What LSU needs to get into playoff at 9-3

Not saying we win out and in fact I don’t think we do, but the logic below is sound in regards to subject if we did:

Bama has a weak remaining SOS. They’ll get to Atlanta and face Georgia.

Georgia (11-1)
Bama (10-2)

Say there’s a 5 way tie for third at 9-3 (6-3) in the SEC:

LSU — win out
Texas — lose to LSU, beat A&M
Tennessee — lose to LSU, beat A&M and Vandy
Ole Miss — beat OU and State
Kentucky — lose to Florida or Mizzou

Late season wins over top 10 Texas and Tennessee by LSU would hold more weight than the early season wins Ole Miss and Kentucky got over us. Say we’re #20-22 this week then beat #6 Texas. That would put us around #15-17. Then we beat #7ish Tennessee on the road that would jump us several more spots to #13 right on the outside looking in. After those games we could and should jump Texas and Tennessee replacing them as the third highest ranked SEC team.

Then you have rivalry week where a couple teams ahead of us catch losses. Regardless when it comes down to final rankings there’s no way the committee only puts 2 SEC teams in the playoff when they had 5 teams in the playoff this week (including 2-loss SEC teams ahead of undefeated B1G team). Clearly they value our conference SOS. Playoff predictor says 95% chance at least one 9-3 team gets in and without a doubt that team would come from the SEC.

The little bit of help we’d need is Tennessee and Texas finishing strong at 9-3 to help our resume and Kentucky losing at least 1 so they aren’t the sole third place SEC team at 10-2 (7-2). That 3rd loss they catch would drop them below us and 3 loss Ole Miss has no more games on their schedule to boost their resume after getting dogwalked by Georgia.




I’ll take my downvotes now for a level headed post after a loss on the scoreboard