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College Football 2022: “Here’s a twenty, bury two.”

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Jimjamesak said:
My favorite situation would be UGA, Mich, and FSU losing then watching as people bend over backwards to explain why Washington shouldn't be #1.
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Honestly I don't think anybody would argue, or care.

More interesting to me if UW and FSU are the only undefeateds. You know there will be a strong preference among the lofos to put a Slave State team top.
 
Kepler said:
Honestly I don't think anybody would argue, or care.

More interesting to me if UW and FSU are the only undefeateds. You know there will be a strong preference among the lofos to put a Slave State team top.
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Oh you know Finebaum, Herbstreit and company would be all over the air jumping up and down that Bama should be #1 because "reasons".

It wouldn't mean much but it would be hilarious to watch.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Oh you know Finebaum, Herbstreit and company would be all over the air jumping up and down that Bama should be #1 because "reasons".

It wouldn't mean much but it would be hilarious to watch.
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Finebaum for sure, I think Herbstreet would be a strong advocate for UW.

Finebaum has proclaimed that bama is already better than an undefeated FSU. He’s pretty obvious who he gets paid by.

BTW, it’s interesting how the SEC can consistently get two in by losing the championship. Almost colluding interesting.
 
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Brock Glenn is warming up with the 1st string, so Florida State is riding with a true freshman with four career passes. I think I'll be breaking out the vodka and getting offline for a while.
 
Jimjamesak said:
If Bama wins the SEC by beating UGA I can't see the CFP Committee leaving them out. Having no SEC team in the CFP would cause a meltdown. It would be hilarious, but it would be ugly.
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Texas beating Alabama at Alabama is the key game then. If FSU, UM, and UW are all undefeated and conference champs, they're all clearly in. Who gets the last spot? Texas beat Alabama beat Georgia, and Texas won their conference. Not saying that's how it goes down but if there's ever a chance.......
 
If results hold (which is still in play, as the Criminoles are in a dog fight with Louisville), it will be a very interesting debate for the Playoff.

Michigan will be #1.
Washington will be #2.

One of the following will be left out:

13-0, ACC Champion Florida State
12-1, Big 12 Champion Texas
12-1, SEC Champion Alabama

They each have excellent arguments for why they should be in:

Florida State would be an undefeated Power 5 champion. No such team has ever missed the Playoff. But they lost their star QB, and have not looked like worldbeaters all year.
Texas has the best win, beating Alabama by double digits in Tuscaloosa. The mental gymnastics to leave Texas out at Alabama's expense would be something else, but...
Alabama won the SEC. The SEC Champion has never missed the Playoff. But, they lost at home to Texas, and have had numerous other poor performances throughout the year (including last week, where they needed a miracle to beat a terrible Auburn team).

Interesting debate indeed.
 
You can’t keep out an undefeated power 5 from the CFP. FSU wins and they’re in. The debate is between Texas and Alabama. It should be Texas, it’ll probably be Alabama.
 
Given the Big12 is more over than not, ESPN will make sure Texas is out. Even though they are the better team, winning head to head. We will see if it will work- their efforts did work in getting harbaugh suspended. But that didn’t work to manipulate the results.
 
Jimjamesak said:
You can’t keep out an undefeated power 5 from the CFP. FSU wins and they’re in. The debate is between Texas and Alabama. It should be Texas, it’ll probably be Alabama.
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You can't keep out an undefeated Power 5 team.

You can't keep out Texas for the sake of Alabama, where Texas beat Alabama (in Alabama).

You can't keep out the SEC Champion.

One of those maxims will prove false tomorrow.
 
Fighting Sioux 23 said:
You can't keep out an undefeated Power 5 team.

You can't keep out Texas for the sake of Alabama, where Texas beat Alabama (in Alabama).

You can't keep out the SEC Champion.

One of those maxims will prove false tomorrow.
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My money is on FSU not getting in. Ratings demand an SEC rep.
 
It should be 1 Washington, 2 Michigan, 3 Florida State, 4 Texas. But it will likely be Alabama replacing FSU because money. This senario is why they got rid of objective ratings in the first place.
 
If it was me, it would be Michigan, Washington, FSU and Texas. Not necessarily in that order, but those would be the teams.

FSU is an undefeated P5. Their SOS isn’t great but the committee has set the precedent too many times that they sort by record first before comparing other characteristics. Their first string QB is out, their backup is concussed, but they’re undefeated.

Texas beat Bama in Tuscaloosa. I don’t care that it was September. I don’t care that Bama has the “better win” over Georgia. If a head to head road win doesn’t earn the nod between conference champs with equal records then why ever schedule a game like that again (ignoring that will now be a conference game).

But man is ESPN playing up the Bama argument. With both Bama > FSU and Bama > Texas. And whatever happens, Georgia screwed up the Rose Bowl. It’ll likely be Michigan vs Whoever while Washington gets a “home game” in New Orleans.
 
Bronco said:
My money is on FSU not getting in. Ratings demand an SEC rep.
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I could see that. But, we are talking about 3 of the most-followed college football programs in the last half-century: Florida State, Texas, and Alabama. I don't think ratings will suffer much regardless of who gets the shaft.
 
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