The loss to Bama was the death knell to our playoff hopes. 11-1 would not have mattered. A championship (a real one - not a bullshtype shared one) means everything. Under this regime, you have to win a championship to go playoffing. I predicted Florida after Tuscaloosa, but not this far south. Orange Bowl > Citrus Bowl. I stand corrected.
Hate that I was right ...
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I hate you were and will always be wrong. I hate that you decided to start a new thread instead of respond to the very next thread - the one that said: Beating Ole Miss would have not gotten us in. This is a joke!!!!
all the self aggrandizement on this board is nauseating. 99% of the time, when somebody says " i told you all i was right", i have no idea what they are talking about. nobody gives a ****. i said it would be bama, oregon, fsu, and osu (in that order no less) and it turned out that way.....im not going to make a thread or even say "look at me...i was right" ...nobody cares. that applies to me as well.
just so this will end with a positive spin, here is this:
just so this will end with a positive spin, here is this:
It's kind of like the old saying that even a broken clock is right two times a day... unfortunately people usually only show up those two times and never show up to eat crow when they're wrong. I think we would've had to beaten Ole Miss by at least 17 and thoroughly controlled the game to have not gotten jumped by Ohio State. I think the committee put too much stock in that 59-0 beat down on Wisconsin and failed to remember that they lost to a really bad Virginia Tech team at home earlier in the season. You just can't get away with that. I really do think this was a political move and don't think Ohio State would've jumped a Texas or an Oklahoma.
My point all along was that a conference championship was a +1. It was not a factor in the earlier rankings, which meant we were not getting in without winning in ATL. I'm now predicting the the Big 12 (-2) will add teams or petition for a conference championship.
Please keep "predicting" the same thing the majority of the sports world says
will happen and then make sure and start a new thread when it happens. mmkay? Your skills at trolling and "mercy killings" are too good not to share as much as possible on this board.
will happen and then make sure and start a new thread when it happens. mmkay? Your skills at trolling and "mercy killings" are too good not to share as much as possible on this board.
Why should a professor give "extra-credit" for more C+ work? OSU boat-racing Wisconsin just showed how pathetic the OSU schedule really was.
OSU played 9 conference games. Baylor played 9 conference games. TCU played 9 conference games. The latter two scheduled one less cupcake and it hurt them.
It's pretty clear from the college football committee websiite:
"The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by **considering conference championships won**, strength of schedule, head-to-head competition, comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory) and other relevant factors that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance."
"The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by **considering conference championships won**, strength of schedule, head-to-head competition, comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory) and other relevant factors that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance."
Do you believe what someone writes on a website or what the chairman, fresh out of the discussion, says on national TV?
I am still looking how this quote is found in the quote from the college football committee website. I fail to see any indication of sequence.
Since you lawyer pro bono, how does "conference championships won" mean ONLY "conference championship games won"? Letter of the law.**
TCU had a better SOS than OSU - with one less game. Second value, case closed.**
I am still looking how this quote is found in the quote from the college football committee website. I fail to see any indication of sequence.
Since you lawyer pro bono, how does "conference championships won" mean ONLY "conference championship games won"? Letter of the law.**
TCU had a better SOS than OSU - with one less game. Second value, case closed.**
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Look at every page on the CFP website. Conference Champion is mentioned first every time. The Big 12 (err, 10) screwed themselves by essentially naming two champions. It's like a political race with two republicans and one democrat. The 'pubs split the vote and the dem wins.
briles was pretty much right. i think a texas or an okrahoma in the place of tcu/baylor (same results and all) would get jumped by ohio state. the committee had two folks on it that could beat the drum for the big10. barry alvarez and tom osborne were probably very compelling when it came time to discuss that fourth slot. they'd have had a harder time, true, but it still would have happened. no one in that committee room to defend the stunt the big xii office was trying to pull.