CFP Thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

Somewhere behind Texas, obviously.

What's your pecking order for the FBS Texas teams? 

Essentially who would you root for if they were playing each other? 

Obvious Texas would be first, and aTm would be last. What about the others? 

[FearlessF]

This is kinda what I came on to post.  Ohio State's close loss to IU turned out to be REEEEEEEEALLY impressive.

[utee94]

What's your pecking order for the FBS Texas teams?

Essentially who would you root for if they were playing each other?

Obvious Texas would be first, and aTm would be last. What about the others?

Hmmm, probably something like...

UTSA
Texas State
UTEP
Rice
SMU
TCU
Houston
Baylor

And I'd actually pull for A&M over Baylor.  I'd root for almost anyone over Baylor.

[Gigem]

https://twitter.com/pftcommenter/status/2010210769544348082?s=46&t=EHozF964Pc_xZmTZKPCcEA

[utee94]

Hmmm, probably something like...

UTSA
Texas State
UTEP
Rice
SMU
TCU
Houston
Baylor

And I'd actually pull for A&M over Baylor.  I'd root for almost anyone over Baylor.

Honestly I end up rooting for A&M quite a bit, but I'm not necessarily a faithful representative of all Longhorn sentiment.  My marriage to my i s c & a aggie wife has somewhat compromised my values.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Are you moving them up in the pecking order? 

[utee94]

Nah.  It's complicated.

[MikeDeTiger]

And I'd actually pull for A&M over Baylor.  I'd root for almost anyone over Baylor.

Man, you run one little rape-ring, and people just can't get over it......

[nwms]

Nah.  It's complicated.

*smart man*

[nwms]

Man, you run one little rape-ring, and people just can't get over it......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozQXl17VpG0

[medinabuckeye1]

Posters familiar with me may remember that I rank the closeness of a game by time, ie when was it 'over' as opposed to final score.  The theory here is that a 17 point game where the leading team scored in the final seconds to make it 17 isn't all that different from a 3 point game where the trailing team scored in the final seconds to make it 3.  By that standard the CFP games have really been very good for the most part.  My ranking of the 10 CFP games so far:

• 00:00 Miami 31 over Ole Miss 27:  Miami scored the game-winning TD with just 00:18 to go but still had to hold off a final drive that got to midfield. 
• 00:06 Ole Miss 39 over UGA 34:  Ole Miss' FG with 0:06 to go made it 37-34 and ended it. 
• 00:24 Miami 10 over aTm 3:  Miami scored the winning TD with less than two minutes to go but then aTm drove all the way to the Miami 5 where they had a 1st and goal.  Unfortunately for aTm that resulted in two incomplete passes then an interception with just 24 seconds to go. 
• 1:46 Miami 24 over Ohio State 14:  In theory you could argue that it wasn't really over until Miami scored the final TD but I'm going with 1:46 because at that point Miami converted a 3rd and 4 at the tOSU 20 with a 14 yard pass to give them a 1st and Goal situation.  I'm asserting that it wasn't over before that because a stop there means a FG attempt and even assuming that Miami makes the FG, Ohio State gets the ball back down 6 with about a minute and a half to play. 
• 2:53 Alabama 34 over Oklahoma 24:  Weird game.  Oklahoma jumped out 17-0 then gave up 27 straight, then got back within a FG then got down 34-24 which ended up being the final score.  While trailing 34-24 Oklahoma missed a 36 yard FG that would have made it a one-score game with 2:53 to go.  Once they missed that, it was over. 
• 6:53 Oregon 23 over TxTech 0:  You could argue for earlier but it was only 13-0 heading into the 4th quarter and it was still a two-score game after Oregon's FG early in the 4th quarter.  Trailing 16-0, TxTech had the ball at their own 30 with just under 7 minutes to go facing a 4th down.  When they didn't get it, the game was over. 
• 14:21  Indiana 38 over Alabama 3:  You could argue for earlier but it was a three score game going into the 4th quarter.  Indiana's TD with 14:21 to go made it a four score game and ended it. 
• 14:55 Ole Miss 41 over Tulane 10:  You could make an argument for the game being over sometime in the third quarter but when the fourth quarter started it was 27-3 which is technically a three score game so maybe . . .  That said, it was definitely over once Ole Miss scored early in the 4th to make it 34-3. 
• 22:05 Oregon 51 over JMU 34:  You could argue that this was over at halftime at 34-6 but JMU got a TD on their first possession of the second half so maybe . . .  Oregon answered with a TD so it was arguably over at 41-13 with 25:24 to go but then they traded punts.  It was absolutely over when Oregon blocked a JMU punt for a TD to make it 48-13 with 22:05 to go. 
• 23:52 Indiana 56 over Oregon 22:  It was arguably over at halftime with Indiana up 35-7 but it was definitely over when they took the second half kickoff, held the ball for a little over 6 minutes, and scored to make it 42-7. 

Other than the two charity cases and Indiana running roughshod over everyone in their path the games have been great.  In the bottom half of the bracket every game except Ole Miss' easy win over Tulane has been decided in the final two minutes. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

So who do you have winning the NCG? 

[Gigem]

I’ve been terrible at this. I picked Ohio State over Miami, Georgia over Ole Miss.  but I really like Indiana. They’re undefeated, and they won their conference, the Big 10.  Miami did not win the ACC. I felt like A&M matched up really well with Miami, and we did. Just came up a little short at the end. But I think destiny favors Indiana. 

[utee94]

Yeah I thought Ohio State was going to win it all again.  Other than that I've guessed correctly.

At this point it's very hard to pick against Indiana.  And I'd absolutely prefer to see them win over Miami.  Of course, I'd pull for 97.2% of college teams against Miami.