If you took Iowa under 0.5 team total for the first half at even money you won!!!
P.S.: I was watching the SEC Championship game and the broadcast continuously showed a groups of I assume Bama students in the first rows of the end zone with the men in jackets and ties and the women in what appeared to be identical business ware too. They had name tags. Anybody know who they were, some frat and sorority?
Too bad they can’t force a play in game between Bama and FSU, it’s what should happen. Whichever team gets left out will be rightfully ticked off.
Florida State is the odd man out, IMO.
Betting Georgia gets dropped.
Texas beat Alabama who beat Georgia.
Huge loss for GA yesterday - huge win for Alabama.
But then Alabama’s win over Auburn was almost a fluke with a “Hail Mary” pass working at the very end.
I suppose you could make a case for seven teams, to include Georgia and Ohio State, if the playoffs were expanded to eight teams. But then there would be an argument about who would be #8 (probably Oregon).
Capstone Men and Women, They function as student ambassadors for the university.
It’s the group that does tours on campus. I forget their names, but they wear the same thing on tours.
It was quite a contrast to Duke where the tour guide was in cut off shorts and a t-shirt.
My daughter went to Bama. With over a 4.0 GPA and a 35 on her ACT, she could have gone to Duke.
Mich Wash Ala Fla State. Mich over Fla State by 8.5. Ala over Wash by2.5. Mich over Ala by 1.5. Mich is nat champ
Texas doesn’t deserve it losing a bad game to a mediocre football team but the committee will give them a spot after the Longhorms smashed an equally mediocre Oklahoma State squad.
Michigan-Washington-Texas-Alabama
Oh, that's right, There is a lot more money involved in (NFL) minor-league football.
It’s an odd situation. In terms of the best teams in the nation, the two best are probably Georgia and Alabama. They will probably both be left out of the playoff.
Somebody was always angry. The 4 team playoffs for a sport with over 100 teams and 5 super conferences was always an idiotic half measure that truly failed every year. So no reason why it shouldn’t fail one last time.
The reason the committee will put TX in and leave Bama out is that TX had a 27% chance of winning out, the lowest of any team in the top 8 this year. TX may have the COA.
Games won, plus points for, minus games lost and points against= Equitable and un-bias-able parameters.
Has a #4 team ever won the playoff? I don’t think so. So imho, whomever gets squeezed out of the 4th spot shouldn’t be too upset. ...unless the #4 wins the playoff :)
That said, we’re talking about fans here - so rationality goes out the window.
I’m in Michigan, so I’m waiting for somebody to claim “cheating” and for them to be tossed....probably from OSU fans :)
Gotta keep all the undefeated bigs in there. Very difficult to go undefeated. Then Texas beat Alabama, Alabama beat Georgia. Texas goes in.
Committee shouldn’t consider historical resumes.
As far as FSU is concerned, they won the conference championship without their starting quarterback..says alot for the team.
FSU should be in it.
Conclusion IMHO...
MICH.
WASH.
FSU
TEXAS.
I think next year it’s 12 teams for the playoff...so we’ll be arguing over the number 9, 10, 11, 12 teams. Then we’ll argue that the number 10 team really shoulda’ been seeded number 8....Then we’ll say that whoever wins the championship won because of a bad referee call..
sarc.follows:....and then in 5 years most of us will forgot who won, cause our sjw’s and snowflakes will be conscripted into the army to fight in Ukraine....sarc/off
No way GA is kept out by one close loss after 29 straight, and all Bama did was make Texas look like it belonged. Bama received the same 'grace' in their one-loss '11, '12, '15, '17 championship seasons, and so the Committee won't extend the same 'grace' to the current Champion team?
The NCAA got themselves into this when they went to this format and decided that someone had to be the national champion. The old adage “on any given day” applies to sports like college football. And who owns the crystal ball tht can look at records and determine a certain team is better than another one. Variables like injuries, weather, location based upon travel, and player availability are just a few of the major elements that drive the capacity of a team. And then there’s dumb luck at just the right time.
I saw this failure in their thinking start when they took the Rose Bowl away from the PAC 12 and now ultimately the PAC 12. This whole thing can be summed up with a little five letter word...money. And I’ll even give you a prediction:
By allowing the vacating of the PAC 12 to create games on the east coast, they are going to lose their shirts. A lot of people would drive south to see USC versus CAL but they won’t drive to Pennsylvania. And just like trying to sell out the superbowl, the locals won’t be that interested in a west coast team they have been told are substandard for years. It might sell the first year, maybe two. But it’ll die after that when the novelty is gone. I wonder what conferences they are going to erase then. Or do they start with bowl games that are a dime a dozen now?
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Liberty U is undefeated and Conference Champion 🏆. Why don’t they get a shot?
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Ι actually enjoy watching the FCS Playoffs.
Best game yesterday was the North Dakota State-Montana State game.