re: The SEC screwed up by pushing Bama over Ole Miss

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A 3 loss team shouldn’t make the playoff. Don’t want to be left out? Dont lose to Vanderbilt or Kentucky.

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I’m not ready to make an edict like this.

I mean heck, the easy answer is that Clemson has three losses and absolutely should be in the playoffs, because they met the criteria established before the season of winning their conference to make the playoff.

Had Texas A&M beat Texas and UGA, they would have won the SEC and been deserving of making the playoff.

But I do think you hit the nail on the head with Bama, and it merits repeating. Their three losses are not against the highly ranked teams they played. They lost to two of the five worst teams (record wise) on their schedule.

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when Clemson was essentially guaranteed a playoff berth,

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Clemson wasn't getting in with a loss to SMU

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Clemson has three losses and absolutely should be in the playoffs, because they met the criteria

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Not so fast. Dabo admitted , several times, that God helped
Clemson win the game. Does God meet the criteria when
he's not even on the roster ?

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REBEL5 AC

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I do.

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You are the worst LSU fan on this site.

Sankey hates Ole Miss punk coach

Put in evidence. Sound testimony here.

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had a more palatable ugly loss

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This is debatable.

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Right, you can make arguments both ways when you consider the factors outside of the simple W and L

Loss at home < loss on road
21-point loss < 3-point loss
Loss to 4-8 team < loss to 6-6 team
Loss week 14 < loss week 5

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Sankey is to blame here. He lost a negotiation in which he (and big10) had all the cards. He should have demanded 4 teams and a reseeding after the top 12 were determined. He had to know that in most years the SEC would benefit from that. He also pushes a championship game which puts players at risk and gains nothing. The committee could not split the baby so they punted to SMU. Sankey put the conference in that position. He needs to go.

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I share your disdain for Sankey, but I completely disagree that any conference should be guaranteed more than one bid,
Including the SEC. I’m also totally against the idea of reseeding - upsets are part of the game. If a 12 seed beats a five - theoretically proving the seeding wrong - why should they be “punished” by having to play a tougher game?

Now, I could perhaps live with the five auto bids being guaranteed ONLY a top 8 seed where they received either a bye OR a home game.

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Bama was too but Bama likely got the benefit of the doubt because they were relatively heathy and everyone assumes Milroe can be a worldbeater running they ball when they decide to do it.

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Bama led UGA 28-0

after UGA played its worst quarter in 10+ years and Jalen Milroe simultaneously put on a Superman cape and set every stat to 99 aaaaaaand Kalen Deboer blew his half a season's worth of plays....kudos to Bama it worked dammit

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I think it is easier to say a dominant Georgia win cancels a Kentucky loss than trying to justify Bama/OU 2 weeks ago.

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What if I told you Oklahoma is the 26th ranked team by FPI, and they have the 6th ranked defensive efficiency in the country? Oklahoma is a better team than their record indicates.. Oklahoma’s losses were to (by FPI) the #1, #7, #8, #14, #17, and #19 ranked teams.

Oklahoma’s schedule was brutal. They had to play seven teams ranked in the top 20 by FPI. Of the top 9 SEC teams based on final conference standings, OU played 7 of them.

That is a flaw with the expanded SEC, schedule parity is non-existent anymore. A team forced to play 6 of the top 8 teams will likely have a worse record than a team that plays 6 of the 8 worst teams. The team with the worse record may very well be a better team. A good example this year would be Texas A&M who played only 3 of the top 9, or Texas who only played 2 of the top 9. Give Oklahoma one of those schedules and they are likely sitting at 8-4.