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[86Engineer]

How will UGa's "strength of schedule" position them for a wildcard slot if it results in two or three losses?

Maybe they're planning on winning those games. Also, when the playoffs go to 8 teams, 2-loss teams will get in.

 

[NittanyOpp]

Maybe it’s because your pathetic fan base called us pedo lovers, chanted Joe Paterno molests kids repeatedly in the concourse and told us to go back north, Yankees before during and after the Gator Bowl a few years ago in Jacksonville. Great memory for my kid. And it was hundreds, not just a few. SEC chants throughout as well as if anyone cares that you were a 4 loss team from a conference where you ride Bama coattails and that ESPN blows up because they are so invested.

Screw Georgia, you’ll always be Bama’s B. Used to like the program until that day. Pathetic!!

 

[Art]

Maybe they're planning on winning those games. Also, when the playoffs go to 8 teams, 2-loss teams will get in.

For three at large spots when certain conference champions go in with 2-3 maybe more losses? Bad planning.

 

[Woodpecker]

They don't. I've typed it out in detail numerous times.

OK, I guess that I thought that I saw one team shown specifically when you typed it out and no others. ND must stand for something else.

 

[Mixolydian]

Sandy is the biggest, fattest, slowest one out there. I'm batting 1.000.

So you ARE hitting that....

 

[CJFisJoePaII]

Maybe they're planning on winning those games. Also, when the playoffs go to 8 teams, 2-loss teams will get in.

Not necessarily - the P5 Conference Champs will likely get auto births regardless of record. 1 of the remaining 3 spots could be dedicated to the highest ranked non-P5 team (i.e., Independents and non-P5 Conference teams). There may only be 2 at-large selections and odds are pretty decent that there may well be 2 P5 teams with only 1-loss that did not win their Conf Championship (or even 3 1-loss teams if all three remaining slots were simply at-large selections).

Record would only matter for the 3 at-large selections - for instance, if such a system were in place last year, a 2-loss team probably wouldn't have been selected for the at-large selections.

 

[heckmans]

OK, I guess that I thought that I saw one team shown specifically when you typed it out and no others. ND must stand for something else.

ND = Notre Dame. They don't deserve special treatment, but pragmatically, no plan will be put in place that leaves them out, so they must be accounted for.
Please see my previous posts from Oct 28th in this thread.
https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threa...-in-their-schedule.250441/page-2#post-4428855
'P5 champs +1' prioritizes winning your conferences and winning overall. It's the only way to get rid of this 'look test' bulls*t and prevent a team from being selected who has already lost to their conference champ and therefore, has been deemed to be NOT the best team in the nation. Let's focus on determining the BEST team and not worrying about who is #2, 3, or 4.

FWIW, as I have thought about it, to avoid a low-ranked P5 champ from getting in, this could be refined to simply be the Top 6 conference champs(any conference) or ND. This would allow for a year when UCF and ND on both good for instance and put them in over a subpar P5 Champ.

 

[Woodpecker]

ND = Notre Dame. They don't deserve special treatment, but pragmatically, no plan will be put in place that leaves them out, so they must be accounted for.
Please see my previous posts from Oct 28th in this thread.
https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threa...-in-their-schedule.250441/page-2#post-4428855
'P5 champs +1' prioritizes winning your conferences and winning overall. It's the only way to get rid of this 'look test' bulls*t and prevent a team from being selected who has already lost to their conference champ and therefore, has been deemed to be NOT the best team in the nation. Let's focus on determining the BEST team and not worrying about who is #2, 3, or 4.

FWIW, as I have thought about it, to avoid a low-ranked P5 champ from getting in, this could be refined to simply be the Top 6 conference champs(any conference) or ND. This would allow for a year when UCF and ND on both good for instance and put them in over a subpar P5 Champ.

I just don't like the special treatment for any team. If everyone else has to play an extra game against (theoretically) another good team to win a conference championship, one team should not get a pass. Either join a conference or stay home. Just my opinion.
As for ND specifically, they're half in now so they should make a decision and join like the other P5 teams or don't. They think they deserve the special treatment because they keep receiving it.

 

[bluewhiteApos]

(and perhaps Franklin). From what I understand, UGA has been trying to schedule you guys for a home and home series in '26 and '27, but we keep being told 'thanks, but no thanks...not interested.' This is absurd, as a home and home would be an amazing experience for both schools. UGA just announced this morning a home/home with Ohio State in '30/'31, and I know they are looking to schedule more home/home series with Big 10 powers, to go along with upcoming series against Texas, UCLA, Clemson, and FSU.

As a UGA alum now living in the Mid-Atlantic region with many PSU friends/family, it's a shame that TPTB at PSU aren't interested in making this happen.

I tried to call Sandy, but it went straight to voicemail.

 

[LoyalandTrueLion]

Don't know whether it's you or Art that's more obsessed with Sandy.

It is not an obsession if they are correct.

 

[heckmans]

I just don't like the special treatment for any team. If everyone else has to play an extra game against (theoretically) another good team to win a conference championship, one team should not get a pass. Either join a conference or stay home. Just my opinion.
As for ND specifically, they're half in now so they should make a decision and join like the other P5 teams or don't. They think they deserve the special treatment because they keep receiving it.

No real disagreement from me. I don't like the F'in Irish. I don't care if they are shafted. I just don't see a path in the next iteration of any playoff system that leaves them out.

 

[86Engineer]

Not necessarily - the P5 Conference Champs will likely get auto births regardless of record. 1 of the remaining 3 spots could be dedicated to the highest ranked non-P5 team (i.e., Independents and non-P5 Conference teams). There may only be 2 at-large selections and odds are pretty decent that there may well be 2 P5 teams with only 1-loss that did not win their Conf Championship (or even 3 1-loss teams if all three remaining slots were simply at-large selections).

Record would only matter for the 3 at-large selections - for instance, if such a system were in place last year, a 2-loss team probably wouldn't have been selected for the at-large selections.

Last year (2018), there were two (2) 2-loss teams in the Top 8 of the final CFP rankings....Georgia & Michigan.

The #9 - #12 teams all had 3 losses, including PAC-12 champ Washington, who would have bumped one of the 2-loss teams if conference champs get an auto bid.

The #8 team was undefeated UCF, which would have been the highest rated non-P5 team. ND got in the CFP only because they were undefeated and that is not likely to happen too often.

Therefore, at least one 2-loss team makes an 8-team CFP in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_season

 

[psuro]

Last year (2018), there were two (2) 2-loss teams in the Top 8 of the final CFP rankings....Georgia & Michigan.

The #9 - #12 teams all had 3 losses, including PAC-12 champ Washington, who would have bumped one of the 2-loss teams if conference champs get an auto bid.

The #8 team was undefeated UCF, which would have been the highest rated non-P5 team. ND got in the CFP only because they were undefeated and that is not likely to happen too often.

Therefore, at least one 2-loss team makes an 8-team CFP in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_season

The poll system is a relative ranking, not an absolute. If somehow, there is parity and/or lots of upsets, it's concievable that every team in the Top or 8 have one or two losses in a single season.

Conversely, in another season, it's concievable the top four or five teams are undefeated.

 

[86Engineer]

The poll system is a relative ranking, not an absolute. If somehow, there is parity and/or lots of upsets, it's concievable that every team in the Top or 8 have one or two losses in a single season.

Conversely, in another season, it's concievable the top four or five teams are undefeated.

Relative or not, the CFP poll determines the playoff teams. My only point was that if there's an 8-team playoff, I think a 2-loss team is in more often than not.

 

[tlbakernc]

Isn’t scheduling a “tough” game a Big 10 issue? Aren’t we required to play more conference games then what most conferences do?