Houston/Navy game
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Houston needs 11 points to win. 5 mins to go and Navy has the ball.Unless Navy has a complete meltdown . The shine on the Thursday nite game is all but mute now.
Makes the Clemson loss that more sickening, this is what Cards did not need to happen whatsoever. They are practically pretty much less than 1% getting in now.
Upsets happen. It will still be a match up of two top 20 teams.
I knew with Cards luck the chaos everybody was predicting to happen enabling Cards to get in would be detrimental to our hopes.
It will be tough to get anything better than Orange Bowl now. Just hope it's not against W Michigan.
The Orange Bowl Contract is with the ACC vs. SEC/B1G or Notre Dame...more than likely it is us vs. either Wisconsin Or Tennessee/LSU...the G5 Team is going to the Cotton Bowl
Point being...No G5 Teams will be in the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl or Orange Bowl...those Bowls have exclusive contracts with the P5 Leagues and Notre Dame.
Houston losing is not, I repeat, is not a big deal. Cards just need to keep putting up points, laying waste to opponents. All good. Plenty of football between now and that game. A lot can happen.
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This!!!
Task is for Louisville under Petrino to go "Old School"...ie...Run it Up....
Plus, we move up in the rankings. Not often you move up while not playing. Just got to be top 4 at end of the year.
We don't want Houston to go in the tank. But as long as they're a respectable opponent, it will help beating them. (And if don't beat them, we're just wasting bandwidth...)
What makes you think Louisville can make the playoffs with Houston losing
It still early...instead of worrying about others just concentrate on what we can control...
I've been saying the same thing all week. BEat everybody by 50+ points. Keep Lamar atop the Heisman race, make Louisville "must see tv" for the rest of the nation.
The better Houston is, the better our SOS will be. Houston doesn't have to be undefeated when we play them for the game to help our SOS. If they finish the year 10-2, the second loss to be against us, we will be OK...
If we handle our business the "Worst Possible" outcome is the Orange Bowl against Tennessee-(i.e. the Marquis Maybin Bowl)...Finish the Regular Season at 11-1 and see what happens.
Easy. If the Cards take care of business against the teams that lead up to the game against Houston, they would be a top 5 team. Would they not? Now that Houston has lost to Navy, this somehow means the Cards are going to drop in the polls? Making the playoff was always going to depend on the other P5 teams results, not the Cards beating Houston. Even if Houston was undefeated when the Cards played them and we beat them by 20, we still may not get in the playoff if Washington and Baylor go undefeated.
If the Cards continue to dominate the schedule they will be right up there at the top. If the Pac 12 and Big 12 winners have 2 losses we're in. It won't matter at all if Houston winds up 9-3. Louisville already has the respect of the voters and the public. They didn't need Houston to be undefeated to garner that attention. Just win out and hope other P5 teams lose.
Houston's Thursday night home game against Louisville on Nov. 17 has already been sold out but, with the loss to Navy, the buzz surrounding that game has been diminished. It doesn't help Louisville's chances of sneaking into the top four if it doesn't win a conference championship because the rest of the Cardinals' schedule doesn't currently include any other ranked opponents.
A win at Houston is still certainly respectable for Louisville, which is looking up at Clemson in the ACC's Atlantic Division standings, but it just won't carry the same weight as it would have had the Cougars been fighting for a playoff spot. On the flip side, a loss at Houston would certainly end Louisville's semifinal hopes ESPN
Your question was "what makes you think Louisville can make the playoffs with Houston losing?"
The ESPN article said nothing about U of L not making the playoffs. It stands to reason that our SOS needs to be as strong as possible, meaning the teams on our schedule need to win as many as possible. There's no minimum standard for that.
We also need to win convincingly. And the one-loss teams competing against us just the opposite of everything we want to do. There is no one game deal-breaker halfway thru the season...
The ESPN article said nothing about U of L not making the playoffs. It stands to reason that our SOS needs to be as strong as possible, meaning the teams on our schedule need to win as many as possible. There's no minimum standard for that.
We also need to win convincingly. And the one-loss teams competing against us just the opposite of everything we want to do. There is no one game deal-breaker halfway thru the season...