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and I was just listening to Josh Pate's show and he said the exact same thing. The P4 conferences were never supposed to be left out of the CFP entirely, even though it was theoretically set up for that to be a remote possibility. It was just a bone thrown to all G5 conferences. Now that it is a real possibility, the committee is moving to protect against that. Of course, for the committee there is still the nightmare scenario of BYU winning, JMU winning and Puke winning. In that scenario, you likely have 3 B10 schools in, 2 G5 likely in, BYU in, 3 safe SEC in with Ole Miss, Tx A&M and Oklahoma, and the SECCG winner. That would leave 2 spots for Tx Tech, SEC game loser, Miami and ND. I don't think Georgia drops completely out with a loss, so you are probably looking at 10-3 Alabama vs 10-2 Miami, TxTech and ND for the last spot, assuming Alabama loses the SECCG. The committee would have to do two of the following: either still screw the ACC entirely, dump ND, send a #1 SEC seed home, or drop Tech below 10.

While it would probably fuck ND, I would love to see it just because the committee is once again trying to manipulate rankings instead of just producing the top 12 and letting the bracket take care itself. If the ACC doesn't want to be in this spot, then get better as a conference. if Virginia wins, I don't think there is pressure on the committee to move Miami above ND, plus, the ACC is hardly a 2-bid league this year, especially when their CG has a 5-loss Duke playing.