re: Two loss national champ

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If all of those things happened there are 10 teams in your post that would still arguably have a better case to get in than LSU, and there’s zero chance we would get in over 7 of them.

So it wouldn’t only take one or two of those happening, it would take all of them plus much more.

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being sec champ would hold alot of weight but yea we arent making the playoffs this year because all of thh above isnt happening.

we are not making playoffs no matter what essentially.

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I'm blindly hoping everything just works out and everyone else who is actually looking at the teams THIS year are dumb."

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In the initial CFP rankings last year there were six undefeated teams that spanned 4 conferences. The only conference that had no undefeated teams but had plenty with one loss was the pac 12 which had 3 teams with one loss.


There are currently 8 undefeated teams and osu psu play this weekend so we will be guaranteed to be down to 7 by the time the cfp rankings come out on the 31st. In addition utah and Oregon play so that’s one less 1 pac 12 1 loss team.

We are on pace with last year. It’s no different despite your recency bias.

These things always work themselves out.

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The SEC has gotten two teams in twice in 9 years, and all of those teams only had one loss. “Every year”

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Auburn was 100% going as a 2 loss team in 2017 and we were in position to go last year. If we had 1 loss in the sec cg and maybe even if that was our second loss we would have gone last year

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In the initial CFP rankings last year there were six undefeated teams that spanned 4 conferences. The only conference that had teams with one loss was the pac 12 which had 3 teams with one loss.


There are currently 8 undefeated teams and osu psu play this weekend so we will be guaranteed to be down to 7 by the time the cfp rankings come out on the 31st. In addition utah and Oregon play so that’s one less 1 pac 12 1 loss team.

We are on pace with last year. It’s no different despite your recency bias.

These things always work themselves out.

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Fair enough. I obviously hope you are correct but I am not gonna let myself get my hopes up.

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The mental gymnastics some of y’all do is incredible. “If we could take this team that had 3 losses in the regular season and just changed that to only one loss in the regular season, they would have had a shot”

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No different than saying midway through the year that “OMG look at all the other conferences this is the year the SEC finally gets left out” when this happens every year.

Last year a 2 loss LSU SEC champ goes.

2019 a 2 loss sec champion goes

2021 a 2 loss sec champion goes (notre dame gets in and a 2 loss sec champ)



These things work themselves out.

Every year.

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These things work themselves out.

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My main counter to that is the leagues like the PAC 12 and ACC and Big 12 usually have a single team that they pin their hopes to and when they lose their league is out of it. This year every league has at least 2 if not 3 or 4 teams that have legit shots at the playoffs. SO we don't need one or two teams to lose, we need like 8 teams to lose and some of them need to lose multiple times.

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so you’re completely ignoring what’s happening this season across the CFB landscape and only looking at previous seasons. Got it. Now your posts make a lot more sense.

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No… I just know it’s October and all these undefeated/one loss teams are going to lose more. SEC won’t be left out

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My main counter to that is the leagues like the PAC 12 and ACC and Big 12 usually have a single team that they pin their hopes to and when they lose their league is out of it. This year every league has at least 2 if not 3 or 4 teams that have legit shots at the playoffs

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I just pulled up the rankings from last year at this time.


There were 9 undefeated power 5 teams.

It’s just interesting the power of the media to instantly have people buy into mass perfection.

Last year at this time legit playoff contenders



ACC had an undefeated Clemson and a one loss wake forest

Pac 12-usc Oregon ucla we’re all top 12

Big ten Ohio state was dominant and taking 17 first place votes from Georgia

Big 12 had okie state and Kansas state as one loss teams in addition to TCU


ACC and big 12 champs ended with 2 losses

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Just don't believe they move LSU up enough in the polls to get close.

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this.

Its evident in this past weeks example of Bama up +3 spots in a survival win at home vs an unranked SEC opponent vs. LSU up +1 spot in a 30 point win at home vs an unranked SEC opponent.

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don't think its out of the range of possibilty for this team to get it together enough to win a Natty. I DO think its very unlikely we make the playoffs even if we win the SEC. We'd need some teams to also lose cuz we won't get in over undefeated or one loss teams from Big 10, ACC, Big 12, and Pac 12. Hell I'm not sure we'd get the nod over a one loss UGA even if we are the one loss.

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Pretty much all of that. The SEC fatigue is really setting in. Look no further than 1 loss bama at #11. Yes, we all know they have looked like shite, but since the machine started a 1 loss bama would drop from 1 to 4/5/6, keeping them in striking distance. LSU will need help. Lots of ball left to be played.