🏈 Playoff Sections for 2018 -- 1) CU, 2) OU, 3) UGA, 4) BAMA

[gc90]

why is nobody talking about :

Clemson, Okl, Bama, Ohio State

I dont think Georgia has proven anything. That gives committee which is best team in each conference eye test.

 

[rick4bama]

:clap: But will those guys do this are think, we will have andSEC in the top 4! In that case put in UCF these guys hasn't lost a game this year!

 

[mando]

Something no one is talking about, last year when Ohio State jumped Penn State the Big 10 had a seat at the money table. They had a slot to get playoff dollars regardless if were PSU or OSU.

To leave out the conference and give the SEC 2 slices of the Playoff $$ is going to come under enormous pressure. Both conference leadership will be pushing hard behind the scenes. One stands to gain a lot of $$ the other stand to lose a lot of $$. Should not matter but in big business it does.

 

[bamaledge]

Something no one is talking about, last year when Ohio State jumped Penn State the Big 10 had a seat at the money table. They had a slot to get playoff dollars regardless if were PSU or OSU.

To leave out the conference and give the SEC 2 slices of the Playoff $$ is going to come under enormous pressure. Both conference leadership will be pushing hard behind the scenes. One stands to gain a lot of $$ the other stand to lose a lot of $$. Should not matter but in big business it does.

I can just see the headlines “Big 10 sues the cfp committee because they didn’t invite a big 10 team to the dance.”
Good point @mando

 

[mando]

I can just see the headlines “Big 10 sues the cfp committee because they didn’t invite a big 10 team to the dance.”
Good point @mando

Yep I could see the Big 10 doing that and that being the headline. We all want this to be about football but college football is big business. Regardless of what happens this will put pressure to change the system again.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Gonnnnnna be close for sure.............OSU's loss to Iowa in a fair world would give Bama the edge.

 

[gc90]

espn all out for bama FinBaum and all

 

[planomateo]

 

[gc90]

sagarin:

1 Alabama A = 98.23 11 1 71.96( 56) 0 1 | 3 1 | 98.90 1 | 99.26 1 | 96.28 4
2 Clemson A = 97.56 12 1 77.20( 8) 1 0 | 7 0 | 96.18 4 | 96.90 2 | 100.12 1
3 Georgia A = 96.22 12 1 74.38( 37) 2 1 | 3 1 | 95.34 5 | 94.33 6 | 98.74 2
4 Ohio State A = 95.82 11 2 75.28( 28) 2 1 | 4 2 | 96.34 3 | 95.46 4 | 94.76 5
5 Oklahoma A = 94.94 12 1 75.23( 29) 1 0 | 5 1 | 92.84 7 | 95.46 3 | 98.30 3
6 Penn State A = 94.92 10 2 72.99( 46) 0 1 | 3 2 | 96.58 2 | 94.66 5 | 92.44 8
7 Wisconsin A = 93.55 12 1 72.66( 50) 0 1 | 3 1 | 93.09 6 | 93.63 7 | 93.70 6
8 Auburn A = 92.87 10 3 78.00( 3) 2 2 | 3 3 | 92.18 9 | 93.48 8 | 93.10 7
9 Washington A = 90.58 10 2 71.56( 58) 0 0 | 1 1 | 92.24 8 | 91.07 9 | 87.68 12
10 Notre Dame A = 88.25 9 3 78.56( 2) 0 1 | 4 3 | 88.91 10 | 88.59 10 | 86.60 14

 

[planomateo]

Alabama has the best loss, but the extra conference championship game might be too much to overcome.

I'm of the opinion Bama is one of the top 4 teams and should be in the Playoffs...but not sure if the selection committee agree.

 

[EasyTider]

Hard to feel passionate about being the team the committee selects to be fed to Clemson. Their DL will mistreat our OL.

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

@12gage, I like your write-up, but you're preaching to the choir. 55-24 loss to Iowa should ring very loudly to the committee, but I have no confidence that it will.

 

[PhillyGirl]

I've been trying to not be pessimistic about this but I honestly just do not see Bama getting in. The committee kind of screwed themselves last year because they set the precedent of a non-conference champion getting. That so happened to be a team that then got molly wopped in the semifinals. They also dont want to set the precedent of not having two teams from the same conference getting in, now.

The problem with all of that is there isn't a rule that you have to be a conference champion, nor is there one about not having two teams from the same conference. If you are going to use those two things as criteria or let it bias your vote, then make the shit a rule or do what you're supposed to do. Put the top 4 teams in, we thought this would help with some of the politics of the National Title but honestly it's making it worse, and i think this going to end with a ton of backlash (no matter which way they lean) and we will eventual expand to eight teams and the rest of the Bowl Games dying a very slow and painful death.

Ultimately, I think we will see #1 Clemson, #2 Oklahoma, #3 Georgia and #4 Ohio State. Alabama on the outside looking in and with the risk of having a flat, unmotivated Alabama team tanking yet another BCS/New Year Six Bowl. I'm not trying to be critical with that last comment, it's hard for anyone with hopes of a National Championship, and having lost just one game, watching a 2-loss team (that got blown the hell out in both losses, one against an unranked team) get in ahead of them. It would be very hard to get up for a New Years Bowl Game against UCF or Miami. Honestly, only way I could see one of those bowls motivating Bama is if somehow the Cotton Bowl managed to get an Iron Bowl rematch. I think the Orange Bowl has first pick, though, so its probably going to be Bama vs. Miami. We can take solace in knowing that Ohio State is going to be prison raped by Clemson yet again.

100% agree.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

The Iowa loss will do for osu what the big loss did for psu last year...just cant get past it...period.
Consistency......

 

[PhillyGirl]

The Iowa loss will do for osu what the big loss did for psu last year...just cant get past it...period.
Consistency......

And OSU, a non-conference winner, got blown out. I don't see the committee doing this again.

 

[RollllTide!]

Go vote

 

[planomateo]

Had we not injured Francios, we wouldn't be discussing Bama's SOS.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Hard to feel passionate about being the team the committee selects to be fed to Clemson. Their DL will mistreat our OL.

Only if we help them by becoming one dimensional. They asked Kirby what the difference was the second time around, he said, "focus and physicality." The ebb and flow of a season isn't about talent and Xs and Os, it's more about the stuff between the ears. Kirby is going to be a great coach, unfortunately.

 

[252BAMA]

I don’t understand all of these dickheads that say tOSU should be in because we didn’t win our conference. HELLO, they didn’t last year and they got in OVER their conference champion! I guess their memory is as short as their dick!

Shorter than Dinich's.

 

[bamaledge]

Shorter than Dinich's.

Hers is prolly bigger than some of her male counterparts.