South Carolina will give us a two-fer: knock off Clemson after already putting Georgia's odds of making the CFP on life support.Originally Posted by SeattleUte
South Carolina will give us a two-fer: knock off Clemson after already putting Georgia's odds of making the CFP on life support.
The Remaining Schedules:
LSU:
@ Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Ark
SEC Champ game (Georgia)
Ohio St
@Rutgers
Penn St
@ Michigan
Big10 champ game (Minn/Iowa/Wisc)
Clemson
Wake Forest
@South Carolina
Acc Champ game (Virginia)
Georgia
@Auburn
Texas A&M
@GaTech
SEC champ (LSU)
Alabama
@Miss st
WCU
@Auburn
Oregon
Ariz
@ ASU
Oregon St
Minnesota
@Iowa
@Northwestern
Wisconsin
Big10 championship (Can Lose one of those games and still play in the Big 10 champ)
Baylor
Oklahoma
Texas
@Kansas
Big 12 Champ game (can lose one of those games and still be in champ game)
Oklahoma
@Baylor
TCU
@Ok St
Big 12 Champ game (could lose to One of those teams and play in Big 12 champ game)
Penn St
Indiana
@ohio st
Rutgers
If they win those 3 they are in the Big10 champ game
The worst situation for Utah would be for Penn St to beat an undefeated Minnesota in the in Big 10 champ game and Auburn to beat Georgia and lose to bama and Georgia to win the SEC. It would then be:
11-1 Ohio st
12-1 Penn St
13-0 Clemson
12-1 LSU
11-2 Georgia
11-1 Bama
12-1 Utah
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Minnesota isn't going to win the Big 10, and South Carolina isn't going to beat Clemson. The most likely scenario that gets the Utes in there is Auburn beats Alabama, and LSU beats Georgia. If Auburn beats both Alabama and Georgia, that would create another problem, with Auburn having beaten Oregon, Alabama, and Georgia, and its only two losses vs. Florida and LSU. So we cheer for Auburn vs. Alabama, but not vs. Georgia and rely on LSU to take out Georgia.
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Makes sense, but I wouldn't worry about Bama. An 11-1 Bama is not getting in over a 12-1 conference champ.
I think Oklahoma is a legit concern. If they go 12-1, they will have 2-4 wins over the top 25. Utah will only have 1-2. The committee stupidly uses this as a metric.
LSU is a real threat too. A 12-1 LSU would have a better resume than any other 12-1 team, but they would not be conference champs and would be coming off a loss.
OSU could be a threat in the same way as LSU, but I can't imagine them putting in two teams from the Big10.
Last edited by sancho; 11-13-2019 at 07:48 PM.
Right. Which is why I wrote originally that the Utah scenario involves LSU and Ohio State unbeaten.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
--Albert Einstein
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
--Richard Dawkins
Be kind to all, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
--Philo
I think he's mostly fair in his analysis. In one of his recent podcasts he talked about the PAC-12 needing flagship football programs. He mentioned Utah in that role with their fan support, stable coaching staff and consistent rise in the league.
He's fair-ish. I just think his voting criteria are simplistic and not as advanced/logical as he thinks.
He tweeted this weekend that the Pac-12 needs some homers in the media like the SEC has, but he is apparently unwilling to take on that role.
His biting approach is weird.
Especially when he starts using comparative scores but does so in only two games, it looks as if he’s cherry picking games that back up his method
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