Ohio St ain’t playing this weekend. If UT wins the big 12 then they’ll jump Ohio st and finish with more wins and the same amount of losses.
Yeah, I'm not worried about that. I was trying to explain why it feels like the AP sandwiching Ohio State between Oregon and Texas feels like a bad omen
Oregon didn't lose to a 2-loss team that didn't even finish in the top 2 of their conference. Their loss is by 3, on the road, to a top 4 team. Texas played a bunch of mediocre opponents too and often looked bad doing it. I don't think it's hard to see why anyone has Oregon over Texas. FSU loses; Texas is in (assuming we win). Michigan loses; Texas is in. Oregon/Wash are irrelevant. Alabama beats Georgia, committee has a mess to navigate, but probably Alabama is in and Texas/Georgia are not.
I know you're maybe right, you maybe crazy. What is the "Strength of Schedule" for all of these teams? Pick your metric, pick all of the metrics...? It just may be a lunatic we're looking for.
Not to cross reference threads but if this is the case, that week 2 non-conference matchup really didn’t do anything but make Bama’s entry into the CFP that much harder.
Absolutely - playing those big non-conference games comes with a lot of upside and a lot of downside. But really, an SEC team like Alabama has more downside than upside. Beating Texas wouldn't help them much. Whereas for an ACC, B12, or PAC school, beating an Alabama is a big resume builder if your conference sucks. This was the Boise State problem back in the BCS days or the Gonzaga problem when they were an upstart in basketball. Those schools wanted to play all the good schools so they could get credibility and strength of schedule, but no one wanted to play them because it was mostly downside for the big names. This is really a fluke year. We almost never have 4 conference champions that have playoff arguments, which is why we get 2 SEC or 2 B10 schools some years. This year, we unfortunately could have 5 if FSU wins. It's just an unlucky year where someone has to be left out.
Lol, this is the conference championship, and supposedly the best refs the conference has to offer, and in 2 series they've completely blown blatant calls against each team.
Refs are horrible. Im a Texan fan and I wouldn't draft Ewers with the Titans #1 draft pick this yr....OVERRATED
I'm not sure what you've seen from Ewers this game that would elicit that comment...I guess he could be playing better but 11-11 for 167 and 3 TDs in the 1Q is acceptable to me.
I guess one downside of having "large humans" on the OL is that a 215 pound LB is pretty much invisible behind them 1st bad pass Ewers has thrown today
