rolltide32

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Bring the goat back for the playoffs. Snatch another natty

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This

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Not really a huge deal IMO…. All teams are effectively assured a spot in the playoff if they finish in the Top10-ish

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Then guarantee them a spot if they're in the top 10.

12 is a joke. You're basically saying any school that ranks in the top 12 is subject to be booted from an at large spot for a conference champion unless that school is Notre Dame in which case they have special privilege so some other higher ranked at large team gets shafted instead.

If this were in place this year Miami would be shafted for a team they beat.

Alabama was shite out of luck last year despite being #11.
Notre Dame and BYU were this year despite being 11 and 12.

Going forward any team at 11 and 12 can probably expect to be shite out of luck unless they are Notre Dame and Notre Dame only.

The power conferences should tell ND to join a conference or frick off.

If anyone needs a real explanation of FEI in general

FEI Ratings (FEI), Offense Ratings (OFEI), Defense Ratings (DFEI), and Special Teams Ratings (SFEI) are opponent-adjusted possession efficiency data representing the scoring advantage per non-garbage possession a team or unit would expect to have on a neutral field against an average opponent. Strength of schedule ratings represent the number of losses a team two standard deviations above average would expect to have against the schedule of opponents (ELS), the number of losses a team one standard deviation above average would expect to have against the schedule (GLS), and the number of losses an average team would expect to have against the schedule (ALS). Strength of record ratings (EWD, GWD, AWD) are the difference between a team's schedule strength ratings and its actual losses.

The model does a really good job of ranking teams in terms of quality as a whole as well as breaking that down into the quality of offense and defense.

Their idea of SOS is basically how many losses would an elite team, good, team, and average team be expected to have against your schedule.

Their idea of strength of record is just the difference in your record, and those expectations for elite, good, and average teams.

FEI

You can look at the overall data there.

As far as offensive and defensive efficiency ratings I prefer using F+ because its a combination of SP+ and FEI but for a really good simplified picture of SOS and SOR FEI is fantastic

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A pre-emptive strike by a Bama fan who will be pissed when Bama is left out of the playoff,

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Alabama shite the bed. I'm pissed they shite the bed. The should rightfully be left out of the playoff. All they had to do was be relatively competitive in the biggest game of the year against a team they had already beaten and they couldn't manage that.

That doesn't change the fact that we currently have a system in place where a team could go undefeated in conference play and not have any chance to win their conference.

Think about the stupidity of that. Conferences are so insanely bloated that conference championships have become what the BCS once was.

It's perfectly realistic that you could have the 3 best teams in a massive conference all avoid each other, go undefeated, and someone isn't even in their conference championship game.

But yeah keep telling yourself this isn't a problem

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There is nothing wrong with the playoff.

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Everything is wrong with the playoff and it's not even the playoffs fault it's the conference structures fault.

We're about to have 2 G5 teams in the playoff because we just had a 7-5 team win the ACC because a 17 team conference played an 8 game conference schedule and it led to most of its best teams not playing each other and ending in an excessively convoluted tie. The team that was first place in the conference outright with a 7-1 conference record lost a non conference game to a team in their conference. None of this is reasonable.

The SEC ended in a 4 way tie because a 16 team conference played an 8 game conference schedule and 3 teams get screwed from it. Ole Miss and A&M get locked out of a chance to play their way into a first round bye while Alabama is given the opportunity to play itself out of the playoff while their two nearest bubble contenders get to sit at home, rest, eat popcorn, and laugh at the shite show Alabama put onto the field.

The Big ten has 18 teams and plays a 9 game conference schedule. It was through pure dumb luck it managed to give us a championship that consisted of their two top teams because there aren't enough matchup of top teams in the conference because you don't play half of your conference.

Accidentally submitted this while trying to type everything out. I'll get everything posted later. Feel free to throw out ideas

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Our path is infinitely better this year.

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Texas Tech and Indiana

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You traded a bye for a game against a sun belt team. Pretty much a wash.

Is Texas Tech and improvement over a QF against 24 Ohio State? Sure. Is it the cake walk you're currently making it out to be?

I went and looked at points per drive stats today going back to 2007. Texas Tech entered the day allowing 0.78 points per drive. They allowed 0.53 points per drive today.

The only 2 defenses that had a season long total better than where they are through 13 games was 2021 Georgia (0.69) and 2011 Alabama (0.49)

That defense is an absolute nightmare.

You're expected reward should you survive it is to play a team that punked you in Autzen and just beat Ohio State.

Not ideal

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You're actually proving the OPs point..

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Saban only went undefeated at Alabama twice. I highly doubt he'd do it at Indiana

I also doubt Cignetti manages to finish the year undefeated

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Saban was at Michigan state for 3-4 years and was perennially 7-5

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Saban lost 3 or more games 4 out of 5 seasons at LSU

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teams ranked 19 or higher now or when they played

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7-5 Illinois by 4 TDs
2 G5 teams
9-3 GT by 9
10-3 Virginia by 17

Vs JMUs 1 loss to 8-4 Louisville by 14


Clearly wins don't matter as much as losses given the rest of the playoff narratives at play so lol no Duke