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DAILY DEBATE: Does Miami deserve to be ranked over Alabama, Ole Miss and South Carolina?

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Should we get in yes.Will we is the better question
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DMoney said:
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It’s not that Miami deserves to be ranked above them. It’s that three loss teams Don’t be deserving to be ranked ahead of two loss p4 teams .

Nobody is playing the same conference schedule anymore and you can’t ignore Alabama getting their **** pushed in by six and six Oklahoma team because it just means more
 
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Yes without doubt. Even Nick Saban has made that comment. Both Ga Tech and Syracuse would destroy Ole Miss and Alabama. Those are Miami's two losses. Bama lost to 5-5 Oklahoma when Bama was a 3 score favorite, and Wake.
 
You can make very valid arguments for and against any of these 4 teams.

Miami has no good wins, but did win 10 games and doesn't have a bad loss.
Alabama has god awful losses, but did beat UGA and South Carolina, two Top 15 teams
Ole Miss has a terrible loss to Kentucky, but smoked UGA and beat the **** out of South Carolina on the road
USCe obviously lost to the 2 teams above, but they've won 6 games in a row, 3 of those against ranked teams (A&M, Mizzou, at Clemson), plus a road win over Vandy in that time.

Look, these teams are all ranked between 11 and 14 for a reason. They all have warts. You can easily poke holes in any of them. But I do believe Miami has as good a shot as any of these 4 to be at #11 tonight when the rankings come out. The committee has told you what they value....they love our offense, they value winning, and they value close losses. We have 2, both on the road, to good teams, by a total of 9 points. Yes, we don't have the marquee wins the SEC teams do, but we don't have any putrid losses where we scored 3 points, or lost at home to Kentucky, or got pasted at home by 3 scores.

I'll tell you this, the committee will be HUGE Clemson fans on Saturday night. If Clemson wins, they don't have to worry about any of this ****. SMU and Clemson go, all 4 of these bubble teams are out, goodnight.
 
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Do we deserve it?
The teams in our tier have warts just like we do.

Look at who they played.
We can go 9-3 vs those schedules too.

I’ll take it if they give it to us, but I think Bama gets the nod.
 
Ole Miss is easy because we have a common opponent that we crushed and they lost to. Bama needs to be eliminated too since they have way worse losses while also having 3. SC is the more tricky one, but how do you put SC above Ole Miss and Bama when they both beat SC? Miami is a 2 loss P4 team with 2 losses that were close and don’t look as bad today. The committee should have us at 11, but we’ll see what happens.
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
You can make very valid arguments for and against any of these 4 teams.

Miami has no good wins, but did win 10 games and doesn't have a bad loss.
Alabama has god awful losses, but did beat UGA and South Carolina, two Top 15 teams
Ole Miss has a terrible loss to Kentucky, but smoked UGA and beat the **** out of South Carolina on the road
USCe obviously lost to the 2 teams above, but they've won 6 games in a row, 3 of those against ranked teams (A&M, Mizzou, at Clemson), plus a road win over Vandy in that time.

Look, these teams are all ranked between 11 and 14 for a reason. They all have warts. You can easily poke holes in any of them. But I do believe Miami has as good a shot as any of these 4 to be at #11 tonight when the rankings come out. The committee has told you what they value....they love our offense, they value winning, and they value close losses. We have 2, both on the road, to good teams, by a total of 9 points. Yes, we don't have the marquee wins the SEC teams do, but we don't have any putrid losses where we scored 3 points, or lost at home to Kentucky, or got pasted at home by 3 scores.

I'll tell you this, the committee will be HUGE Clemson fans on Saturday night. If Clemson wins, they don't have to worry about any of this ****. SMU and Clemson go, all 4 of these bubble teams are out, goodnight.
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We were up 21-0 against Syracuse. That was a very bad loss to a team we were favored to beat.
 
I'm not going to do a direct comparison because it's nearly impossible. Our only saving graces are 1) we have the #1 offense in the country, 2) a likely Heisman finalist QB and 3) if Clemson loses the ACCCG I don't think the committee is willing to only let one ACC team in the playoff; that would be a bad look.
 
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Elmer Leghorn said:
I agree and I think that is how it will be viewed by the people making the decision.
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Yeah I’m not just moping about this and the finish to the season. I think they would all be good games not like we would get blown out

But looking at the matchups with all three, I don’t see how our defense gives us a chance. At one point in the season I thought we had a shot against anyone because of the offense, but the defense is just too far gone. Not gonna beat top 15ish teams that actually can play a little defense when we have absolutely none
 
Elmer Leghorn said:
We were up 21-0 against Syracuse. That was a very bad loss to a team we were favored to beat.
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That's not how they examine these things. They look at it as a 4 point loss, on the road, to a 9-3 team, who very well might be ranked tonight. Injuries aside, the result is what matters when the committee puts resumes together.
 
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