re: Blow out to Tennessee narrative

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Who cares what happened vs. Tenn. earlier? Just like in pro football, or NCAA BB, when in the playoffs, whoever wins goes on and the losers go home. And it does not matter who whooped up on Cincinnati earlier last year, because they got in the playoffs and took care of business. They did not whine and cry that we beat Cincy earlier in the year, why are they in the playoffs and now in the Super Bowl? And the teams who get hot late and get in to any playoffs can do some damage.

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It's not just like in pro football. The discussion is who deserves to be in the playoffs in the first place. There was no dispute as to whether or not Cincinnati should be in.

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All that said, A win against Ole Miss, Bama and Georgia, plus the others we rolled through, should get us in... THE SEC CHAMPS!. Win over Bama & Georgia late in the season trumps a bad loss to Tenn. earlier in the year!!!!

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Perhaps. And I hope you are right. But LSU's best win is virtually the exact same as Tennessee's best win. Both were over Alabama...at home...on the final play of the game. A win over Georgia would be something Tennessee could not equal...but if you are debating between two teams as to which should be in and which should be out, wouldn't a head to head matchup be the first place to start? That's were literally every two team tie-breaker starts their analysis. In that case Tennessee has the edge. You can not like it. You can baselessly opine LSU would "win today". But the reality is Tennessee has the "tie-breaker" in that aspect of the analysis.

The CFP is still relatively new. And there is a first time for everything. But the committee has never put a 2 loss team in the playoffs over a one loss team. That's true even when the 2 loss team was the conference champion and the 1 loss team that ultimately made the playoff "didn't even win their side of the conference".

In 2016 the committee put 1 loss Ohio St in over 2 loss Penn St. The reason is because they simply thought OSU was the better team (despite the fact OSU lost to PSU). That's fine if that is the committee's criteria. But taking the P&G glasses off it is hard to say LSU has been the "better" team this year. Tennessee right now has the stronger strength of schedule. The better argument may be that LSU has the stronger resume than Georgia if LSU wins that game because LSU would have the stronger overall SOS AND a head to head win.