Posted on 11/30/2021 5:41:35 AM PST by C19fan
But in this era of crazy...watch them win the natty.
If Alabama loses (10 points or more) and Michigan loses(50/50), they're(ND)likely in the CFP. If Cincy loses, they are definitely in.
Now picture this scenario...Georgia loses, Cincy loses, Michigan loses, OKState loses...now what does the CFP do?
Georgia, Alabama, ND are probably locks...who's the 4th team among the logjam of 2 loss teams? I don't think Cincy is in the conversation...even with the 1 loss.
A few weeks back they ranked Michigan higher than Michigan St., even though MSU beat them. Do they do the same, only put Ohio State above Michigan(believing them to be the better team)?
The rest of the top ten have 1 bad loss...OKState(7-4 Iowa St.), OleMiss(6-6 Auburn and a clown stomping by 'bama), Baylor(5-7 TCU), Oregon(3-9 Stanford)...after that you're going outside the current top-10.
I know the above scenario(Saturday's games)is unlikely...but college football is kind of watered-down this year, anything is possible. If Georgia is the Goliath everyone makes them out to be, it's all noise in the end...but they haven't played a quality opponent in quite some time so...Alabama should show what they really are.
That said...the New Years 6 bowls(among the 2-loss teams)are looking to be more intriguing than this years CFP...no matter how it shakes out.
I think we are heading that way.
There will be the SEC (who I expect to start cutting lower performing teams eventually) and maybe one other conference. It will be more like the NFL.
Good or bad, that is where we are going.
https://lsusports.net/news/2021/11/30/brian-kelly-named-34th-lsu-football-head-coach/
PRESS RELEASE
BATON ROUGE – The search for LSU Football’s next championship head coach is over.
Brian Kelly, who has more victories than any active coach in major college football, has been hired as the head football coach at LSU, LSU Director of Athletics Scott Woodward announced on Tuesday.
Kelly, who will receive a 10-year, $95 million contract, plus incentives, will be formally introduced as the 34th head coach in LSU Football history at a press conference on noon CT on Wednesday.
Fans are also invited to welcome Coach Kelly and his family when their flight arrives at the BTR Jet Center at approximately 2:30 p.m. CT Tuesday.
Weeeel, maybe. But remember, the big money in college football supplies the $$$ that supports all the other sports programs at the school. Girls Field Hockey, anyone?
Louisiana is not Number One in NFL players. Maybe on a percentage basis of state population. The Top Eight are Florida 194, Texas 192, California 170, Georgia 134, Ohio 71, Alabama 60, Pennsylvania 60, and Louisiana 59.
Teams that control their destiny:
Georgia is in no matter what.
Michigan is in if they beat Iowa.
Alabama is in if they beat Georgia.
Cincinnati is in if they beat Houston.
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Oklahoma State gets in with a win over Baylor, and if Bama, Michigan or Cincinnati lose.
Notre Dame gets in with an Oklahoma State loss AND if one of Bama, Michigan, Cincinnati lose.
Baylor gets in with a win over Oklahoma State AND Notre Dame loses AND if one of Bama, Michigan, Cincinnati lose.
Until there is a Championship of league Champions it is all a fake championship.
He'd been head coach in three schools before he took the Notre Dame job (with a name like Kelly, he's gonna turn that down?) and reportedly his wife had a chronic illness, so proximity to Chicago's hospitals was a selling point, probably why he's hung in there 12 years.
The problem with college sports is, athletic scholarships. If the pros want to see their precious pool of talent get fake-educated, the pros should pay for it, along with the players' associations. Same goes for the arenas and stadiums, no more tax dollars for that **** either.
ND of the last six games is a different team, I believe, than the overrated team early in the season. The defense has gelled and is playing its best right now.
See my #61 above...what do you think of that potential scenario?
What would Bear Bryant be worth in today’s market.
They'd probably have to shorten the regular season.
8 teams with the Big Five Champions and 3 other Champions would do it. It would add 1 game to 2 teams than now.
Michigan State signed Mel Tucker to a $95 million / 10 year contract as well.
My proposal is to spread the 130 Division I teams across 11 Divisions, based on Geography and traditional rivalries.
The 11 division champions qualify for the Round of 16.
The 11 second place teams will play each other to round out the other 5 Round of 16 teams, with a play-in game between the two lowest-seeded 2nd place teams, so you get 5 First Round games.
What I do then within each Division is to create Two-Tiers, one is the Power Tier of teams eligible for the playoffs and the lower tier, which mostly consists of the Non-Power 5 teams, with a playoff game every year to determine which of the Lower-Tier teams gets to play in the Power Tier the next season, so conceivably this gives all 130 Division I teams a chance to “control their destiny”.
Kelly shares something with Hillary Clinton: they both had somebody killed.
I think Bear Bryant would have been “cancelled” under today’s climate.
OUCH!
They played garbage those last six games.
I am talking strictly as a coach and his ability to win, what is he worth on today’s open market? Leaving out politics and political correctness.
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