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College Football 2024

Boise is officially in the playoff now. And unless they jump the Big XII champ six spots they’ll get a bye as well. The bye is great and shatters expectations for the non-P4, but it is a little unfortunate there won’t be a bitterly cold playoff game played on the blue turf.

In a cool playoff, Army and Jax State would have also qualified last night.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
CFP rankings don't come out until tomorrow, but if we follow the AP, the first round byes would be:

1) Oregon - B1G
2) Texas - SEC
8) SMU - ACC
10) Boise - MW

Three schools in their first year in a conference and one school leaving their current conference in two years.
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Will be funny when two PAC-12 teams win the B1G and Big 12 championships.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Boise is officially in the playoff now. And unless they jump the Big XII champ six spots they’ll get a bye as well. The bye is great and shatters expectations for the non-P4, but it is a little unfortunate there won’t be a bitterly cold playoff game played on the blue turf.

In a cool playoff, Army and Jax State would have also qualified last night.
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I’m confused by your post- seems that the odds of a freezing game on the blue turf is very real. Idaho played a bowl game there where it was super cold and the turf was an ice rink. (Let alone, it was in terrible condition)

But they may have some other financial issues hosting a game.
 
MichVandal said:
I’m confused by your post- seems that the odds of a freezing game on the blue turf is very real. Idaho played a bowl game there where it was super cold and the turf was an ice rink. (Let alone, it was in terrible condition)

But they may have some other financial issues hosting a game.
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Unless they bump ASU up six spots, Boise will get a bye. Only the first round is on campus, the quarterfinals are at the NY6 bowl game sites, so Boise will probably be at the Fiesta Bowl.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Unless they bump ASU up six spots, Boise will get a bye. Only the first round is on campus, the quarterfinals are at the NY6 bowl game sites, so Boise will probably be at the Fiesta Bowl.
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Ah, missed that part of the tournament.

Still, they struggle financially with big bowl games.
 
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Georgia's backup QB will meet you at the Moontower after the game is over.
 
Starting with historical film of old timey B1G games, as neither of the two teams playing tonight are original members
 
In today's action:


1 - OREGON (leads Penn State, 38-24)

2 - TEXAS (lost to Georgia, 19-22)

3 - PENN STATE (trails Oregon, 24-38)

4 - NOTRE DAME (reopened after 5 years' reconstruction)

5 - GEORGIA (defeated Texas, 22-19)

6 - OHIO STATE (idle)
 
Whew...

It will be interesting to see who they give the last bye (Arizona State or Clemson). I would guess ASU. Had Clemson put SMU away in convincing fashion (like ASU did to Iowa State), I think the Tigers would have had a chance, but they had to get a miracle to escape Charlotte with a win.

SMU vs Alabama is another very interesting battle for the last at-large. If SMU is left out, then it sends an awful message (and terrible precedent going forward). Why would any team in SMU's position in the future go and play in the conference title game? The committee has done very stupid things before, but I think they can justify narrowly putting SMU ahead of Alabama because the Tide have 3 losses. I would guess SMU gets the nod.

If so, then I think we have:

12. Clemson at 5. Notre Dame (Winner to play #4 Arizona State)
11. SMU at 6. Texas (Winner to play #3 Boise State)
10. Indiana at 7. Penn State (Winner to play #2 Georgia)
9. Tennessee at 8. Ohio State (Winner to play #1 Oregon)
 
If SMU is snubbed over bama, it would be two seasons in a row bama gets in over an acc team who had a good season. Which would suck pretty bad.
 
MichVandal said:
If SMU is snubbed over bama, it would be two seasons in a row bama gets in over an acc team who had a good season. Which would suck pretty bad.
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As SMU's coach said, if they got Covid and couldn't play the conference championship, they would be in.

SMU has two losses to 10-2 BYU and 10-3 Clemson, both by 3 points.

Bama has three losses to 6-6 Vandy, 10-2 Tennessee, and 6-6 Oklahoma. Those were by 5, 7, and 21 points.

Bama has a better win over Georgia and better SOS, but also far worse losses and more losses even including the conference championship game.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
As SMU's coach said, if they got Covid and couldn't play the conference championship, they would be in.
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That is the key. You shouldn't punish a team that loses its conference championship and reward a team that doesn't play in its conference championship. If that is the precedent set, the reward (getting a potential bye in the first round) is not worth the risk (missing the Playoff altogether). I think you would see teams find reasons they are "unable" to play in the conference championship game.
 
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