Or a Clemson rout. 56-10 type game.
Is there a scenario where we still back into the playoffs?
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If Clemson wins, it will need to be a blowout, and I am not sure that they are capable of blowing out anyone
Normally I'd say SMU losing would drop them out entirely.....but since we've been told conference championships won't hurt a team.....they have an out to move us out, SMU down to 11....and Clemson in.
There are unconfirmed rumors that losing in the Championship game should not hurt the team too much.
Are they getting the slow reveal cardboard cutout woman too? Hey, they might win then.
This is the kind of black box that we're dealing with here.
The committee hasn't liked SMU much all year. If you go back to week 13 for instance, SMU was ranked 13th below Boise State who also had one loss. This also placed them below four two loss teams and they haven't beaten anyone of note since then.
They will fall below Alabama in the polls and BCS if they lose. The only question is how the committee would handle that and that's where the ranking of Miami at 12 concerns me a little bit. They are willing to over-rank the ACC a bit so could they decide to not punish SMU for a conference championship loss but considering how soft their schedule is obviously it should mean something.
We were only actually told that by pundits. The committee said a team won't be "unduly" punished, nothing at all about not punishing a team. In fact in the interview he just said they indicated that conference championship games would be treated as an additional data point, indicating Alabama won't be dropped but conference champ losers might be.
That's not what they said - they said a conference championship game loss wouldn't cause a team to be "unduly punished" - that can mean whatever they want to rationalize it to mean.
We're #11 and that won't change, regardless of what happens this weekend since we're not playing.
Or at least that's my understanding.
Or at least that's my understanding.
The CFP guy just said that it depends on the game outcomes.
That is what I understood also. He said the teams not playing would not change position
I think if SMU loses they are out.
Right. We would need SMU to drop 3 which doesn’t feel unrealistic.
but I do lovethe @Notre Dame and then at SMU path.
Of course. But they already don’t buy SMU at 8. So if they lose to the only ranked team they play all year I see them dropping a good bit.
This is why I've been saying all week that we need to root for SMU.
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