It's all about SMU
The committee said those conference championship games are holy ground. If they punt the ACC loser for a crappy 3 loss SEC team, why bother playing in those games moving forward?
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They should make Bama and SMU have a play in game next week. Lol. I think Bama gets too much hype
based on past reputation. They have some good wins this year, but also, 2 of their 3 losses were to teams with 6 losses each. If you are a good team, I can see that happening once like our NIU debacle (after their big GA win where they lost to Vandy the following week) as anyone can have a bad week, but not twice. SMU, granted, not as difficult schedule but has two very close losses to good teams. I personally think SMU should get in and Bama bounced, but who knows how this committee will select. It’s going to be interesting.
They are in a pickle. They want Bana bad but if they F SMU no team
In SMU’s situation will ever play in a conference championship.
This is the problem with trying to set it up to generate interest and revenue rather than having a relatively objective process.
Agree! Here’s how CBS footballees have ND / SMU
7 of 9 have ND at 5 seed ahead of Penn State with SMU 8 of 9 as the last at large bid - only one has Alabama in and SMU out.
Link: Scroll down a bit.
dabo had an interesting quote after the game last night.
"We're at a point now where we don't win a championship, and we've got to fire everybody and it's just -- same ol' tired narratives that come up every single year when we lose a game," Swinney said. "You can check our record versus the SEC. You can check it versus the Big Ten. You can check it versus Notre Dame because that's really who runs college football."
really, dabo? n.d. runs college football? we're #1!!!!!
Light the Sign...Dabbo said it!
lol, all jokes aside, in context I think he meant the combo of SEC/B1G/ND run college football, and he's kinda right on that.
ND doesn't run shit.
Thanks to Jack, a 3rd ranked ND is going to be a fucking 7 seed.
Dabo was saying Big 10, SEC and ND run college football. He was being overly kind to ND.
Probably part of painting his team as the poor little underdog to those ranked ahead…
Agree, but on him including ND in his statement..
what other individual school (not conference) had the hand in shaping the playoff that ND did...I think that's his angle on that.