GAME Playoff Selection Show thread (11 am cst ESPN)

RubinRock said:
I don’t give a fuck about if the conference isn’t as good as others. Picking the teams based on point spreads is one of the most retarded things I’ve ever heard.

Want to play that game? The fact that Alabama got ass blasted by a 6-6 team, lost to a team that lost to Georgia st, and was only up by 5 with 6 minutes left against USF, should just as easily eliminate Alabama.

Guess who was favored in all three of those games.
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I don’t get this. I would way rather have Vegas guys pick the teams, than Kelly Whiteside (a sports reporter on the committee). You know guys that actually make a living betting on teams, watch every team, and dig through any information they can find. Sure you can point to some upsets during the year and pretend that overrides the 1000 of other correct markets, but that is an obviously weak argument
 
Hitman Hart said:
Two things can be true at once:

1.) SEC is still the best conference
2.) the gap wasn't as wide this year. Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Auburn, Arkansas and Vandy all had embarrassing OOC losses yet they all beat at least one SEC team that finished 5-3 or better in league play.

The idea that we are playing this ACC vs SEC game shows how retarded some of you people are. Conferences are irrelevant, resumes aren't. Committee is telling you that two good wins doesn't make up for two bad losses. Sample size is twelve games. With such a limited sample size, you can't lose to two 6-6 teams. Not a hard concept to follow.

Deal with it or pound sound. Either way, stop being dumb as shit.
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I really didn’t like this committee.
1. I don’t get PSU over OSU. Oregon, Indiana, and PSU all played weak schedules. You know who didn’t? Ohio State, because they played them all.
2. I don’t get SMU over Clemson. We just saw that game. Put Georgia and South Carolina on SMU’s schedule and I’ll bet at least 1 more loss

I think SOS was given far too little consideration. Schedules are so different.

Not too upset about Bama. I would have probably put South Carolina in, but not a big deal. Pretty sure if you ask Penn State fans who they would rather face SMU or Bama, they would say Bama.. I’ll be rooting for SMU this weekend. I hope it is a good game
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Team in a non playoff bowl i'm most interested to see how they come out is definitely Bama. Will they be fired up and take it out on Michigan or will they totally not care and maybe lose?
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I can’t see Michigan winning. I have not checked on who is playing or sitting out, but I am assuming most the starting DL is sitting out. If that happens Michigan is in trouble vs anyone.
 
Codaxx said:
I really didn’t like this committee.
1. I don’t get PSU over OSU. Oregon, Indiana, and PSU all played weak schedules. You know who didn’t? Ohio State, because they played them all.
2. I don’t get SMU over Clemson. We just saw that game. Put Georgia and South Carolina on SMU’s schedule and I’ll bet at least 1 more loss

I think SOS was given far too little consideration. Schedules are so different.

Not too upset about Bama. I would have probably put South Carolina in, but not a big deal. Pretty sure if you ask Penn State fans who they would rather face SMU or Bama, they would say Bama.. I’ll be rooting for SMU this weekend. I hope it is a good game
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Oregon played a weak schedule? Oregon is one of the three teams with wins over multiple playoff teams. More than Ohio State.
 
duckboy33 said:
Oregon played a weak schedule? Oregon is one of the three teams with wins over multiple playoff teams. More than Ohio State.
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duckboy33 said:
Oregon played a weak schedule? Oregon is one of the three teams with wins over multiple playoff teams. More than Ohio State.
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Yes. I was mostly speaking about the regular season and the BIg 10 schedule. OSU had a ridiculously hard conference slate compared to Oregon, PSU, and Indiana

Notre Dame - 64
Oregon - 47
Ohio State - 5
Texas - 20
Georgia - 4
Alabama - 15
Ole Miss - 48
Penn State - 44
Tennessee - 55
SMU - 61
Indiana - 74
Arizona State - 39
South Carolina - 17
Colorado - 27
Miami - 62
LSU - 8
Florida - 5
Miss State - 3
Oklahoma - 2
UCLA - 1

That boosted by the Big 10 game. I don’t consider BSU much more impressive than a middle of the road Big 10 or SEc team
 
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Codaxx said:
Yes. I was mostly speaking about the regular season and the BIg 10 schedule. OSU had a ridiculously hard conference slate compared to Oregon, PSU, and Indiana

Notre Dame - 64
Oregon - 47
Ohio State - 5
Texas - 20
Georgia - 4
Alabama - 15
Ole Miss - 48
Penn State - 44
Tennessee - 55
SMU - 61
Indiana - 74
Arizona State - 39
South Carolina - 17
Colorado - 27
Miami - 62
LSU - 8
Florida - 5
Miss State - 3
Oklahoma - 2
UCLA - 1

That boosted by the Big 10 game. I don’t consider BSU much more impressive than a middle of the road Big 10 or SEc team
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For the record 0 issues with Oregon getting the one seed. This was more about PSU and OSU seeding, you just caught some collateral damage
 
Codaxx said:
Yes. I was mostly speaking about the regular season and the BIg 10 schedule. OSU had a ridiculously hard conference slate compared to Oregon, PSU, and Indiana

Notre Dame - 64
Oregon - 47
Ohio State - 5
Texas - 20
Georgia - 4
Alabama - 15
Ole Miss - 48
Penn State - 44
Tennessee - 55
SMU - 61
Indiana - 74
Arizona State - 39
South Carolina - 17
Colorado - 27
Miami - 62
LSU - 8
Florida - 5
Miss State - 3
Oklahoma - 2
UCLA - 1

That boosted by the Big 10 game. I don’t consider BSU much more impressive than a middle of the road Big 10 or SEc team
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I don't know what #'s you are citing. ESPN FPI has Ohio State's SOS ranked at 29th and Oregon's at 34th. Penn State is 30th and Indiana is 67th. I'm going to defend Oregon's resume considering they have 3 wins against the CFP top 10 teams and zero losses.
 
Codaxx said:
I really didn’t like this committee.
1. I don’t get PSU over OSU. Oregon, Indiana, and PSU all played weak schedules. You know who didn’t? Ohio State, because they played them all.
2. I don’t get SMU over Clemson. We just saw that game. Put Georgia and South Carolina on SMU’s schedule and I’ll bet at least 1 more loss

I think SOS was given far too little consideration. Schedules are so different.

Not too upset about Bama. I would have probably put South Carolina in, but not a big deal. Pretty sure if you ask Penn State fans who they would rather face SMU or Bama, they would say Bama.. I’ll be rooting for SMU this weekend. I hope it is a good game
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What? Holy hell!!! The playoff starts this early. Why didn't someone alert me?
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
You keep harping on losses, while leaving out the fact they beat Georgia and South Carolina (who both beat ACC champ Clemson), while also having a 3rd win over a ranked team, while SMU has.........Zero.

Couple that with the fact Bama played a top 10 schedule, while SMU played a top 60 schedule.

You keep saying I have a hard on for the SEC, while I couldn't care less. I want to watch the best teams play, not the teams who play in a shit conference and beat nobody. I should be happy as PSU will get a win and hopefully sign Franklin to an extension.
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You really want us to act like losses don’t matter, a true SEC honks you are.
 
duckboy33 said:
I don't know what #'s you are citing. ESPN FPI has Ohio State's SOS ranked at 29th and Oregon's at 34th. Penn State is 30th and Indiana is 67th. I'm going to defend Oregon's resume considering they have 3 wins against the CFP top 10 teams and zero losses.
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That was from the SOS thread. Does not matter, because you don’t need an algorithm to see that the Big 10 schedules were wildly unbalanced
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
You keep harping on losses, while leaving out the fact they beat Georgia and South Carolina (who both beat ACC champ Clemson), while also having a 3rd win over a ranked team, while SMU has.........Zero.

Couple that with the fact Bama played a top 10 schedule, while SMU played a top 60 schedule.

You keep saying I have a hard on for the SEC, while I couldn't care less. I want to watch the best teams play, not the teams who play in a shit conference and beat nobody. I should be happy as PSU will get a win and hopefully sign Franklin to an extension.
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Because losses matter more than wins.

If wins were the most important, Kansas would have playoff consideration
 
Wishbone said:
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So this thing took off on X ... with all the womenz coming out about how sexist this was. And, it is. But please give me a fucking break ... other than Holly Rowe who is really good at what she does, have you ever seen a sideline reporter who was hot as hell? I mean it's in the job requirements. So cut me some slack on how people are treating them like sex objects when that is one of the very reasons they were hired, and they know it.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
You really want us to act like losses don’t matter, a true SEC honks you are.
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Losses do matter, but quality wins matter too. If both teams played mediocre schedules and one team had 3 losses and the other had 2. I agree wholeheartedly -- the team with 2 losses should get in.

The difference here is -- one played a mediocre schedule, have zero ranked wins and lost to the only two ranked teams they played. The other played a top 10 schedule, beat three ranked teams, but had two mediocre losses.

If SMU had lost to Miami in the championship game -- I'd say they still had an argument to be in the CFP. Losing to Clemson, who is 0-2 against the SEC and lost by 31 in one of the games -- it should have eliminated SMU from consideration over any comparable team from the SEC. I'd rather see South Carolina in the CFP than SMU.
 
I wonder if the committee goes so far down the line to say that Georgia State beat Vanderbilt, and Vanderbilt beat Alabama three weeks later.
 
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