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WOOF! Georgia fans are not happy with the CFP committee's comments DAWNOFTHEDAWG.COM It's becoming a weekly tradition now to see fans complain about the updated College Football Playoff rankings. Does anyone really expect anything different from

Now THIS is Heartbreaking, Right? 😁 Lincoln Riley and Matt Rhule have failed at USC and Nebraska TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Lincoln Riley and Matt Rhule watched their teams play a sloppy, ugly game on Saturday. Neither team is bowl-eligible. What happened to these two coaches?

Playoffs? PLAYOFFS! "... we certainly consider SOS in all conversations that we have." Warde Manuel - Playoff Committee Chairman - And then we use the Eye Test. No. 10 Georgia - No. 1 SOS. No. 1 Strength of Record. 2-2 versus the Week 3 top 25 including a win over No. 3 Texas in Austin. Texas 1 Loss. Georgia 2 Losses. Nine football teams are better than Georgia? Hey, Brigham, do you think the Committee members are Young enough to stay up and watch our games? A late loss to Kansas on a ricocheted pooch punt = an 8-spot drop to No. 14 and a first-round game for BYU if these rankings were final. 1 loss BYU has a top 25 win in Gerald Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas vs. No. 13 SMU. What in the HAY is this Committee's criteria? They're raising Cain in Miami. As 30 Duck noted above a No Mercy beat down of FCS Mercer on a Saturday when the Canes were MIA, logically leads to Bama moving up to No. 7 and jumping the No. 8 Canes. Right? The Ducks did pick up a 3rd top 25 win with Illinois sneaking into the 25 slot, behind FOUR. QUATRO, QUATRE, FOUR! G5 teams. The Illini have a win over the Kansas team that just dropped BYU 8 spots. Team Rankings SOS - 11/20/24 - ILLINOIS 51/ Tulane 65/ UNLV 71/ Army 120. Play Army's schedule and the Illini would also be undefeated. These rankings are brought to you by Dimwitz. We know Sark has photos. Photos he must have shared with 7-3 No. 23 Missouri HC Eli (after seeing this I need a drink) Drinkwitz. But Mizzou did beat Vandy in Como in OT, which is nice. 😁 These are all Honorable People. Right, Marc Antony? Seriously the people are solid, but the methodology is vapid. CFP Anger Index: Who should be most angry in Week 13? - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Breaking down which teams have the most to be angry about with this week's CFP rankings.

Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday, November 16th, OBD defeats the Badgers, winning eight games in a row versus B1G foes to go 11-0. Huzzah! Chicago, Illinois, B1G HQ, Tuesday, November 19th, sometime after a B1G Lunch. (Burp.) Congratulations Ducks! On Saturday night you clinched a conference champ game berth and another trip back East, this time to Indianapolis. How good can it get, right? Chicago, Illinois, B1G HQ, November 19th, sometime after Tea + Crumpets. Commissioner Tony Petitti - I am delighted to announce that we will be trading in our Abacus for something called a 'Computer?' 😁 ............................................................................................................................................................ Friday, October 13, 1307: Agents of King Phillip of France arrest every Knights Templar they can find on trumped-up charges of heresy. The Templars' true crime: Phil owed them a lot of dough. This led to the superstition that Friday the 13th is cursed and the general superstition that the number 13 is cursed. Ask Astronaut Jim Lovell who was in command of Apollo 13. Week 13 is the penultimate week of the 2024/25 regular season. It's a good week to chill out and watch the Hoosiers battle the Bucks for the right to play OBD in Indy. (It's also a good time to stock up on comic books, coloring books, crayons, and knitting needles in anticipation of a long offseason. 😧) Of course, OBD fans are hoping for five more games to be played: UWho, B1G Champ Game, Rose Bowl, Cotton or Orange Bowl, and The BIGGEE in Atlanta on January 20, 2025. Six games left if OBD does not Win the Day in Indy. 11/30/24 - UWho comes to Autzen for a visit, with Dan Lanning hoping to end the 0-3 dog poop nonsense. UW is 6-5 and bowl eligible. Jedd Fisch who lost Forty Players from the 2023/24 College Football runner-up team, has done an excellent job to have this team bowl-eligible; especially, after losing a winnable game vs. Wazzu early in the season and going 0-5 on the road to date. UW has been in every game this season, except the White Out in Nittany Valley, largely due to the play of Steve Belichick's defense, No. 17 in the nation, surrendering 4.80 yards per play. True Frosh Desmond Williams, JR. could get the start against OBD after being named B1G Freshman of the Week for his play versus UCLA. Fisch Won't Reveal His Starting QB Before UW-Oregon Game WWW.SI.COM Three days after leading the University of Washington football team to 17 second-half points and a 31-19 victory over UCLA, quarterback Demond Williams Jr. crea Bowl-eligible UWho will come into Autzen with nothing to lose. This is the Puppies Super Bowl before possibly heading to El Paso on 12/31/24, or being shuffled off to Shreveport. 😍 Conference Champ Game - 12/7/24. A 12-0 Ducks team is odds-on to play 11-1 Ohio State in the B1G Champ Game. The Bucks are favored by 3-points. The winner of this game is odds-on to be the Playoff No. 1 seed and play on January 1, 2025, in the Rose Bowl. the Ohio State University - Jim Knowles Buckeyes D is 1st in Scoring Defense, 3rd Yards Per Rush, and 3rd in Yards Per Play, 4.26 yards. Against OBD, Ohio State gave up 32 points, 341 passing yards, 7.6 yards per play, and had ZERO sacks. Think the Bucks D will be fired up vs the Ducks? A Rose Bowl appearance by OREGON would duplicate its 2015 Rose Bowl to kick off the 4-Team Playoff. The Ducks, beat up, and beat down Dumbo, er Jimbo, and Jameis, 59-20. But the game was close, right, Jameis? 😁 Here's hoping OBD has Tez and all other dinged-up Ducks on deck for the B1G game in Indy. ................................................................................................................... Going bowling is not what it once was but is still important to teams trying to improve, teams that can use the extra practices. B1G teams that are post-season eligible - OREGON, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Rutgers. 1 Win Away - Michigan, a tough follow up to a Champ season. Wisconsin, USC 😁, and Nebraska, a team that has been Bowl Schucked since 2016 and whose fans live in the Demonic 7th Circle of One-Score Losses. 2 Wins Away - UCLA, Michigan State, Northwestern, and Maryland. Ain't No Way - 1-8😒Purdue. ............................................................................................................. Week 13 Games With a Playoff Punch. No. 5 Indiana +12 at No. 2 Ohio State - 9 AM FOX No. 14 BYU -3.5 at No. 21 ASU - 12:30 PM ESPN - DILLY! No. 16 CU -2.5 at NR Kansas - 12:30 PM FOX No. 4 Penn State at NR Minnesota - 12:30 PM CBS No. 19 Army vs No. 6 Notre Dame - 4 PM NBC October 18, 1924, in front of 60,000 spectators in The Polo Grounds, Notre Dame 13, Army 7. "Outlined against a blue, grey October sky the [ND] Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore, they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death." Grantland Rice WAX WASHINGTON - Send The Dirty Dogs to Shreveport!

Only 75? PUP! 😁 At 77 I think it's safe to say that we have seen a lot of change in CFB. Some good, some not so good. Waste Washington!

Isn't this the guy who had OBD No. 1 with a question mark? Perhaps he sobered up and remebered what it's like to have played the game. Consistency is the hobgoblin of mediocre minds, right? 😁

Thanks, Darren. If the Ducks are not the B1G conference champion, OBD, if it played for the title in Atlanta, would have Six Games left to play. Home vs. UWho and the 1st round PO game. On the road in Indianapolis, a game in the Fiesta, Sugar, or Peach Bowl, a game in the Cotton or Orange Bowl, and 1/20/25 in Atlanta. Whew! Echoing comments above: Is Oregon in the SEC playing Georgia's 2024 schedule or Texas' 2024 schedule? Oregon defeated the common opponent, Michigan with both games played in Ann Arbor. Oregon would go 4-0 vs. Texas OOC slate. Again mirroring the Texas schedule, Georgia would have played OBD at Autzen Stadium. I think Oregon could have won a close game over UGA, especially if Beck threw three Picks like he did vs. the Horns. OBD would have been favored on the road vs. Mississippi State, Vandy, Arkansas, and the upcoming game at TX A+M, versus Oklahoma at any neutral site, Florida, and Kentucky. Again, if OBD played Texas' schedule the Ducks would be headed toward the SEC champ game in Atlanta. Thanks again.

Sorry, I thought I made it clear that the 'weather' at game time is available to the Football Committee. It doesn't matter in basketball unless the games are played on the deck of an aircraft carrier. 😁

Thanks, Grandpa, and AMEN Charles. Much of the legitimate criticism of the Committee would disappear if it followed the Basketball Committee and revealed the metrics it uses in ranking and seeding teams. Search - Metrics Used by the College Basketball Committee for detailed descriptions of these metrics. NET - game results including where the game was played and whether it was a QUAD I, II, II, or IV win. WAB - Strength of Record Metric BP Index and KenPom Index- These metrics measure the quality of wins. Strength of Schedule, Strength of Record including where the games were played, weather at game time, injuries to key players before, and in-game and Game Control Statistics are all available to the Football Committee. So why do we have the CFB Committee Chair talking about The "Eye Test" that ipso facto makes the Committee subject to claims of bias? The Committee's 1st and 2nd rankings appear to be based solely on the number of losses a team has suffered. The No.1 reason why the B1G and the SEC will have three to four automatic qualifiers come 2026.

UWho will not be that easy an out but Do Not Rush Back. Tez will definitely be needed on 12/7/24 in Indianapolis vs tOSU. THIS is great news!😍 Tez is not only fast and elusive but he 'sits down' in the right spots against zone coverage which the Oregon WRs often failed to do in Madison. WASTE UWho!

Ducks and the Playoff—Week 13. This is a good take, but Come On, Man! The higher-seeded teams Do Not have a bowl game choice in the second Round. ROSE - B1G/ SUGAR - SEC/ PEACH - ACC/ FIESTA - B12 or Boise. This has all been disclosed. Are these writers dense or lazy? BTW, SMU is in the ACC, not the B12 or the Mountain West. SMH! Making sense of Oregon Ducks College Football Playoffs scenarios after Big Ten victory over Wisconsin WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The best word to describe the Oregon Ducks victory over Wisconsin is "survival." They toughed out a very physical matchup with the Badgers, who played incredibly well, especially on...

Ohio State's SOS in 2024, even with 3 donut holes OCC is No. 28 coming into Week 13. Ohio State played two top-five teams on the road, OBD, and Penn State, and went 1-1 with a 1-point loss in Eugene. Ohio State plays No. 5 Indiana on Saturday. Then, it plays a likely 6-5 bowl-eligible Michigan team; the Wolverines play Northwestern in Ann Arbor this Saturday. On 12/7, No. 2 Ohio State is odds-on to play No. 1 Oregon in the B1G champion game. OBD or Ohio State should not be dinged for losing this game unless it is a complete blowout. If the Committee drops Oregon or Ohio State below a two-loss SEC team that did not play in the SEC champion game, Tony Petitti will be justified in requiring that the top 4 B1G teams in 2026 are in the PO field with the B1G and the SEC champ having the two top seeds.

Saturday Tradition Ranks the B1G Heading Into Week 13. Ducks Stay On Top. Big Ten Power Rankings following Week 12 SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Big Ten Power Rankings are getting updated after we wrap up Week 12 and head into the final few weeks of the season. Ohio State has moved to -12 vs Indiana and Penn State is -11.5 playing at Minnesota.

NO! The best team in the SEC does not lose at home to 4-6 Kentucky and at 6-4 LSU. Recency Bias based on a win over UGA. Who knows which team in the SEC is the best? They have all taken turns beating one another. But IMO, it isn't Texas. Texas schedule is a breeze compared to Georgia and Bama. MAYBE? Ohio State is -11. I watched Cig's news conference today and not surprisingly, he is super confident. 😁 Would a two-score loss in Columbus be all that bad? I hope Indiana can hang in because I do not want to see 5 SEC teams in the PO and 3 B1G teams. The SEC cheerleaders will ignore Texas playing no one and emphasis Indiana losing to the only ranked team it played.

Two Deserving B1G Players of the Week. HUZZAH! Atticus Sappington and Matayo Uiagalelei earn Big Ten Player of the Week honors 247SPORTS.COM The Oregon Ducks have two players named to the Big Ten's Weekly Player of the Week honors for their performances in the Ducks' 16-13 win against Wisconsin.

If the B1G conference champ game does feature OBD vs tOSU, why should the loser of a close game be penalized for playing in its conference champ game; especially, when Notre Dame has a champ game 'bye' and 2-loss teams sit out the conference champ game? If Georgia plays Alabama in the SEC champ game then based on strength of record and strength of schedule a 3-loss UGA or Bama should get in instead of a possible 2-loss Texas and should be seeded above even a 1-loss Texas. The Committee penalizes conference champ losers and it will be a black eye for the Committee and likely lead to multiple automatic PO spots for three or four B1G and SEC teams come 2026. And while it's not desirable as Charles pointed out, if there are four B1G teams in the PO field as we should so desire ($$$$), we will see at least one and likely both brackets having B1G teams in the same bracket.

Thank goodness Puddles gets to rest in the nest on Week 13. Here are Week 13's B1G Deals. B1G storylines for Week 13: All eyes on Ohio State vs. Indiana SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Indiana is 10-0 but hasn't faced a ranked team all season. Saturday is Statement Day. Plus: What to know about the rest of the Week 13 slate.

Thank you, Charles. And OBD's Women's Cross Country team won the B1G title! Nine (9!) B1G Women's soccer teams won their first-round NCAA Tourney games and are moving on. Oregon lost a tough game to Indiana. The Northwestern Field Hockey team has advanced to the Final 4. Women's Volleyball. Nebraska, Penn State, Wisconsin, and Purdue are in the Top 10. OBD is No. 11 with Minnesota and SC also in the top 25. Last night in CBB, Purdue upset Alabama and Wisconsin upset Arizona. Six Women's B-Ball teams are in the top 25 including No. 23 OBD. 😍 It's so Good to be B1G. WIPE OUT UWho!

NO WORRIES. OBD defeats UW, now 6-5 and a dangerous team in the Pacific time zone with two capable QBs and a very good RB, and -11 tOSU defeats Indiana and Michigan in Columbus, it will be a battle of the Os rematch in the B1G Champ game. In this case, unless one of the Os blows the other out, on 12/8/24 it will be Oregon as the No. 1 seed and Ohio State as the number No. 5 seed or vice versa. No. 3 Texas has Kentucky and at A+M remaining to be played. A+M before hosting Texas has what could be a tricky game at Auburn this week. Regardless one of the two with 1 SEC loss will have at least 2 SEC losses after their game on 11/29. If Georgia wins out vs. UMass 😒and Georgia Tech, I think a 2-loss UGA would play a 2-loss Alabama in the SEC champ game. A 2-loss Texas with no wins against the Committee's final top 25 could find itself out of the PO in favor of 2 or 3 loss Georgia/ Bama, and 2 loss Ole Miss and Tennessee. A bad loss by Indiana Saturday and a 2nd loss by Penn State could see five SEC teams in the field. Wax UW! And I hate to say it but: SC, Ding the Domers! Ohio State has moved to -12; Penn State is -11.5 on the road vs Minnesota.

Who Knew? OBD = QBU? https://athlonsports.com/college/oregon-ducks/quarterback-u-pro-ducks-justin-herbert-and-bo-nix-are-tearing-it-up-in-the-nfl 😍

Thank you, Alex. No argument regarding your Mari(o) call; the man never came across a team he could not play down to. SMU defeats Miami in the ACC champ game and the 2-loss Canes would likely miss the PO. SMU will score against this Miami D. A loss in the ACC champ game would please the members of the U's NIL collective, right?😁 With CAM rented for one season and missing Clemson, Pitt, SMU and half-ACC'd Notre Dame in the regular season, this would be an Epic Fail. Eight in a row versus P4 competition without a siesta. The only P4 team asked to do this in 2024. Three trips East in the last five games of this gauntlet. Teams No. 7 and 8 coming off 'bye' weeks. As you noted, key guys were missing including the go-to guy on O and DL Burch who will be drafted early by an NFL team in 2025. A night kick-off in Madison where Wisconsin was 10-2 in its last twelve night games versus ranked opponents, including a victory over No. 1 Ohio State. A remarkable effort to go 8-0. Tez was injured early in the Michigan game. Will a month of healing have him back on the 30th? If it's a close call will it be better to hold him out one more week for the likely rematch vs. the Buckeyes? Sleep well and Wipe Out UW Back-to-Back!

Deep Breath. OK, Breath Out. Oregon Ducks exhale, undefeated 2024 season still alive SATURDAYBLITZ.COM The No. 1 Oregon Ducks defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 16-13 on Nov. 16, continuing their undefeated season. It's another scare for the Ducks, but the No.1 team

Good call, DM. With the No. 5 seed, a team will have to win 3 games to advance to play for the title on 1/20/25. It will be interesting to see how teams with a first-round bye fare in the second round away from home in a bowl game. The 5-seed, unless it's the Domers, will likely have played a 13th conference champ game and lost, so 17 games to win the title instead of 16 games. And as you so noted, one week's less time to rest, and scout the two opponents in their first-round game, one of which you will play. And any team that believes Boise State will be a walkover could be in deep kimchee. Ditto a Tulane team that just defeated Navy 35-0.

Interim Rankings Make an 'Impossible' Job More Difficult. The Committee erred in ranking Texas No. 3 based on the Eye Test. Texas has no current top-25 wins and was destroyed at home by two-loss Georgia. The Dawgs have a better Strength of Record than the 1-loss Longhorns. Now with the resurrection of Carson Beck (at least in Week 12) Georgia's impressive victory over No. 7 Tennessee places the Committee in a tough spot. 😁 Do wins against nothing-burger opponents mean more than a home loss? If this is the case, why not play the easiest schedule possible? The Committee's rankings to date reflect the BCS era More Than One Loss and you're out days. IMO, the Grapevine Gurus deserve to be hoist on their own Eye Test petard. Do you think ESPN can objectively cover the Committee's rankings? The CFP committee has a dilemma on their hands after Georgia's win DAWNOFTHEDAWG.COM Georgia football has played their way back into the College Football Playoff picture after their 31-17 win against Tennessee on Saturday. Last week the CFP comm

WOW! 21 teams are still in the mix for a PO spot. College football winners and losers: The 21 teams that still have a shot at the College Football Playoff SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Over 20 teams can claim they have a path to the College Football Playoff with two weeks to go in the regular season.