UGA UT And Ohio St or Mich 3 of those are locks
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UT far from a lock, couple tough games left. UGA and Ohio St. the only lock today IMO.
GA will likely have to beat LSU and this is a much different LSU team than a month ago. Think LSU still has Arkansas/TAM....lots of football yet to play.
Don't rule out unbeaten TCU or one loss USC/UCLA/Oregon. I think committee would like to have both to provide nationwide interest, rather than 2 SEC teams along with B10 champ.
ACC is definitely out, imo.
ACC is definitely out, imo.
Broke my heart to see Ala go down , opening the door for UT .
If both finish 11-1, both will have losses to UGA, but UT has the better resume by far, being 5-1 against ranked teams.
Oregon will get a chance to beat a potential top 10 usc in pac 12 title game though and end up 12 and 1.
Knoxvilles best win over a 2 maybe 3 loss non division winning Bama. And didn't win its conference division.
They are the exact opposite of a lock. Knoxville is locked out unless major chaos in Pac 12, Big 12, B1g 10.
They are the exact opposite of a lock. Knoxville is locked out unless major chaos in Pac 12, Big 12, B1g 10.
Tennessee is 2-1 against teams currently ranked. Oregon is 1-1 but has 2 left to play plus, probably, another in the PAC-12 Championship Game.
They go by rankings at the time the games were played, so UT is 5-1 against ranked teams.
Yep, that sucked so bad. Tennessee isn’t a lock though, I still think they f it up somewhere. They’re just not as good as their record indicates.
You think they lose at home to Missouri or at sc or vandy? Just confirming you know that is their remaining schedule.
And to the other poster talking about chaos in the big 12....tcu losing a game is all tn and michigan need for them to be gone.
If 1 loss pac 12 gets in it will come down to Michigan or tn for the last spot. I'm not sure how wins over Penn state and Illinois trump wins over Alabama, lsu, Kentucky and Florida. I don't think the committee will either.
That isn't a true setup. The winner of the west could beat UGA. At that point, EweT would take 3rd position (at best) in the SEC. Then you have Oregon, TCU and the winner of the B1G. The SEC may only get 1 in this year. Way to many variables still in play. The pathetic ACC is out of it. Good.
This will be the year they spread the wealth. Bama isn't out of it yet. On a neutral field they are the best team in the west. This is a really complicated year and proves the need to expand the playoffs.
Bama losing 2 last second nail biters on the road shouldn't keep them out but probably will. The best teams are supposed to fight it out, not the best records.
What about the nailbiters they won? (Texas and Texas AM).
Let's be real... Bama has been living on the edge due to poor defense and a schizophrenic offensive line. They are not like the past few Bama teams.
Tell you what, I've been watching them all yr, and what LSU is turning into is a team that wins out & can beat Georgia in Atlanta. Jaden Daniels is a special kind of athlete. Matt House has their D playing physical.
Even with 2 losses, ain't no way an SEC champ is excluded.
Even with 2 losses, ain't no way an SEC champ is excluded.
Love for the SEC to get BOTH a 1 loss Ga and SEC champ LSU in the final four just to hear the explosive whining from b!g T!n crowd
UT will fall to at least 6, maybe even 7 or 8.
LSU with their win over Bama forces the committee to move them up in position (probably #5) just in case they win out and win the SEC championship game.
I know that is unlikely, but the committee is forced to prepare for it. UT has no way to climb the polls unless GEORGIA loses 2 games.
Not going to happen.
I just need 2 things .. Tosu to not win the national championship , and UT to be no where to be found .
LSU now is nowhere near where LSU was a month ago but their games with Arkansas/Teas A&M will be wars. That's SEC football. You're right, Matt House has their D playing really well.
I admit to being a college football geek. I watched Jaden Daniels play several times last year on those PAC12 After Dark games and was really impressed with him. Was greatly surprised when he transferred to LSU but Herman Edwards made Arizona St a nightmare. Next few weeks of SEC football will be fun.
Lsu won't be 5th. Come on dude. Tn beat them by 27 at lsu and has 1 less loss. If lsu somehow wins out, (they wont), then I think the sec probably just gets uga in and osu and michigan and maybe the 1 loss pac 12 team.
I predict tn is 4th or 5th at worse and that's only if tcu jumps to 4.
If you think that LSU would be left out of playoff if they win SEC championship and Georgia gets in instead, you are going to be in for a big surprise.
I don't think they will win out either, but the committee can't have them so far out of the top 4 that they can't move them in if they win SEC.
UT could still get in, but it is out of their hands. LSU could get in and they control their own destiny.
I would be surprised. LSU will likely have the same major problems that UT had, which was the ability to control the LOS scrimmage on either side of the ball. Based on the stat they showed after the UT-UGA game, the UGA D front pressured Hooker 20 times. He was pressured ony 19 times the previous 8 games, which included some pretty good D fronts, including Pitt, Bama. UK, AND LSU.
On the flip side, UT's D front had put a lot of pressure on everyone those first 8 games, including LSU, but could not get a lot of pressure on Bennett at UGA.
Fast forward to last night and I watched the Bama front put a lot of pressure on Daniels. He scrambled out of a some of that pressure, but will he be able to do that enough against UGA?
And while the LSU front, which got very little pressure on Hooker, may be playing better than the UT game, will that show up against UGA? They pressured Young a lot last night, but so did UT, who could not pressure Bennett nearly enough yesterday.
Not saying LSU can't win against UGA, but I think UGA would have to give them some help, because UGA just appears better tban the rest of the SEC on both LOS.
Michigans only quality win is at home against an overrated Penn State team . Michigan would be about like ole miss if they were in the sec . We would probably be undefeated with their schedule. They will be exposed . Probably against Ohio St. but definitely if they make the playoffs.
I don't think you can put Tennessee in over a 1-loss Pac12, Big12 or ACC champion. We just saw Georgia dominate them, we don't need to see that again, let Georgia feast on other conferences in the CFP.
And that will be nothing new. Michigan was exposed in playoffs last year, but they got in anyway. Big 10 baby!!!
Why would you say that ? It’s supposed to be the 4 best teams . I guarantee any of those teams would get embarrassed at Georgia. And LOL at you even suggesting an ACC team . I doubt ANY ACC team would have a winning record if they played in the SEC . Are you trying to make a joke ?
Agreed.
The pac 12 is the only conference champ with 1 loss I'd put in over tn or Michigan and that's only if they beat another 11 and 1 team in the conference title game.
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