Cave and they also set a bad precedent IMO. The perception will be that they can be influenced by media members & conferences who lobby, politic & whine about their team being left out.
Define destroy
I’ve made peace with both. Even tho whatever bowl we go to is prettt meaningless in the grand scheme of things if we don’t go to the playoffs I still hope we win. I went from kindergarten to my freshman year of college without seeing a bowl win so I will never NOT be excited about winning bowl games regardless of how useless they may seem to be in this day and age.
I agree with Mac on the one hand, fuck Miami. On the other hand, the SEC is a bigger threat to the sport and is the main problem. I also just happen to think Miami is a better team than Alabama.
This has been what's been draining. ND cannot be discussed anywhere on any channel, without some failed former coach or washed up former player sitting there just repeating "head to head" ad nauseum over and over again. The Fox Pregame show before the Boise-UNLV game last night had their closing segment on how Miami should be in over ND, even though BOTH of the assclowns there said ND is one the best teams in the country and could win a national title, but Miami "deserved" to go.
28 or more.
Yeah, Miami. Annoying as they have been over the last few weeks, I think Miami is a lot better and more talented than BYU. And unlike BYU their resume would include a win over a playoff team.
Not sure what to expect but yes he’s a total politician!!
I don't think Navy has any effect on ND's resume at this point.
What’s the point on even going on if you’re going to tip toe around the questions?
That Boise win certainly didn’t hurt.
One of the few things Yurachek said this morning, which echoed what he said Tuesday, is that things that can affect an idle team's ranking is SOS and SOR, common opponents, etc. Boise winning gives us a boost over Miami and while he didn't mention beating ranked teams, it stands to reason if the committee ranks one of our opponents that can't hurt us.
If you want to totally hedge against any conference politics, it's probably cleaner if UVA wins. That locks in the ACC with a spot and the committee wouldn't feel potentially compelled to bump Miami up over us to give the ACC team. I personally don't think the committee gives a shit about the ACC, but that said, it doesn't matter to me who wins that glorified G5 conference so I suppose I'm pulling for UVA.
Or Alabama or Oklahoma....
It really shouldn’t but I’ve always thought the committee historically likes to sneak a team into the Top 25 if it will help them justify a playoff team’s ranking. I could absolutely see Navy at #25 tomorrow and the chair talking about how we played 10 P4 programs, a ranked Navy, and the MWC champ as justification for why we are ahead of BYU, Miami, and potentially Bama if they lose.
I think Virginia is preferable. If Duke won and was left out of the CFP, I feel like they'd feel obligated to include an ACC team, which could give Miami an extra boost.
Oklahoma is as much of a lock as OSU. But to leave out some of these teams for those bums is just wrong. Texas and Vandy would both beat them teams by 50.
Even watching it, I'm not really clear what he's talking about (or when he was saying this. He kept talking about what the SEC did on this particular night. I assume it wasn't Bama narrowly beating Auburn.).
