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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)


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Posted
27 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said:

The only team that will feel like they got screwed today is ND getting 6/7 from not being in a conference. Though I do think an ulterior motive for the powers that be is to force their hand into joining a conference. An Indiana/Georgia matchuo will accelerate their decision makers into making that decision 

I like that result a lot better than two teams losing seeding because they had to play a conference championship game and lost a close result. ND’s arrogance that they don’t need to be in a conference has a price. Otherwise, get rid of these stupid CCG’s and just seed after the regular season. 

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Just now, utexas8 said:


I haven’t really watched any one else play except us. Who has a good defense in the playoffs that would give us trouble like UGA?

Texas didn't just struggle with UGA. They were up and down in almost every conference game. Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Penn State, Notre Dame, and Tennessee could all hold this offense below 20 points. 

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1 minute ago, Texasrocks said:

Texas didn't just struggle with UGA. They were up and down in almost every conference game. Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Penn State, Notre Dame, and Tennessee could all hold this offense below 20 points. 

Garbage take. Texas will decisively beat any team in the playoffs not named UGA, OSU, or Oregon. 

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Posted
58 minutes ago, B00M said:

There’s no way ND goes ahead of Texas or Penn State. 

ND is ahead of Texas and PSU in Sagarin, Massey, and Colley Matrix - three of the most important computer rankings the CFP uses.

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Just now, satyanash said:

ND is ahead of Texas and PSU in Sagarin, Massey, and Colley Matrix - three of the most important computer rankings the CFP uses.

I doubt Notre Dame, who lost to NIU and has a SOS in the 70s, moves ahead of Texas who has two losses, one in OT, to the #2 team in the country. ND is warmed over dogshit. 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, satyanash said:

ND is ahead of Texas and PSU in Sagarin, Massey, and Colley Matrix - three of the most important computer rankings the CFP uses.

So the explanation will be, “we’re punishing these teams for making their conference championship games because the computers told us to” …? Not being mindless machines is the entire point of the committee. 

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Texas didn't just struggle with UGA. They were up and down in almost every conference game. Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Penn State, Notre Dame, and Tennessee could all hold this offense below 20 points. 

Texas trailed for less than 8 minutes the entire season against teams not named Georgia. “Up and down” lmao.
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Posted
13 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Garbage take. Texas will decisively beat any team in the playoffs not named UGA, OSU, or Oregon. 

Texas has scored more than 20 points once in the last month. Any decisive win won't be because of the offense.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

There is no fucking way* we drop below Notre Dame.

PSU ahead of us at 5 is arguable either way but acceptable.

*I know I know…never start a sentence with those words

PSU at 5 isnt gonna happen. We were already ahead of them and we lost in OT and they lost in regulation. There is really no argument to get them ahead of us. Weaker SOS, worse losses, same amount of ranked wins (aggy will be ranked #25 after that UNLV loss). 

Just now, Texasrocks said:

Texas has scored more than 20 points once in the last month. Any decisive win won't be because of the offense.

Correct. Our defense will feast on these teams and probably score for us as well.  

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5 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


Texas trailed for less than 8 minutes the entire season against teams not named Georgia. “Up and down” lmao.

We're talking about the offense here. Try to keep up. The defense is elite. The offense has absolutely been up and down.

Posted
8 hours ago, eschuke said:

I honestly think they don’t want conference games in round 1 and will manipulate accordingly. I also think they will try to avoid Texas and Georgia in round 2 for the third time.

with likely home games at Texas, Penn state, ND and Ohio State, that means having anyone other than Texas at the 7.
 

If Alabama gets in (likely at 11) they will move us to the 5 to avoid them and play Clemson at 12.

If SMU gets in we will be 5 or 6 likely against Clemson or SMU (or possibly Indiana).

I think there is enough noise in the records and teams with bad losses that they will build the bracket they want and can point to any specific piece of data to justify it. 

I’ve seen people make the case that osu should be as high as 5 (which is absurd to reward them for that loss to um), Texas as low as 8 & psu as low as 9 having to play at Tennessee. 

If they want the conference championships to mean anything, and to not make lane kiffin right, and to not have teams in a good spot try to game the rankings by intentionally losing their last game to avoid the conference championships, Texas can’t be lower than 6 and psu can’t be lower than 7. And that’s if you think ND should be 5. If they really want to show that teams won’t be punished for playing in a conference championship game, Texas has to be 5 and psu has to be 6. Moving Texas or psu below 6 is doing exactly what they said they weren’t going to do by punishing teams for losing their conference championship. 

I think the only bracket that makes sense by not punishing teams in conference championships and avoiding uga-ut and psu-ore rematches is:

5. Texas - smu

6. psu - clemson

7. nd - iu 

8. osu - tenn 

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Posted
Just now, heso said:

I think there is enough noise in the records and teams with bad losses that they will build the bracket they want and can point to any specific piece of data to justify it. 

I’ve seen people make the case that osu should be as high as 5 (which is absurd to reward them for that loss to um), Texas as low as 8 & psu as low as 9 having to play at Tennessee. 

If they want the conference championships to mean anything, and to not make lane kiffin right, and to not have teams in a good spot try to game the rankings by intentionally losing their last game to avoid the conference championships, Texas can’t be lower than 6 and psu can’t be lower than 7. And that’s if you think ND should be 5. If they really want to show that teams won’t be punished for playing in a conference championship game, Texas has to be 5 and psu has to be 6. Moving Texas or psu below 6 is doing exactly what they said they weren’t going to do by punishing teams for losing their conference championship. 

I think the only bracket that makes sense by not punishing teams in conference championships and avoiding uga-ut and psu-ore rematches is:

5. Texas - smu

6. psu - clemson

7. nd - iu 

8. osu - tenn 

100% agree

Posted
35 minutes ago, utexas8 said:


I haven’t really watched any one else play except us. Who has a good defense in the playoffs that would give us trouble like UGA?

The problem is that we made the UGA defense look better than it is. They're the best defense we played, but it's nowhere near the level they've had in years' past. They gave up 41 to Bama, 31 to MSST, 28 to Ole Miss, 21 to UMASS, and 27 to GT (before OT)...and what do we do?  Score a lowly 15 in the first game and 16 in the second (before OT). So any of the teams could give us issues but we obviously want to play teams with a smaller DL we can just push around and lean on our running game, because getting to the opponent's 27 yard line or better 6 times and having to attempt a field goal all 6 times isn't going to cut it.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, OU Sucks said:

The problem is that we made the UGA defense look better than it is. They're the best defense we played, but it's nowhere near the level they've had in years' past. They gave up 41 to Bama, 31 to MSST, 28 to Ole Miss, 21 to UMASS, and 27 to GT (before OT)...and what do we do?  Score a lowly 15 in the first game and 16 in the second (before OT). So any of the teams could give us issues but we obviously want to play teams with a smaller DL we can just push around and lean on our running game, because getting to the opponent's 27 yard line or better 6 times and having to attempt a field goal all 6 times isn't going to cut it.

It’s a shame we hadn’t recently discovered a package for a mobile QB that could have been effective in the red zone

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Posted
1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

1. Oregon

2. Georgia

3. Boise

4. ASU

5. Texas

6. PSU

7. Notre Dame

8. OSU

9. Tenn

10. Indiana

11. Clemson

12. SMU

This feels obvious to me.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

Haven't kept up with Notre Dame because fuck them but is aggy  the best team they've played?

Murderers row if you ask me.  I can't think of any other team in the country that could get that schedule and only lose one game to Northern Illinois. 

 

A&M

Northern Illinois

Purdue

Miami, OH

Lousiville

Stanford

Georgia Tech

Navy

FSU

Virginia 

Army

USC

Posted
35 minutes ago, heso said:

I think the only bracket that makes sense by not punishing teams in conference championships and avoiding uga-ut and psu-ore rematches is:

5. Texas - smu

6. psu - clemson

7. nd - iu 

8. osu - tenn 

There's a lot of good in there.  First, they make sense, but looking at the travel distances, only one is even close to a difficult drive for fans of the road team:

Texas - SMU 200 miles

Penn State - Clemson 650 miles

Notre Dame - Indiana 200 miles

Ohio State - UTenn 360 miles

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Posted
25 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Bama is out, SMU just shot up to -1000 to make the playoff and Bama to +980

Didn't we do this last year?  Were the odds right or wrong for Bama/FSU?

Posted
33 minutes ago, B00M said:

It’s a shame we hadn’t recently discovered a package for a mobile QB that could have been effective in the red zone

Can’t struggle in the red zone if your offense never makes it to the red zone. 

Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I think Bama would beat the brakes off of SMU, but that’s an eye test/vibes deal not based on any metrics. 

Like they beat the brakes off OU and Vandy? The only things Bama has are a win over Georgia and their helmet. 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

Here is my call for the next 4 games. We play SMU first and win by 10, then Az St and win by 10, then Ohio St and win by 3, then Georgia and win by 7.

I think this is accurate, but you should add that after that happens, Kirby Smart and the whole world will complain that they won 2 out of 3 and should be the real national champions.  It wasn't fair to make them have to beat a team three times in one year. 

Posted
1 minute ago, hookem48 said:

Fuck Notre Dame, they should be the 12th seed if in at all.

Probably not that extreme, but they shouldnt be hosting. 

Just now, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

I think this is accurate, but you should add that after that happens, Kirby Smart and the whole world will complain that they won 2 out of 3 and should be the real national champions.  It wasn't fair to make them have to beat a team three times in one year. 

They can complain to Deez Nutz. I wonder if the New England Patriots shouldve tried complaining after they lost in 2007.

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