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[BamaJim67]

Have to disagree on the Nebraska loss being worse. Sparty got screwed on the final play by officials. OU got skull drug through Dallas by Texas.

^^^ This here.. Sparty was screwed by the refs, should've not lost that game - just like us with OM

 

[planomateo]

Good infographic.

 

[BamaFan334]

Oklahoma deserves to take a step back after not playing. They're sitting at home enjoying a cold one while everyone else is playing for their playoff lives. I do not think Iowa is near the team Oklahoma is, but they go undefeated in as many games as Oklahoma played, yet they're forced to play another Top 5 team in an extra week and they lose. Way better loss than Oklahoma on an extra week in the season where Oklahoma sits on its ass, now those guys' season is ruined over it. It's not right for an entire conference to gain exception over the rest of the country when conference championships are held in such high regard. Bullshit if you ask me.

 

[Bama Ravens]

I'd rather get OU in the NC Game. Would be nice for that to happen so we don't have to play them in their backyard.

 

[planomateo]

Oklahoma deserves to take a step back after not playing. They're sitting at home enjoying a cold one while everyone else is playing for their playoff lives. I do not think Iowa is near the team Oklahoma is, but they go undefeated in as many games as Oklahoma played, yet they're forced to play another Top 5 team in an extra week and they lose. Way better loss than Oklahoma on an extra week in the season where Oklahoma sits on its ass, now those guys' season is ruined over it. It's not right for an entire conference to gain exception over the rest of the country when conference championships are held in such high regard. Bullshit if you ask me.

Blame Stanford for losing a 2nd game and blame Texas/OU for breaking up the Big XII.

 

[Che Boludo]

Oklahoma deserves to take a step back after not playing. They're sitting at home enjoying a cold one while everyone else is playing for their playoff lives. I do not think Iowa is near the team Oklahoma is, but they go undefeated in as many games as Oklahoma played, yet they're forced to play another Top 5 team in an extra week and they lose. Way better loss than Oklahoma on an extra week in the season where Oklahoma sits on its ass, now those guys' season is ruined over it. It's not right for an entire conference to gain exception over the rest of the country when conference championships are held in such high regard. Bullshit if you ask me.

It's risk-reward. Last year it cost the conference, this year it was a benefit.

After 2011, we (Bama fans) can't really argue that point too much with any real legitimacy. However, Ou and the Big 12 no doubt recall 2003 where KState nearly ruined it for the Big12 by upsetting OU in the CG, although the bcs computers allowed them to play in the CG. So, framed in that, playing a CCG with a round Robin may not seem worthwhile.

Personally, I think the risk isn't worth it. Just play the extra game and get the "One true champion." Reduces doubt and controversy.

 

[rick4bama]

Final 2015 SEC bowl projections
Florida finally managed to score an offensive touchdown after doing without for eight regulation quarters.

Still, it wasn’t enough to unseat the Alabama Crimson Tide. And with that, the Gators slipped from a 10-1 College Football Playoff wild card 15 days ago to 10-3 and unlikely to represent the SEC in the Sugar Bowl.

Due to the team’s stiff decline — let’s call it the Treon Harris effect — Florida falls to the Citrus Bowl, while a surging Ole Miss gets sweet in the Sugar.

The only drama at the top Sunday will involve the College Football Playoff seeds. Most expect the committee to leave Clemson and Alabama at No. 1 and No. 2.

Michigan State beat Oregon in its non-conference schedule, played in the more difficult Big Ten division and traveled to Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio State (at the time unbeaten and the defending national champion). Add in a victory against previously-unbeaten Iowa, and the Spartans should get the No. 3 seed ahead of Oklahoma due to strength of schedule.

Now on to the lesser bowls. There are a lot of them. So many, in fact, that only 77 FBS teams won the requisite six games. Three teams will make a bowl game with a 5-7 record: Nebraska, Minnesota and … wait for it … San Jose State.

The NCAA rule states that if not enough teams reach six wins, bowls can invite football teams which rank in the top 5 in the nation in Academic Progress Rate. (APR is a weird number loosely based on graduation rates. You can learn more about the formula here.)

But because the NCAA wrongly assumed nerds can’t play football — all five teams were bowl-eligible this year — the selection process entered a gray area before everyone just decided to use APR rankings, even if it meant going further down the list.

Thus, Nebraska got a bowl invite, and then Missouri.

But Missouri announced last week that it would not accept a bowl bid, even though its APR would’ve ensured an invite. The team just named defensive coordinator Barry Odom as its next head coach. The Tigers would’ve been slated for a Dec. 26 game in Shreveport, La., about three weeks after Odom inherited Gary Pinkel’s job. It would’ve been a losing proposition for the school financially and would force the team to spend Christmas in a fairly inhospitable city, so it wisely said no thanks.

The relatively new pool system means the Citrus Bowl gets first dibs beyond the New Year’s Six bowls. It almost certainly will select Florida. Then there’s a pool of six games that all must claw and politic their way toward bowl matchups, followed by the Birmingham Bowl and Independence Bowl.

Because Mizzou declined, Auburn — the SEC’s only 6-6 team — almost certainly will play in the Birmingham Bowl, while the Independence Bowl (Dec. 26) will have to do without an SEC team.

This also ensures no SEC team will play in a bowl game until Dec. 29.

Whew. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, here are our final bowl projections. After the College Football Playoff selection show (noon ET, ESPN), the remainder of the bowl matchups should trickle out Sunday afternoon.

2015 SEC BOWL PROJECTIONS AFTER WEEK 14 (10 invites)

• College Football Playoff Semifinal (Cotton Bowl): No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 3 Michigan State
• College Football Playoff Semifinal (Orange Bowl): No. 1 Clemson vs. No. 4 Oklahoma
• New Year’s Six Sugar: Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma State
• Citrus: Florida vs. Michigan
• Outback: Tennessee vs. Northwestern
• Music City: Texas A&M vs. Louisville
• Belk: Mississippi State vs. Virginia Tech
• Liberty: Arkansas vs. Kansas State
• TaxSlayer: Georgia vs. Penn State
• Texas: LSU vs. Texas Tech
• Birmingham: Auburn vs. Memphis

Will turn down a bowl: Missouri

On the outside looking in: Kentucky, South Carolina, Vanderbilt
Sir Charlie say that if barner go to the B'ham bowl he wouldn't stay in his house that night.:rolf:

 

[planomateo]

AP Poll out, The AP Top 25 Poll

 

[PhillyGirl]

Here we go!

 

[PhillyGirl]

Would love if Oklahoma got booted out somehow.

 

[rick4bama]

@planomateo thanks for that chart, but it cross my eyes just looking at it.

 

[rick4bama]

Stanford and it two loss.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Business as always in Tuscaloosa. Giant party at Clemson, showing fans and players at the other locations but Bama is acting like they've been there before. Love it.

 

[rick4bama]

^^^ This here.. Sparty was screwed by the refs, should've not lost that game - just like us with OM

I knew something wasn't right about the loss with Neb. just didn't know what it was. Yes Texas outplayed OU that day.

 

[doemasters]

i would have liked a slice of pizza though @PhillyGirl

 

[PhillyGirl]

i would have liked a slice of pizza though @PhillyGirl

I know, same. I get hungry whenever they talk about it .. Sigh.

Can they stop yappin and get to announcing the final four??

 

[BamaFan334]

Blame Stanford for losing a 2nd game and blame Texas/OU for breaking up the Big XII.

I blame the Big 12 for thinking they will be slick and not impose a Championship game. Each school has bought into that idea from what have heard from coaches like Briles and others. Bit them last year, helped them this year, but there has to be consistency instead of slanted tables that favors a group of teams. You think people would be pro-Alabama if we didn't play a Championship game?

 

[rick4bama]

Business as always in Tuscaloosa. Giant party at Clemson, showing fans and players at the other locations but Bama is acting like they've been there before. Love it.

Yes taking about the pizza party today for the players. Kirk was talking about how much pizza will be: how tall. how long. To bad my grandson wasn't close by, he would give then a run for the money.

 

[TerryP]

I had forgotten about the Clemson bowl game last year ...

 

[doemasters]

bama and Michigan State accoring to ESPN.com