Cincy got shafted by the CFP Committee

1) Bama

2) Michigan

3) Georgia

4) Cincinnati

Steve’s crying about biases amount to nothing

Cincinnati just might make it in wrote:

* Georgia (12-1), only loss to #3 Alabama

Georgia obviously has the "best" loss of the three and dominated throughout the season. But how can you put Georgia ahead of Alabama after Alabama just beat them? And if they honestly rate the three, Michigan is certainly NOT the best of the three. Alabama might be the best team, but they lost to an unranked team, while Georgia lost to #3 and Michigan lost to #8.

Maybe they should just make the only undefeated team in the country, Cincinnati, the #1 team :)

Georgia also has basically zero quality wins. They beat a couple of teams hanging out in 20-25 and just got crushed by the only top 20 team they played…. ND though is even worse schedule wise.

Wins and losses against ranked teams. Rank is the rank at the time the game was played, parenthesis is the current rank.

Georgia

#3 (#20) Clemson W 10-3

#8 (#22) Arkansas W 37-0

#18 (NR) Auburn W 34-10

#11 (#23) Kentucky W 30-13

#3 (#3) Alabama L 41-24

Michigan

#8 (#11) Michigan State L 37-33

#2 (#7) Ohio State W 42-27

Alabama

#14 (NR) Miami W 44-13

#11 (NR) Florida W 31-29

#12 (#8) Mississippi W 42-21

#21 (#22) Arkansas W 42-35

#1 (#1) Georgia W 41-24

Cincinnati

#9 (#6) Notre Dame W 24-13

#21 (#21) Houston W 35-20

Oklahoma State

#25 (NR) Kansas State W 31-20

#21 (#9) Baylor W 24-14

#25 (NR) Texas W 32-24

#10 (#14) Oklahoma W 37-33

#9 (#9) Baylor L 21-16

Notre Dame

#18 (NR) Wisconsin W 41-13

#7 (#4) Cincinnati L 24-13

It's going to be:

Michigan v. Georgia

Alabama v. Cincinnati

surveysays wrote:

1) Bama

2) Michigan

3) Georgia

4) Cincinnati

Steve’s crying about biases amount to nothing

+1

Not bad...I'll go with that. 👍

Well...all this arguing really for nothing. Cinncinati got in & the two powerhouses from the SEC make it. All that's left now is for the committee to debate the placing of the top 4.

What we learned:

Oklahoma St was never that good - they were ranked way too high with that #5 spot.

Georgia played some lackluster teams toward the end of season that softened them up going into the game with Bama, who was toughened up playing a good Auburn team last week that went to 3 OTs. Georgia was exposed big time by Bama. They also have some major QB problems. JT Daniels is the 5-star stud from California who bombed out at USC & transferred to Georgia. But he's injury prone & was benched in favor of Bennett. Bennett is only a 2-star recruit & very undersized. You'd think a top notch program like Georgia would have another 5-star or at least a 4-star QB in reserve.

Notre Dame will finish #5 as the top ranked non-playoff team. Some might argue that maybe the committee should take ND over Georgia, but I don't think ND's resume is that good compared to Georgia's resume. Bottom line: ND needs to badly get into a conference fast...or they'll always be on the outside looking in. Lol.

What can say about Bama? Bryce Young is unbelievable & suddenly Bama is becoming quarterback U. The critics kept saying all year that this Bama team was not nearly as good as previous seasons. Too funny - Bama goes out & waxes #1 Georgia basically on their home field. The critics forgot that Bama has Nick Saben - arguably the greatest coach in college football history. 🙌

When it's all said & done - I'll take Alabama as the National Champion! 👍🙌 🏈

*Saban (it's getting late. Lol).

Fixed it for you. Didn't Michigan just beat Iowa? Plus ranked at time played is meaningless. You're really going to try and classify Florida and Miami as good wins for Alabama?? Interesting thing is that Georgia doesn't really have a great win in it's resume. Top 25 is obviously an arbitrary cut-off, so if we look at an equally arbitrary cut-off of top 19 they have no wins, same as Note Dame .

I know few things about college football wrote:

...Notre Dame will finish #5 as the top ranked non-playoff team. Some might argue that maybe the committee should take ND over Georgia, but I don't think ND's resume is that good compared to Georgia's resume. Bottom line: ND needs to badly get into a conference fast...or they'll always be on the outside looking in. Lol...

Along those lines, one reason ND's schedule was so weak was that it didn't have a conference championship game against a good team. Oklahoma State would've looked a lot better if it didn't have to play a championship game. Georgia too. Also, I imagine that Notre Dame's record of getting destroyed every time it's gotten in the CFP/BCS over the last decade - 0 wins, 3 losses, by an average score of 34-10 - will discourage the committee from giving it the benefit of the doubt in a close call.

JamesD2 wrote:. Also, I imagine that Notre Dame's record of getting destroyed every time it's gotten in the CFP/BCS over the last decade - 0 wins, 3 losses, by an average score of 34-10 - will discourage the committee from giving it the benefit of the doubt in a close call.

People always gloss over the fact that the teams that Notre Dame lost to in the semis went on to win the championship by MORE against their opponent in the final. Bama beat Ohio State worse than ND. Clemson beat Bama worse than ND.

But their schedule was trash this year. Deservedly not in the playoffs.

the beagle wrote:

JamesD2 wrote:. Also, I imagine that Notre Dame's record of getting destroyed every time it's gotten in the CFP/BCS over the last decade - 0 wins, 3 losses, by an average score of 34-10 - will discourage the committee from giving it the benefit of the doubt in a close call.

People always gloss over the fact that the teams that Notre Dame lost to in the semis went on to win the championship by MORE against their opponent in the final. Bama beat Ohio State worse than ND. Clemson beat Bama worse than ND.

But their schedule was trash this year. Deservedly not in the playoffs.

Meh, Notre Dame's schedule is on par with Alabama's and Georgia's, so I guess all their schedules were trash.

Cincy shouldn't get in. Play in a P5 conference if you want to play for championships. Being undefeated against sub par teams doesn't mean anything.

Hell, Penn State could be undefeated if they played in a minor conference. Do they belong in the playoff?

keep them out wrote:

Cincy shouldn't get in. Play in a P5 conference if you want to play for championships. Being undefeated against sub par teams doesn't mean anything.

Hell, Penn State could be undefeated if they played in a minor conference. Do they belong in the playoff?

Who would be your 4th?

RossiCheated wrote:

It's going to be:

Michigan v. Georgia

Alabama v. Cincinnati

We had a winner.

Kind of a cop out to not put the rankings and only the matchups though. surveysays at least got it.

coach wrote:

keep them out wrote:

Cincy shouldn't get in. Play in a P5 conference if you want to play for championships. Being undefeated against sub par teams doesn't mean anything.

Hell, Penn State could be undefeated if they played in a minor conference. Do they belong in the playoff?

Who would be your 4th?

I hope he doesn't think unranked Penn St should be in that spot? Lol.

coach wrote:

keep them out wrote:

Cincy shouldn't get in. Play in a P5 conference if you want to play for championships. Being undefeated against sub par teams doesn't mean anything.

Hell, Penn State could be undefeated if they played in a minor conference. Do they belong in the playoff?

Who would be your 4th?

My 4th? Not sure what you mean. It isn't my decision to make.

keep them out wrote:

coach wrote:

Who would be your 4th?

My 4th? Not sure what you mean. It isn't my decision to make.

Yet you decided Cincy didnt deserve to be in the top 4.

coach wrote:

keep them out wrote:

My 4th? Not sure what you mean. It isn't my decision to make.

Yet you decided Cincy didnt deserve to be in the top 4.

Yet Cincy smacked the team that finished ranked 5th on their home field. The 4 most deserving teams made it. There was really no controversy this year in the end, the results spoke for themselves.

coach wrote:

keep them out wrote:

My 4th? Not sure what you mean. It isn't my decision to make.

Yet you decided Cincy didnt deserve to be in the top 4.

I offered my opinion that Cincy should not be in the playoff. I did not presume to make the picks. That is obviously up to the committee.