December 3rd, 2016 at 12:54 AM ^
Maybe your fucking opinion is wrong. Quit acting like a douchebag.
December 3rd, 2016 at 11:19 AM ^
HEAD TO HEAD ONLY COMES INTO PLAY IN THE EVENT OF A TIE. 11-2 B1G CHAMPION IS BETTER THAN 10-2. GET OVER YOURSELVES.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:03 PM ^
You are being a jerk.
You are also right.
December 3rd, 2016 at 1:17 PM ^
in a size 6 font.
Oh, the irony.
December 3rd, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^
It's a big flashy light that everyone is looking past. So I thought I'd put it down in big flashy letters.
December 3rd, 2016 at 1:10 AM ^
December 3rd, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^
This is exactly correct. Forget the fact that Michigan IS, infact one of the 4 best teams, if you dont think that SABAN vs HARBAUGH is not factored in then you are missing what is right in front of your face. The narrative is already out there. It will happen if clemson loses, in my opinion.
December 3rd, 2016 at 5:37 AM ^
I don't think you've been listening to the words of the committee chairman.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:03 AM ^
Wisconsin and PSU are not jumping Michigan.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:11 AM ^
The Mich-WI-PSU trio is 5-6-7 in the last rankings. If you think a conference championship and a win over the No. 6/7 team in the country isn't enough to leapfrog a team that's lost 2 of 3, sat at home this week, and saw one of their big wins of the season get absolutely destroyed, then I don't know what to tell you.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:15 AM ^
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:49 AM ^
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December 3rd, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^
"Michigan's schedule isn't great"
Michigan is 3-1 vs. the top 10. Who else has 3 top ten wins?
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:38 PM ^
You're right, only one will :)
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:03 AM ^
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:34 AM ^
The question of who lost doesn't matter, but the difference in their opponents does. It would have been better if it were UW losing because then our CO win looks a lot better as a 10-2 PAC 10 champ we beat by 17 whereas after this stomping of the Buffalos by 31 (at the moment), that only hurts our SOS and quality of wins.
December 3rd, 2016 at 8:59 AM ^
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December 3rd, 2016 at 12:17 AM ^
The CFP rankings don't work like that. Its not a simple someone ahead of you loses, so everyone else moves up thing. Conference championships are a big data point for them, and they don't factor it in at all until after someone wins one. That's what saw TCU drop from 3 to 6 in 2014 (despite winning big in their last game) and OSU move from 5 to 4.
So while you may use that example as "hey, OSU moved from 5 to 4 and got in" they also won big in their conf. champ game to do so. Michigan has nothing to further wow the committee whereas PSU and WI does.
December 3rd, 2016 at 1:00 AM ^
You don't seem to grasp how it works. They are looking for the four BEST teams and conference championships are part of the protocol they follow but they only come into play when teams are so close that they need to be a determining factor and in case you don't take my word for it, here is the actual protocol for you to see.
http://d30ratpzqzalg7.cloudfront.net/CD-drupal-cfp-PROD/s3fs-public/CFP…
December 3rd, 2016 at 3:13 AM ^
December 3rd, 2016 at 1:20 PM ^
also had a little bit to do with it.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:04 AM ^
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:11 AM ^
We just lost one of our "quality" wins by Colorado getting blown out. They will drop well out of the top 10. It does not help our case aganist the Big Ten champ.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:11 AM ^
But we beat the Big Ten "champion" head-to-head. That should help.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:23 AM ^
It helps a tiny bit, but not enough. If Michigan hadn't lost to Iowa its a different story, but they did. And for all the strength of schedule people out there, Michigan played three games out of state and lost two of them. And its not like Rutgers is some big selling point, either. That doesn't look good to the comittee either.
So while its nice that they beat PSU and WI, they lost the games that actually mattered. The committee can put in OSU and the B1G winner and just say tough luck Michigan, should've won your important games.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:33 AM ^
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December 3rd, 2016 at 1:25 AM ^
The committee can weigh each part of the criteria as each member feels. So if a member values head to head over conference championship, then that is how that member sees it. The committee has said over and over again that the goal is to get the 4 best teams in and that those other criteria are only used as "tie breakers". This past Tuesday, they said that the gap between psu and osu is huge but the gap between Washington and Michigan was razor thin. However that was before Colorado got smoked.
I think a Clemson loss Michigan has the upper edge over Wisconsin and PSU. That would mean osu-Washington match up and I'm still not sold on Washington.
December 3rd, 2016 at 8:36 AM ^
December 3rd, 2016 at 1:22 PM ^
but apparently, not Michigan.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:13 AM ^
So to the shock of no one over the age of 25 the worst possible outcome for Michigan occurred. As it has for the past 50 years. As it will continue forever and ever....amen
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:50 AM ^
so let it be written, so let it be done
December 3rd, 2016 at 3:17 AM ^
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December 2nd, 2016 at 11:59 PM ^
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December 2nd, 2016 at 11:59 PM ^
I know one thing: I'm not gonna be bitching about going to a NY6 game. Last time I complained about going to a great bowl was 2006 in the Rose Bowl when we should've went to the NCG.
Haven't been back since and quite a bit of suffering followed.
Appreciate that we're going to a great bowl game and will be favored in year 2. And that we've been in the playoff race late in the season in the first two years of a head coach who came here to rebuild.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:01 AM ^
the rebuilding storyline ...gotcha ...how did rebuilding work for Meyer @ OSU?
Exactly .... love UM but we choked this year
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:05 AM ^
We didn't go into a tailspin because we complained about going to a Rose Bowl as a consolation prize after losing to OSU for the 3rd time in a row.
We are still short of winning a big ten title AGAIN. We still lost to OSU AGAIN. We lost a game to a crap team we shouldn't have lost to AGAIN. It's what this program has done since the 40s save 1997.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:11 AM ^
Say what you will, but I think it was bad juju. Everyone was bitching about it. Have we been back to the Rose Bowl since?
If you dislike this program so much, maybe, just don't watch? You're disparaging what Bo did here by saying that, by the way.
I'm sure we'll find another person to fill that seat on gamedays.
Amazing how ungrateful people are after success. The humility and appreciation of success that our lack of success from 2008-2014 should've created has all but evaporated in the words of many.
What a toxic atmosphere this board has. You wouldn't even know that our team is 10-2 and ranked in the top-5.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:14 AM ^
Fact is we blew an opportunity this year. Beat Iowa as a 3 TD favorite and we're comfortably in the playoff, instead we're sitting here praying for a big upset in conference championship weekend. He's not really wrong when he says that Michigan pretty much always comes up 1 win short of true greatness.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:26 AM ^
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December 3rd, 2016 at 12:15 AM ^
Bo was stubborn and had the talent to win a national title and didn't. Woody won 3. Hell Duffy Daughery at MSU won one.
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:48 AM ^
Actually, BO overachieved versus the talent he had. When you look at the NFL during the Bo years, it was not exactly overflowing with Michigan players.
Bo was getting it done with Midwest B+ guys with an occasional Anthony Carter guy thrown in there.
December 3rd, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^
December 3rd, 2016 at 12:36 PM ^
He already sounds like an OSU fan.
Bo never played for national titles, either. The goal was always to win the B1G and go to the Rose Bowl. Because national titles back then were mythical.
And they're still mythical today until an 8 or 12 system comes. Because someone outside the top-4 can win it.