GeotechDuck

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Here are my opinions on this. Georgia is very under-valued. They are being penalized for playing an extremely difficult schedule. They are the only team that has 3 wins against the Top 25, including 2 against the Top10. Both of their losses are against the Top10 as well. They are the only team in consideration that has played 5 ranked teams. Texas, Indiana, and ND are all currently over-valued. Here is how I would rank them now: 1) Oregon - Three Top 25 wins, no losses 2) tOSU - One Top 5 win and a loss to the No. 1 team 3) Georgia - Three Top 25 wins, including two vs the Top10. Two good losses to Top 10 teams. 4) Penn State - One Top 5 win and one close loss to the No. 2 team 5) Tennessee - One Top 10 win; one Top 10 loss; one suspect loss 6) Alabama - Two Top 25 wins, including a Top 10 win; one Top 10 loss; one suspect loss 7) Ole Miss - Two Top 25 wins; one loss outside Top 25; one horrible loss 😎 Indiana - Undefeated, but no Top 25 wins. 9) Texas - Only one win against a team with a winning record; Lost to the only ranked team they played. 9) Notre Dame - One Top 25 win against a team that has no Top 25 wins; one horrible loss 10) Boise St. - Two Top 25 wins and lost to No. 1 by three. SOS is outside the Top 60. 11) BYU - One Top 25 win; Beat SMU head to head. Poor SOS. 12) SMU - No ranked wins, but a better loss than Miami (who also lost two other times and get bailed out by the refs). Here is my playoff prediction: 1) Oregon; wins the BIG CCG 2) Alabama; wins out + Missouri wins 1 of 2 to get into the CCG. Beats Texas or A&M in the CCG. 3) SMU; wins out + beats Miami in the CCG. 4) Boise State; wins out and finishes higher than the Big-12 champion 5) ND; wins out. Slotted here above tOSU to avoid the UO vs tOSU hat trick 6) tOSU; runner up in BIG. Drops a spot due to the CCG loss for seeding purposes. 7) Penn State; wins out but misses CCG. 😎 Georgia; wins out, but misses CCG. SOS gets them seeded above other SEC teams. 9) Texas; beats A&M but loses to Bama, but that is enough to keep them in the field. 10) Ole Miss - Wins out and is enough to stay in the field. 11) Tennessee - with UTEP and Vandy left, they win out. 12) Colorado - wins the Big-12 and secures the 12 seed. First teams out - Indiana, Miami, then BYU.

Agree. Basketball has it figured out and they should follow that model. However; so far, not so good. The current bracket looks like it was formed on current record and has little to do with SOR, SOS, or type of loss. It's unfortunate, because I feel like there was an opportunity to elevate SOR as a key metric to reward OOC scheduling, but it looks like they did the opposite. If I was an AD in the SEC or BIG, I would schedule all cupcakes for OOC games. How do you have a team that has 2 Top 10 wins, another Top 20 win, and 2 top 10 losses above a team that has ZERO Top 25 wins and only 1 win against a team with a 0.500 or better record? The committee should be embarrassed right now.

He will probably just take him along to FSU next year.

One of my biggest joys in life right now is watching USC circling the drain. What a great year.

This could be the most ridiculous article I have read this entire year. So bench your starting QB, get blown out, then take you chances on getting into the playoff with no wins against ranked opponents? Joey is bonkers. Joey Galloway: Indiana should bench QB Kurtis Rourke vs Ohio State to maintain CFP path WWW.USATODAY.COM ESPN's Joey Galloway on Tuesday said Indiana football shouldn't play quarterback Kurtis Rourke vs. Ohio State to keep its...

I could see Indiana getting up to No.2 if they pull off the upset and beat tOSU soundly. The Ducks are safe at No.1 for another week with wins against 3 teams in the Playoff Top 25.

They need to get rid of the conference winner byes and just give the top 4 teams the byes. You can still get an autobid if you win your conference. But there is no way the Big-12 or ACC should be getting a bye this year.

Andy and Ari on their podcast tonight are half joking around that tOSU and Oregon should both try and lose on purpose in the CCG to get the 5 Seed.

If Texas loses again, they should be the team that gets left out of this group. SEC needs to schedule 9 conference games and all BIG and SEC teams should only be allowed to play on G5 team a year max.

Agree 💯. If they even slightly valued or considered any portion of SOS, Georgia would not be behind Texas, Indiana, or Notre Dame.

The question is how does that continue to happen? They have not won a major bowl game in 30 years. Every time they get into a big time post season game, they get run off the field like a bad G5 school.

Agree for sure now with the 12 team playoff. I was referring to the 2-4 team playoff. There were a lot of years that the SEC got 2 teams in because of the reduction in conference games and skewed rankings. If you get two teams in that are competitive at an elite level, I would argue that your chances of winning the title go way up in a 4 team playoff. They even got two teams (one with 2 losses) in the 2 team playoff. There were a lot of good teams that got left out because of that 8 game SEC schedule or ND’s G5 schedule with no CCG that could have won it all. Oregon in 2012 immediately comes to mind.

100%. This year it is entirely possible that the 5 seed is goi g to get Boise followed by Colorado.

And this exact reason (8 conference games) is why the SEC has ended up with 11 teams in the playoff since expanding to 4. While the next best conference (BIG) only has 7 appearances. The more teams you put in the playoffs, the better the chances.

Exactly this. There is no excuse for not having some kind of metric to measure these teams at this point. Applying the basketball criteria… Notre Dame has a Q4 loss. Texas has one Q2 win, maybe. How are either of these teams in front of Georgia, who has multiple Q1 wins and and two Q1 losses? It’s a joke. Even just applying common sense to this. If playing on a neutral field, would Georgia be an underdog to ND? Absolutley not! They would be a multiple score favorite to win that game.

Great article. In most cases, I would agree that Oregon would would probably not be undefeated in the SEC. However, if they had the same schedule as Texas, they would easily run the table. Difficult to know who is really good with these unbalanced schedules.

This seems like a good sign…

I’m with you here. If tOSU loses to Oregon again, then I think the committee will push the second place SEC into the 5 seed slot. Both will likely have 2 losses and by pushing tOSU to the 6 seed, you can avoid the third matchup in the semis. Where this gets interesting is if Oregon loses a very close game to tOSU. Then the committee almost has to put Oregon at the 5 seed and you have that matchup in the semis again. The 5 seed right now looks to be the easiest path to the semis if they get Boise then the Big-12 winner. It may even have a small advantage over the 1 seed which seems crazy.

Whichever team gets the 5 seed is going to walk into the semifinals. They will likely have Boise at home in the first round, then the BIG-12 champ in the second.

I found a situation where Oregon ends up 4th. Highly unlikely, but it is there.

I sure hope so. I would love Oregon to curb stomp those jokers again.

Did Oregon just clinch a place in the BIG CCG?

🤮 gross.

I will counter with the fact that ND essentially plays 4 G5 teams. Texas IMO is the biggest offender. They have only beat 1 conference team with a winning record and they got pounded by Georgia. How are they sitting at No. 3? Where I have an issue is with the thought process that Indiana is out of they lose to tOSU, but Texas can be No. 3 with essentially the same crap schedule as Indiana AND with a loss to the only ranked team they played.