We need Vandy to lose rest of the game this year.. and If there is three way ties, we go to championship, providing we beat miss state and Miss state beats Ole miss.
It's probably not comforting to Notre Dame knowing that Ty Willingham is on the committee.A 1 loss Notre Dame will always get in.
Not if we win out.A 1 loss Notre Dame will always get in.
Ty could be our Ace in the holeIt's probably not comforting to Notre Dame knowing that Ty Willingham is on the committee.
The deck is stacked against Bama if Ole Miss wins out. The committee will not leave a 1 loss conference champion out of the playoff for a 1 loss non-division winning team. Not going to happen. System was put in place to help the weak sister conferences. We need Ole Miss to lose.Not if we win out.
I don't care what OM does. If Bama wins out they will have beaten TWO top 5 teams including #1. No way would they be left out.
You better care and You better hope Ole Miss loses; so Bama can get to the conference championship Saturday.Not if we win out.
I don't care what OM does. If Bama wins out they will have beaten TWO top 5 teams including #1. No way would they be left out.
1) likely only chance we have of a 3-way is with miss st and miss because we'd have won out and kicked the barn out of contention.How does the 3 way tie affect us now??
Good analysis. That win by Florida over Kentucky in Overtime could be big in Bama's favor if a 3 way tie occurs.1) likely only chance we have of a 3-way is with miss st and miss because we'd have won out and kicked the barn out of contention.
2) then a 3-way would be bama, ole miss, miss state and right now it would come down to SEC records of our non-division opponents (how i see it at least)
Bama 2-6 (fla, ten)
Miss St 2-6 (van, uk)
Ole Miss 0-7 (van, ten)
so if it all goes to plan then the big ones for Tide are for tenn to beat vandy and kentucky, kentucky to lose out (quite possible), and florida to beat vandy.
if that happens we're all set (unless i'm grossly misrepresenting the 3-way tb rules....)
I really feel like people should tamper their expectations. Certainly, we are still only halfway through the season. So much can happen the rest of the way. But I believe it is decidedly sure that we need to get to Atlanta and win in order to secure our spot in the top 4, or we need teams like Oregon, Notre Dame, and Michigan State/Ohio State to lose again if we have any hope of making it.
I was about to post something along these lines. If Ole Miss/ Mississippi State wins out and Florida State wins out you have two undefeated conference champions taking two spots. I can't see any way those two are not guaranteed.honestly i think the only way a 1-loss non-conf sec champ gets into the playoff alongside the sec champ is if kansas state wins the big 12 unbeaten in conference but with their one loss a HOME loss against a sec team.
i just don't see how they would put kansas state ahead of miss st or ole miss (90% chance if bama or barn were in a 3-way tiebreak they win the west)
that being said if you have sec champ + florida state (two shoo-ins) then i think a 1-loss pac 12 champ is in (oregon) leaving just 1 spot between
1) big 10 champ (osu or msu) or
2) 1-loss sec west runner-up or
3) 1-loss notre dame or kansas state
hell of a lot of projection on my part but that's how i see it shaking out. in short, we need to win out and have miss st beat ole miss and we should have a final 4 spot in our own hands unless kentucky goes on an unlikely winning spree against some damn tough opponents
You may be right, but why make the assumption that the committee was put in place to take things behind closed doors? I hope you're wrong; I bet you do too.I really feel like people should tamper their expectations. Certainly, we are still only halfway through the season. So much can happen the rest of the way. But I believe it is decidedly sure that we need to get to Atlanta and win in order to secure our spot in the top 4, or we need teams like Oregon, Notre Dame, and Michigan State/Ohio State to lose again if we have any hope of making it.
Florida State is in because they will not lose again. The SEC champion is in, barring some crazy scenario in which that team has 2 or more losses. And if two champions out of the Big Ten, Big 12, and Pac 12 only have one loss, they will make it.
People keep talking about the committee wanting to make this process above board, or without reproach. That is exactly why the committee was put in place - to take things behind closed doors, in order to steer the process towards the intended result of fairness.
I really think Slive was bamboozled in all of this. Hopefully, I'm overreacting and will be proven wrong.
I make that assumption because that is exactly how the process will work. They'll go to a hotel somewhere, deliberate for a couple of hours and release their top 4. There may be a press conference, but you're not going to know whether or not it's honest. It won't be difficult at all for them to justify their results, and if a 1-loss SEC team like Alabama is left out, only Alabama fans are ticked off. The rest of the country, especially outside of SEC territory, will be thrilled.You may be right, but why make the assumption that the committee was put in place to take things behind closed doors? I hope you're wrong; I bet you do too.
Also, I don't know what it means to "tamper their expectations". I do think the only way the SEC gets two teams in the playoff is if one of them is the SEC champ and the other is a one loss Bama.