What's your prediction for the Final Four?

RammerJammer14 said:

Haha, you are so cynical. I do agree that OSU jumping TCU was some blue-blood privilege. Anticipated revenue certainly could have played a roll.

The others, I can’t really recall who got left out, although I think OSU has been left out once or twice to teams like Washington who they were probably better than. I fully expected them to put Bama-Georgia together for round 1 last year due to SEC vs SEC, and the potential reduced viewing interest in a inter-conference, regional NC game. But they didn’t.

I was never for the playoff, but it has certainly helped us win at least 1 NC. What it is starting to turn into though imo is the same 5-6 team’s every post season. Clemson played OU in the semis in both 2015 and 2016. We have played Clemson 3 out of 4 times. Really the only rotating team has been #4. This year it looks like it could be Clemson-OU and/or Clemson- Bama AGAIN. The matchups are just getting...old.

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RollTide_HTTR said:

It's gonna be
1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Notre Dame
4. Oklahoma

Only question is if some of us here are right and we play in Miami not Dallas

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selmaborntidefan said:

However, if you look closer, they go for the guaranteed money.

2014 - Alabama vs Ohio State (NOT TCU)

And if we had won, it would have been the "everyone wants to see" Oregon-Alabama game


2015 - Alabama vs Old Coach's First Team, a showdown if OU won

(To be fair - this is the ONE time I might agree with you)

2016 - set up a potential rematch no matter what happened, either Alabama-Clemson or Alabama-Ohio St (nobody seriously thought Washington was going to win)

2017 - took the guaranteed money Clemson-Alabama in round one and set up either an All-SEC in Atlanta (BIG MONEY for tickets), Clemson-UGA (also big ticket money since it's in SC), or even OU-Alabama blue bloods match


This time around?

Alabama-Notre Dame is GUARANTEED money.
Alabama-Clemson IV is GUARANTEED money.
Alabama-Oklahoma is GUARANTEED money.

How do you set that up?

Match us up with the Irish and it's win/win so long as we win the game.
Then we get the Tua/Murray OR we get Round IV.

They'll insist it has nothing to do with it, but they're lying.

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DzynKingRTR said:

I would laugh so hard if Notre Dame gets moved to 5 or 6 and they put both Oklahoma and Ohio State in.

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selmaborntidefan said:

Some of these guys won't really come out and say it.


Georgia's problem is NOT that they "did not win their conference."

Georgia's problem is they got blown out by a 3-loss LSU team.

Had Georgia won that game but lost as they did yesterday, they would be in the playoff.

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tusks_n_raider said:

This year is pretty much a slam dunk on what the committee will do:

1) Alabama
2) Clemson
3) ND
4) Oklahoma

5) tOSU
6) UGA

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Chukker Veteran said:

One of the up sides to having Bama undefeated is that it takes the pressure off Greg McElroy in picking Greg's top four. Even he can't justify leaving us out now.

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Go Bama said:

If they just want the best 5 based on eye test it'll be

Bama
Clemson
Georgia
tOSU

ND is the only team on the list that OU can beat if the tOSU that played Michigan shows up.

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teamplayer said:

Not to my eyes because my eyes saw OSU get whipped by Purdue and UGA lose twice, once by 20. Both of those teams are good, but my eyes saw results on the field.

Now, about this show today- it is four hours long. Does anyone know if they will list the teams and then talk about it, or do they wait until the end before making the announcements? I don't plan to watch this for four hours, so does anyone know?

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