Week 15 FBS Conference Championship Games for Dec 6-7

[kirbivore]

SMU has to be in. The team that should get knocked out is Penn State. South Carolina and Bama have arguments over them. Pedo State sucks, they beat no one.

I’d kick out Indiana

 

[CanadianSU]

I’d kick out Indiana

They are basically SMU but with a blowout loss to OSU.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

They are going to use SOS to get Bama in. That is the hill they will die on. "They beat Georgia. They play in the SEC. Who is SMU's best win? TCU? {background snickers}"

The problem they have IMO is Indiana. Indiana played as weak as an OOC schedule as you can. They didn't play 3 of the 4 ranked B1G teams. The one they did was not close. Their best win is Michigan who isn't close to being ranked. SMU had Duke and Louisville who are just outside the Top 25. Their two Ls were close games to Top 20 teams. The first of which was before their QB change. SOS goes to SMU. SMU is the regular season ACC Champ going 9-2 against the P4 while Indiana did not make the B1G CG and went 8-1 against the P4 (2 less games played). Sagarin has SMU higher. AP, Coaches, CFP all had SMU ahead going into the ACC CG (when both were 11-1). There is zero justification for taking Indiana over SMU.

 

[swish7]

Why do you care if Dabo is a man of faith or not? And I’m not a religious person by any means, just curious why it triggers you.

I am not the only one commenting on it. About 8 other people did as well. But, I'll answer your question

1. I dont care if Dabo has faith, but dont want to hear about it.
2. I want to be able to listen to a post game interview without 'God' being the first word out of a coaches or athletes mouth. It is soooooo overdone. Dabo referenced God about 8 times in 4 sentences, which is excessive. Then the QB did too. We're all used to it, so we tune it out, but the 8 times was about 6 too many for me.
3. If God exists, it wouldn't care about the outcome of an athletic contest.
4. If God cared about athletics, it would care about both teams & all players equally, maybe especially a Methodist University
5. I'll go to church if I want to hear about God.
6. Its lazy, like saying aliens built pyramids
7. Religion isn't that great & holds some responsibility for a lot of the world's ills.
8. People have different religions & maybe don't want to hear about a Christian one
9. Do you like it when some religious person knocks on your door & wants to sell you on their religion?

I like Dabo & religious people (who don't proselytize) in general, so the excessive mentions caught mine (& others) attention.

 

[swish7]

Hope it works

That is awesome

 

[orangenauburn]

Lets be honest

Miami and SMU deserve to be in over Bama and Indiana

South Carolina deserves to be in over Bama and Indiana too.

 

[orange79]

Why do you care if Dabo is a man of faith or not? And I’m not a religious person by any means, just curious why it triggers you.

I’m sorry, I can’t stand the constant Jesus and god stuff. It’s a freaking football game played by 18-23 year olds.

I am not the only one commenting on it. About 8 other people did as well. But, I'll answer your question

1. I dont care if Dabo has faith, but dont want to hear about it.
2. I want to be able to listen to a post game interview without 'God' being the first word out of a coaches or athletes mouth. It is soooooo overdone. Dabo referenced God about 8 times in 4 sentences, which is excessive. Then the QB did too. We're all used to it, so we tune it out, but the 8 times was about 6 too many for me.
3. If God exists, it wouldn't care about the outcome of an athletic contest.
4. If God cared about athletics, it would care about both teams & all players equally, maybe especially a Methodist University
5. I'll go to church if I want to hear about God.
6. Its lazy, like saying aliens built pyramids
7. Religion isn't that great & holds some responsibility for a lot of the world's ills.
8. People have different religions & maybe don't want to hear about a Christian one
9. Do you like it when some religious person knocks on your door & wants to sell you on their religion?

I like Dabo & religious people (who don't proselytize) in general, so the excessive mentions caught mine (& others) attention.

We are not doing this here.

If you feel the need to discuss this topic, please take it to PM's or some other board.


Thanks.

 

[Scooch]

They are going to use SOS to get Bama in. That is the hill they will die on. "They beat Georgia. They play in the SEC. Who is SMU's best win? TCU? {background snickers}"

Probably. And it’s the usual circular logic of SEC SoS. Before the season starts everyone says the SEC is strong and deep. Then teams beat each other, get credit for it, get ranked, and that validates SoS.

Meanwhile other conferences have teams with similar records but they get dinged in SoS because before the season people agreed the conferences was thin and weak.

Around and around we go!

 

[kirbivore]

Indiana also was scheduled to play at Louisville in 2024 as the 2nd game of a 3 game series. They bought out of that game and scheduled and FCS one instead. They should not be rewarded for this cowardice.

Source: IU football likely to replace Louisville on 2024 schedule with FCS opponent

Saturday's game against the Cardinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis will be the only game of the series played as originally scheduled.

www.indystar.com

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Probably. And it’s the usual circular logic of SEC SoS. Before the season starts everyone says the SEC is strong and deep. Then teams beat each other, get credit for it, get ranked, and that validates SoS.

Meanwhile other conferences have teams with similar records but they get dinged in SoS because before the season people agreed the conferences was thin and weak.

Around and around we go!

They need to use a uniform standard. If record is justified for taking Indiana then they need to also apply that to SMU. If SOS is used to take Bama then it also needs to be applied to Indiana, Texas, Penn State.

They already have Bama ranked behind Boise, Indiana, SMU. They can’t last minute change the standard.

 

[Arangeman]

SMU is -670 to get in. Bama is +430

 

[OttoinGrotto]

They can’t last minute change the standard.

Well...

 

[Scotch]

SMU is -670 to get in. Bama is +430

This is wild. Someone knows something.

 

[JustPherU]

This is wild. Someone knows something.

They know that it would set a precedent to not play in your championship games if they leave SMU out. SMU is a lock on that alone.Bet the farm on SMU getting in.

 

[JustPherU]

This is wild. Someone knows something.

FanDuel has SMU -1000 Bama +560

 

[Scotch]

They know that it would set a precedent to not play in your championship games if they leave SMU out. SMU is a lock on that alone.Bet the farm on SMU getting in.

Sound logic.

 

[Horn88]

They know that it would set a precedent to not play in your championship games if they leave SMU out. SMU is a lock on that alone.Bet the farm on SMU getting in.

How? Clemson just won their way in to the playoff and Georgia locked in a bye by winning last night.

All SMU had to do was beat a team on a neutral field who got embarrassed by Georgia and lost at home to the 5th-6th best SEC team at home and they couldn’t do it. They played two teams that will finish ranked and went 0-2. At some point you have to show you can beat someone of note.

 

[CuseCactus]

Bummed for SMU. Heartbreaking loss after their best season in - what - 50 years? And today another kick in the ballzzzz from the Committee.

Their future is bright though and I have a little envy. Bottomless donors down there.

 

[Horn88]

I think SMU is in and that’s probably pretty bad for the sport in the bigger picture.

Heavily incentives schools to play as easy a schedule as possible so less big regular season non-conference games and also likely expedites SEC and Big Ten breaking away much sooner than later.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I think SMU is in and that’s probably pretty bad for the sport in the bigger picture.

Heavily incentives schools to play as easy a schedule as possible so less big regular season non-conference games and also likely expedites SEC and Big Ten breaking away much sooner than later.

Eh, I don't think so.

 

[JustPherU]

How? Clemson just won their way in to the playoff and Georgia locked in a bye by winning last night.

All SMU had to do was beat a team on a neutral field who got embarrassed by Georgia and lost at home to the 5th-6th best SEC team at home and they couldn’t do it. They played two teams that will finish ranked and went 0-2. At some point you have to show you can beat someone of note.

How would it set a precedent?
Teams would just come down with the Blue flu from now on and not even play in the Championship game if they were already a lock for the playoffs.

 

[Scotch]

I think SMU is in and that’s probably pretty bad for the sport in the bigger picture.

Heavily incentives schools to play as easy a schedule as possible so less big regular season non-conference games and also likely expedites SEC and Big Ten breaking away much sooner than later.

Hey Alabama, don’t get smoked by a terrible Oklahoma team.

 

[Horn88]

Eh, I don't think so.

Why? Who you play and who you beat should matter. Committee would be saying it doesn’t if they move SMU in over Bama. If you don’t get rewarded for big wins and only penalized for the loss column why wouldn’t everyone try to make their schedule easy as possible?

And whether you agree or not I feel very comfortable saying that the SEC will not just sit and shrug their shoulders towards a system that has Bama, Ole Miss, SC sitting at home because they’re in a tougher conference and SMU plays two teams with a pulse and goes 0-2.

 

[upperdeck]

The Commish should never had said teams in were locked in. Its all fluid and it should have been.
If they move Ala in now the TV guys need to rip him when he comes on to talk.

 

[upperdeck]

SOS drives a ton of this and that is built in Bias as well.