Short answer is we've beat 1 team that's relevant (we scored more than NCSU but they wore us out in all honesty) and many of our wins against bad teams (and the list is long) have been close. SEC East is as bad as I've ever seen it. So to be recognized, beat the taters and then beat Penn St in a bowl game and we crack Top 15. Lose to the taters and lose our bowl game and we may be the worst 8 win team in college football this year.
Just to be clear, I really don't care whether we get ranked or not, except as a by-product of winning.
If we finish 9-3 with a win over Clemson, I'll be so freaking delirious, I won't care about our ranking or lack thereof.
Yes this is true. Duke did beat Nortwestern by 24 points in the second full week of the college football season. Northwestern has improved and currently hold a five game winning streak. Duke started their season with a four and zero record but since then has lost six straight games.
I think you need to move your keyboard about 1/2 inch to the left. Or maybe the right.
i aint gonna worry about respect or top 25....as long as we are winning i dont see why it matters so much to people
So scoring a lot in the 4th quarter doesn't count if the game is reasonably close (or tied) at the start of the 4th. Clemson is basically the same team as BC and FSU. Oh, and scoring in the 4th quarter is unclassy. Clemson should score classy points in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.
Clemson couldn't beat cuse they don't deserve to be in the top 4
Duke has lost and NW has won because both schools have gotten into the depth of conference play. The B10 has not only lost in the last two playoff’s, they couldn’t even score. It’s bowl record last year was 3-7. The ACC has two NC’s in recent years and had the best bowl record of all power 5’s last year. The B10 gets the benefit of bias polls to start the year and as they beat up on each other it appears to be the clash of Titans. But it’s a ruse. I’m sorry I just have to respectfully disagree that NW deserves a ranking.
Voters? What voters are you concerned about? I’m more concerned that you don’t actually know how the system works for the past 3 years.
Oh my gosh! I DO remember those events! It was pretty awful.
You do nunderstand that AP voters and their votes are 100% meaningless and irrelevant now, right? No, actually, that’s not correct. I guess they’re relevant if you go far enough down the list. I’m curious whether you believe the 12 members of the playoff committee don’t watch games and just look at final scores. “Oh, look, Clemson beat FSU 31-14, must have been a boring game! Nothing to debate here!”
