Posted on 11/30/2017 8:15:47 PM PST by blam
The College Football Playoff Selection Committee made the only decision available to it on Tuesday night, leaving Alabama looking from the outside in at the top four ahead of the final weekend of the regular season.
The Crimson Tide went on the road to Auburn with a perfect record, and a place in the SEC Championship Game against Georgia on the line. Both vanished at Jordan-Hare Stadium. And the Selection Committee reacted, dropping Nick Saban’s team to fifth in its fifth, and penultimate, rankings for the season. Auburn jumped from fourth to second courtesy of that 26-14 win, while Clemson moved into first place. Oklahoma shifted up from fourth to third. Miami’s bad loss at Pittsburgh sent it tumbling from second to seventh.
The Hurricanes, though, control their own destiny. Beat Clemson in the ACC Championship Game and Miami is almost certainly in the playoffs (and the loser of that is out). The Sooners will be in if they beat TCU for a second time this season in the Big 12 title game at AT&T Stadium.
Neither of those results, whichever way they fall, really help the Tide although the Committee will face some weirdness if Oklahoma loses against TCU. There is hope, though, for Saban in the other two Championship games. “As the Tide spend SEC championship Saturday at home for the first time since 2013, they will be forced to root for their most hated rival: the Auburn Tigers,” Adam Rittenberg wrote for ESPN on Wednesday morning. If that sounds odd then Rittenberg’s logic is simple enough to understand. If Auburn walks off with the SEC Championship then the Tide’s one loss looks much stronger than if Georgia beats the team Alabama lost to one week previously.
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Phuck know x 1000
I’m rooting for the USC Trojans to massacre the Stanford Indians tomorrow.
Winner of the ACC Championship.
Winner of the Big 10 Championship
Winner of the SEC Championship
Oklahoma if it wins the Southwest Conference (N/K/A Big 12) Championship.
If Oklahoma loses, Bama will join TCU, Memphis, the Pac10 Champ and undefeated UCF in politicking for the last slot.
And the deciding factor is likely to be ‘who brings the most additional TV sets?’
Not me... go Tree!
Pac-12? Methinks not. Too many losses.
“THE”? Tired of that worthless definite article.
Cheering for the Badgers...
Go Bucks!
War Eagle...go Tigers!
Us poor Minnesotans have to make an upset over Nebraska last us until ...well, probably forever.
:-P
Go Dawgs! Sic ‘em! Woof, Woof, Woof!
More Games = More $$$$
Memphis and UCF have no shot under any scenario.
TCU has lost two games, Alabama just one.
Alabama lost to Auburn, which is ranked #2.
TCU lost to Iowa State, which is 7-5, and is unranked.
The Committee will do whatever it takes to put Bama into the final four. They LOVE Bama!
See Ohio State losing to Va Tech (6-6) making the playoffs the year TCU only lost one game to another top 10 team (Baylor) near the end of the 4th quarter, on the road.
The committee will make justifications for who they want regardless of who may or may not deserve it. Heck they mOay even put tOSU in it again and they lost big time to OU at their place and were a$$ pounded by Iowa (That’s 2 losses).
West coast TV sets may trump playing skill. Think of the big company on a diversity kick. They pick the best person for the spot, not the best qualified person.
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