Posted on 11/27/2019 5:35:49 AM PST by C19fan
Top 10:
1: THE Ohio State University
2: LSU
3: Clemson
4: UGa
5: 'Bama
6: Utah
7: Oklahoma
8: Minnesota
9: Baylor
10: Penn State
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Go Navy! Beat Army!
They went from unranked to #24
The next couple of games will tell us a lot, but we may have to wait for the playoffs.
Are they still giving Ohio State players stickers to put on the back of their helmets for a job well done?
The Gophers go from unranked to #8 !!!
Powerful this year. Top 4 next year.
Major winter storm in the Rockies for the next four days. Colorado-Utah game will be a snow bowl in SLC.
No one knows about Clemson. LSU has had the 3rd toughest schedule, Ohio State has had the 5th toughest. Clemson has had the 37th toughest, and still nearly lost. I expected this change next week, assuming both won this week.
Buckeye AND wolverine fan here ...
As in most years a couple outliers in the upper tails of the distribution, a drop off to number three — no telling how much — and then only modest differences four through, say, eight. The CFP committee will navel gaze to rationalize and validate what they wanted from the outset and then get blasted from several directions.
As is the case every year, Alabama has the most talent but not necessarily the best leadership or chemistry. And this year their QB is out, which is too bad. It is a mistake to have an apparatus that rules out a team after one narrow loss to a great LSU team. Too much pressure on too many 19-year olds and profoundly unfair.
But also unfair to 1-loss and conference champions Utah and Oklahoma. Unfair in the same measure every year since it started. The whole CFP set up is ridiculous (it also denigrates and wrecks the conference infrastructure) and not much longer tenable.
But looking past the gosh darn stupidity of the CFP it still seems to me that this college football season has been unusually interesting and fun, even if on any given Saturday there have been remarkably few great individual matchups. Clemson has been invisible, which is stunning for an undefeated and defending national champion but understandable given how remarkably weak the ACC is in football. Are Clemson’s wins against high school teams newsworthy? (Yes, I exaggerate.) More important, is Clemson at a marked disadvantage in the CFP for not having had even one worthy opponent since last January? (I say yes.)
Is the Big10 underestimated? (I say yes. Deepest conference in college football.) For those of us over 50 years old, What the heck is the matter with Texas and USC? Even Michigan’s program has been less AWOL in recent years and these days is at least credible.
So much more to say but back to work. It’s a great time of year. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Fun year of football all around, though.
As an LSU fan, I have to make sure I use numbers to back up my own rankings. Until this year, the CFB was predictable using a formula that changed only a bit over time. This year, with the three new members, one week it is the AP ranking that decided positioning. Another week, it was strength of schedule, except Clemson. Another it was number of top teams beaten. Very erratic.
Buckeye fan here. The whole game of CFP is marketing. They want to pit OSU vs Clemson (LSU vs Clemson anticlimactic) (1v3) Then if it goes well Fields vs Burrow That would sell tickets.
Buckeyes have been dissed in the past by CFP so maybe this is some form of restitution??
College football. Anything can happen.
Beat Blue!
A good look, and agree the CFB is idiotic. NCAAF should just go back to the AP & coaches polls and let fans hash it out over the water cooler or at the tavern (check your six shooters with the bartender!)
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Being a Navy alum, beating Army is paramount each season. Those chuckleheads broke our long win streak & have beat us three years running. Time for payback. My oldest brother is also USNA, and middle brother USMA. Late father Army, late uncle USNA, cousin USAFA, & other cousin Navy. We have a good natured rivalry that now involves betting cheesesteaks & fries.
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Father was an Auburn grad, plus two other cousins, so also root “War Eagle!”
It’s not just team rankings GPS. Rather the strength of those team’s defense and offense plus the the statistical beating. When a team gives up 500 yards on defense to subpar offense it hurts them.
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