I'm Going to Say It.

South Carolina has won six straight -- four against ranked opponents -- and earned a three-rung promotion to No. 13. Ole Miss remained No. 15 and was followed by Iowa State and BYU.

 

Bama climbed to #11 in the AP top 25 with 3 losses and 2 of the losses to unranked teams (vandy & OK). Blows my mind how much they love Bama. Crazy.

 

Exactly. We lost to Alabama by 2 at Alabama… yet bama gets blown off the field by Oklahoma , who SC beat handily along with Vandy.
How did we jump Ole Miss who beat SC 27-3? I am confused
Also, we just beat the #12 team while Alabama beat Auburn … Auburn isn’t even going to a bowl game!!!

 

Please do not confuse NFL with college ball. All NFL shares the same salary cap, and same draft. None of which implies to college fairness between teams.
I pointed out examples of teams that were winning.....until they actually played rank teams. If those teams being ranked didn't matter....then why did those other teams have a problem with them....unlike when they were playing unranked teams???

 

How about Alabama.
How about SMU that only played 2 top 25 teams, and got beat by one, and the other they actually beat .....the only time they played a top 25 team was SMU. I could keep on, and on.
Example: Arkansas is crap, but look at our record outside of playing top 25 teams. If we had some of these schedules like Boise St, or SMU had...We would have the same record.....,,but we don't, and we didn't. So teams that play one, or two ranked teams.....should not have the same ranking as teams that have. Hell they put Pitt into the top 25, and they played no ranked teams, and were undefeated.....until they actually played a ranked team, and look what happened.

 

The only reason is because preseason rankings are purely speculation. How did FSU end up after starting out as a top 5 team? Nobody had SMU in their 12 team playoff prediction. Yet here they are right in the mix with 1 game left.


All I would really like to see changed is stop with the preseason rankings. Rank the teams after 6 weeks of actual play. I'm fine with a3 loss team getting into the playoff if their resume warrants it.

 

We will find out at 7pm if the Cocks made the cut..odds are pretty slim.
Let’s go Cocks!

 

Penn st and Indiana are included too.

 

Bullcrap… SC beats 12 team and only move up 1 spot to 14?!?
Of course Alabama , 1 week removed from getting blown out by Oklahoma, are in at 11!!

 

Such a joke… Indiana #9… really?

 

Ohio State #6 after losing to Michigan…complete and utter bulldoody

 

Notre Dame #4 … lost to a high school team
Penn State #3 … really?! Played 1 ranked team and lost

 

Hate to say it, but I will be rooting for Clemson to beat SMU to knock out Alabama

 

College football definitely didn’t get it right with 12 team playoff… actually made it worse in my opinion.
All about the brand, always was and always will be.

 

A guy on the radio put it best...the playoff should be about merit only, not about helmet emblems.

 

There was talk on a radio show earlier (think it was Dan Patrick), this being the first year of the 12 team format and the glitches coming to light. Changes will likely come, perhaps an expansion to 14 with just 2 byes, if conference championship games are eliminated, perhaps expanding it a few more and having play in games. Issues will be how many games can be played, and who or what conferences/teams should be eliminated. When it was 2 you often had 2 or more teams that could claim they should have been in it, expanding to 4 left a team or 2 on the brink. We are seeing the same thing expanding to 12, it really should not be this hard, but money and ratings are really the bottom line. If it comes down to 3 teams to make the number 12 spot, a 'blue blood' might get the nod simply because of the name. I agree with, in a season where no one with 2 or 3 losses really has stood out, South Carolina has shown more on the field, but will the committee agree?

 

They didn’t. Also, officiating in LSU cost us a win. We should’ve been 10-2! Of course they still would’ve put Alabama above us

 

tried to tell ya saturday.
still had ahecka season

 

Frigging Pitt starting out hot got me a little interested in the NCAA. Guy trying to explain to me on golf course. Have to say the Playoff system is wacky. I guess those Bowl games have lost meaning?? Cotton, Sugar, Peach and Rose what I remember. I believe Penn State has to travel to Oregon for #1?? That should be good.

College football got to be a huge money maker for the big schools but I'm sure all they care about is a solid education for them all.

 

The expanded playoff was supposed to solve of warranted teams not having a chance with 2, then a 4 team playoff. What we see is there will always be teams on the outside looking in. That number may become obviously less the more they extend it out, but leaving the selection to a committee behind closed doors with no true reasoning the selections will always have controversy. Money is often the deciding factor, tradition and 'political'power with certain teams and conferences and of course the networks financing this entertainment' event is another. In future years they will tweak this thing to try and perfect it, but there are to many Chiefs in the battle to really get this thing put together correctly.

There are to many teams, and as you say to few comparitive games to truly get a real sampling. Boise State with a possible bye? Narrow this thing down to 4 conferences, eliminate conference championship game, have no more than 2 lower games (FCS or like minded) that must be played by week 3, if they want to include the group of 5, expand this thing to 14 or 16 and have a play in game with 2 group of 5 against lowest seeded teams from the conferences. This could be done without expanding the season to much, the other bowl games could still find their matches, and a a more accurate representation of playoff worthy teams would emerge.

 

To me a committee of humans have done worse than the computer rankings.
Also, if everyone in playoffs doesn’t play in conference championship games, eliminate that extra game and award the teams with best record in their conferences. Absolutely unfair, esp Notre Dame gets that advantage every year.

 

They also have to do a better setup with the seedings. Texas vs Ga in SEC Championship Game this weekend, strong possibility these two teams matchup in second rd of playoffs, would be the 3 time they play each other this season?!?!
Also, @KnoxVegasSteel , Vols got screwed having to go on the road to play Ohio State?! Really, the same Ohio State that just lost to Michigan?
Like I said, complete and utter BS. Please go back to the drawing board and fix this.

 

They also beat Illinois

 

One final note about my Gamecocks.
Since losing head to head to both Alabama and Ole Miss, we have won 6 straight games and both them teams lost 2 games each.
Always thought when you lost meant something, esp at end of season?!?

 

Oregon is going to dropkick them! Wow, Illinois… next you will say how great Indiana is. Wow, they also beat Minnesota!!
I love Penn State, whole Big10 overrated