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Eh... "they" are devising a Texas bama rivalry... 

My hope is bama and their fans get a dose of their own medicine in a big way- UM gets to hold, gets to interfere, gets to target... and bama gets called for everything and then some made up things... "letting" Michigan break the record set by TCU/UGA game last year in margin.  

Yeah.  You nailed it.
Texas #2?
Sheet far, man.  Let's look at it.
Texas beat Bama on Sept 9.
Since then, Bama has reeled off 11 straight.  Including a SECCG win against repeat NC and #1 Georgia, ending their zillion game winning streak.

Texas lost to their biggest rival.  And beat OKSt.  Whee.

Where's the comparison?

I don't like Bama.  But I can remember over 50 Bama-UT games.  Of those, less than 20 are Vol victories.  Credit where credit is due.  At least we get our butts kicked regularly by the best.  Along with everybody else.

It should be Michigan, UW, FSU, Bama.

Simple.  No argument. 

HOWEVER -- the Biden-voting bean-counters had an FSU provision WRITTEN IN to the selection criteria -- "if a team has key players injured"...

So put away your hankies, FSU.  Besides, if Clemson had a FG kicker, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

The biggest "what if"?

Texas beats Oklahoma.  No SEC Champ in the their little dog and pony show playoff?

Huh.

A writer on another site said "too bad we don't have a 12-team playoff this year...".

Hell -- why stop at 12?  Why not 24?  48?  68, with a two-game play-in?

Bah.  Humbug.

 

You mean an Alabama that needed a last minute Hail Mary to be a 3-5 and 6-6 overall sucky Auburn team.  Yeah Bama looked the part.

if the shoes were on the other feet. Texas had Bama record (meaning teams) and Bama had Texas record.  So the only loss for Texas would have been an at home 20 point loss to Bama. Do you think Texas is in?  Would they deserve to be in over a 13-0 team that took care of business even down two quarterbacks?  And when did this sport become basketball and the whole team rides off the point guard?  The game is a team sport and no matter the competition they took care of business and was the better team and that is something Bama can’t say.  

Just like I correct Tennessee fans when they say we are a better team than Florida. Well the scoreboard has a different opinion. 

And since everybody thinks who is better then let’s save tons of money and quit actually playing the game on the field.  We lost three count them three games we were at least better than during the game or better on paper.  

No Bama doesn’t belong and that is not debatable from a point that tries to make the case they belong.  Not in logic and not looking at all the stories the scoreboards final number tell.  

so yes in my opinion between Texas and Washington and FSU. Texas is number two while Washington is number three and FSU bring up the rear.

For everybody that doesn’t want a playoff this scenario is exactly why the playoffs are happening.  The committee gets it wrong to many times.  Now they will settle it on the field like they should.  

Oh they will have issues who belongs in the 12.  Maybe some but that would be much rarer because it starts to drop off after twelve. But I would go for adding four more and remove the byes and then you still wouldn’t add weeks to the playing time. 

Oh one more thing. Bama didn’t convert on that fourth down against Georgia. Now we don’t know how that ultimately changes an outcome. But we do know since it was fourth down they wouldn’t have had a touchdown in that series. Yeah Bama is more lucky than good.  

You mean an Alabama that needed a last minute Hail Mary to be a 3-5 and 6-6 overall sucky Auburn team.  Yeah Bama looked the part.

if the shoes were on the other feet. Texas had Bama record (meaning teams) and Bama had Texas record.  So the only loss for Texas would have been an at home 20 point loss to Bama. Do you think Texas is in?  Would they deserve to be in over a 13-0 team that took care of business even down two quarterbacks?  And when did this sport become basketball and the whole team rides off the point guard?  The game is a team sport and no matter the competition they took care of business and was the better team and that is something Bama can’t say. 

Just like I correct Tennessee fans when they say we are a better team than Florida. Well the scoreboard has a different opinion.

And since everybody thinks who is better then let’s save tons of money and quit actually playing the game on the field.  We lost three count them three games we were at least better than during the game or better on paper. 

No Bama doesn’t belong and that is not debatable from a point that tries to make the case they belong.  Not in logic and not looking at all the stories the scoreboards final number tell. 

so yes in my opinion between Texas and Washington and FSU. Texas is number two while Washington is number three and FSU bring up the rear.

For everybody that doesn’t want a playoff this scenario is exactly why the playoffs are happening.  The committee gets it wrong to many times.  Now they will settle it on the field like they should. 

Oh they will have issues who belongs in the 12.  Maybe some but that would be much rarer because it starts to drop off after twelve. But I would go for adding four more and remove the byes and then you still wouldn’t add weeks to the playing time.

Oh one more thing. Bama didn’t convert on that fourth down against Georgia. Now we don’t know how that ultimately changes an outcome. But we do know since it was fourth down they wouldn’t have had a touchdown in that series. Yeah Bama is more lucky than good. 

Bama would destroy FSU.  Period. 

Georgia will destroy them in the Orange Bowl, and the Bama selection will be more than validated. 

The committee finally did what they have supposed to have been doing the entire time — pick the best 4 teams. 

Deserves never had anything to do with anything, based on the committee’s criteria.  They just screwed it up every other time, trying to avoid the very criticism they are receiving now. 

I’d love to see Bama get screwed as much as anyone else, but they were the right pick, based on criteria. 

Now, if the he zebras call game down the middle all year long, then I doubt we’re even having this conversation. 

The only head scratcher for me is….how in the hell is FSU #5, and UGA #6 ?

Even the Dawgs should have been picked over the Noles. 

if the shoes were on the other feet. Texas had Bama record (meaning teams) and Bama had Texas record.  So the only loss for Texas would have been an at home 20 point loss to Bama.

Last time I looked, 34-24 is not a 20-point loss.

Bama didn't lose again after that.  In the SEC.

Texas lost to Oklahoma.  Which lost to... lessee here... Kansas?  OKSt.?

The same OKSt. team that Texas beat yesterday?  Pretty impressive...

Not QUITE as impressive as beating Georgia, though -- wouldn't you agree?

Me?  I put Bama in, ahead of Texas, at #4.  FSU should be in.  #3.  But again:

There's an "injured key player" proviso WRITTEN INTO the rules.

And again:  Clemson's walk-on FG kicker makes a 30-yard FG... this conversation is probably moot.

For everybody that doesn’t want a playoff this scenario is exactly why the playoffs are happening.  The committee gets it wrong to many times.  Now they will settle it on the field like they should.

 


That's what Georgia and Bama did.  And OSU and Michigan.  Everyone knows UGA is the best team in the nation.  I don't take pleasure in writing that -- it's just a fact.  But they're not in.  Too bad.  OSU is probably as good as anyone in the top 4.  We'll never know.  And who cares?

The post season is highly overrated.

Under the old BCS system -- which was superior to the fantasy football crap we have now; it is the nature of systems to "improve" themselves into incompetence -- it would be Michigan vs. Washington.  #1 vs. #2.  Unfair?  Subjective?  So what?  FSU can cry all offseason about how they were robbed.  "There's a tear in my beer..."    


 

I figure Texas is the team to "root" for, among any of them.

I agree UGA seemed "down" from the past two years, but they were still pretty solid.  I think they'd be favored over any opponent even now, but it would be very close with UM/Bama/Texas.  The are nearly a 2 TD favorite over FSU.  They had a game with Oklahoma removed from their schedule that could have helped some had they won.