It is puff, puff, pass, not puff, puff, pufffffffffffff! Oregon State?
If I understand the current rules for next year - 6 conference champs make the playoffs with top 4 getting byes. Oregon St which could be in PAC2 or in Mountain West is the 4th highest ranked conference champ right now ahead of Utah from Big12 and Tulane from AAC. I'm using next year conference alignments which to me is what counts. Full lineup
1 | uga | sec |
2 | mich | bigi |
3 | fsu | acc |
4 | oregst | mwest |
5 | ohio st | bigi |
6 | wash | bigi |
7 | oreg | bigi |
8 | tex | sec |
9 | ala | sec |
10 | pennst | bigi |
11 | utah | big12 |
12 | tul | aac |
I have a feeling UL is gonna beat them in the acc championship game
That’s what I’m afraid of. The BIG and SEC get half the spots. Based on them being ranked high early.
It's too bad that UL lost to Pitt. Two undefeated teams playing in the ACC Championship game would guarantee that the ACC had one of the four spots. But a one loss ACC champion has virtually no chance of getting in.
Depends. Usually chaos the last fourth of the season
Every year it looks cut and dry until about week 10…..
When you say that computers / algorithms are better at picking the best teams, it begs the question: what do you mean by best teams? There are basically two ways to look at it; (1) best performance to date, or (2) predicted for the future. The models in (1) are still based on human inputs, because humans decide the factors to include and the definition of those factors. Take strength of schedule - based on record, record and point differential, record and points without garbage time, etc. Like Colley, these are pretty good at explaining the past.Yes. The difference is nobody that matters cares (or reacts) to our opinions. The AP poll gets entirely too much run & weight. I could not care less what 60+ journalists think about who's good at football. It's "interesting" info ... equally as interesting as the "opinions" folks who post here.
Correct. Computer algorithms/calculations can & do ... do a better job figuring out which teams are better than the next. Not perfectly... which is quite alright, but way better than a guy/girl trying to parse which team should be 14th or 23rd.
Even the CFB playoff committee claims to use statistical models to inform their rankings. The AP poll doesn't have any criteria applied to it as far as I know.
Imagine a world where no rankings are referenced or calculated or voted on before 6 weekends of football. How would we know which games are "marquee" ... How would GameDay figure out where to set up their show? People would be lost.
Computer models can be biased, and don’t have a way to say “I watched these teams and Penn State tackles better and plays more solid defense”.
Not only that, but they only have 4 true road games this year. And one of those is us, which could arguably be called a neutral site as of late.
That‘s how this rigged sport has operated for over 100 years. The change will occur when it expands past 12 and then the teams who have been given preferential treatment will now have to play multiple legit teams in a row which will allow the teams relegated to “mid tier” status by the polls for decades to start showing what they can do. There will be a ton of upsets which will prove the farce that has been going on. Take UGA - yes, they are a top tier program, but they have a 2 game regular season with their scheduling and then Kirby has to game plan for a 4 team playoff. Let’s see how Kirby and his staff fare when they have to game plan for multiple legit teams week after week in a 24 or 32 team tourney without the bye weeks and powder puffs in between.
I was speaking of their 2023 season game locations. Not about their SoS or future opponents. Did I say anything that was not factual?
ugawire.usatoday.com
The out of whack game locations were directly related to cancelation of road game at Oklahoma.
Michigan v PSU is huge test for Mich in my opinion. Yes, Michigan looks complete. Yes, they are beating people big. Look harder at their schedule though…. They SHOULD be beating those people big. They have played no one yet. I said in another post that Michigan is being rewarded for playing even less of a schedule than UGA.