Agreed if you lost to Pitt, your def out. Disagree about UGA and Bama. Close game with UGA win puts line up at Clemson, ND, UGA, Bama. If UGA loses, margin is irrelevant, they're out and OSU is in.
If the Dawgs win a competitive game, it's 1 Clemson, 2 ND, 3 UGA, and 4 Bama.
To play they must actually #playsomebody. Their SOS is 107.
College football should clearly be downsized to only about 10-12 teams. If back-to-back undefeated seasons don't get you a sniff of the playoffs, then the entire thing is a sham set up only to allow big donors to pick their favorite schools.
I hear you but they wouldn't have gone undefeated in a Power 5 conference. CFP expansion is probably coming... sooner than later if the Dawgs beat Bama and the Big Ten, Big 12, and Pac 12 are all left out of the CFP.
I agree that’s what committee would do, but I bet Vegas would tell you it’s 1) UGA 2) Bama 3) Clemson (assumes we blowout Pitt) 4) ND.
Agree with everything but not necessarily your last statement. If the Dawgs beat Bama in a competitive game, is Bama not still a top 4 team given OK and OSU this season? I think it sucks that we would have to beat Bama twice to win a natty, but if they're top 4, it is what it is.
True, but it's a 5 loss team that shows the embarrassing state of most of the ACC. Penn State also SMOKED Pitt 51-6. Similarly, they're hanging their hat on a win over a 4 loss Auburn team last year. I'd probably be pulling for UCF if it wasn't for their bogus national champions proclamation from last year. That 107 SOS is killing them.
Yeah, the same 4 loss team that was worn down by an SEC schedule... therein lies the problem with a 107 strength of schedule.
UGA wouldn't be punished for beating Bama and winning the SEC by having to turn around and play Bama again the next game IMO.
IMO conference affiliation should not matter.... Take the best 4 teams....
or do they? That is the problem with the current system...we will never know because they don't get the chance. They beat AUB last year, who is to say they can't compete this year.
not if you consider the conference championships as part of the playoff.
The problem with this is that all conferences are not equal and it punishes better conferences like the current SEC. Not only does it punish better conferences, it punishes better teams. Should a 1 loss team not be able to make the CFP while a 2 or 3 loss conference champion goes? No. Should the 2nd or 3rd best team in the country be kept out of the CFP just because the best team is in the same conference? No. Just my opinion of course.
With Kerrion Johnson injured and coming off a throttling to Georgia. UCF was bogus then as a playoff team, and is more so now.
only if they get blowd up! A close loss is not going to tank a 12-0 team from a power 5 conference
They are the clear #1 until they get beat. They also said the Alabama and Clemson had separated themselves so I doubt anyone jumps Clemson. If Georgia wins it will either be 1 Clemson 2 ND 3 Georgia and 4 (alabama, Oklahoma, ohio state)
