Potential final ranking prognostication

[davefrat]

Well, we could start talk about next year.

If we lose this weekend I think the Tidefans server may literally overheat and meltdown.

 

[CoolBreeze]

It's illogical is what it is, but the committee has been consistently illogical.

They do what they want, then they figure out the justification for it after the fact. There is no consistently, there is no precedent, rule, or approach that they adhere to. It's just literally what ever the heck they felt like at a given time.

It is a mafia of people manipulating the system for money. The Human element will always skew logical decisions when it comes to money. We fans need to demand a system based on data and a commissioner of football, which will never happen. Looking at Sagarin's data, for example, clearly tells the story of SEC teams in the top 30 with way more difficult schedules. That, combined with wins over top 30 wins should carry way more weight than going by Human polls. Big 2's record is 3-0 for both of them. The highest rated SEC teams are 5-0, 4-1, 6-2 & 6-1. Even Vanderbilt has played double the number of top 30 teams than any in the big 2. I still don't understand why us fans put up this this farce.

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[tusks_n_raider]

If we lose this weekend I think the Tidefans server may literally overheat and meltdown.

True because there would be a lot to discuss other than the CFBP.

This is a BAD AU team and there is zero excuse to not beat them.

A&M is a Very Good team and there would not be shame in losing to them as long as we played them tight and came up short because they were better.

Losing to AU would be a complete failure and an embarrassment.

We’d be exactly where we were in Week 1 post FSU.

 

[Cruloc]

If we lose this weekend I think the Tidefans server may literally overheat and meltdown.

I wouldn't be shocked if we lost. Like the Oklahoma game, I wasn't upset, just disappointed at the play and disgusted at how we looked.

If we did the same at Auburn....I'd watch til the end, stay off of here and go play Path of Exile.

 

[davefrat]

I wouldn't be shocked if we lost. Like the Oklahoma game, I wasn't upset, just disappointed at the play and disgusted at how we looked.

If we did the same at Auburn....I'd watch til the end, stay off of here and go play Path of Exile.

Agreed. I wasn't surprised at all about us losing against OU (last year or this year...in fact last year I expected Venables to have a plan to shut down Milroe although I was surprised by how sloppy we were with the ball this year) and I wouldn't be shocked if we stain the sheets against Auburn.

I hope that's not the case.

 

[TideEngineer08]

True because there would be a lot to discuss other than the CFBP.

This is a BAD AU team and there is zero excuse to not beat them.

A&M is a Very Good team and there would not be shame in losing to them as long as we played them tight and came up short because they were better.

Losing to AU would be a complete failure and an embarrassment.

We’d be exactly where we were in Week 1 post FSU.

We'd actually set ourselves further back. At least after FSU, we had the season ahead to redeem ourselves. Losing to AU, falling to 9-3 and a completely useless bowl game that we would likely lose and fall to 9-4, would bring back those calling for a coaching change and they'd be much louder than before. The season (and off-season) hang in the balance.

 

[davefrat]

We'd actually set ourselves further back. At least after FSU, we had the season ahead to redeem ourselves. Losing to AU, falling to 9-3 and a completely useless bowl game that we would likely lose and fall to 9-4, would bring back those calling for a coaching change and they'd be much louder than before. The season (and off-season) hang in the balance.

For good or bad, and regardless what happens to end this season, DeBoer is almost assuredly going to be our HC next year unless he chooses to go elsewhere. With all the current vacancies at big time programs there aren't enough good coaches to go around.

But it will be an ugly offseason if we lose to Auburn and DeBoer will start the season off sitting on red hot woodstove.

 

[Con]

Guys, I don’t have the confidence I have in winning the way I did when Coach Saban was here but I still feel like we can whoop most anybody we play. We just don’t play with consistency a lot of the time. I will never feel like Auburn is going to beat us.

 

[CoolBreeze]

Predicting the top 12 of the fourth Playoff Poll of 2025

After a quiet Week 13 without major upsets, what will the latest College Football Playoff Top 25 look like on Tuesday night?

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[UAH]

I wouldn't be shocked if we lost. Like the Oklahoma game, I wasn't upset, just disappointed at the play and disgusted at how we looked.

If we did the same at Auburn....I'd watch til the end, stay off of here and go play Path of Exile.

My question is Auburn's front four - front seven equal to or stronger than Oklahoma's? Just being realistic, given all of the past games there, it is reasonable to expect a mad house and a gut wrenching game. As others have said there have to be options to get the ball out quickly otherwise Ty will have a long night. I hope I am plesantly surprised!