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I believe it this is our only route to the SECCG other than Ole Miss dropping another game

In order for us to win a 4 way tiebreaker with Bama, Ole Miss and TAMU, I believe OU has to win out and Mizzou has to lose one additional game (other than vs OU). That’ll give us a higher conference opponent win percentage than the other 3, which is what the tiebreaker would come down to.

The tie would be Bama/Ole Miss/TAMU/Texas, so we would only have the win over TAMU. We would need OU to win out and Mizzou to lose today to MState or the last week to Ark (or both). Then we would win the 4 way tie breaker based on conference opponent win percentage.

Why do people want Bama to beat OU?

No chance in hell to the first part

Why is this G5 head coach talking about SOS?

I even forgot about OU waxing Michigan, who will likely finish 4th place in the Big10

You’re really trying to make a false equivalency. The upper half of the Big12 has played literally zero teams that are currently ranked in the CFP Top 25. Mississippi State has one SEC win and beat the team that beat Tech (ASU). Fairly confident the SEC is undefeated by the Big12 this season. By the end of the season, teams from the SEC will have played Ohio State, Notre Dame and Georgia Tech. That’s likely the two P4 winners plus the top non P4 team. The record will likely be 2-1, with a 7 pt loss to the #1 team. The SEC’s quality is demonstrably not self referential like you are suggesting

Absolutely, there’s not a snowflake’s chance in hell 2 loss Texas or ND would be left out over a one loss Big12 or ACC non-champion

The difference between the Big12 and SEC is that there are 2 teams in the Big12 and like 7 in the SEC. And several of those 7 have quality non-con wins or losses, or upcoming matchups (Texas 7 pt loss to #1 Ohio State, TAMU win over ND, UGA vs GTech coming up). Texas Tech and BYU have had joke schedules

She got it completely wrong about the hardest game, though. If we can beat UGA in Athens, we’ll beat overrated TAMU with ease

We were playing without Taaffe vs MState and without Taaffe AND McDonald vs Vandy. And Taaffe was probably playing hurt vs Kentucky. If we get those guys back for UGA, then we literally will not be playing with the same secondary we played those games with. The secondary gave up 258 yds and 13 pts vs Kentucky, so not really torched. That was more on the offense not giving any kind of break to the D.

In a 3 way tie or more where not all teams play one another, the head to head results between teams in the tie are essentially ignored, so we would not be in over TAMU based on that in a 3 way tie. It’s actually not as simple as you think it is

That would be an epic F up by Ole Miss. They should be about 28 pt favorites at this rate

It will go deep into the tiebreakers between Ole Miss and TAMU if it gets to be a 3 way tie between them and us. It’s difficult to say who would win it right now

Not if BYU gets waxed by Tech again and Texas ends the season beating #3 or #2 TAMU

If Bama, Ole Miss and Texas win out and TAMU beats South Carolina, it’ll be Bama vs Ole Miss or TAMU. Ole Miss and TAMU would win that 3 way tie breaker over us based on our loss to Florida, then the two way tie between Ole Miss and TAMU might be decided all the way down the list of tiebreakers at “capped relative scoring margin vs conference opponents”. If the same situation BUT Bama loses to OU, there would be a four way tie and TEXAS would actually be #1 in SEC standings and win the 4 way tie breaker, because Florida would not be counted as a common conference opponent like it would in the Ole Miss/TAMU/Texas tie. It would be Texas vs Bama in that situation. https://bball.notnothing.net/bracket_cloud.php?conf=secfb

The Big12 is a G5 conference with lipstick. Tech should get the G5 champion autobid.

Nah

This has to be a TAMU troll. Up 14 vs a crap Mizzou team with 3rd string QB

Forget depth- it remains to be seen how well Tech’s front line starters would hold up against teams that are actually talented and not G5 teams with makeup

Right? Texas would have been EVISCERATED if they spent as much as Tech only to poop the bed vs ASU.

If Texas and TAMU switched their marquee non-conference matchups (Texas @ ND week 2, TAMU @ Ohio State week 1), we would probably still be #1 in the country (if undefeated) or in the Top 5 (if we had lost a game). ND is severely overrated and we matchup very well with them. That ND win is doing championship level lifting for TAMUs season right now. Other than that, they have nothing but non P4 non conference + the bottom half of the SEC. The discrepancy between Texas, TAMU and Tech has everything to do with differences in schedule. The difference between Texas and TAMU’s schedule is drastically different than the mainstream SOS/SOR rankings indicate due to hyperinflation of ND. Tech DOES NOT have the best DL in the country. They just get to go up against Big12 scrub OLs while our DL more than holds it own vs SEC OLs

Eh, they’ve been up and down. Florida and Auburn held them in check fairly well.

No we would have the tiebreaker over Ole Miss in the one conference loss scenario. tiebreakers are: 1. Head to head- not there 2. Record vs common opponents (both one loss, ours to Florida, Ole Miss to UGA) 3. Record vs common opponents starting with highest ranked opponents In this scenario, we beat UGA and Ole Miss lost to UGA so we would have the tiebreaker