Bama to #4 in coaches and AP poll...
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Back in position. The rest of the nation is faltering, we've actually gotten back to controlling our own destiny for the playoffs without even getting back into position for the conference.
Back in position. The rest of the nation is faltering, we've actually gotten back to controlling our own destiny for the playoffs without even getting back into position for the conference.
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Yeah, baby!!! With Mittittippi Tate and the Barn in front of us, if Bama wins out, we're in. Yesterday was a statement game.
Yeah, baby!!! With Mittittippi Tate and the Barn in front of us, if Bama wins out, we're in. Yesterday was a statement game.
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Yeah, it's cool I guess. But the only top 4 that matters is the one that the committee rolls out at the end of the regular season.
Rod Gilmore and Mark Jones were the commentators for the Stanford - Arizona State late game last night. At one point during the game, Jones asked Gilmore what would be his 4 playoff teams, given the events of the day (Baylor's, Oklahoma's, and Notre Dame's losses and Alabama's blowout win over Texas A&M). Gilmore said that since conference championships were important to him, he'd put Mississippi State, FSU, Michigan State, and Oregon in.
When Jones asked him why he skipped over Ole Miss, Alabama and Auburn, he said that he was projecting Mississippi State as the SEC champion, and if you don't win your conference championship, you should have to be able to point to a very strong out of conference schedule in order to get in, which in his view, Ole Miss, Alabama and Auburn can't do.
Here's to hoping the committee has more sense than Rod Gilmore.
Yeah, it's cool I guess. But the only top 4 that matters is the one that the committee rolls out at the end of the regular season.
Rod Gilmore and Mark Jones were the commentators for the Stanford - Arizona State late game last night. At one point during the game, Jones asked Gilmore what would be his 4 playoff teams, given the events of the day (Baylor's, Oklahoma's, and Notre Dame's losses and Alabama's blowout win over Texas A&M). Gilmore said that since conference championships were important to him, he'd put Mississippi State, FSU, Michigan State, and Oregon in.
When Jones asked him why he skipped over Ole Miss, Alabama and Auburn, he said that he was projecting Mississippi State as the SEC champion, and if you don't win your conference championship, you should have to be able to point to a very strong out of conference schedule in order to get in, which in his view, Ole Miss, Alabama and Auburn can't do.
Here's to hoping the committee has more sense than Rod Gilmore.
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If things continue to go the way they are with the SEC (and West in particular), they'll have to have 2 SEC teams in else this championship-by-committee really will be an obvious sham.
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I'd love to think it was just a matter of ending the season in the top 4, but the whole purpose of the selection committee is to over-ride the polls to get conference champions that AREN'T in the top 4 into the playoffs.
I'd love to think it was just a matter of ending the season in the top 4, but the whole purpose of the selection committee is to over-ride the polls to get conference champions that AREN'T in the top 4 into the playoffs.
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Sadly, I agree with this as well. It's all about spreading the money around the conferences. I still think there will likely be 2 SEC West teams in the playoffs, but I don't see a way to get more than that. If we win out, we go. If we don't, we had better hope for some serious luck.
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I guess WV is a nobody. Yup, Bama plays a soft non-conference schedule.
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How do all the other conferences feel about that?
So, 4/5 of the teams in the top 5 are from the SEC West! What is that saying. I know it won't end that way but that is very interesting.
How do all the other conferences feel about that?
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if marshall is undefeated they might just get voted in by this stupid committee
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What is the standard of OOC schedule? I mean yea we played WVU who just beat Baylor, but besides that we played cupcakes. Isn't that what all the other teams that are in the top 10 do? One solid OOC game and the rest cupcakes? I don't know who all the other teams have played OOC but it's probably not much better than WVU. Not to mention if you measure the conference opponents between the SEC and any other conference it is no contest..
What is the standard of OOC schedule? I mean yea we played WVU who just beat Baylor, but besides that we played cupcakes. Isn't that what all the other teams that are in the top 10 do? One solid OOC game and the rest cupcakes? I don't know who all the other teams have played OOC but it's probably not much better than WVU. Not to mention if you measure the conference opponents between the SEC and any other conference it is no contest..
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This selection committee will be like NASA when they selected the first astronauts, and didnt pick Chick Yeager and Scott Crossfield. That weren't looking for the best pilots.
This selection committee will be like NASA when they selected the first astronauts, and didnt pick Chick Yeager and Scott Crossfield. That weren't looking for the best pilots.
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There are few people in all of sports that are as stupid as Gilmore. Seriously.
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Yea. There is a reason he does late night west coast games..
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http://www.spitbloodtcu.com/2010/11/public-enemy-1-rod-gilmore.html
For the Rod Gilmore haters ....
http://www.spitbloodtcu.com/2010/11/public-enemy-1-rod-gilmore.html
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