CFP & Bowl Games

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EyeoftheIllini
the juiceman cometh said:
Lol the equivalent of Bama's loss to FSU would not be Penn St. It'd be Rutgers at best. FSU went 2-6 in the ACC. And who did Bama beat that's equivalent to Oregon?
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LOL, I said loss to Oregon not won. AL lost to OK and the Sooners are more equivalent to Oregon than #1 seed Indiana. And fine make it Rutgers. I picked Penn St because both usually good and similar records, but point is still the same. Illinois fans would be up in arms if Illini had two losses with one of them being bad and the other to a CFP team, beat the top team in conference, and then lost to them in CC game knocking them out of playoffs while ND didn’t have to play in a CC game.
 
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the juiceman cometh
EyeoftheIllini said:
LOL, I said loss to Oregon not won. AL lost to OK and the Sooners are more equivalent to Oregon than #1 seed Indiana. And fine make it Rutgers. I picked Penn St because both usually good and similar records, but point is still the same. Illinois fans would be up in arms if Illini had two losses with one of them being bad and the other to a CFP team, beat the top team in conference, and then lost to them in CC game knocking them out of playoffs while ND didn’t have to play in a CC game.
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Ah whoops ok. So Oregon = Oklahoma? The problem is that Oregon, whose only loss is to #1 Indiana, has a much better resume than an Oklahoma team who got worked by Texas and lost at home to Ole Miss.

The problem is that Bama had one truly impressive win and the CC game showed that win to be a fluke. Not just because they lost but because they got thoroughly dismantled.
 
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EyeoftheIllini
the juiceman cometh said:
Ah whoops ok. So Oregon = Oklahoma? The problem is that Oregon, whose only loss is to #1 Indiana, has a much better resume than an Oklahoma team who got worked by Texas and lost at home to Ole Miss.

The problem is that Bama had one truly impressive win and the CC game showed that win to be a fluke. Not just because they lost but because they got thoroughly dismantled.
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You’re getting hung up on the names, so take them out of it. Illini has a bad loss, a loss against a CFP team, but a great road win along with 3 other wins against ranked opponents. ND has no “impressive” wins. USC and Pitt? Impressive? I’m not a huge Sagarin fan, but it’s a useful tool. ND was 0-2 against his top 10 teams and 2-2 against top 30 teams. Take out Alabama’s extra game and they were 1-0 against top 10 and 7-1 against top 30.

And you are penalizing Alabama. If one of the other 7-1 SEC teams had been in CC game rather than Alabama — Alabama is in. If there was no CC game — Alabama is in. Alabama had to play a very tough opponent that they had already beaten for an extra game that ND didn’t have to play. Replace the name Alabama with the name Illinois and tell me this board wouldn’t be having a conniption fit if ND got in and Illinois didn’t.
 
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jmwillini
PasadenaIllini said:
Notre Dame:

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#84      
MoCoMdIllini
Redbirds up 28 - 17 in the 3rd quarter.
Edit: make that 34 - 17!

Sobkowicz with 150 yards receiving already and Victor Dawson close to 120 yards rushing with 2:06 to go in the 3rd quarter.
 
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MoCoMdIllini
I think that punt that ISU had a little bit ago may have been their only punt of the game. Is that right?
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
What a wild sequence by isu. Up 35-17 on back to back plays they ran a reverse pass on 3rd down and a fake punt on 4th down. Fake punt worked but certainly unconventional.
 
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