Who/What is Your Final Top 10 CFP Ranking?
Mates,
Of course UGA is #1, but beyond that, where do you put us, bama, Cincy, etc?
1. Georgia
2. U of M/Bama?
3. See 2, above
4. Cincy/ohio/? who
and on it would go. ND, Ok St., Baylor, sparty, Ole Miss and others.
Guessing the rankings come out some time later today, but what does your top 10 look like?
XM
January 11th, 2022 at 7:01 AM ^
I'd put Michigan #2 but I'm assuming the pollsters will put them #3 or #4.
Habit will also put Ohio above Cincinnati.
January 11th, 2022 at 7:09 AM ^
Habit will also put Ohio above Cincinnati.
No, I'm pretty certain most nuns would elevate Notre Dame above Cincy rather than do the same with the buckeyes. I had an aunt and several others in the extended family who were nuns; to my knowledge every one of them was a huge Irish fan and likely to defy rationality in such a scenario.
January 11th, 2022 at 8:40 AM ^
A nun's "habit"!
My brain wasn't quite awake this morning when I read your apparent non sequitur. ("brain not awake yet" is my standard excuse when I'm slow.)
I know that fondness for ND well. I had a friendly UM-ND rivalry with a pal's father. He's gone now but was from Cincinnati so he may have had difficulty choosing between Cincy & ND.
January 11th, 2022 at 7:14 AM ^
What is your reasoning for putting Michigan above Bama? Do you really think we’re a better team than them?
January 11th, 2022 at 7:27 AM ^
Probably because he wanted to fire up a chip or two
January 11th, 2022 at 7:59 AM ^
We’re never not fired up!
January 11th, 2022 at 8:41 AM ^
I'm curious. If Chips have chips on their shoulder, do the chips cancel each other out or is their force doubled?
January 11th, 2022 at 8:44 AM ^
Wow. A disagreement but a request for reasons rather than simply negging. That's impressive.
I think Bama has the better team. I believe that if UM played Bama 10 times, Bama would win most of them.
But I believe that the momentum that propelled Michigan through the end of their season would have continued enough to beat the non-national champion.
January 11th, 2022 at 11:06 AM ^
I'd have to agree with this, but with Bama's leading WRs and CBs out I'd put the "most times" at 60/40 or something like that. I think Michigan could have beaten Georgia despite the beat down, but only 20/80. Georgia wins that game most times. An Ojabo or Hutchinson sack of Stetson early on would change that game. ...but it didn't happen.
January 11th, 2022 at 11:37 AM ^
I agree with your agreement.
Most specifically—and more importantly—you factor in the innate uncertainty of sports.
While the narrative out of the Georgia-Michigan game was that they were too fast, too talented, etc., a few changes in what happened and Michigan could have won.
January 11th, 2022 at 7:07 AM ^
1. Georgia
2. Bama
3. Michigan
4. Cincinnati
5. Ohio st.
6. Ok St.
7. Baylor
8. Msu
9. ND
10. Oklahoma
January 11th, 2022 at 7:22 AM ^
AP put Baylor ahead of OSU.
https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
January 11th, 2022 at 7:31 AM ^
It's out already?
Didn't think we'd see it quite this early.
January 11th, 2022 at 8:53 AM ^
Probably agree with this although after #4 it's a crapshoot
January 11th, 2022 at 7:13 AM ^
1. Georgia
2. Bama
3. Michigan
4. Cincy
5. Ohio State
January 11th, 2022 at 7:25 AM ^
thank you. here is what it looks like for the top 20:
- Georgia (61)
- Alabama
- Michigan
- Cincinnati
- Baylor
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma State
- Notre Dame
- Michigan State
- Oklahoma
- Ole Miss
- Utah
- Pittsburgh
- Clemson
- Wake Forest
- Louisiana
- Houston
- Kentucky
- BYU
- NC State
January 11th, 2022 at 7:25 AM ^
My rankings
1) Georgia
2) Bama
3) Michigan
4) Cincinnati
5) Baylor
6) osu
7) OSU (not Ohio)
8) ND
9) OU
10) staee
January 11th, 2022 at 7:52 AM ^
Besides being a homer, how could you possibly rank Michigan over Bama? Clearly UofM was #3 this year
January 11th, 2022 at 8:22 AM ^
1. Georgia
2. Bama
3. Michigan
4. Cinci
5. Baylor
6. Ok State
There rest do not matter
January 11th, 2022 at 8:29 AM ^
Number 3 would seem to be the correct position.
I believe next year's Michigan team will be as good or better than this year's. If the resiliency and "can do' spirit carries over they can get right back in the CFP hunt. Who are the "Aidans" that are going to will this team to victory next year???
This is a huge challenge for a program who can pull, at most, one or two 5-stars a year.
January 11th, 2022 at 8:46 AM ^
1) Georgia
2) Bama - I don’t see how you can put Michigan over them right now. Bama lost their two best offensive weapons and still put up a better fight against Georgia than we did. The final score last night is not indicative of how close the game was throughout. Bama was step for step with a crippled offense until maybe the last 6-7 minutes. Michigan was fully healthy and not in the game from the first snap onward.
3) Michigan
4) Cincinnati
5) OSU
January 11th, 2022 at 9:41 AM ^
As much as I want to be a homer and say we beat Alabama, I think you have to put the top three as follows:
UGA-1
Alabama-2
Michigan-3
As much as I hate the SEC, Alabama is just a stronger team. Aren’t they missing their top WR and they did a bit better against UGA, not by much but enough to put them above Michigan and they beat Georgia once in the SEC championship.
From there everything is a crap shoot.
ND-Ok St was decided by a small margin, I’m not sure how good Cincinnati really is, Baylor faced Ole Miss without Corral, and how good really is OSU?
January 11th, 2022 at 10:50 AM ^
Top 3 looks right with UGa, Bama, and UM, then either Baylor or OSU, then Cincy.
This is probably one of the weaker Bama teams in recent memory and they still nearly won a title; UGa was lucky a bit that Bama was down 2-3 top WRs by the end of that game. It's hard to see them being worse than UM.