Its Championship weekend in college football

coolstanley

Conference championship games this week. How many upsets will there be? Its been that kind of a year. Chances are there will be no Ohio State, Clemson, or Alabama making the playoffs....unless bama can knock off #1 ranked Georgia in Atlanta this Saturday. Having 3 or 4 different teams in the playoffs are good for the sport in my opinion....Instead of the same teams every year.
Pac 12 Oregon vs Utah(friday night)
ACC Pittsburgh vs Wake Forest(talk about unusual)
SEC Alabama vs Georgia
Big 12 Oklahoma State vs Baylor
Big 10 Iowa vs Michigan
American-- Houston vs Cincinnati(played at Cincinnati

Predictions? Discuss and enjoy the games.

bobbybakeriv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPNQ82Sq4E

doubledragon

Yeah, that's too bad about Clemson, tough break this year Dabo.

bobbybakeriv

Ok, to keep this rock-solid thread rolling - > @coolstanley said:

Conference championship games this week. How many upsets will there be? Its been that kind of a year. Chances are there will be no Ohio State, Clemson, or Alabama making the playoffs....unless bama can knock off #1 ranked Georgia in Atlanta this Saturday. Having 3 or 4 different teams in the playoffs are good for the sport in my opinion....Instead of the same teams every year.
Pac 12 Oregon vs Utah(friday night)
ACC Pittsburgh vs Wake Forest(talk about unusual)
SEC Alabama vs Georgia
Big 12 Oklahoma State vs Baylor
Big 10 Iowa vs Michigan
American-- Houston vs Cincinnati(played at Cincinnati

Predictions? Discuss and enjoy the games.

Ok, to keep this rock-solid and relevant thread rolling (not to be taken literally), I put 400 on Baylor covering and the over. Parlay. EFF It. I'm an OU fan!!!!!

BillJones

I hope Georgia wins. It would be a kick in the shins to get knocked down by Alabama after the season Georgia has had.

MsMorrisine

400 on Baylor with a win turns into how much monetary excitement?

I really wanted that come back to succeed.

coolstanley

@BillJones said:
I hope Georgia wins. It would be a kick in the shins to get knocked down by Alabama after the season Georgia has had.

Saban as a underdog is very dangerous. If Georgia loses, they dont deserve to be in the playoffs. Who have they beat?

doubledragon

I knew this would be a dangerous game for Georgia, you can never underestimate a Nick Saban team, Alabama came fired up and ready to play today.

MsMorrisine

It’s probably not going to happen, but I’d like to see overtime

doubledragon

It looks like Cincinnati is headed to the playoff, they just beat Houston 35-20.

Steven59

So Georgia stops the downward spiral at #4? I don't know if the Gods will move ND into National Champ playoff picture. BUT, still have Michigan to go tonight.................

coolstanley

Congrats Cincinnati Bearcats. The only undefeated team in college football. Playoff bound!

Brick

Georgia is in.

MsMorrisine

@Brick said:
Georgia is in.

If Michigan wins, do Alabama and Georgia just trade spots?

Steven59

Ya think Alabama is back to #1

Justacommeman

Michigan
Alabama
Cincy
Georgia

Or

Alabama
Michigan
Georgia
Cincy

But it will be one of those two

m

Brick

I would have them 1. Michigan, 2. Alabama, 3. Georgia, 4. Cincinnati. However I don't believe they will allow Alabama and Georgia to play each other in the semi finals.

Justacommeman

@Brick said:
I would have them 1. Michigan, 2. Alabama, 3. Georgia, 4. Cincinnati. However I don't believe they will allow Alabama and Georgia to play each other in the semi finals.

Me too and you're right

m

MsMorrisine

@Justacommeman said:

Me too and you're right

Congratulations on your win!

Justacommeman

@MsMorrisine said:

@Justacommeman said:

Me too and you're right

Congratulations on your win!

coolstanley

Baylor deserves the 4th playoff spot. Conference champs and they have THREE top 15 wins.

Playoffs should be

1. Cincy
2. Michigan
3. Bama
4. Baylor

Justacommeman

You conveniently left off the part that Baylor lost two games and one was a terrible loss. No team has every made the playoffs with 2 loses and it certainly won't be this year. They should get to #6 with ND at #5.

m

Bullsitter

Last week,
1. Georgia
2. Michigan
3. Bama
4. Cincy

This week move Georgia to 4th, move the others up a spot.
1. Michigan
2. Bama
3. Cincy
4. Georgia

I wonder if the committee will avoid a Bama vs Georgia rematch in the semifinals?

DrBuster

Man that Ga game was rough. Playing Bama always has me sketchy and my gut was right yesterday. Glad I didn't splurge on the company suite tix to go.

But, if that is the only loss and we win 2....well I'll take that.

Blue looked good yesterday.

coolstanley

@Justacommeman said:
You conveniently left off the part that Baylor lost two games and one was a terrible loss. No team has every made the playoffs with 2 loses and it certainly won't be this year. They should get to #6 with ND at #5.

m

nonsense. You going to tell me that a two loss sec champion wouldn't get in????

coolstanley

Want more proof that the rankings are anti BIG? Michigan was unranked in the pre season polls.

Justacommeman

@coolstanley said:

@Justacommeman said:
You conveniently left off the part that Baylor lost two games and one was a terrible loss. No team has every made the playoffs with 2 loses and it certainly won't be this year. They should get to #6 with ND at #5.

m

nonsense. You going to tell me that a two loss sec champion wouldn't get in????

Try to wrap your head around this. No two loss team has ever gotten in. Period. Ever.

m

Justacommeman

@coolstanley said:
Want more proof that the rankings are anti BIG? Michigan was unranked in the pre season polls.

The only thing it proves is that you're a conspiracy theorist. Zero to do with being anti Big Ten. The Big Ten had plenty of Top 25 teams in the pre season polls including Indiana who finished the season 2-10.

Actually we didn't think we were Top 25 material either. We were 2-4 the year before.

That's why they play the games.

m

Tabe

Seems more than a little suspicious to have Alabama leapfrog a Michigan team that beat #13 by 39 - the week after beating #2 by 15. Yes, Alabama beat paper tiger Georgia by 17 but they needed a miracle to score more than 3 the previous week against Auburn. The CFP rankings are supposed to reflect the entire season but it's obvious they don't. It's also obvious that the committee went in with a preconceived plan to not have a Georgia/Alabama rematch in the semis and created rankings to avoid that. If they truly wanted Alabama #1 then Georgia should've been #4. 1-loss non-champion with no high quality wins should be behind undefeated champion with a high-quality win (Notre Dame).

Justacommeman

@Tabe said:
Seems more than a little suspicious to have Alabama leapfrog a Michigan team that beat #13 by 39 - the week after beating #2 by 15. Yes, Alabama beat paper tiger Georgia by 17 but they needed a miracle to score more than 3 the previous week against Auburn. The CFP rankings are supposed to reflect the entire season but it's obvious they don't. It's also obvious that the committee went in with a preconceived plan to not have a Georgia/Alabama rematch in the semis and created rankings to avoid that. If they truly wanted Alabama #1 then Georgia should've been #4. 1-loss non-champion with no high quality wins should be behind undefeated champion with a high-quality win (Notre Dame).

At the end of the day it really didn't matter. It was always going to be Alabama vs Cincy and Michigan vs Georgia after the games were played yesterday.

The only wat it was going to go down was:

Michigan
Alabama
Cincy
Georgia

Or

Alabama
Michigan
Georgia
Cincy

They went with the later.

One advantage to being #1 is you get input on which game/venue Cotton or Orange you want to open at. But trust me as a Michigan Alum the Orange Bowl is just fine.

mark

Tabe

@Justacommeman said:
At the end of the day it really didn't matter. It was always going to be Alabama vs Cincy and Michigan vs Georgia after the games were played yesterday.

Of course it didn't matter. The committee had matchups in mind and picked rankings to match.

coolstanley

@Justacommeman said:

@coolstanley said:

@Justacommeman said:
You conveniently left off the part that Baylor lost two games and one was a terrible loss. No team has every made the playoffs with 2 loses and it certainly won't be this year. They should get to #6 with ND at #5.

m

nonsense. You going to tell me that a two loss sec champion wouldn't get in????

Try to wrap your head around this. No two loss team has ever gotten in. Period. Ever.

m

Nice job dodging my question.

Bullsitter

"Alabama beat paper tiger Georgia by 17"

Try this paper football.

Bama beats Auburn by 2
Penn St. beats Auburn by 8
Illinois beats Penn St. by 2
TXSA beats Illinois by 7
North Texas beats TXSA BY 22....Is North Texas now #1

Alfonz24

@Bullsitter said:
"Alabama beat paper tiger Georgia by 17"

Try this paper football.

Bama beats Auburn by 2
Penn St. beats Auburn by 8
Illinois beats Penn St. by 2
TXSA beats Illinois by 7
North Texas beats TXSA BY 22....Is North Texas now #1

The transference model.

Tabe

@Bullsitter said:
"Alabama beat paper tiger Georgia by 17"

Try this paper football.

Bama beats Auburn by 2
Penn St. beats Auburn by 8
Illinois beats Penn St. by 2
TXSA beats Illinois by 7
North Texas beats TXSA BY 22....Is North Texas now #1

I can see no flaws with this logic.

Justacommeman

@coolstanley said:

@Justacommeman said:

@coolstanley said:

@Justacommeman said:
You conveniently left off the part that Baylor lost two games and one was a terrible loss. No team has every made the playoffs with 2 loses and it certainly won't be this year. They should get to #6 with ND at #5.

m

nonsense. You going to tell me that a two loss sec champion wouldn't get in????

Try to wrap your head around this. No two loss team has ever gotten in. Period. Ever.

m

Nice job dodging my question.

You are certainly welcome. But the fact is it has never happened so I can't possibly know the answer to it. But, I don't think any 2 loss team will ever get in UNLESS all/ most conferences have multiple two loss teams. That is possible

I'm certainly not going to get worked up on something that hasn't happened yet and start whining about it

m

Brick

We will see 2 loss teams get in when they expand to a 12 team tournament.

coolstanley

@Brick said:
We will see 2 loss teams get in when they expand to a 12 team tournament.

Justacommen guy doesn't speak the truth. Because EVERYONE who follows college football knows that if Alabama lost the week before against Auburn, and then beat Georgia. The committee would be putting them in as a 2 loss conference champions. While at the same time, the committee refuses to put in any other conference champion team with 2 losses in the other power 5 conferences. Proves right there that the system is a scam because it unfairly favors the sec.

Bullsitter

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts OSU would have a Merry Christmas.

coolstanley

Ohio State has a Heisman Trophy finalist for the fourth time in four years.

C.J. Stroud became the latest Buckeye to earn a trip to New York on Monday, when he was named one of four finalists for this year’s Heisman along with Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson and Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett.

coinkat

Pre season Polls have to end if we are going to succeed in saving the Sportswriters from themselves

coolstanley

Saw Notre Dame's 2022 schedule. They play both Ohio State and Clemson. Ouch.

Tabe

@coolstanley said:
Saw Notre Dame's 2022 schedule. They play both Ohio State and Clemson. Ouch.

They also have a neutral site game against BYU and end on the road against a presumably-reinvigorated USC team. Not a whole lot of weeks off for ND next year, that's for sure.

Alfonz24

I counted 10 FBS conferences and then there are the Independents. So 11 total. Each conference sends their Champion (and the top 2 independents have to play a championship game). One wildcard team would need to be selected.

The top 4 receive a bye the first round. So teams ranked 5 through 12 play first week. Winners round one would be reseeded to match up with the top four teams.

Just a thought.

s4ny

If Alabama had lost to Auburn in OT and then defeated #1 Georgia, Alabama would have been in.

Justacommeman

@coolstanley said:

@Brick said:
We will see 2 loss teams get in when they expand to a 12 team tournament.

Justacommen guy doesn't speak the truth. Because EVERYONE who follows college football knows that if Alabama lost the week before against Auburn, and then beat Georgia. The committee would be putting them in as a 2 loss conference champions. While at the same time, the committee refuses to put in any other conference champion team with 2 losses in the other power 5 conferences. Proves right there that the system is a scam because it unfairly favors the sec.

Get bent conspiracy boy. What a bunch of crap. Nothing of anything you wrote actually happened. None of it. Conspiracy where there is none.

FACT No 2 loss team has made it Into the playoffs INCLUDING this year. None of the power 5 including the SEC. You took something that didn't happen and turn it into a fairy tale. Then use the fairy tale to "prove" that the system is a scam. Problem is it never happened. The scam is you. You're pushing something that even hasn't happened as fact. I will give you something, your conspiracy theories are improving so there is that

But at the end of the day a 2 loss SEC Team did not get voted in this year or any other year. Never happened. That is the fact. End of story. But I know in your world you will just make something else up short on facts and long on conspiracy.

I 100% spoke the truth. You just can't handle it. Fact. No team with 2 losses has ever made the playoffs. That's all I said. It's an undeniable truth. I don't give a second thought "to what might happen if this happens." That's a fools game. Get worked up for nothing.

m

coolstanley

@s4ny said:
If Alabama had lost to Auburn in OT and then defeated #1 Georgia, Alabama would have been in.

Without question.

coolstanley

https://twitter.com/ESPNCFB/status/1469118822342967300?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Justacommeman

@coolstanley said:

@s4ny said:
If Alabama had lost to Auburn in OT and then defeated #1 Georgia, Alabama would have been in.

Without question.

Nah. A 11-1 ND would have made it. Prove it otherwise. Regardless it didn't happen and never has

m

coolstanley

@Justacommeman said:

@coolstanley said:

@s4ny said:
If Alabama had lost to Auburn in OT and then defeated #1 Georgia, Alabama would have been in.

Without question.

Nah. A 11-1 ND would have made it. Prove it otherwise. Regardless it didn't happen and never has

m

You know better. You just can't man up and admit you're wrong.