TCU having trouble early.
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TCU having trouble early.
TCU loses 31-28 in OT. Guess Bama just made the CFP.
Lots of opinion that TCU still makes it since the loss was OT in the conference championship. I don’t agree because TCU has no signature wins. Nothing.
TCU goes to 4. OSU goes to 3 to get the OSU vs Michigan matchup.
Bama’s signature win is against an 8-4 Ole Miss team. That’s their best win on the year, plus they didn’t even win their division.
Originally Posted by dawg80
dawg80 I think your boy makes it. Not sure who is on the committee this year, but I do not think they watch much college football. They have been just giving the teams with the best records the nod. There has been no attempt for trying to determine the best team, just push the teams with the better record. This greatly benefits TCU.
If Michigan and Georgia wins here is the top 4.
1. Georgia (13-0)
2. Michigan (13-0)
3. Ohio State (12-1)
4. TCU (12-1)
OSU andTCU could be flipped. No way do I think these are the top 4 teams.
Per CBS:
TCU 5-1 against top 25
OSU 2-1
Bama 3-2
Looking at their schedule though, some of those teams are no longer in top 25. The only ranking that should count is where they were at the end of the year.
Meanwhile Tulane about to give away the Cotton Bowl.
EDIT: Tulane withstood the comeback.
Congrats to Tulane...Cotton Bowl bound
I hope TCU is still in, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are bumped by one of the elites. Of course, Cincy made it last year and TCU is in one of the P5 conferences. So...
The only SEC teams that had a real argument this year were Georgia and Tennessee (before that South Carolina game).
The SEC West was just not that good this year. I don’t find Alabama’s resume appealing at all. LSU won the division and they really aren’t good. LSU wouldn’t have beaten Arkansas if they had a healthy KJ Jefferson, and lost to A&M. The ranked SEC West teams are all overranked.
Purdue trying to shake things up a little more, only trailing Michigan by 1 at halftime (14-13).
Interesting post. Alabama lost by a field goal with only 15 seconds left at Tennessee (one of the teams you think highly of) and lost at LSU (who was in fact in the SEC championship game) by one point on the last play of the game. So their two losses are on the road in the SEC on the last play.
If Alabama were be to play TCU or Ohio State who do you think would be favored to win the game? No way in hell they would be underdogs to TCU.
So if the committee is really interested in the top 4 teams Alabama will be in. But this committee has been very lazy and just goes with records, with no thought to the circumstances of those records. Or perhaps the committee doesn't know that much about football. Or they are not watching the games. Either situation is very possible.
Its not that I think that highly of Tennessee, but they would have had the resume for it with only one loss to Georgia and a blow out win over LSU, and a win over Alabama… but they dropped the South Carolina game and lost their QB. They do deserve to be ranked above Alabama.
Alabama has felt all over the place this year, so I don’t know what to expect from a matchup between the two. They’d blow out some teams and have a close game with others like A&M (too close even with QB being out!), LSU, Ole Miss, and Texas. Heck, Texas would likely have beaten Alabama if their starting QB were not hurt in the first half. This season has been hard to gauge based on head2head results.
Texas would have won if the refs hadn’t given the game to Alabama. That roughing the passer call that negated a safety was the most idiotic call I’ve seen in a football game. Bama is not a top 4 team. What is their signature win this year?
It’s going to be UGA, Mich, TCU, and OSU in that order. All the top teams struggled when they shouldn’t have. 1 and 2 are indisputable, I think. The next 6-8 teams considered top level have a lot more flaws than 1 and 2. Georgia will win the semi game. De facto home game. They should beat the winner of the 2-3 by 10.
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