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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)

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#2651

We are seeing the beta testing of an idea, 12 team playoff. I doubt anyone knew or foresaw the permutations and combinations that would occur.  To say nothing about the effects of the internecine warfare in the SEC. Ole Miss, God love them, is now DOA but better than the first or second Big 12 or ACC team.  

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#2652
44 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

I think you meant to say "it just means more."

Don't be that guy.

Fuck this stupid ass redneck conference. 

This guy gets it. 

I am that guy. If you want to give me extra perks. I am going to take it. CDC knows where I am coming from. 

#2653
25 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Four Big 10 teams are getting in unless Indiana loses next week. SEC is going to push Bama as the 4th team, but I think Clemson has a great shot with a win over South Carolina. They have helmet power and a good SOS with a loss to Georgia. 

There's a good shot the winner of Clemson-South Carolina gets in with Bama first team out.

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#2655

If the committee puts bama at 13, they’ll need some upsets to happen ahead of them or for committee to just reverse itself a week later and move them up a couple spots. 
 

Carolina can do them a solid by beating Clemson, but they’d need something else because the b12 champ that will be behind them will get a spot. And I don’t think Tenn losing to vandy would do it because they’d have both lost to vandy and have 3 losses and so head to head. 

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#2656
46 minutes ago, ztejas said:

ASU and Iowa State*

Right? 

Arizona State* and Iowa State control their own destinies.

#2657
36 minutes ago, JBJ said:

There's a good shot the winner of Clemson-South Carolina gets in with Bama first team out.

Bama has the h2h over SCAR is the problem. 

But I think SCAR would be more deserving. They're playing some of the best ball in the SEC since that close Bama loss.

#2659
1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Bama has the h2h over SCAR is the problem. 

But I think SCAR would be more deserving. They're playing some of the best ball in the SEC since that close Bama loss.

They almost lost at home to Mizzou last week.  All these teams are up and down.  I generally don't buy arguments that teams are hot/improved at the end of the year and should be ranked higher.  The whole season counts.

#2660
36 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

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Damn I know the record sucks but beating two top 20 teams in a row and no ranking for my gata?
 

Floridas losses are all against top 15 teams besides aggy. 
 

damn aggy going to fall out of the ranking after we beat them and we’re STILL going to be called overrated for playing all weaker SEC teams lol

#2661
1 minute ago, WBT said:

They almost lost at home to Mizzou last week. 

Better than losing by 3 TDs in Norman. 

Agree the whole season counts but I think how a team is currently playing should also be a factor. 

#2662
50 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

I am that guy. If you want to give me extra perks. I am going to take it. CDC knows where I am coming from. 

Yep

 if people want to argue the big 10 is the best conference they can go fuck themselves. 
 

Indiana would have 5 losses in the sec, big 10 is a joke. 


it’s cool though we will see a bunch of sec teams go play away games up north and fuck these overrated retards up. 
 

Georgia to Pedo state

Tennessee to Indiana

 going to end up an all SEC championship game

 

#2663
1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Texas, Notre Dame, Oregon, and Ohio State have punched their tickets 100% at this point. 

Notre Dames SOS is very weak. Their best wins are A&M and Army, neither of which are playoff teams. Army has played zero good teams. If ND lost a conference championship game in 2 weeks, they could be left out, but alas they don't have the burden of a CCG and instead benefit from a cupcake schedule every year. 

#2664
4 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Yep

 if people want to argue the big 10 is the best conference they can go fuck themselves. 
 

Indiana would have 5 losses in the sec, big 10 is a joke. 


it’s cool though we will see a bunch of sec teams go play away games up north and fuck these overrated retards up. 
 

Georgia to Pedo state

Tennessee to Indiana

 going to end up an all SEC championship game

 

I am not advocating chanting S-E-C, but it’s just stupid to continue the fight against the SEC bias now. That is so last year 

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#2666
3 hours ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:

Is there not a thread on here about just being excited to have guaranteed a spot in the playoffs? I know goals are higher but dang, we got in. 

Sir we will not rest until all of college football and the committee bows to our gloriousness and gives us 3 byes to the championship game as fair compensation for our complete dominance of the SECSECSEC.

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#2667
1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Bama has the h2h over SCAR is the problem. 

But I think SCAR would be more deserving. They're playing some of the best ball in the SEC since that close Bama loss.

Does head to head matter as much when you are looking at 3 loss teams? Honest question. If you are analyzing two 1 loss teams, like last year, it makes perfect sense. But I would argue that 3 loss teams have much more variation in performance and a close loss in a H2H would be almost irrelevant to determining the better team. 

#2668
1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

Notre Dames SOS is very weak. Their best wins are A&M and Army, neither of which are playoff teams. Army has played zero good teams. If ND lost a conference championship game in 2 weeks, they could be left out, but alas they don't have the burden of a CCG and instead benefit from a cupcake schedule every year. 

I completely agree. You will get no argument for me. Notre Dame is the most overrated team in CFB. At least overrated SEC teams win when they get to the playoff. Notre Dame just gets their breaks beaten off and then everyone forgets two days later and we are subjected to the same bullshit 1 year later. 

#2669
6 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

I completely agree. You will get no argument for me. Notre Dame is the most overrated team in CFB. At least overrated SEC teams win when they get to the playoff. Notre Dame just gets their breaks beaten off and then everyone forgets two days later and we are subjected to the same bullshit 1 year later. 

I guess. They made the playoffs twice. Sure they got destroyed by Clemson in 2018, but Clemson also destroyed Alabama. And sure they got destroyed by Alabama in 2020, but Alabama also destroyed Ohio State.

We'll see if this pattern continues but 2018 Clemson and 2020 Alabama were teams that just mauled everybody. I don't think we can expect them to face teams like that every single time in a 12 team playoff.

#2670
Just now, Valmy77 said:

I guess. They made the playoffs twice. Sure they got destroyed by Clemson in 2018, but Clemson also destroyed Alabama. And sure they got destroyed by Alabama in 2020, but Alabama also destroyed Ohio State.

We'll see if this pattern continues but 2018 Clemson and 2020 Alabama were teams that just mauled everybody. I don't think we can expect them to face teams like that every single time in a 12 team playoff.

Dont forget that time we were subjected to an absolute fucking bloodbath of a national title game between Bama and the Notre Dame Catfish Kings (the fighting Manti Te'os). 

#2671
18 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Does head to head matter as much when you are looking at 3 loss teams?

It shouldn't - but I bet it will be a discussion point. 
Especially when the team with the h2h W is Bama. 

#2672
7 minutes ago, ztejas said:

It shouldn't - but I bet it will be a discussion point. 
Especially when the team with the h2h W is Bama. 

Yep, if it was the other way around they would be ignoring it and talking about how different the teams are since that game. 

#2673
10 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Dont forget that time we were subjected to an absolute fucking bloodbath of a national title game between Bama and the Notre Dame Catfish Kings (the fighting Manti Te'os). 

Ah yeah. That was pretty bad. 

Ok that is actually a pretty good example of what you are talking about because I definitely memory holed that one until you brought it up. That and the Bama vs LSU title game were unbelievably boring.

#2674
2 hours ago, Zeus said:

Yep

 if people want to argue the big 10 is the best conference they can go fuck themselves. 

Lol no. I'm for Texas. Fuck everyone else not named Texas. 

2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

I am not advocating chanting S-E-C, but it’s just stupid to continue the fight against the SEC bias now. That is so last year 

That's cool, I guess... I'm just saying don't be a sec homer/fanboi. 

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#2675
Wins over Bowl Eligible P4 teamsPenn State: 5SMU: 5Texas: 5Alabama: 4Georgia: 4Miami: 4Ohio State: 4Ole Miss: 4South Carolina: 4Texas A&M: 4BYU: 3Illinois: 3Indiana: 3Iowa State: 3Missouri: 3Notre Dame: 3Oregon: 3Tennessee: 3Arizona State: 2Colorado: 2…

 

#2677

I mean all the recent ND faceplants are under Brian Kelly. His record in big games in the postseason is abysmal. Even Bilbo Aggins can laugh

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#2678
41 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:
Wins over Bowl Eligible P4 teamsPenn State: 5SMU: 5Texas: 5Alabama: 4Georgia: 4Miami: 4Ohio State: 4Ole Miss: 4South Carolina: 4Texas A&M: 4BYU: 3Illinois: 3Indiana: 3Iowa State: 3Missouri: 3Notre Dame: 3Oregon: 3Tennessee: 3Arizona State: 2Colorado: 2…

 

Florida just got two wins in a row against LSU and Ole Miss…. They ain’t on there. 
funny how that works

 weak conferences should get one playoff team only

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#2680
1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:
Wins over Bowl Eligible P4 teamsPenn State: 5SMU: 5Texas: 5Alabama: 4Georgia: 4Miami: 4Ohio State: 4Ole Miss: 4South Carolina: 4Texas A&M: 4BYU: 3Illinois: 3Indiana: 3Iowa State: 3Missouri: 3Notre Dame: 3Oregon: 3Tennessee: 3Arizona State: 2Colorado: 2…

 

Ain’t never beat nobody, PAWL

#2681
39 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

I mean all the recent ND faceplants are under Brian Kelly. His record in big games in the postseason is abysmal. Even Bilbo Aggins can laugh

Faceplants have been a staple of the Freeman era as well

 

 

 

#2682

Yeah, Northern Illinois was I think the third time Freeman has lost at home as a 20+ point favorite, right? NIU this year then Marshall and one other in previous years I thought.

#2683
40 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Florida just got two wins in a row against LSU and Ole Miss…. They ain’t on there. 
funny how that works

 weak conferences should get one playoff team only

Should go back to a BCS style but updated algorithm that takes into account strength of schedule. 

The Big 10 and SEC champion get auto bid. The best ranked next 2 conference champions get the final 2 auto bids. 

Then go down the line starting at 1 to fill in the rest. 

That's the way it should be, but will never happen because CFB doesn't want to give away it's power to make matchups for TV ratings. 

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#2685
43 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Yeah, Northern Illinois was I think the third time Freeman has lost at home as a 20+ point favorite, right? NIU this year then Marshall and one other in previous years I thought.

Maybe the loss against a 3-9 Stanford?

#2686
1 hour ago, Zeus said:

Florida just got two wins in a row against LSU and Ole Miss…. They ain’t on there. 
funny how that works

 weak conferences should get one playoff team only

Kansas just beat a top 25 ranked team, 3 weeks in a row. 

Which proves what?

Anyone? 

Spoiler

That rankings don't mean shit, especially in a weak ass after conference

 

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#2687
12 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

Kansas just beat a top 25 ranked team, 3 weeks in a row. 

Which proves what?

Anyone? 

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That rankings don't mean shit, especially in a weak ass after conference

 

Or their OC finally figured out how to call a good game and their QB is healthy once again.

Rankings are a beauty pageant based on past performance not a predictive measurement, that would be a power rating like ESPN’s FPI

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#2688
The fact that there’s conversation about Alabama having a chance at the playoffs still is disgusting.They’re 8-3, with a blowout loss to 6-5 Oklahoma and a loss to 6-5 Vanderbilt.If this was anyone not named “Alabama” you wouldn’t hear a PEEP about playoffs.

 

#2689
Should go back to a BCS style but updated algorithm that takes into account strength of schedule. 
The Big 10 and SEC champion get auto bid. The best ranked next 2 conference champions get the final 2 auto bids. 
Then go down the line starting at 1 to fill in the rest. 
That's the way it should be, but will never happen because CFB doesn't want to give away it's power to make matchups for TV ratings. 

Fuck anyone getting an auto bid.
#2690
28 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

Or their OC finally figured out how to call a good game and their QB is healthy once again.

Rankings are a beauty pageant based on past performance not a predictive measurement, that would be a power rating like ESPN’s FPI

And/or 5 of their 6 losses were by a combined 19 points

#2691
27 minutes ago, satyanash said:
The fact that there’s conversation about Alabama having a chance at the playoffs still is disgusting.They’re 8-3, with a blowout loss to 6-5 Oklahoma and a loss to 6-5 Vanderbilt.If this was anyone not named “Alabama” you wouldn’t hear a PEEP about playoffs.

 

But blowhards in the media and on the internet know they would beat ND, PSU, and Indiana?  Did you consider that?

Spoiler

They had even greater confidence they would beat vandy and ou.  Alas.

 

#2692
2 minutes ago, WBT said:

But blowhards in the media and on the internet know they would beat ND, PSU, and Indiana?  Did you consider that?

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They had even greater confidence they would beat vandy and ou.  Alas.

 

While I do think Bama would beat all 3 of those teams. Here is the problem. Bama has 3 fucking losses. Those teams have 1. The results on the field have to matter. 

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#2694

I don’t typically buy into “media member X hates us” and that line of thinking.

But listening and reading to recaps of this weekend (and the last few), and it’s incredible how our wins are plainly dismissed in comparison to other flawed teams in CFP contention.

Penn State win by 1 against Minnesota: “Minnesota been playing well…good win for PSU”

Indiana 38-15 to Ohio State…”was closer than it seemed cause of special teams and late TD”

Oregon…”gutsy win at Wisconsin”

I’ve heard heaps of credit given to SMU and Tennessee for fuck’s sake, hardly a positive word said about Texas in the last month.

”if Texas loses to A&M they should fall far in the rankings…what have they done?”, while in the same breath saying the environment we’re walking into Saturday will be one of the toughest in recent memory.

I know I shouldn’t give a shit, we’re fine with the CFP, but it’s annoying me. Need to shut them all up over the next couple weeks.

 

#2695
9 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

I completely agree. You will get no argument for me. Notre Dame is the most overrated team Thin CFB. At least overrated SEC teams win when they get to the playoff. Notre Dame just gets their breaks beaten off and then everyone forgets two days later and we are subjected to the same bullshit 1 year later. 

Then what is wrong with the rest of college football?  We haven't played a competitive game in over a month.

#2696
2 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

Then what is wrong with the rest of college football?  We haven't played a competitive game in over a month.

Yall got the breaks beat off of you by Northern Illinois and havent played anyone with a pulse since then. Join a real conference. Try winning a playoff game this year and not embarrassing yourself at home. 

#2697
12 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Notre Dame just gets their breaks beaten off and then everyone forgets two days later and we are subjected to the same bullshit 1 year later. 

 

49 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Yall got the breaks beat off of you by Northern Illinois and havent played anyone with a pulse since then. 

Brakes*

#2698
11 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:
Wins over Bowl Eligible P4 teamsPenn State: 5SMU: 5Texas: 5Alabama: 4Georgia: 4Miami: 4Ohio State: 4Ole Miss: 4South Carolina: 4Texas A&M: 4BYU: 3Illinois: 3Indiana: 3Iowa State: 3Missouri: 3Notre Dame: 3Oregon: 3Tennessee: 3Arizona State: 2Colorado: 2…

 

And Texas is the only team with a chance to get to 6 this week. Every CCG winner should get another. 

#2700
2 hours ago, jTower said:

And Texas is the only team with a chance to get to 6 this week. Every CCG winner should get another. 

If Wisconsin beats Minnesota psu will have 6. 

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