2018 CFP Rankings

[T Town Tommy]

Triple T and Bishop are both deep cover agents on Saban's payroll. Their mission is to engender good will among other powerful fan bases so as to increase the influence of the Crimson Tide.

CFB evangelists.

All tax free donations can be sent to http://www.bamaredelephantclub.com. Bishop is the treasurer so he will make sure any moneys go toward the betterment of Alaba... I mean college football as a whole.

 

[ND88]

This entire TH ban process has reinvigorated my love for this board. Thanks for breaking bread, family. We’ll get back to arguing with each other soon, but tonight.... we feast as one.

 

[phgreek]

You might want to Google Hunter Renfrow.

Seriously... it is Saban, so anyone with talent showing up on the roster is immediately credible. I know you just put bama jerseys on NFL guys...so why not borrow players from other teams...thought you'd get over...I know.... Cheaters!

 

[Circa]

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And shoutout to Bishop and TTT for not being insufferable douche bags like Michigan Tom.

Even if we get creamed by Bama in the playoffs, they won't be around here like a yapping dog biting at your ankles like Michigan Tom.

"5 star recruit lock to Michigan, we're so much better with Shea, we're kicking guys out to make room" yada yada yada. I guess you don't talk about the actual games when you're just fake tough.

Fake Tom distracts himself with the little things like recruiting and his personal breakdown of who's awesome. No one here cares, we played, we won, we moved on.

 

[greyhammer90]

This entire TH ban process has reinvigorated my love for this board. Thanks for breaking bread, family. We’ll get back to arguing with each other soon, but tonight.... we feast as one.

First things first, fuck michigan.

 

[T Town Tommy]

Really? Reps for a simple post about a white player on Alabama? It's crazy to even want to rep.... Unless your another bama fan that needs the attention from intelligent conversation.

Somebody needs to get laid.

 

[Irish YJ]

Somebody needs to get laid.

I think Circa got a hold of a violent strain of weed lately.

 

[Luckylucci]

This entire TH ban process has reinvigorated my love for this board. Thanks for breaking bread, family. We’ll get back to arguing with each other soon, but tonight.... we feast as one.

Nothing like a good ole troll ban to bring everyone together!

 

[T Town Tommy]

I think Circa got a hold of a violent strain of weed lately.

He's all good. Maybe a 20+ point win against the Noles will bring him back down.

 

[NorthDakota]

This entire TH ban process has reinvigorated my love for this board. Thanks for breaking bread, family. We’ll get back to arguing with each other soon, but tonight.... we feast as one.

 

[Bishop2b5]

Seriously... it is Saban, so anyone with talent showing up on the roster is immediately credible. I know you just put bama jerseys on NFL guys...so why not borrow players from other teams...thought you'd get over...I know.... Cheaters!

Geez, if there was any way to do it, I'd sure rather put that dude in one of our jerseys. I hate having to play him. It took the national defensive player of the year (and some help) to hold him in check last year. Renfrow's just a baller.

 

[BabyIrish]

Really? Reps for a simple post about a white player on Alabama? It's crazy to even want to rep.... Unless your another bama fan that needs the attention from intelligent conversation.

Lol everything went way over your head bro. Relax

 

[phgreek]

Geez, if there was any way to do it, I'd sure rather put that dude in one of our jerseys. I hate having to play him. It took the national defensive player of the year (and some help) to hold him in check last year. Renfrow's just a baller.

...ya mean he doesn't play for Alabama?

I hear ya...I'd take him...even if it was cheatin.

 

[Legacy]

Fun Facts:
Over the last two weeks, twenty teams have been ranked from 11-25 in the CF Playoff rankings.

Only four teams of those twenty have won both of their games in the last two weeks - UCF, Syracuse, Iowa State and West Virginia. One team, Washington, had a bye week last week and won its game prior to that.

Nine of the teams in the top ten have remained the same . One team in the top ten from Week 9 rankings - Kentucky - has dropped out, and one team that was in 11-25 in Week 9 moved into the top ten - West Virginia.

As stable as the top ten have remained, chaos rains in the rankings from 11-25.

This week only three games will match teams in the AP Top 25 rankings - ND v Syracuse, Texas v Iowa State and UCF v Cincy.

 

[stlnd01]

Fun Facts:
Over the last two weeks, twenty teams have been ranked from 11-25 in the CF Playoff rankings.

Only four teams of those twenty have won both of their games in the last two weeks - UCF, Syracuse, Iowa State and West Virginia. One team, Washington, had a bye week last week and won its game prior to that.

Nine of the teams in the top ten have remained the same . One team in the top ten from Week 9 rankings - Kentucky - has dropped out, and one team that was in 11-25 in Week 9 moved into the top ten - West Virginia.

As stable as the top ten have remained, chaos rains in the rankings from 11-25.

This week only three games will match teams in the AP Top 25 rankings - ND v Syracuse, Texas v Iowa State and UCF v Cincy.

It has been a pretty unusual year in terms of stability at the top. Go back to Week Four and you had seven of the same Top Ten you do now. The only teams that have really climbed into it are Michigan and Wazzu. The only ones that have really fallen are Stanford and Auburn.

And - famous last words alert - it probably won't change all that much.
There's still Michigan-Ohio State. But then the winner of that game really should beat Northwestern for the Big Ten and the loser probably doesn't drop far.
Bama-Georgia, of course, but barring a blowout the loser will stay in the top ten (if Georgia wins Bama will probably stay in the top four, of course).
And the Oklahoma-WVU twofer. If I were a betting man I'd say they split, knock each other out of playoff contention but both hang around the bottom half of the top ten.

Clemson, ND and Wazzu all have games that are certainly conceivable to lose, but in which they should be solidly favored.

 

[stlnd01]

Also, looking ahead to the conference title games, it's shaping up for such epic showdowns as:

Clemson vs. Pitt
Michigan/OSU vs. Northwestern
Wazzu (or Washington) vs. Utah
And a rematch of a game played the week before.

Someone remind me why conference championships are such a big deal to the playoff committee?

 

[IrishLion]

Don't want to bump an old "Watch Party" thread on Monday of a new week, so I'll post here:

If Bama is Ivan Drago, then the Russian is cut!

Seriously, they look like an unstoppable force regardless of what's happening, but they got some friendly help from officials against Mississippi State on Saturday. That game should have been 14-7 at haltime, which would have presented a new game script to Bama.

Chances are, Saban rips their asses and they hit high gear, but it would have at least been nice to see them playing with a bit of pressure against an opponent that had built some confidence.

Additionally, Tua's knee looks like the exhaust port on the Death Star. I'd love to know what his real diagnosis is, because he got hit low, but on replay it shows that it was light, well-dispersed contact to the frontside of his knee, which shouldn't have been a problem, but he knew was it was coming and practically jumped up like a cartoon character to try and avoid the contact, and then went out anyway.

If you hit that knee just right with two proton torpedoes, you might cause a chain reaction that results in the destruction of Emperor Saban's greatest weapon.

Buuuuut then you still have to try and score on their defense lol.

 

[greyhammer90]

Don't want to bump an old "Watch Party" thread on Monday of a new week, so I'll post here:

If Bama is Ivan Drago, then the Russian is cut!

Seriously, they look like an unstoppable force regardless of what's happening, but they got some friendly help from officials against Mississippi State on Saturday. That game should have been 14-7 at haltime, which would have presented a new game script to Bama.

Chances are, Saban rips their asses and they hit high gear, but it would have at least been nice to see them playing with a bit of pressure against an opponent that had built some confidence.

Additionally, Tua's knee looks like the exhaust port on the Death Star. I'd love to know what his real diagnosis is, because he got hit low, but on replay it shows that it was light, well-dispersed contact to the frontside of his knee, which shouldn't have been a problem, but he knew was it was coming and practically jumped up like a cartoon character to try and avoid the contact, and then went out anyway.

If you hit that knee just right with two proton torpedoes, you might cause a chain reaction that results in the destruction of Emperor Saban's greatest weapon.

Buuuuut then you still have to try and score on their defense lol.

Yep, playing Bama as late as possible is not just important because they are the best team, its also because it gives more time and opportunity for other teams to exacerbate whatever is going on with that QB. That's what it's going to take.

 

[OhioIrish31]

Also, looking ahead to the conference title games, it's shaping up for such epic showdowns as:

Clemson vs. Pitt
Michigan/OSU vs. Northwestern
Wazzu (or Washington) vs. Utah
And a rematch of a game played the week before.

Someone remind me why conference championships are such a big deal to the playoff committee?

Ha...good point!

 

[Bishop2b5]

Don't want to bump an old "Watch Party" thread on Monday of a new week, so I'll post here:

If Bama is Ivan Drago, then the Russian is cut!

Seriously, they look like an unstoppable force regardless of what's happening, but they got some friendly help from officials against Mississippi State on Saturday. That game should have been 14-7 at haltime, which would have presented a new game script to Bama.

Chances are, Saban rips their asses and they hit high gear, but it would have at least been nice to see them playing with a bit of pressure against an opponent that had built some confidence.

Additionally, Tua's knee looks like the exhaust port on the Death Star. I'd love to know what his real diagnosis is, because he got hit low, but on replay it shows that it was light, well-dispersed contact to the frontside of his knee, which shouldn't have been a problem, but he knew was it was coming and practically jumped up like a cartoon character to try and avoid the contact, and then went out anyway.

If you hit that knee just right with two proton torpedoes, you might cause a chain reaction that results in the destruction of Emperor Saban's greatest weapon.

Buuuuut then you still have to try and score on their defense lol.

I'm hoping this was our LSU hangover game or our day to just not have it all together. We sure didn't look like we were hitting on all 8 cylinders. We just looked out of sync and sloppy.

The block in the back call that nullified a Miss. St. TD was terrible. I understand what the ref thought he saw given the angle he was viewing it from, but just a 100% bad call.

Tua's knee injury is supposedly not that bad, but he keeps tweaking it and getting hit so it stays sore and can't heal completely. I think the hit he took Saturday was actually to his thigh and bruised his quad just above the knee instead of aggravating the existing knee injury. Either way, he's gimpy and that knee is definitely our Death Star exhaust port.

 

[gkIrish]

Looking ahead we really need Bama to beat Georgia. I am not so much worried about Michigan getting in over us but more importantly it ensures that Bama is the #1 seed and we are either 2 or 3. Then we gotta hope Michigan can beat Bama and we get a winnable final if we take care of business against Clemson.

 

[Legacy]

Also, looking ahead to the conference title games, it's shaping up for such epic showdowns as:

Clemson vs. Pitt
Michigan/OSU vs. Northwestern
Wazzu (or Washington) vs. Utah
And a rematch of a game played the week before.

Someone remind me why conference championships are such a big deal to the playoff committee?

Don't forget the Big 12 Championship where teams who have played each other during the regular season always get to do that again. Like Mich-NW and WSU-Utah. So, if the losers, NW, Utah and one of the B 12 teams win their championships on the second bite of the apples, regular season wins don't count. Womp on the Wolverines, they want the second bite. Whatever.

 

[IrishLion]

Looking ahead we really need Bama to beat Georgia. I am not so much worried about Michigan getting in over us but more importantly it ensures that Bama is the #1 seed and we are either 2 or 3. Then we gotta hope Michigan can beat Bama and we get a winnable final if we take care of business against Clemson.

Bama losing to UGA in an upset would also present the potential doomsday scenario, which would be the only way a 12-0 ND could be left out. The committee would most likely put Bama in (unless they lose in blowout fashion), and would then have to decide whether it likes ND's head-to-head win over scUM or scUM's conference championship more.

The argument should be easy, especially when you combine common opponent results.

But, if scUM beats the shit out of Northwester in the B1G 'chip, it could get dicey.

 

[BabyIrish]

Looking ahead we really need Bama to beat Georgia. I am not so much worried about Michigan getting in over us but more importantly it ensures that Bama is the #1 seed and we are either 2 or 3. Then we gotta hope Michigan can beat Bama and we get a winnable final if we take care of business against Clemson.

Take care of business? Clemson's DLine is going to wreak havoc against us all night long if we play them. I'd be happy if we kept it close

 

[IrishLion]

Take care of business? Clemson's DLine is going to wreak havoc against us all night long if we play them. I'd be happy if we kept it close

Not overly concerned with their DL if Book is healthy. He's making quick reads and decisions, which negates the pass rush for the most part.

I'd be more concerned with our corners covering their WR's all game long if our DL can't get to Lawrence. That kid makes NFL throws already, and that's hard to defend regardless of how good your pass rush and CB's are.

 

[gkIrish]

Take care of business? Clemson's DLine is going to wreak havoc against us all night long if we play them. I'd be happy if we kept it close

I just meant "if we beat Clemson." Wasn't implying that would be an easy game, although I certainly would rather play Clemson than Bama.

 

[BabyIrish]

Not overly concerned with their DL if Book is healthy. He's making quick reads and decisions, which negates the pass rush for the most part.

I'd be more concerned with our corners covering their WR's all game long if our DL can't get to Lawrence. That kid makes NFL throws already, and that's hard to defend regardless of how good your pass rush and CB's are.

As of late, both Pitt and Northwestern have shown him things he hasn't seem and struggled with the read until 2nd half adjustments came in. Very well could happen against clemson which would be too little too late.

 

[gkIrish]

Bama losing to UGA in an upset would also present the potential doomsday scenario, which would be the only way a 12-0 ND could be left out. The committee would most likely put Bama in (unless they lose in blowout fashion), and would then have to decide whether it likes ND's head-to-head win over scUM or scUM's conference championship more.

The argument should be easy, especially when you combine common opponent results.

But, if scUM beats the shit out of Northwester in the B1G 'chip, it could get dicey.

My only concern is if the committee has some sort of point/number value assigned to winning a conference championship and doesn't just use common sense. I think if Georgia beats Bama we still get in but a 6-8 team playoff is all but guaranteed going forward.

 

[T-Boone]

Bama losing to UGA in an upset would also present the potential doomsday scenario, which would be the only way a 12-0 ND could be left out. The committee would most likely put Bama in (unless they lose in blowout fashion), and would then have to decide whether it likes ND's head-to-head win over scUM or scUM's conference championship more.

The argument should be easy, especially when you combine common opponent results.

But, if scUM beats the shit out of Northwester in the B1G 'chip, it could get dicey.

It would be difficult for them to do it, but Bama would be left out in this scenario before ND would be. They would have to decide which of the one loss teams to leave out.

 

[greyhammer90]

It would be difficult for them to do it, but Bama would be left out in this scenario before ND would be. They would have to decide which of the one loss teams to leave out.

This is what should happen, but based on everything that I've read/heard, the conversation would be who to put in between Michigan and ND.