College Football 2024

Michfan said:
UCF is bringing Scott Frost back

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I honestly think this has huge bust potential. More often than not it seems like trying to rekindle the flame doesn’t pan out. Though I hope he’s at least overcome his personal issues he suffered from in Nebraska.
 
My honest thought is that SMU making it literally as close as possible will be enough to keep them in. Alabama needed either an SMU win or for SMU to get absolutely ran out of the building like they were in the first half. I don’t see how the committee can argue otherwise after their comeback. They made their bed last Tuesday.

I’d say

Oregon
Georgia
Boise
Arizona State

Texas/Clemson

Penn State/SMU

Notre Dame/Indiana (!)

Ohio State/Tennessee

I’m going off the logic that they won’t punish teams who lost their CCG, otherwise I could also see Notre Dame jumping to the 5.
 
I really don’t have a dog in this fight, but the way they present this reveal puts a knot in my stomach.
 
My girlfriend is a ND fan, so if ND wins then that will be fun lol.

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The only question that should've been asked when picking the 12 seed, who would win a game between SMU and Alabama?
 
James Franklin is such a loser and its no wonder why his teams play like they do in big spots. Enjoy your gifted final 4 appearance.

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antman12 said:
Alabama. Everybody's just giddy to finally be able to shove it in their face after running roughshod on NCAAF for 15 years under Saban.
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Didn't Alabama lose to a horrible Oklahoma team. Excuse me, not lose, get absolutely murdered? They also lost to Fukiin Vanderbilt.
 
HoneyBadger said:
The only question that should've been asked when picking the 12 seed, who would win a game between SMU and Alabama?
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Alabama would be favored by 5 or 6 over SMU, but a hypothetical isn’t enough to put them in over the Mustangs. They’re clearly a top 5 team when they play to their potential but they simply didn’t do that consistently enough this year. You have to be punished for losing as much as you’re rewarded for winning, and they have a blowout loss to a fringe top 40 team and another loss to a fringe top 50 team. If they win either of those they’re comfortably in.
 
Michfan said:
Didn't Alabama lose to a horrible Oklahoma team. Excuse me, not lose, get absolutely murdered? They also lost to Fukiin Vanderbilt.
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Yessir. Both bad losses. They also have 3 wins vs top 25 wins including #2 Georgia. Meanwhile SMU is 0-2 vs current top 25 teams.

All a matter of opinion.

And yes, I absolutely believe they would beat SMU.
 
Michfan said:
Alabama lost by 3 touchdowns to a bad Oklahoma team. Anybody who's sure they'd beat SMU is lying to themselves.

Vanderbilt and Oklahoma lost 12 times this year, but they went 2-0 against mighty Alabama.
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The Oklahoma game was two whole weeks ago too so it wasn’t like you can brush it off as if you could a September loss. They were in prime position to make it and went out and laid an absolute egg when it mattered most.

SMU don’t have any really impressive wins but they did win a lot of games against respectable, above-average teams. Their equivalent of what Alabama did would be like if they got housed by Duke or TCU in one game and lost close to Pitt or BC in another.
 
antman12 said:
Alabama. Everybody's just giddy to finally be able to shove it in their face after running roughshod on NCAAF for 15 years under Saban.
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Guilty. But less about them running roughshod over the country and more about them getting preferential treatment by the committee.
 
HoneyBadger said:
The only question that should've been asked when picking the 12 seed, who would win a game between SMU and Alabama?
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That's cool. But then it should be applied to the entire field including seeding. Do Boise State and Arizona State get byes if we compare who would win a game between them and Ohio State, Texas, or Notre Dame?
 
If Penn State doesn't make the semi-finals they should consider their season a failure.
 
This was the year scheduled for underdog cinderella to go prove it on the field by the committee after leaving them out for all these years, Boise St Arizona St SMU even Indiana better bring it THIS IS THEIR SHOT at the title, if they don't make games of these (and I think they will, hope they will) the committee very well may start overweighting sos leapfrogging the big programs over them to keep them out in the future, but the ccg's are a good safety net.

They got it right with SMU being the last team in, there could even be an argument for a 2 loss Miami over 3 loss Bama it's close, Bama will get plenty of preferential treatment down the line not worried about that. They didn't get it done on the field this year, plain and simple, it's someone else's turn now.

The top 4 bye rewards are big, I think that should go by ranking going forward. This is gonna be a fun playoff to watch, can't wait.
 
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