Only if you assume the polls have zero influence on the CFP committee. Admittedly, correlation does not equal causation, but I've also little belief that the polls aren't influential.
Yet they're generally similar:
Is there a scenario where we still back into the playoffs?
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Yet they're generally similar:
So far things are looking pretty positive. Looks as though we’ll be #11 in both the Coaches and AP poll.
Why does she say we should hope that Clemson beats SMU? Thought it would be the other way around that if SMU wins then Clemson will be definitely be out of the discussion. Curious to know why she would say that.....
I have an easy cure for the ribbing. I just tell them that if the University of Alabama disbanded the team tomorrow and never played another game, no other team in the country would match their legacy in the next hundred years.
Alabama has won too much and there is a National Campaign or at least an ESPN analyst movement to create an environment to exclude the Tide. I’ll post a link from an article this morning where people like Andrea Adelson are pushing for USCe over the Tide. People are ignoring SOS and all due respect to IU and PSU. They stink and everyone knows it. Just like TCU so you will have a not great UGA team win the whole thing or Texas who has nothing like the schedule Alabama, Florida , UGA and the Sooners had to play.
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Dinich predicts CFP rankings and discusses SEC bubble teams' chances - ESPN Video
ESPN's Heather Dinich joins SEC Football Final to discuss what to expect from the newest edition of the CFP rankings following the Week 14 results.
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This article says it all. These people are supposed to be CFB experts and they put out stuff like this! Shameful SOS schedule doesn’t matter, quality wins, or strength of conference. Just like the men’s basketball tournament optics are not enough any more. The schedule of strength and quality wins have to matter more if this playoff format is going to work. 11-1 records are not all created equal. SMH
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College Football Playoff picks after Week 14
Find out which teams our reporters pick for the College Football Playoff following Week 14.
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As a reminder, we are arguing over which team with three losses ought to be in a playoff. That fact alone kinda mitigates any appeals to "but we got hosed because we beat so and so."
She don’t like us either. My buddy David Pollack told me this years ago in Montana.Dinich predicts CFP rankings and discusses SEC bubble teams' chances - ESPN Video
ESPN's Heather Dinich joins SEC Football Final to discuss what to expect from the newest edition of the CFP rankings following the Week 14 results.
But this is like the "NFL Playoffs" now. I mean you can even hope an 8-8 team gets in the playoffs in the NFL. Different animal and different expectations now.
How on earth does that help us?
It doesn't. She is just not that smart.
We are #11 in both the AP and the coaches poll. I know they don't always follow one another, but I think that's an encouraging sign, along with the FanDuel odds.
Her logic:
Dinich predicts CFP rankings and discusses SEC bubble teams' chances - ESPN Video
ESPN's Heather Dinich joins SEC Football Final to discuss what to expect from the newest edition of the CFP rankings following the Week 14 results.
www.espn.com
Both ahead of Miami, USCe and Ole Miss.
Yes, both polls suggest Miami is now toast so we should be in unless the CFP committee has such huge egos that they think they know more than the coaches do.
And I don’t see how they can set the precedent that head-to-head doesn’t matter
I get what you’re saying, but the NFL playoffs do not have a selection committee comparing which 8-8 team makes it, either. They have an agreed-upon process for tiebreakers, and the very first one is head to head.
That is idiotic. She is a moron. Not because of her opinion, but because of her false logic tree.Her logic:
Dinich predicts CFP rankings and discusses SEC bubble teams' chances - ESPN Video
ESPN's Heather Dinich joins SEC Football Final to discuss what to expect from the newest edition of the CFP rankings following the Week 14 results.
She has Miami still in it along with SMU, and Clemson out. Clemson winning does nothing but shift the teams around. She has 2 ACC teams in it in all of her scenarios. That leaves all 3 loss SEC teams out of it.
Notre dame
Big 10
Oregon
Penn state
Ohio state
ACC
Winner of SMU vs clemson
Big 12
-Arizona state vs Iowa state winner
SEC
Texas
UGA
Tennessee
-Boise state
Feel good that’s 10 of the 12 spots
Miami, South Carolina, Bama, Indiana, maybe smu if they lose to Clemson
Those 5 fighting for the other 2 spots
Big 10
Oregon
Penn state
Ohio state
ACC
Winner of SMU vs clemson
Big 12
-Arizona state vs Iowa state winner
SEC
Texas
UGA
Tennessee
-Boise state
Feel good that’s 10 of the 12 spots
Miami, South Carolina, Bama, Indiana, maybe smu if they lose to Clemson
Those 5 fighting for the other 2 spots
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