Joey Galloway & Kirk Herbstreit Disagree With Greg McElroy About LSU's Playoff Chances

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“But ultimately what the committee has always valued is that one or zero in the loss column. And when you measure everything up, and all we have is precedent, we have never seen a two-loss team get in — in favor of a one-loss team.

“I just don’t see a scenario where LSU can find their way in because I think Tennessee would be ahead of them. I think you would have a situation where the loser of Ohio State-Michigan would be ahead of them. And I think Georgia, even if they beat Georgia at 12-1 in the SEC Championship Game, might even still be ahead of them because they only have that one in the loss column.”

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“I don’t agree with that. If LSU goes on, runs their schedule and beats Georgia — I don’t know that anybody stands in front of them. I think they’ve earned it at that point,” countered Galloway.

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“It would be interesting to see, because when you get a cluster of teams they look at head-to-head, they look at conference championship — there’s no necessarily metric that weighs more than the other. So you wonder Rece and Greg, in the case of LSU, I know what you’re saying about history and two losses. But if you’re LSU — now who knows what they’re gonna do, they could lose Saturday at Arkansas. They still have to go to A&M, those aren’t easy games for them when they have a bullseye on their chest,” said Herbstreit.

“But if they were to win out and then win an SEC Championship Game against Georgia? My gosh. I mean, even with those two losses it’s at least an interesting discussion. As the SEC champion? I don’t think you just kind of throw that to the side and say ‘well, Tennessee, you know they beat them head-to-head and Georgia’s Georgia.’ I mean that’s still, that’s a lot of weight for them to win out and then win in Atlanta.”

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