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USA Today is PO benching the ACC - 😁 CFP rankings prediction, updated College Football Playoff bracket

More axes than a Cal vs Stanford game. Is Mark Stoops next? ESPN.comKentucky expected to fire Stoops, sources sayKentucky is expected to fire football coach Mark Stoops, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Sunday, with the process set to formally play out Monday.

HOME PO game! One of Ohio State/Indiana will host the Rose Bowl, with the other hosting the Cotton or Orange Bowl, with the Sugar Bowl reserved for the SEC champ. Get a win under the belt in Autzen and advance at least one step further in the PO than last season. This is a young football team that will have a tough bowl matchup in the 2nd round in Dallas, Miami, or New Orleans. I want the team to experience at least one PO win. The semifinal sites this season will be played in the Fiesta and Peach bowls. Teams from Dixie reap the reward of this so-called PO, a front for a bowl extravaganza.

Former Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald will replace Smith at Michigan State.

Here's the story from ESPN. At least Smitty scored 1 B1G win this season. UCLA in play? He's a SoCal guy. ESPN.comMichigan State fires coach Smith after 2 seasonsMichigan State fired coach Jonathan Smith on Sunday, the school announced.

He's down the Lane to Red Stick. Ole Miss to hire DC Pete Golding to replace Lame.

Good post, but I think that Texas not being ranked in the top 10 is about to sway Sankey and others to Tony P's PO format. SIWhy Beating Texas A&M Won’t Help Texas’s Chances at Colle...The selection committee has shown that losses matter more than big wins this season, and the Longhorns’ three defeats loom large against other bubble teams.%

Arkansas is looking for gold in (Ryan) Silverfield. Ryan is stepping up to the SEC from Memphis.

Heather has Texas out and OBD in at No. 5. ESPN.comProjecting Tuesday's penultimate CFP top 12We assess how the committee could stack the top teams in the country after Week 14.

Texas is being left out because one of its 3 losses was to a bad Florida team, and the Longhorns melted down in Athens. Texas also struggled to defeat 5-7 Mississippi State and 5-7 Kentucky, which lost to Louisville yesterday, 41 to Zip. A&M's SEC opponents have a combined losing record. A&M could not stop the Notre Dame and Arkansas run games, and it is the only P4 opponent Texas was able to run the ball against. Texas getting in as the SEC's 5th team could happen if the committee moves the Horns past two of the SEC teams it defeated, Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. If Texas gets in, I think it will be no lower than the 10th seed. And I think OBD will be the 5th or 6th seed. But ...?

There's a new Top Tiger at Auburn. Golesh is on the menu. Florida is rumored to be after Tulane's Jon Sumrall. After hiring and firing Billy Napier from the G6? I wonder if the Gators went Fisching? ESPN.comAuburn hires South Florida's Golesh as new coachAuburn has hired South Florida's Alex Golesh as its new coach. Golesh, who went 23-15 over three seasons at USF, will get a six-year deal, sources told ESPN.

BTW, if a post-champ game 2-loss team is going to be moved to make way for 3-loss Texas, it will again be BYU crying the PO blues. If 7-5 Duke defeats UVA in the ACC champ game, the ACC could be left out of the PO field in favor of the American champion and Sun Belt champ JMU. If you want to watch a conference implode, let this happen, and 2-loss Notre Dame getting in instead of 2-loss Miami. BOYCOTT THE DOMERS! Beg for B12 admittance.

NO! Give me seed No. 5! 1st round game vs the American Conference champ or JMU, before most likely playing in the Cotton Bowl.

Here are the Ken Massey rankings updated through Saturday's games. https://masseyratings.com/cf/fbs/ratings The Athletic's Stewart Mandel began his review of this weekend's games with the following: 'There is going to be a record amount of outrage in college football come Tuesday night.' My response: DUH! With mega-conference disparity in conference game Strength-of-Schedules, there were going to be more two-loss and fewer-loss teams that would fit in a 12-team playoff. Perhaps, Stewart, you, and other CFB experts should not have been so quick to accuse Tony Petitti of coming up with a playoff format that would eviscerate college football. Besides a bigger paycheck than you thought you'd ever see, record coaches' salaries, players making millions of dollars over the table, and more eyes on CFB than ever before, by all means, let us keep our PO unsullied; all teams must earn their way into the field. The SEC's Greg Sankey revoked his (faux) approval of Tony's PO plan and decided to move to a nine game conference schedule, because the PO committee's use of new metrics would not leave a worthy 3-loss SEC team out of the field. Greg, you may want to ask Sark how the 3-loss thing is working out? I think Tony Petitti may soon be acclaimed as the smartest guy in the room, although I expect Greg will take credit for his help in crafting Tony's plan. Using Massey's rankings, this is what a 24-team PO field would be. ACC - 14 Miami, 29 Louisville, 30 SMU, 33 Georgia Tech Big Ten - 1 Ohio State, 2 Indiana, 3 Oregon, 16 USC B12 - 9 Texas Tech, 11 BYU, 13 Utah, 24 Arizona SEC - 4 Georgia, 6 Alabama, 7 Ole Miss, 8 Texas A&M G6 - 32 JMU, 36 North Texas At Large - 5 Notre Dame, 10 Oklahoma, 12 Texas, 15 Vanderbilt, 17 Michigan, 18 Iowa 7 SEC/ 6 Big Ten/ 4 ACC/ 4 B12/ 2 G6/ 1 Notre Dame The top 8-seeded teams have a 1st round bye. The first three rounds of the PO would be played on campus. 1 Ohio State vs. 17 Michigan at 16 USC 2 Indiana vs. 18 Iowa at 15 Vanderbilt 3 Oregon vs. 19 Arizona at 14 Miami 4 Georgia vs. 20 Louisville at 13 Utah 5 Notre Dame vs. 21 SMU at 12 Texas 6 Alabama vs. 22 JMU at 11 BYU 7 Ole Miss vs. 23 Georgia Tech at 10 Oklahoma 8 TX A&M vs. 24 North Texas at 9 Texas Tech The only first-round repeat game would see Michigan at USC. Will this happen? Possibly, but not before 2027 at the earliest. Or, we could see Tony Petitti's 16-team 4-4-2-2-1-3 format come to fruition. OBD is off until playing a 1st-round PO home game on December 19th or 20th, which is nice. 😁

🤮 How many Rebels will Portal King Lane take with him to LSU, and will the chosen portal players sit out the PO? It's all about the Student-Athletes, right? 🙃