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Post by mayor on Aug 26, 2014 11:39:32 GMT -6
Last year I correctly predicted Baylor winning the Big 12. This year I think Baylor will be even better. I think this year Baylor goes undefeated, wins the Big 12, and goes to the Playoff.
Here are my 4 playoff teams:
Alabama Auburn USC Baylor
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Post by mayor on Aug 26, 2014 11:41:14 GMT -6
By the way, I will be surprised if the SEC only gets one team in the Playoff--even if there are undefeated Power 5 teams who get left out as a result (this could hurt Baylor).
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Post by fatmenace on Aug 26, 2014 12:47:06 GMT -6
Sounds like a fearless prediction.
Sent from my SGH-T999L using proboards
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Post by mayor on Aug 28, 2014 20:43:07 GMT -6
Oh how I hate A&M.
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Post by mayor on Sept 1, 2014 10:34:03 GMT -6
So what's the latest on Ash? How many more concussions can he take? Is it time to move on?
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Post by mayor on Sept 1, 2014 10:36:14 GMT -6
By the way, that's terrible for Ash. I hate concussions.
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Post by fatmenace on Sept 1, 2014 12:01:00 GMT -6
His career has to be over. It's immoral at this point to allow him to play. He seems like a great kid, so this sucks, but his brain can't take anymore.
Moving away from the serious into the more football related...this ruins Texas' season. Swoopes is not ready.
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Post by mayor on Oct 29, 2014 17:12:19 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Oct 31, 2014 9:02:45 GMT -6
I don't disagree, and I think the SEC hype is nauseating, but top teams of other conferences keep playing them, and keep losing. I think FSU winning last year was a step. There's the occasional game like OU beating Bama last year, but too many times the SEC wins those games. I think the top is clearly better than any other conference.
However...there is definite bias in the polls, especially how an SEC team will barely fall when they lost to another SEC team. Where as a Big12 or Big10 team can and often does plummet when losing another conference foe.
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Post by mayor on Oct 31, 2014 11:44:11 GMT -6
The problem is there is not a system in place where teams from different conferences actually get to play each other. It is truly impossible to rank teams with similar records that don't play common opponents. This is why a playoff system should be a playoff between conference champs. Of course, this doesn't really work with a four team playoff. If the SEC is best, that's fine. But why not determine that by having teams from different conferences actually play each other in a playoff! Maybe that will happen--I hope so. The four team playoff shouldn't be the 'best' four teams, because that is impossible to determine. It should be the best four conference champs. If the SEC gets two teams in the playoff, I may never watch a non-Baylor college game again (ok, that might be drastic). An eight team playoff basically solves all problems--Power 5 conference champs are automatically in and then three at-large teams. This also decreases the penalty of playing difficult non-conf games, because if you win your conference (for Power 5), you're in.
Also, statistically, because of the setup of the SEC, they will always have more one loss (or undefeated) teams later in the season, which benefits them in the national rankings/perception. The Big 12 is the most disadvantaged in this regard (of course, this is their own fault).
Anyway, all of this is to say, I really need to stop paying attention to any ESPN college football talk. It's bad for my health.
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Post by fatmenace on Nov 1, 2014 15:27:42 GMT -6
Mark Richt is the Kirk Ferentz of the SEC.
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Post by fatmenace on Nov 8, 2014 8:46:50 GMT -6
no idea who to pick today between KSU and TCU. I'll go with KSU by 7 just because they're more disciplined.
And I'll pick Baylor to finally win in Norman.
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Post by mayor on Nov 9, 2014 10:34:37 GMT -6
Well, now this is getting very interesting. Baylor better jump TCU. Shouldn't even require a discussion.
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Post by fatmenace on Nov 10, 2014 10:52:42 GMT -6
I think you'll be disappointed Tuesday night. Baylor is being punished for their OOC schedule.
in 2008 Texas beat OU, yet OU got picked for the National Championship because Texas' loss was worse than OU's*. If both teams win out, I'd bet anything TCU gets in over Baylor.
*plus Art Briles ranked OU over Texas. F him.
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Post by fatmenace on Nov 10, 2014 11:02:48 GMT -6
BIG 12 COULD GET REALLY UGLY Remember the Big 12’s infamous 2008 three-way tie that resulted in an ugly lobbying political campaign between Texas and Oklahoma for BCS standings supremacy? That may soon seem quaint if the conference that trumpets One True Champion winds up with two come the selection committee’s final meeting. On Saturday, Baylor went to Norman and trounced Oklahoma, 48-14, ending in emphatic fashion a 37-game, 23-year winless streak in road games against ranked opponents. That night, TCU blew out then-frontrunner Kansas State, 41-20, in another incredible showing by Trevone Boykin and the Frogs offense. As of today, TCU, Baylor and K-State are all tied for first at 5-1 in conference play, but the Bears host the Wildcats on Dec. 6. Since the Big 12 does not play a conference championship game, it’s increasingly plausible that Baylor and TCU will finish as 11-1, 8-1 Big 12 co-champions. And that could get sticky. As of last week, the committee had the Horned Frogs six spots higher than the Bears despite Baylor winning their Oct. 11 meeting 61-58. The Big 12 uses head-to-head results as its tiebreaker in determining the league’s automatic berth in one of the New Year’s Six bowls, but the committee is not obligated to follow that protocol when producing the order of its final rankings. Head-to-head is one of the factors it’s supposed to consider -- but so are conference championships and overall body of work. When I asked CFP executive director Bill Hancock about this type of scenario Sunday, he told me, “Any time there are co-champions and there is no [conference] championship game, the committee will consider them both champions. As always, they will look at the other criteria.” When I asked Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby shortly thereafter about the same scenario, he said, “It’s a great question. We certainly would ask [the committee] to take into consideration head-to-head matchups. If you make the assumption that TCU and Baylor might win out, you’d have them with the same record, and Baylor would have the head-to-head. It’s one of the things the committee has pledged to take into account.” Hancock came back shortly after that with a more nebulous statement. “The conferences will advise the committee who their champions are. If a conference has co-champions, then the committee will take that into consideration.” Think this could get a little bit ugly? Anytime you start preemptively worrying about end-of-season scenarios they inevitably don’t come to pass, though TCU’s remaining schedule of 3-6 Kansas, 5-5 Texas and 2-7 Iowa State makes it a pretty sure bet to reach 11-1. And it’s probably going to be no lower than fifth in this week’s committee rankings. Baylor, 12th last week, will likely make up considerable ground, but it still has games remaining against 5-4 Oklahoma State and 7-2 Kansas State. If the Bears win out, though, the committee may have a tough decision. On one hand, Baylor beat TCU fair and square. Plenty of people will say any debate ends right there. But others will question whether a last-second, three-point road loss necessarily trumps the Frogs’ entire 12-game schedule, one that includes a non-conference win over 7-2 Minnesota. Baylor, by contrast, played 0-8 SMU, 3-6 Buffalo and FCS Northwestern State and lost by two touchdowns at 6-4 West Virginia. There’s one easy solution here: The committee could take two Big 12 teams. That actually seems more plausible at this point than two SEC schools getting in. www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/week-11-cfb-ohio-state-alabama-sec-playoff-debate-forward-pass-111014
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