re: Have you guys seen the new playoff rankings?...

Not trying to be a contrarian, but fans of any 2 loss team don't have much of a pot to piss in.

In what way do you mean this? Because it’s a fairly easy argument that Penn State, Miami, Notre Dame, Boise, BYU, and Indiana all would have 2 or more losses playing our schedule, so what does 1 or 0 losses even mean if you don’t play anybody? The problem is the committee doesn’t have the sack (at least so far) to seed these teams how everyone who actually watches can tell you they should be seeded.

Indiana is a great example. Undefeated but their best win is a .500 Michigan or Washington team both of whom they played at home and neither of whom they really dominated. If they lose by more than 3 TDs to Ohio State, I don’t think they deserve a spot at all, but they’ll get one.

Texas is a decent example as well. Their best win is a 3 point road win against Vandy. They don’t control games impressively. They got a dumb amount of credit for beating a bad Michigan team on the road. But even if they lose to Texas A&M they’ll still probably get in based on absolutely nothing. Probably over us sadly.

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Give me relegation. Just because you were around a century ago when the original clubs formed doesn't mean you should have a seat at the table that permanently excludes others.

This is America. Win, or move aside.

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Then a 12-0 D3 team deserves to get in vs a 1 loss Big12 team because we need to be inclusive?

Imagine if Vegas did the rankings ?

The placement of Indiana and Penn St is a joke.

They wanna go on and on about strength of schedule, quality wins, and quality losses yet both of them have zero of the above except for Penn St losing at home to Ohio St.

They say one thing then do another.

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They wanna go on and on about strength of schedule, quality wins

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They actually talked about these things, which directly contradicts their rankings?

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Then a 12-0 D3 team deserves to get in vs a 1 loss Big12 team because we need to be inclusive?

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That’s not what I am saying.

Teams like Mississippi State, Rutgers, Purdue, etc, shouldn’t have a perpetual seat at the table to the exclusion of others.

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Not trying to be a contrarian, but fans of any 2 loss team don't have much of a pot to piss in.

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the consternation isn't that we are ranked low, it's where we are ranked in relation to others.

-Our resume is objectively, unequivocally better than ole miss. That is not debatable.
-Bama's resume is more in line with ours (than ole miss is), but they are 3 spots ahead of us
-Miami hasn't played a soul all season, and has a loss, and is ranked ahead of us
-If bama/ole miss/uga are chained at the hip in that order, why is bama ahead of miami?

And the biggest thing to me is the wild incosistentcy:

-We lose on the road to ole miss and drop 9 spots. Miami losses to shitass tech and only drops 5 spots
-We beat a top 7 ranked UT and move up 2 spots. Bama beats Mercer and moves up 3 spots?


The first 9 years of the committee frmo 2014-2022 I was their biggest defender because everythin they did was firmly and solidly rooted in common sense and rational thinking. Mouth breathers on the internet would cry about their rankings for a number of reasons but they ALWAYS got it right, every time. That changed last year when they did a total about face and logic went out the window. Now we've somehow put the guy that was over one of the biggest recent scandals in CFB in charge of the whole thing and it's a convoluted mess. There is no rhyme or reason to our ranking.

If you want to do it PURELY by wins and losses, then indiana should be higher and bama should be lower. If you want to look at the actual resume and the QUALITY of each win and loss, we should be MUCH higher.

At the end of the day, the asssholes who pick these teams will do so with revenue and DEI in mind.

If they really wanted to be fair, the committee would be made up of 13 Vegas odds makers. They don’t want to be fair though. Not the point of the exercise.

UVA is the scummiest University that no longer provides value to the citizen of Virginia. The people of Virginia hate that University that serves the northeast states.