ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I mean I guess that's right. Bama, UCLA, Clemson, TCU all win out, is your scenario. 12-1 Illinois is probably on the outside looking in. It's possible they'd screw TCU, but unlikely.LOL. Wrong. A 1 loss Alabama or 1 loss Georgia team gets in over a 1 loss Illinois team 100x out of 100.
There is no way a 1 loss Illinois team gets in over a 1 loss SEC champ.
But all three of UCLA, TCU, and the Clemson/Syracuse winner finishing undefeated, those being the only unbeaten representatives of those conferences left, is extraordinarily unlikely.
So then maybe your scenario is Clemson and TCU win out (the two likeliest of that group), and so does Georgia, beating Tennessee in a tight game, or the other way around.
That would be a heck of a debate. I'm not sure you're fully appreciating how extraordinary it would be for a 9-1 Illinois that is a cute and cuddly probably something like #9 in the nation to suddenly win away from home against Michigan and Ohio State as double digit underdogs on national TV at the business end of the season. Non-Illinois, even non-Big Ten fans would be very very mad if the Tennessee/Georgia loser got in ahead of us. And the polls would have us above TCU.
Anyway, it is far, far more likely that we'd be the #2 if not #1 team in the country if that came to pass as the clearly imperfect elite of this season trip up somewhere along the line. The Michigan-Ohio State winner will be the only unbeaten team in the CFP, that would be my prediction.
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