Sirhornsalot
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The Playoff Picture
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You're going to need to print and hand these out to the committee in Grapevine.
longhorndon
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Hopefully, we get Texas / Michigan in a bowl game.
Pretty short-sighted. They’re going to miss out on all those extra practices (essentially an extra spring practice). I imagine Texas will use the time to see who’s ready to step up to bigger roles, and what we really need to address in the portal.
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The CFP committee had ND ranked ahead of Miami until the final week and then yanks the rug out from under them. This committee is complete bullshit. They did this so the ACC wouldn't send every lawyer on its payroll after the CFP.
Sirhornsalot
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When you get to compare ND and Miami, you cannnot get past the head to head Miami win.
Screw ND. Let them pout and hurt themselves by skipping the bowls and the 15 extra practices. I am not bothered a bit.
The ranking is a difficult decision. It's odd that they flipped ND and Miami, same for Texas and Vandy. You will always have arguments about which teams are more deserving. Personally I find it irritating when fans from excluded schools don't move on.
This is part of why I like the proposal of 4 automatic SEC slots, then 2 additional games for births (3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5). No committee to argue with,at least for the non at large slots.
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Then the committee should have ranked Miami ahead of ND two or three weeks ago. I don't like ND, but the way the committee did this is bullshit. It is unequivocally wrong.
Agreed, if they have the same record and have the H2H win, how can they even justify letting ND in and Miami out? Also goes to show that without being in a conference, they get to pick and choose a cupcake schedule and not have to play in a conference championship.
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It's ironic that the ACC champion is not in the playoffs, but another school from the ACC is. I totally agree with not including an 8-5 team, but it's just funny. Makes the Conf Championship seem irrelevant.
And boo on ND. Like a pouting child who didn't get what they wanted and now they're taking their toys to play with at home, by themselves.
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No one wants to see JMU v Oregon or Tulane v Ole Miss…
Let’s talk about including teams that are inferior and stand no chance of winning a natty.
Let’s talk about including teams that are inferior and stand no chance of winning a natty.
Ole Miss literally blew out Tulane 45-10 earlier in the season....a rematch no one wants to see because it'll be the same.
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"unequivocally" is one of the big words that I had to ask my late wife what it meant.
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UT needs to show up vs UM and blow them out.
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I strongly agree with both your points.
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Interesting take from ND AD. Claims
ACC has caused "permanent damage" to the relationship.
"We were mystified by the actions of the conference to attack their biggest, really, partner in football and a member of their conference in 24 of our other sports," Bevacqua told Patrick. "... They have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame."
Last month, the ACC's official account on X posted a side-by-side comparison of Miami and Notre Dame, accompanied by the text, "No hypotheticals, just facts." Miami beat Notre Dame 27-24 in the season opener, a game the Hurricanes never trailed, and finished with an identical 10-2 record.
ACC Network also replayed the Miami-Notre Dame game more than a dozen times Thursday and Friday, heading into championship weekend, despite Miami not participating in the league's title game. Duke, which won the ACC but had five regular-season losses, did not make the CFP.
ND AD Comments
ACC has caused "permanent damage" to the relationship.
"We were mystified by the actions of the conference to attack their biggest, really, partner in football and a member of their conference in 24 of our other sports," Bevacqua told Patrick. "... They have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame."
Last month, the ACC's official account on X posted a side-by-side comparison of Miami and Notre Dame, accompanied by the text, "No hypotheticals, just facts." Miami beat Notre Dame 27-24 in the season opener, a game the Hurricanes never trailed, and finished with an identical 10-2 record.
ACC Network also replayed the Miami-Notre Dame game more than a dozen times Thursday and Friday, heading into championship weekend, despite Miami not participating in the league's title game. Duke, which won the ACC but had five regular-season losses, did not make the CFP.
ND AD Comments
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I agree with you. Since I don't have a horse in this race, my beef is with the committee. No metrics, no consistent metrics from week to week, no transparency. As a former project manager I wanted definable objectives and metrics along with a definition of what is a successful project. The 'I know it when I see" is not acceptable. That metric appears to be the committee's sole metric. It is inconsistent and lacks transparency. I'm not referring to comparing ND to Miami. I'm referring to how the committee had ND rated better than Miami for weeks as mentioned in the above article. That applies to polls, too. The committee is causing unnecessary uproar and harm to the whole idea of a 12 team playoff. I have shook my head at the inconsistency of holding or pass interference. I have tried to give the benefit of doubt that the referee had a bad angle and had to make a split second decision. The committee had time to decide with no apparent metric other than "I know it when I see it."I just don't understand ND's reasoning. If a team beats you H2H and you have the same record then surely, they are ahead of you...otherwise are we just playing games just for style points???
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