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Bama's schedule is kind of meh but they'll get in anyway.

Yeah idk. That schedule was baaaad. Obviously FSU being a 5 win team and falling apart really hurt that schedule. The other teams OOC were Colorado State, Fresno State, and fricken Mercer.

Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, A&M, Tennessee, Arkansas, LSU, Miss State, and Auburn was their conference schedule. Ole Miss, UT, Ark, and A&M all lost their coaches just prior to the season or during the season or right at the end of the season. 

Pretty horrendous schedule. They barely escaped Miss State and the one really good team they played was Auburn and Auburn wiped the floor with them. 
I really don't think Alabama belongs. They needed to beat Auburn and Georgia in the SEC CG to prove they belonged. 

If the committee is going to hold Wisc to that same standard they should hold Alabama.

I'm pretty sure our 4 will be:

1) SEC Champ Auburn/Georgia
2) ACC Champ Clemson/Miami 

3) Oklahoma if they beat TCU
4) Wisconsin if they Beat OSU.

5) Alabama if OU or UW stub their toe in the title game. 

Something fishy. Well at least by ESPN standards, they are projecting Wisconsin at 5, and 2 loss Auburn will hop over everyone.
1) Auburn
2) Clemson
3) Georgia
4) Oklahoma

Auburn/Georgia Loser is out.

5) Wisconsin - Win and In vs. OSU
6) Alabama - Rooting for OSU/TCU to win then Sit at Home and In
7) Miami - Win and In vs. #2 Clemson

So Wisconsin, the ONLY undefeated Power Five team left, starts at number 5.  They get a convincing road win, two teams in front of them lose, and they are still at 5?
That is fishy, and it stinks.  

Something fishy. Well at least by ESPN standards, they are projecting Wisconsin at 5, and 2 loss Auburn will hop over everyone.
1) Auburn
2) Clemson
3) Georgia
4) Oklahoma

Auburn/Georgia Loser is out.

5) Wisconsin - Win and In vs. OSU
6) Alabama - Rooting for OSU/TCU to win then Sit at Home and In
7) Miami - Win and In vs. #2 Clemson

They're projecting OSU to beat UW? Is that fishy. The Auburn thing is weird, because Clemson will def be ahead of them. Are we sure this isn't he "chance of making the playoff chart"?

ESPN (Herbstreit specifically) was projecting what the committee will release this Tuesday.

Not the final poll. Sorry for any confusion. The 1-6 was what they think Tuesday will look like, and then they commented how it will also look a week from now. (That I included after the "-")

Wisconsin is a win and in team, but will be sitting at #5 this Tuesday night.

this Tuesdays poll means nothing

meant to spur discussion - so putting an undefeated team at #5 and a 2 loss team in the top 2 starts discussion

if Auburn and Clemson win out, what's the chance they meet in the first round?  zero percent?

On the contrary...it means a ton.  They " pre position" based on what they anticipate will happen.
If they ranked then as if the playoff were now, it would clearly be Clemson, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Auburn...in some order.  So why don't they rank them that way.  And the next three would likely be Georgia, Miami and Bama in some order.
Where Wisconsin sits, for example is huge, should they happen to lose.   If you beat the number 5 team, not even close to if you beat the number 2 team for example. There are other examples.  They place them to get to a final place they like, not where they belong now.

Wisconsin played as many P5 teams as Alabama played. Plus they played BYU who, along with ND, meets the P5 definition for B1G home office OOC scheduling guidelines.

Anyway, from Paul Finbaum...



"Wisconsin has 3-4 losses with Alabama's schedule."


 "FSU would have killed Wisconsin"


Go F yourself, ass clown.