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MyGodWearsAHoodie
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2022, 09:28:44 am » |
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Texas A&M finished the season ranked 25th. Do you think they were that much better than Cincinnati? Because the Aggies were able to beat Alabama.
It only takes one game, and the more games you add to the playoff, the more likely it is that a team "that doesn't have a realistic chance of winning the championship" can have a few good games and win.
Two different questions: 1. How realistic is it for the 8 seed to occasionally defeat the 1 seed. 2. How realistic is it for the 8 seed to defeat the 1 seed,then a week later defeat the 2 seed and then the 3 seed. Because unless you consider the second situation realistic then you can’t claim the 8 seed was robbed the chance of being the national champion.
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Spider-Dan
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« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2022, 12:30:33 pm » |
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Alabama would blow the doors off the Aggies if they met again. BAL beat TEN in the 2020 playoffs after losing as a #1 seed in 2019. Who cares? You lose once and you're out. Plus, if you had an eight team playoff, the SEC would be filling at least five of those spots. The SEC would have no more than four, as 5 spots would likely be reserved for the Power 5 conference champions (of which the SEC is one) in an 8-team playoff. But even if that wasn't the case: here are the number of SEC teams in the top 8 of Selection Sunday CFP ranking history... 2021: 3 2020: 3 2019: 2 2018: 2 2017: 3 2016: 1 2015: 1 2014: 2 The idea that there would ever be 5 SEC teams in an 8-team playoff is crazy.
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