#5 AP / #6 Coaches

[TMFT]

These auto bids for ACC and Big 12 are a joke. Good teams will be left out because of it. BIG and SEC should have the only 2 auto bids and the rest by rankings. There are 2 premier conferences. The rest are awful.

I don't beliver they are technically auto bids for the ACC & Big 12. It's the top 5 ranked conference champions. Theoretically, it could include the Sun Belt, American, & CUSA. I could be wrong about that.

Practically speaking, the ACC or Big 12 champion WILL be among the 5 highest ranked conference champs. But it's not a foregone conclusion.

And, again if I'm understanding it correctly, there could be a theoretical situation where there's a major upset in a P4 conference championship game that leaves the loser as a top 12 CFP team and the conference champion not among the 5 highest ranked conference champs. Like, say Miami was undefeated and #1 going into their conference championship and lost to a #25 3-loss Louisville. Clearly that's not going to be the case, just the most realistic hypothetical I could come up (before Miami's loss this weekend).

 

[Harpo Marxist]

These auto bids for ACC and Big 12 are a joke. Good teams will be left out because of it. BIG and SEC should have the only 2 auto bids and the rest by rankings. There are 2 premier conferences. The rest are awful.

This year could be complicated. The B1G no longer has the divisions. The conference championship will be played by the two teams with the best conference records. If OSU beats IU....OSU will play for the title...leaving IU and PSU to settle somewhere in the food chain. If IU beats OSU.....likely the #2 spot in the conference is secured via title game. A one loss IU team could be rifted unless its the conference title game.

 

[IUNorth]

Tonight's rankings are going to be very interesting. There are already some pundits starting to talk about 3 loss SEC teams getting in the playoffs. Basically where do they drop Georgia to? And where do they put Tennessee?

Logically, it doesn't seem like a 1 loss B10 team should be left out...but if Georgia has 3 losses, with their schedule...and OSU handles us in any way easily...it wouldn't surprise me, at all...not that it would be IU vs Georgia necessarily.

If tonights rankings look anything like this...we could be in trouble a little bit... Opens up possibility of Georgia, Tennessee, and Ole Miss even, to pass us up if we lose to OSU. And we won't have any chance to move back up.

1. Oregon
2. Ohio State
3. Texas
4. Penn State
5. Tennessee
6. Notre Dame
7. Indiana
8. Georgia
9. BYU
10. Miami
11. Ole Miss

 

[Hoosiers Rising]

Tonight's rankings are going to be very interesting. There are already some pundits starting to talk about 3 loss SEC teams getting in the playoffs. Basically where do they drop Georgia to? And where do they put Tennessee?

Logically, it doesn't seem like a 1 loss B10 team should be left out...but if Georgia has 3 losses, with their schedule...and OSU handles us in any way easily...it wouldn't surprise me, at all...not that it would be IU vs Georgia necessarily.

If tonights rankings look anything like this...we could be in trouble a little bit... Opens up possibility of Georgia, Tennessee, and Ole Miss even, to pass us up if we lose to OSU. And we won't have any chance to move back up.

1. Oregon
2. Ohio State
3. Texas
4. Penn State
5. Tennessee
6. Notre Dame
7. Indiana
8. Georgia
9. BYU
10. Miami
11. Ole Miss

I think we are at least 6 and could see us at 4 or 5.

 

[Harpo Marxist]

There will be an argument that 1 loss teams like IU or maybe even PSU won't get in while a 3 loss team like Georgia gets in. If the selection committee goes "home cookin"....this will not end well.