re: SEC babies whining about SOS and not playing OOC games is pathetic

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Who’s doing it then AI? Aliens??It’s based on formulas created by humans, it’s not some Algebraic proof discovered by Newton

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Go read up. The polls have zero impact on SoS calculations.

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Wait so you think preseasaon ranking in July dictates your SOS in December? Lol

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No but I think the rankings in July do have some influence on the polls throughout the season. Here an example and for this hypothetical let’s assume 2 relatively equal teams (ie not Georgia and Tulane for example) 1 team starts the season in the top 5 and another starts unranked. They both go 11-1 the team that started in the top 5 usually finishes ranked higher. Admittedly this was much worse in the past but it does have some influence.

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a very stupid SOB

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Insults without any argument are a clear sign of intelligence Forrest

Counter my points. How is OOC scheduling keeping Bama and Ole Miss out of the playoff?

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Here an example and for this hypothetical let’s assume 2 relatively equal teams (ie not Georgia and Tulane for example) 1 team starts the season in the top 5 and another starts unranked. They both go 11-1 the team that started in the top 5 usually finishes ranked higher. Admittedly this was much worse in the past but it does have some influence.

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Ok but what about a real world example and not just a hypothetical?

You’re still missing the point and moving the goalposts. Preseason rankings in July don’t have any bearing on a teams SOS in December. Sure preseason rankings contribute to a teams final rankings in a way but not to SOS.

And I love for him to explain how that will help their case if they lose 3 conference games?

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Are the SEC babies gonna cut the conference schedule to 6? After years and getting the benefit of every doubt poor Gumps can’t handle one going the other way.

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This issue is 100-percent about Bama, and not “the SEC”.

If it was about the SEC, Sankey and everyone would have been pushing Ole Miss for the playoffs last week, because of their clearly superior results vs common opponents compared to Bama. Specifically, the two ranked common opponents in UGA (Ole Miss 18 point win) and USC (Ole Miss 24 point win)

The only non-Gump fans whining for Bama are the low-information and low-iq types.

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And I love for him to explain how that will help their case if they lose 3 conference games?

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The reasoning is obvious why you would want to play cupcakes ooc

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If a team is going to have to play 4-5 ranked teams in conference then the committee has shown they should not play a big OOC game, schedules like SMU get you in the playoffs playing zero ranked teams or even having a single quality win


That's not true though. SOS does matter. But not losing games also matter. Why do you think 1-loss Indiana is at #10, below multiple 2-loss teams? It's due to their weaker SOS. Why do you think 2-loss UGA is over Boise and Arizona? It's due to their SOS.

When comparing 2 teams with equal number of losses, the team with a tougher SOS gets the nod. For teams with 1 more loss, the team with 1 more loss will usually still get the nod with a tougher SOS. However, when a team has 2 or more losses, having a tougher SOS will not make up the gap for losing 2 additional games.

In other words, if Bama does not lose to Oklahoma, they are almost undoubtedly in the playoffs. If Ole Miss doesn't lose to Florida, they're almost undoubtedly in the playoffs.

Despite what people say, the regular season most definitely still counts.

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Correct - it's a cohesive picture of all inputs, not just "SoS!". It's who you play, how you look when you play them, the final outcome, etc., etc. I think is was McElroy who had a pretty insightful comment not long after the final bracket was released, something along the lines of "This committee is made up of a lot of former coaches and players, and one thing coaches value above almost anything else is consistency week to week". Alabama's highs were very high and the lows were very low deep into the season, and that kind of high variance performance isn't viewed favorably by coaches. They also didn't appear to improve all that much throughout the course of the year with the blowout at OU and a blah win against Auburn at home.

Probably a surprising sequence in the ACC (talk about a third-order event) led to this in the first place at all - if Louisville hadn't absolutely choked to hell in the last 30 seconds against Stanford three weeks ago, then they'd be sitting in the rankings around 18th or 19th, and SMU would have a top 20 win (as would Miami, and ND would have another ranked win). As it is, they are likely sitting either 26th or 27th and are not being viewed much differently as compared to a win against Missouri or Illinois someone similar.

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Byrne’s “logic” made no sense. Bama’s OOC was bad this year. Their best opponent was Wisconsin. Now, it’s no fault of their own Wisconsin was 5-7 this year, but it doesn’t change the fact they were. Their other three OOC opponents were complete jokes.

Ironically, if Bama had even just one ranked OOC win, it might’ve been enough for them to overcome their (conference) loss to 6-6 Vanderbilt and 21-point (conference) loss to 6-6 Oklahoma and get them in over SMU.

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Damn you guys are idiots. Byrne was talking about risk mitigation for the future and thats it. Why would Alabama or anyone in the SEC go play a tough OOC game? If they only lose 1 or 2 games in the SEC they're in every year because the committee showed SOS doesnt matter, so there is no reason to take the risk of losing in an OOC game. Schedule 4 cup cakes, only lose 1 or 2 in the SEC and you're in.

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It’s really not, not in this context.

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It is lol

Sorry you don’t understand it