November 29th, 2022 at 7:32 PM ^
Clemson in the top 10 and Texas ranked at all also a joke.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:40 PM ^
I must have missed Clemson, that's insane. The ACC sucks and a good but not great ND team took out the 2 best teams with ease.
They really need to remind the committee that winning national titles before doesn't mean you're good this year.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:48 PM ^
Yale should be in the top 10 based on previous national titles.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:34 PM ^
yeah but this effectively ends Alabama's chances of getting into the playoff........ok by me
November 29th, 2022 at 7:42 PM ^
Bama seems to be getting a "we're Bama" rep boost, but to be fair Tennessee has better wins than Penn State, and Penn State got trucked by the two best teams they played. And they didn't look great in some of their middling wins.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:43 PM ^
They didn't really get trucked against OSU though, they just shot themselves in the foot too much to survive.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:43 PM ^
PSU is the joke. What’s their best win?
November 29th, 2022 at 7:49 PM ^
Is it over Auburn? But, Auburn’s an SEC team, and they never lose.. do they?
November 29th, 2022 at 8:02 PM ^
*** (double)
November 29th, 2022 at 8:03 PM ^
UT ahead of PSU is right, IMO.
What's going to be funny, however is when (I'd bet $100 on this) PSU jumps Tennessee next week despite neither team playing. That will be for political reasons --- it will be "the SEC's turn" to "draw the short straw" of playing a G5 team in the Cotton Bowl after the B1G did it in both 2016 & 2019. Ranking PSU over UT would put PSU in the Orange Bowl and UT in the Cotton Bowl, versus the reverse.
That would be politics - but it's what you get with committees and bureaucracies.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:26 PM ^
USC wins or loses it should be in top 4. Playing one additional game shouldn't be the reason for them to lose their spot.
Regardless UM is in. That would s all that matters.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:46 PM ^
November 30th, 2022 at 12:09 AM ^
Better than having to play OSU again in Indy. If some how OSU backs in to the playoffs and can knock off GA. Then I would enjoy seeing Michigan beat OSU once again for the NC.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:22 PM ^
This is it. I hate the idea that you can be punished for being better and playing in your CCG.
Any leeway here has to apply to a team like OSU but only if they barely lost to miss out on the CCG to the team that goes. However, they lost by 22. It just doesn't seem right that it can be a benefit to not make the CCG. It can help you to not play. It turns the CCGs into a danger. If the top-4 all have to play a CCG it's net negative. At best you better your position in the playoff but you'll still play a really good team. The benefit is so outweighed by the risk because nobody will give a damn if you don't win your Conference Championship but go on to win the National Championship. Not one person will care.
Sneaking in after a blowout and not playing the next week just feels wrong
November 29th, 2022 at 9:25 PM ^
Yeah. USC lost by 1 point on the road in regular season. OSU lost by 22 at home. that should be enough to keep them off the playoff. Conference championship should be immaterial at this point.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:28 PM ^
All up to SC … think only a blowout loss keeps TCU out
November 29th, 2022 at 7:29 PM ^
It's like UGA is #1A and Michigan is #1B, no big deal IMO.
Just beat Purdue as I would love to see Michigan 13-0!
November 29th, 2022 at 7:30 PM ^
Only good thing is Georgia can embarrass the nuts if they sneak in
November 29th, 2022 at 7:46 PM ^
The real benefit of being #1 is being able to choose your bowl. Georgia would certainly choose the Peach Bowl which pretty much makes it a home game for them.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:48 PM ^
If we end up #1, I wonder if we pick the Peach Bowl just to fuck with em.
November 29th, 2022 at 9:42 PM ^
if we're #1 we should choose/invent the inaugural Great Lakes Bowl at Ford Field.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:30 PM ^
I'm fine with being #2.
I think Tennessee could be set up for a pretty bad bowl loss if they play a good, well-rounded team. I just don't see them as the #7 team in the nation without Hooker. It looks like they're almost a lock to play Clemson right now, so they might luck out. But who knows if Clemson loses to UNC on Saturday.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:34 PM ^
A matchup with Penn State would be fun.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:33 PM ^
Truly amazing to me that ESPN's FPI has OSU (3) and Bama (2) ranked ahead of us. Did their computers even watch the game on Saturday??
November 29th, 2022 at 7:43 PM ^
Nope, and apparently the ESPN talking heads didn’t watch it either. Their articles seemed more about how OSU list than how Michigan won.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:56 PM ^
ESPN's model is also predicting a resounding victory for Utah over USC despite the line being USC -3. I'm not sure what's up with that model.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:09 PM ^
It is interesting. I know they ride our SOS but outside of Notre Dame, we pretty much played the same schedule as OSU. And Notre Dame is respectable but not great. And technically OSU played an easier conference schedule by playing Northwestern and Wisconsin while we played Illinois and Nebraska. Plus they hosted us. It almost seems as if these rankings are based off of recruiting rankings.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:26 PM ^
It's awful. Everyone knows that if UM lost by 22pts they'd be out. Done. Rose Bowl incoming.
OSU is 5 because they started the season so high based on the ridiculousness of pre-season polls. ND is .500 with a non-ACC schedule. Their best win is PSU.
But we can say for sure that if UM lost by 22 they would be out. Bama would have jumped them. 100%.
November 29th, 2022 at 7:51 PM ^
Go USC. I do not want OSU to make it for a multitude of reasons
November 29th, 2022 at 7:57 PM ^
Yay, #2 and all, and for sure I'd be happy to play TCU in a first playoff game.
And...I seriously doubt that if we'd been obliterated by 22 points on Saturday, even on an away field, that we'd only have dropped three places.
The homerism of the committee toward 'the regulars' is blatant and gross.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:17 PM ^
Imo the reason we are 2 aside from the fact Georgia hasn't lost this year is to prevent a rematch if osu somehow sneaks into the playoffs.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:23 PM ^
I'm fine with that. No one outside of OSU fans would get excited about that.
November 29th, 2022 at 8:48 PM ^
For the first time since the playoff system began with Michigan in the mix of teams who could be eligible in any football final four, Michigan has no worries about whether it's in no matter what happens Saturday.
Michigan dropped anchor as the No. 2 team by crushing Ohio State at home and sending the Buckeyes to No. 5, which means Michigan is in. Hallelujah! We are going to the playoffs.
Still, the CFP Committee in its infinite wisdom, has left 2 loss Alabama at No. 6 giving it faint hope that it might rise to playoff consideration next Sunday if chaos ensues during championship Saturday with TCU and USC losing.
Alabama should not be No. 6. By putting the Tide there, the committee has confirmed its SEC bias in a way that challenges its authority to actually make final playoff choices --of any kind.
Regardless of preseason evaluation of all teams, their relative schedule and conference affiliation strength, the criteria by which all are judged is by overall record no matter who you play. That hasn't been happening during the ranking process. SEC teams are getting the benefit of all doubt.
The committee has privately determined that Alabama is the crucible of college football, the program by which all others are judged and deserves more consideration as each of its other conference playoff hopefuls fell by the wayside -- other than Georgia.
Turns out, Alabama's best win is over a 4-loss Texas team which it should have lost to without gift-giving officiating.
Can anyone explain like I'm a third grader why Tennessee is ranked ahead of Penn State at 10-2? PSU lost to the No. 2 & No. 3 teams in the country, Tennessee lost big to No. 1 Georgia and then unranked South Carolina, sacrificing their Heisman hunting qb in the process.
Not like either team has a shot at the big game, but Tennessee is ahead because it beat Alabama which gave up 52 points in losing by three on a last second field goal.
The price and quality of victory is not strained. A loss is a loss. And we know this as Michigan fans. I am sort of hoping for controversy to ensue because the committee will then be expose for the fraud that it's good ole boy ranking system really is.
November 29th, 2022 at 9:07 PM ^
Explain like to a third grader? I’ll try.. it’s the equivalent of a most graduate degrees at a certain conference’s institutions.
It’s because it means more in the SEC. The conference lives for college football .. nothing else matters. They field two or three very good teams per year, and everyone else rides their coattails.
Bag men helped secure highly regarded prospects, and the NCAA caved into peer pressure when Michigan wanted to participate in summer camps in their part of the country.
November 30th, 2022 at 12:08 AM ^
Pretty hilarious