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If all of Surly keeps lobbying 24/7 and lightning strikes a poor schmucky team (like my guys) gets blown out Saturday, this time next week you’ll all be doing Longhorn reach arounds, crowing, “We’re in!” and deservedly so, my comrades.

 

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2 minutes ago, JBJ said:

I just use it as a corollary to show SOS/SOR.  It puts the figures into numbers that any people can understand.  The truth is the committee values SOR highly, and Tech's would be terrible with two losses.

not highly enough apparently...

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It doesn't matter bc they're out but Miami is the biggest head-scratcher of the whole rankings. 2-losses against a garbage schedule and somehow they're ahead of Texas and Vandy? Utah should even be ahead of them.

Also - ATM dropping behind Ole Miss is big for them. Unless BYU wins, they get ND/Bama round 1 instead of UVA (aka a bye). Hard to imagine a scenario where they move up to 6 at this point if teams truly aren't punished for CCGs (basically Tech or UGA would have to drop below them).

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11 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

It doesn't matter bc they're out but Miami is the biggest head-scratcher of the whole rankings. 2-losses against a garbage schedule and somehow they're ahead of Texas and Vandy? Utah should even be ahead of them.

Also - ATM dropping behind Ole Miss is big for them. Unless BYU wins, they get ND/Bama round 1 instead of UVA (aka a bye). Hard to imagine a scenario where they move up to 6 at this point if teams truly aren't punished for CCGs (basically Tech or UGA would have to drop below them).

My guess after reading Surly analysis is in order for the committee to ensure Notre Dame remains in you have Miami up there otherwise it opens the door for Texas and Vanderbilt to slide in over both…and apparently there’s some hog law that SEC can only get 5 teams in

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45 minutes ago, Bama Llama said:

If all of Surly keeps lobbying 24/7 and lightning strikes a poor schmucky team (like my guys) gets blown out Saturday, this time next week you’ll all be doing Longhorn reach arounds, crowing, “We’re in!” and deservedly so, my comrades.

 

This is just mean.

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Yes, he was talking about the 4-team CFP, but Leach’s thoughts on “committee” are still accurate. 

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1 hour ago, Tex-19 said:

It doesn't matter bc they're out but Miami is the biggest head-scratcher of the whole rankings. 2-losses against a garbage schedule and somehow they're ahead of Texas and Vandy? Utah should even be ahead of them.

Frankly, I think Notre Dame being ranked ahead of both Miami and Texas is a bigger head-scratcher.  Notre Dame lost to Miami and played a schedule that, outside of the first two games, was ridiculously easy.  For chrissakes, Stanford is the 4th best win on Notre Dame's resume.  Think about that for a moment and then puke at the thought of Notre Dame being in the CFP.     

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30 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Frankly, I think Notre Dame being ranked ahead of both Miami and Texas is a bigger head-scratcher.  Notre Dame lost to Miami and played a schedule that, outside of the first two games, was ridiculously easy.  For chrissakes, Stanford is the 4th best win on Notre Dame's resume.  Think about that for a moment and then puke at the thought of Notre Dame being in the CFP.     

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Lots of head scratchers here for me and questions.

- I saw nothing on the field that would justify swapping Bama ahead of ND. Not that this is wrong, but last week ND was ahead and this week they are behind despite a tepid Bama game against Auburn and a typical ND blowout of Stanford. I have to think they are leaving some cushion to keep Bama in but drop them after a close CCG loss. 

- Moving Ole Miss up after losing their HC and some staff is a surprise. I almost think they just didn’t want to face the media firestorm if they dropped them.

- How far realistically can IU fall if they get blown out by OSU. That’s entirely possible. It seems impossible to drop them past Oregon but….how do you not given their pretty weak SOS and SOR compared to SEC 1 loss teams. I think the committee really is hoping on a close game there. 

- How far can you drop Tech if they lose? I’d guess at least past the other one loss teams, but then does BYU vault all the way ahead? I think that BYU is out though. 
 

- Surprising to see two rematches in the first round. Of course one way or another Bama moves. But that could have been solved by simply keeping ND and Bama in the same order as last week. Goes back to my idea that they REALLY want a way to leave Bama in and now they have more cushion to drop them past ND and maybe even an ACC rep. 

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