If Bama is excluded

[CHorn427]

They will play Michigan! Please God let it be! 
 

Would also like to see the SEC execute a holy war on Notre Dame

[Texasborn91]

They won’t be punished for a loss to a team they already beat. 

Edited yesterday at 12:07 AM by Texasborn91

[CHorn427]

15 minutes ago, Texasborn91 said:

They won’t be punished for a loss to a team they already beat. 

This isn’t just a loss. 

[DZX158]

15 minutes ago, Texasborn91 said:

They won’t be punished for a loss to a team they already beat. 

You are probably right but this is another bad loss for them and when comparing resumes to Texas they should fall below. If the game was competitive I would feel differently but they got dominated 

[dentonhorn]

14 minutes ago, Texasborn91 said:

They won’t be punished for a loss to a team they already beat. 

Not punished but another data point for where a team is today, not then but now. Florida State lost their QB last season and was reassessed with the new data point. 

[SB21]

Yeah as much as we wish it would happen they are t gonna lea e out BYU or Bama and we can all laugh at the “best teams only get into the CFP” crap with those two, Tulane and JMU getting in instead of us. Crazy. 

[TexasFanatic]

Just now, SB21 said:

Yeah as much as we wish it would happen they are t gonna lea e out BYU or Bama and we can all laugh at the “best teams only get into the CFP” crap with those two, Tulane and JMU getting in instead of us. Crazy. 

System is flawed 

[TexasFanatic]

I wanna play ND

[Red Five]

For some reason getting the sh!t kicked out of them one day before the selections are made looks better to the committee than Texas losing in August at Ohio St. by one score. Because otherwise the resumes are very similar, with the edge probably going to Texas.

[CHorn427]

30 minutes ago, SB21 said:

Yeah as much as we wish it would happen they are t gonna lea e out BYU or Bama and we can all laugh at the “best teams only get into the CFP” crap with those two, Tulane and JMU getting in instead of us. Crazy. 

BYU wasn’t in before today and they certainly won’t be now

[TheContractor12]

They have 3 losses, we have 3 losses. 
They have 1 bad loss, we have 1 bad loss. 
our bad loss, kills their bad loss.

They just lost to UGA neutral by 21, 14 is the closest it got in 4th. 
We lost to UGA on the road by 25, closest it got in 4th was 4 points. 
They lost to 0u in Bama by 2. 
We beat 0u, neutral site by 17. 
they beat Vandy at home by 16. 
We beat Vandy at home by 3, 24 pt game in 4th.   
 

Bama SOS 11

Texas SOS 8

 

we should get in 
 

[TheContractor12]

Need Osu to dominate Indy 

[David Latiolais]

Having a 4 team bye is the real issue with the playoffs. Need to get rid of the conference Championship game and just go to a 16 team playoffs. And the top 16 ranked teams get in. 

Edited yesterday at 01:45 AM by David Latiolais

[ArizonaLonghorn]

I'm guessing Notre Dame and Miami get the last two spots, Bama and Texas are the first two out ... 

SEC ain't gonna like it if that comes to pass.

[Aspann85]

17 minutes ago, TheContractor12 said:

They have 3 losses, we have 3 losses. 
They have 1 bad loss, we have 1 bad loss. 
our bad loss, kills their bad loss.

They just lost to UGA neutral by 21, 14 is the closest it got in 4th. 
We lost to UGA on the road by 25, closest it got in 4th was 4 points. 
They lost to 0u in Bama by 2. 
We beat 0u, neutral site by 17. 
they beat Vandy at home by 16. 
We beat Vandy at home by 3, 24 pt game in 4th.   
 

Bama SOS 11

Texas SOS 8

 

we should get in 
 

Stop being logical bc that doesn’t exist in the committee apparently…

[GoHorns1]

Bama has lost 2 of its last 4 games.

[Raistlin]

43 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

I'm guessing Notre Dame and Miami get the last two spots, Bama and Texas are the first two out ... 

SEC ain't gonna like it if that comes to pass.

Boycott 😎

[CHorn427]

42 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

I'm guessing Notre Dame and Miami get the last two spots, Bama and Texas are the first two out ... 

SEC ain't gonna like it if that comes to pass.

I would love to see it. Spark the Holy War. Scorched earth vs Notre Dame. Greg Sankey is the Lisan al Gaib! 

[David Latiolais]

I thought the conference Championship game was not supposed to affect the two teams playing? They're not supposed to be punished for playing in the championship game?

[GoHorns1]

Texas whipped Texas A&M, Texas A&M beat ND

Texas whipped OU, OU beat Bama

BYU got whipped again by Texas Tech. Who has BYU beaten that is currently ranked?

Bye bye, Bama, ND, BYU!
 

HELLO TEXAS

[CHorn427]

7 minutes ago, David Latiolais said:

I thought the conference Championship game was not supposed to affect the two teams playing? They're not supposed to be punished for playing in the championship game?

This whole acting like there is Supreme Court level precedent for these committee decisions is dumb. We’ve literally had one year of precedent in the 12 team system.

No team that was in the field got penalized last year from the CCG outcomes, yes. Then again, no team that was in the field lost their CCG by more than 8 points.

ISU was on the cusp of the CFP, got smacked and dropped two spots in the final poll. So there is precedent for teams moving down after getting smacked in a CCG. 

 

[ArizonaLonghorn]

2 hours ago, David Latiolais said:

I thought the conference Championship game was not supposed to affect the two teams playing? They're not supposed to be punished for playing in the championship game?

If you've been playing poorly lately and you get blown out in the conference championship game and you were one of the last three teams with a chance to get in but only two will go and dropping you will avoid the tricky conundrum of picking just one of Miami v Notre Dame ?

Anything is possible, the committee has guidelines of course but sometimes they conflict (like Texas' loss to OSU - can't convince me they discounted that one) and they just seem to be making it up as they go along, then trying to rationalize the decision.

Personally I'd take Miami and ND over Bama and then the committee can blame it on Bama's "terrible" loss to FSU but who the hell knows. You can say they lack "good wins" and leave off ND or Miami easily enough.

I've got Indiana 1, OSU 2, Georgia 3, Texas Tech 4, then Oregon, Ole Miss, A&M in a 5-7 cluster, Oklahoma at 8, then any two of ND, Bama, Miami (guessing Bama is odd man out but nothing would surprise at this point).

The killer for us Texas fans is we beat Oklahoma and A&M by a combined 50-23 yet they're going and we're not.

/end of late night rant LOL

[ArizonaLonghorn]

One more thing against the argument that "the conference Championship game was not supposed to affect the two teams playing" theory -

In 2024 Texas was ranked # 2 going into the SEC Conference Championship game, played well against Georgia but lost in OT.  Texas dropped to # 5 in the rankings.

Why should Alabama not be dropped 2-3 ranking spots after getting blown out in the 2025 CCG while rushing for -3 yards when Texas was dinged 3 spots for losing in OT?

Edited 11 hours ago by ArizonaLonghorn

[Sanka Decaf]

12 hours ago, David Latiolais said:

I thought the conference Championship game was not supposed to affect the two teams playing? They're not supposed to be punished for playing in the championship game?

If you think about it, that can’t always be true. It only works if your resume as an at large team stands on its own.  If it didn’t matter than no one would switch positions. It does matter - they just want to artificially control how big or little it matters.  If Miami was correctly put in ahead of ND and played in the ACC championship and lost, they would have been knocked out of the CFP.  Every game has to matter (I mean it should). 

[genevalonghorn]

12 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

One more thing against the argument that "the conference Championship game was not supposed to affect the two teams playing" theory -

In 2024 Texas was ranked # 2 going into the SEC Conference Championship game, played well against Georgia but lost in OT.  Texas dropped to # 5 in the rankings.

Why should Alabama not be dropped 2-3 ranking spots after getting blown out in the 2025 CCG while rushing for -3 yards when Texas was dinged 3 spots for losing in OT?

Apples and oranges.  The top 4 slots last year were strictly reserved for league champions. So we were “dropped” to make room for the mid major champions.