NCAA Football 2015: Week 11 Discussion

Clears Cleaver

Lil' Bill
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So basically we are
Clemson
Alabama
Ohio State / Iowa winner
Oklahoma/Ok State winner

Alabama passes the eye test, but their resume is pretty bad. they probably go into SEC title game with one top 20 win. they haven't beaten a team that can actually pass successfully. and FL is another example of that. If these teams were in Big10 people would complain about how bad they are. Of course, that is Ohio State this year

Stanford losing hurts ND. Maybe they get in ahead of a one-loss Oklahoma team?
What happens if Clemson loses to UNC?
Pac=12 is done
 
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Sox and Rocks

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So basically we are
Clemson
Alabama
Ohio State / Iowa winner
Oklahoma/Ok State winner

Alabama passes the eye test, but their resume is pretty bad. they probably go into SEC title game with one top 20 win. they haven't beaten a team that can actually pass successfully. and FL is another example of that. If these teams were in Big10 people would complain about how bad they are. Of course, that is Ohio State this year

Stanford losing hurts ND. Maybe they get in ahead of a one-loss Oklahoma team?
What happens if Clemson loses to UNC?
Pac=12 is done
I don't think the committee puts Oklahoma in over notre dame, nor should they. Ou lost bad to Texas while notre dame blew Texas out. Hard to reconcile that.
 

Gunfighter 09

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What will Alabama's argument be over OU, other than SEC!

They both lost to a middling conference opponent. OSU, Baylor and TCU would be better wins than LSU and Florida or whoever Bama beats in the title game. Of course, the answer is that any less than two loss Bama team has an automatic place in the playoff, especially when the PAC-12 rep doesn't show up to the committee meetings. I think what really happens is that if ND beats Stanford they are in, and otherwise the BIG-12 champ is in.
 

WayBackVazquez

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So...the AP and Coaches voters decided to handsomely reward UNC for beating up a mediocre at best Miami. If the committee follows suit, UNC could get into the playoff by winning out, despite losing to 1-7 South Carolina.
 

Infield Infidel

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Hey now, South Carolina is 3-7 ;), they are 1-7 in the SEC. There's still a ton that will happen the next three weeks that will likely make this and the preceding post mostly irrelevant, but I agree the hypotheticals are fun to think about now. UNC has two big wins at home the last two weeks against middling squads; the two road games up next at two other middling squads should be more challenging. They haven't had even 9 wins since Mack Brown was their coach and everyone had AOL accounts, so I'll believe UNC has conference title potential when they actually win the ACC.
 

WayBackVazquez

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They shouldn't even be in the convo. When you play 2 FCS teams and lose to a sub-500 team, there is just no fucking way.
 

Infield Infidel

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I agree with you unless literally everyone else falls apart. I'd like to see the CFP keep UNC lower, this week, like max 15, if they really want to say strength of schedule means something. The CFP doesn't really follow the AP or Coaches polls; in last week's Top 10s, they only had 4 teams ranked the same as the AP and 2 with the coaches, and we all know the coaches poll is some combo of name recognition + last week's results + SID's favorite road trip + conference affiliation = ranking. CFP has been intriguingly unpredictable.

One thing I don't like about what Jeff Long has said so far is their insistence at looking at records vs. .500 or better. A team that's .500 probably has at least 2 wins vs FCS/lowerG5, especially if they only have 8 conf. games. Which means they're 2 games under .500 against teams with comparable talent or resources. That's 4-6 at the end of the season vs teams with a pulse. I don't think most wins over teams like that are all that meaningful. I wish they'd focus on wins vs top 25 or 40.
 
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