NOLABlue

November 11th, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^

Rankings can be thrown out of the window; if we win out, we're in the CFP.  If not, probably landing in a NY6 bowl game.

 

I'm not really concerned about 3 vs 4 vs 5 rankings at the moment.

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MotownGoBlue

November 11th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^

You mean to tell me that not everyone in the country (which includes the committee) thinks like everyone on MGoBlog? Gtfo. 

M fans need to realize that there’s still a degree of subjectivity when selecting/ranking the teams, and the SEC/ACC bias is stacked against us. 

Death and taxes; there’s your certainty.

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SouthOfHeaven

November 11th, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^

This is why playing Rutgers sucks. If we keep things vanilla, rest guys, and save it for bigger games instead of straight up punting them into the sun, we look bad. Ugh.

 

EDIT: Michigan looked fine, they just didn't pull a Meyer pad the stat sheet, so we dropped a bit in S&P.

The point is that Rutgers is not a desirable opponent by any means.

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Hail Harbo

November 11th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^

Alabama could play Citadel for each of its four OOC games and as long as they pass the "eye" test, they're remain #1.  The talking heads have said as much.

Like it or not the B1G and the programs of the B1G were hoodwinked by the CFP into believing that SoS mattered.  It demonstrably does not.  Then they deceived themselves into believing the best way to show case the conference, and increase SoS, was to increase the number of conference games from 8 to 9.  Not only did increasing the number of conference games have no positive effect with pollsters and the CFP, it had the added detrimental effect of making the conference look weak by guaranteeing seven additional losses among member teams.

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bklein09

November 11th, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^

In what world did we look bad? We sleepwalked through the first quarter and then blew the doors off. All while resting anyone remotely injured (Metellus, Solomon) and not using half our offense. Patterson didn’t pull at all yesterday, by design, and I saw a lot more power, which hasn’t really worked much this year. 

We kept the Ferrari in the garage and took the Volvo instead. And we still won going away, with minimal injuries. Perfect result IMO. Do the same against Indiana next week, and then it’s 2016 all over again. Hopefully with a different end result. 

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joeyb

November 11th, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^

The next two weeks, Georgia plays UMass and Georgia Tech, roughly equivalent to Rutgers and Indiana. We play OSU, which is a better game than Auburn. If we win out, scheduling won't be the reason we get passed. S&P+ doesn't really care who you play, but how you play against them. It doesn't look at scores, but instead yards, efficiency in scoring positions, etc. If we lose ground, it's because we didn't play as well as we were expected to.

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DrMantisToboggan

November 11th, 2018 at 12:00 PM ^

The only sucky part about this is our defense fell from 1st to 2nd because Clemson got to play Boston College with their backup QB and Dillon on one ankle, and we busted the one run against Rutgers. 

It's meaningless, but damnit I want to be #1 in S&P defense.

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Section 1.8

November 11th, 2018 at 12:26 PM ^

That is a really odd calculation over at 538.

I expected to find that they expected us to have a harder time "winning out" with OSU on our  schedule.  But they give us a 42% chance of winning out, and Georgia has a 31% chance of winning out.  (Georgia has a 31% chance of beating Alabama in the SECCG?!?  No wait; it must mean that a 2-loss Georgia team might still have a chance.  But not if Michigan wins out.  At least not as far as I can imagine.)

 

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Tyler1495

November 11th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^

im not buying ohio state #32 in defense. i dont know what their ranking was last week in terms of defense but i wonder if it was inflated due to playing a garbage msu offense. Im more interested to see how their linebackers perform against matt canadas offense. 

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Goggles Paisano

November 11th, 2018 at 1:22 PM ^

You can attribute yesterday's success mostly to Drew Chrisman.  Dude was unreal.  Put 6 punts inside the 10 with his last 5 going to the 6,5,3,1,2.  After the punt to the 1, on 4th and 10 MSU had 3 straight snaps that went:

 - snap thru the endzone for intentional safety

- snap that hit the motion man that resulted osu recovering in the endzone for TD.

- Option pitch botched, osu recovers fumble.  Game over at that point.  

In addtion to that, Lewerke couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat.  He should in no way be playing right now.  

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BuckNekked

November 11th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^

I fully expect Michigan to win out and then get royally screwed ala the 1973-74 season. Thats Michigans true tradition to the great amusement of the rest of the college football world. Taking it up the ass. See also phantom fumble, Rose Bowl hold and friendly OSU officials with a bad spot and no penalties.

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Pepper Brooks

November 11th, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^

UM still #4 in Coaches Poll

http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/

1Alabama   10-0  

2Clemson   10-0

3Notre Dame   10-0

4Michigan   9-1

5Georgia   9-1

6Oklahoma   9-1

7West Virginia   8-1

8Ohio State   9-1

9Washington State   9-1

10Louisiana State   8-2

11Central Florida   9-0

12Syracuse   8-2

13Utah State   9-1

14Texas   7-3

15Penn State   7-3

16Florida   7-3

17Washington   7-3

18Iowa State   6-3

19Utah   7-3

20Cincinnati   9-1

21Kentucky   7-3

22Boston College   7-3

23Mississippi State   6-4

24Boise State   8-2

25UAB   9-1

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