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I asked u to name our good wins that counter balance.
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I asked u to name our good wins that counter balance.
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TheU1984
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Yup. FSU been doing this for a bit I believe. The game they lose Travis was a late season cupcake. Should sign us up. 8 straight conference games isn’t ideal if it can be avoided.
We play who's scheduled. Maybe if the voters would actually rank ACC teams instead of keeping SEC teams like Mizzou ranked for most of the season completely undeserved, we'd have more ranked wins. Ignoring bad losses is ridiculous, and contrary to what the Committee said they do
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It’s as simple as a better record overall and at home. End of discussion. Talk about cupcakes all you want there’s no way to define a cupcake considering you guys are talking about a USF team taking these guys down to the wire at home and us HANDILY beating them. Period full stop. Anything else is feeding into the SEC SEC narrative.
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Do you think a blowout loss to a 6 win team is equivalent to a great win?
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I agree we play who’s on the schedule, but here’s a couple of issues:
1. The ACC vastly underperformed this yr vs. its projection.
FSU, UL, NCSt, Pitt, GT were all ranked either pre-season or during the season at one point, while Clemson, the crown jewel of the ACC has looked like a roller coaster.
•Cuse had a chance to be ranked after beating #23 GT, but then lost to Stanford (3-9)
•GT was ranked #23, but then proceeded to lose 4 of 7
•NCSt was ranked #24, then proceeded to lose 4 of 7
•FSU was ranked #10, then proceeded to lose 6 of 7
•UL was as high as #15, then proceeded to lose 4 of 7.
•Pitt was as high as #19, then proceeded to lose 5 straight
•Duke had a chance to be ranked, & then proceeded to lose 3 of 4.
Like, what do u except the voters to do w/ this? As soon as an ACC team was ranked or had a chance to be ranked, they quickly **** the bed. So ur theory of “maybe they should start ranking ACC teams” is yet another straw man argument b/c they did, & the conference failed.
2. The SEC pre season rankings were justified just based upon the 2023 season, alone. 7 of the 9 ranked teams won 10+ games, so yes, the perception is going to be different.
3. The problem is not the SEC; the problem is teams like SMU, & Indiana were NOT supposed to be this good. It also hurts that when we had a clear path to the ACCCG w/ FSU (a pre season Top 10 team) turned out to be putrid, & Clemson laid an egg opening up our path, we dropped the ball to two teams that were beneath us, one having a 21-0 lead in our favor, & again, we had not ONE win to say that/those loss(es) weren’t nearly that bad b/c Miami beat…..who?
So u can point the finger all u want, but like I told my ex wife, look in the mirror, point the finger, & u’ll quickly find out who’s the culprit of ur demise.
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Bama jumped us while beating Mercer when we were on bye. Committee never explained that one. The following week Bama got handled by a weak OU team so no one continued to press the issue. The committee was told they better "do right" by the SEC or else. Its clear what's going on.
...and none of that changes the fact that Bama has zero basis for being in, and has 3 losses, two very bad ones, and a blow out ***-kicking against a .500 team. Bama shouldn't even be in the top 15, but the Committee ridiculously bumped them up 3 spots for beating MERCER late in the season...a team that FSU and Purdue could beat with their backups in.
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I think good teams underestimate poor teams often, & become complacent; but, allow me to place this delicately yet bluntly:
There was a target on our back as soon as the calendar flipped to ACC play. They called our wins over 6-6 VT, 6-6 Cal, & 8-4 UL controversial. If u recall, even though we were undefeated, the narrative was were lucky to be undefeated, & who have we played which is why we were snail crawling in the polls. What did I tell everyone FROM DAY 1? Don’t worry about the polls, worry about us; as long as we go 1-0 every week w/ this schedule, we’ll be fine. So I’m not sure y anyone is acting brand new when there were ? marks already.
Cool, we play a team on the road that had just lost 4 of 7, & they beat us rather convincingly being one dimensional. We received our warning w/ how many spots we dropped, but fortunately a bloodbath took place to teams ahead us. All the goals, expectations were still right in front of us: Win, & u’re in.
Then we blow a 21-0 lead w/ everything on the line. So yes, we were going to be punished b/c there was already a narrative going around PRE-Syracuse. Which is y, I continued to say we need to start rooting for teams in the ACC to be good.
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We had UF scheduled years out. Not our fault they sucked. We were supposed to play ND this year to but they wanted to move it. Next year we get both. 2026 we go to South Carolina and ND. 2027 we got South Carolina and Utah.
That's more than adequate scheduling. Anything more than that is foolish and you would not get credit for losses the way SEC teams do.
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FYI. Bama moved to 2 P4 games a year
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even our own fans feed into the sec narrative and had for years so i gave up 5+ years ago.
We all knew the scam........
THE PRE SZN RANKINGS.
They over rank the sec schools so its always a win -win for them no matter what...except this year something happened that wasnt expected...****** bum *** vandy waxed bama early....then Oklahoma who is complete dog sh*t waxed em late. With all that happening they still managed to put them up...stating GOOD WINS...lol
Sh*ts a con....an obviously a con...BECAUSE...Texas waltz right in to the sec an took over...(big 12) and in the big 10....****** oregon from a sh*tty conference did the same.
I dont know why the big 12 and acc or whomever just bows down to those dweebs but if they want to branch off an have their lil power 2..let em have it and dont give them viewership....let em make cf regionally apparently.
I watch ****** Mac games b4 i turn on a bama game more so....and the big 10 gets no play from me at all.
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That's the thing that bothers me the most. There are conference pride homers out there exclaiming SMU walking into the ACC and dominating it in year 1 but real quiet about Oregon and Texas. Bama playing in the SEC with their "tough schedule" but 2 of their losses is to the worst team in the SEC for decades, and a just as bad Oklahoma team that was Big 12 just last year.
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Our bad losses came from a GT team that was 7-3 when their starting QB was healthy, which took UGA (Bama's best signature win) to 8 OT and should have won the game if not for a BS PI in the red zone and all those pass plays in OT. The other was a 9-3 ranked Syracuse team.
Bama did have signature wins with USCe and UGA (Mizz is BS). Would Miami have had signature wins if they had played some top-25 opponents? Maybe I can see us beating people in the top 25. Who wouldn't? Of course, there's no way to prove it, but we can say that Miami didn't lose to two .500 teams and get blown out by 21 points.
Bama did have signature wins with USCe and UGA (Mizz is BS). Would Miami have had signature wins if they had played some top-25 opponents? Maybe I can see us beating people in the top 25. Who wouldn't? Of course, there's no way to prove it, but we can say that Miami didn't lose to two .500 teams and get blown out by 21 points.
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Indiana's resume is the weakest of all. They played two sub .500 G6 teams and a sub .500 FCS team out of conference. Their conference schedule has six of the bottom seven Big Ten teams, and eight of the bottom ten.
The only teams they faced with a winning conference record (and a winning record overall) were Ohio State, who spanked them, and Michigan who played them close. Five of their conference opponents finished sub .500 overall. Two finished 6-6.
So that's 8 games vs sub .500 teams
2 games vs .500 teams
2 games vs teams with winning records.
The only teams they faced with a winning conference record (and a winning record overall) were Ohio State, who spanked them, and Michigan who played them close. Five of their conference opponents finished sub .500 overall. Two finished 6-6.
So that's 8 games vs sub .500 teams
2 games vs .500 teams
2 games vs teams with winning records.
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‘25-ND/uF
‘26-ND/USCe
‘27-USCe/Utah
As you probably know already, we’re doing that.
The problem? Those games are played in Sept (ND ‘26 will probably be later).
The narrative @ selection time is/will be how teams are playing late in the year.
Did anyone @ ESPN bring up our game against the gator??
Or the fact that they finished 1 game behind Bama in the SEC?
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The schedule you should be looking at is Tennessee’s.
We go 10-2 vs that schedule.
Funny thing…
We’re all rooting for the gator to get trounced by Tennessee, and they lose in OT.
If they win that game we’re in the playoffs.
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