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Who is the best team?

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Every week I watch college football and it’s getting harder and harder to tell who is actually the top dog out there. Texas got hammered by Georgia who lost to Bama and struggled against a Kentucky team that the gators beat. Bama lost to a Tennessee team that hadn’t scored a first half point in theee weeks and barely squeaked out a victory against the gators a week earlier.

The likely new #1 is Oregon but does the best team in college football struggle against Idaho and Boise State? Ohio State would make a claim if they hadn’t just lost to Oregon last week.

We’re in the midst of what might be the best college football season in at least a decade because nobody is a sure-fire lock to win every game. The best teams all have flaws and it really makes for exciting games on a week to week basis. And I’m not even counting my weekly heart attack watching our beloved Canes.

I don’t know if it’s the transfer portal or the fact that NIL has leveled the playing field against the long time cheaters but it’s so refreshing not to k ow who is the runaway national champion with half a season still to play.
 

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I didn’t even mention the crazy “bottom feeder” teams that are surprisingly good this year. Indiana, Army and Navy are all undefeated. Vandy is a good team. A wide open Big XII. SMU making a run at the ACC championship game in their first season as a p4 team.
 
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Unpopular thought: “IF” cfb playoff and the conferences stayed as is, would it actually be better for us to stay in the acc, with the new performance bonus structure payouts and just dominate the acc for honestly an easier path to playoffs? Yes, im a i hate the acc dude, but seeing the sec just beat each other up, that will be the norm moving forward and complicate who gets in. A bunch of 1-2 lost teams in same conference with a claim to the 12 team playoffs.
 
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DTP said:
You sure about that? I mean, I’m not arguing I’m just not sure this team is better than everyone else
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Yeah I’d still put money on Georgia to win it all.

In terms of the eye test though, I guess it’d be Oregon now. They look like they’re hitting their stride and Illinois next week may be their toughest matchup the rest of the year.
 
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DMoney said:
We went from the peak of stacked teams (the late 2010s) to more parity than I can ever remember.

The Portal is distributing the depth of the top teams to other teams and bringing G5 and lower P4 impact players to Top 25 teams.
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NIL is having a huge impact as well. No doubt it’s the reason Saban left and all the bigs are crying for some legislative fix.
 
canesmang1 said:
OREGON
GEORGIA
PENN STATE
OHIO STATE
TEXAS
MIAMI

not my list, but I think that’s how they would rank em
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the top 12 are:

GEORGIA
OREGON
OHIO STATE
PENN STATE
TEXAS
TENNESSEE
LSU
CLEMSON
NOTRE DAME
BYU
MIAMI
INDIANA

In that order. Until we can show we can hold an offense with a pulse to under 40 points, we are just a great offense with a really good punter and kicker.

That’s a playoff caliber team, potentially, but not a great one.
 
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