one or two seed is going to lose in the quarters because of that break and a slow start while a team that is more “game ready” having played 1.5 weeks before comes out firing on all cylinders.

 

*Are teams that are bowl-eligible, but not in their conference championship games, allowed to practice the week between the end of the regular season and the conference championship?

Now wait a minute.  Do you get banged up in the extra game or need it to shake off the rust?  #askingforamother

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Ever since this format was announced, all the galaxy brain thinking about how it's good to have to win 4 games instead of 3 has really been something

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If anything, the SEC should schedule more top games earlier. Get them out of way and be primed to move up when the BIG teams beat each other up late. 
the BIG will have 2 in the top 5 and SEC will have 3 after the conference championship games. Book it 

This is what will happen in the future. High preseason ranking for no reason, a cupcake or two and then a few of the assumed tougher opponents for the conference standard bearers. Back to a cupcake and some winnable games while everyone gets beat up.
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9 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Assume Texas is SEC champ and #2 seed.

would they align the BIG champ to play in the Orange bowl in the semis? Or depends who it is before deciding if they’d be aligned to go there or Cotton?

Think they align the QFs to conference bowl site tie-ins and in the semis, top seed left gets first pick of which SF site they want 

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8 hours ago, Skipper said:

I tend to agree with the take above that we won't see a 9 game SEC schedule without playoff expansion that does not increase auto bids (i.e., adding 2 or 4 more at large).

What's becoming clear is due to Michigan and OU sucking (the latter can't help it obviously), absent an upset like USC/ND or PSU/MN (or something else completely random like Ole Miss or Bama losing as heavy favorites), Texas is going to have to win @ aggy to make the playoffs.  We could probably end up losing one of the other 2 and still get in with a W at Aggy.  But a loss there is probably going to knock us out barring upsets.  The narrative that Texas doesn't have a quality win is just going to grow louder.

Agreed. We might be able to lose a second game, but it can't be aggy if we want to get to playoffs as things are unfolding now.

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20 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Can't get to 16 teams fast enough and byes get eliminated. Lets pray for 2026!

What would 16 look like? Autobids for top 6 conference champs and top 3 CCG losers, 7 at large? Retain top auto-seeding of conference champions? Conferences won't like a plan that diminishes the value of their CCG unless they are highly confident in the offsetting gains stemming from the new way, and maybe not even then.

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