Updated Playoff Rankings Predictions

[twenty02]

It’s all accurate.

No. If Clemson beats SMU.... It's going to come down to Alabama vs SMU for the last at large spot.

 

[YOTHN]

I still find it stupid. So basically the only teams (and their fans) that get the 'privilege' of having to play a road post season game are teams that the end up ranked 9-12.

Would be just as bad as having the NCAA regionals in basketball played on home courts of whatever top remaining seeds made it through the first weekend.

Yeah. 9-12 is getting a pity invite to be cannon fodder. For those seeds, it's a privilege just to get there. It's truly only the first round and basketball has a play-in tournament for some teams.

 

[twenty02]

Yeah. 9-12 is getting a pity invite to be cannon fodder. For those seeds, it's a privilege just to get there. It's truly only the first round and basketball has a play-in tournament for some teams.

As it is right now... Both Alabama and Tennessee are playing road games. Are they cannon fodder? Hell Tennessee might be favored in Columbus.

 

[YOTHN]

As it is right now... Both Alabama and Tennessee are playing road games. Are they cannon fodder? Hell Tennessee might be favored in Columbus.

If they're a road team, they sure as hell are.

 

[IUclover]

I guess we aren't starting a new thread for the rankings drop...(awkward pause)...

One question I want to throw out there: If you took our schedule, results, and stats and erased Indiana at the top and scribbled in Michigan State instead, would the Committee treat us differently? I guess from a psychological point of view past program performance could affect the current year's performance, but in this transfer portal era - where we have a new coaching staff with mostly new players, some of whom have been on 3 or even 4 different teams...at some point it just seems silly to suggest that the 2003 Indiana Hoosiers have any bearing on the 2024 Hoosiers whatsoever. But it is what it is. The rankings are kinda jumbled up anyway with the system they use to re-rank, so it ends up being largely luck of the draw.

Interesting, the committee bumped up Miami a couple places (relative to the AP Poll) making them the first team out and Alabama is the last team in. I don't really have a problem with this actually. Miami lost to unranked opponents in 2 of the last 3 weeks so they have only themselves to blame. Alabama doesn't really deserve to be in either but you have to pick someone. I assume this juxtaposition (3-loss SEC and 2-loss ACC) is intentional so that people would debate it. Magically Miami is ahead of South Carolina. 🪄 ✨ 😏

Ole Miss has a legit argument over Bama.

 

[red hornet]

Disappointing but not surprising. We had one game against a ranked opponent and it didn’t go well.

We’ve still got something to prove and we will on Dec 20/21.

"Can't say enough about what this team has done between the white lines. But they are not satisfied. They are not done yet. They want more & they are going to get more" Coach Curt Cignetti