College Football Thread

[go iu bb 5,597]

The B1G needs a hype machine like the SEC has. Whatever one they have, they need to turn it on against the ACC teams, SMU in particular.

[RaceToTheTop 25,187]

1 minute ago, Magnanimous said:

You’re not getting 3 ACC teams in. With that said, we should play it safe and win by 60 this weekend.

If Clemson beats South Carolina, Miami and SMU both win this weekend, and Tennessee loses to Vandy, then the ACC is going to have three teams in.

[Hoosierfan2017 21,064]

3 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

****, even the AP voters put SMU ahead of IU.  It's ridiculous.  ESPN has been pounding into people's minds that 'IU hasn't played anybody' and not talking a damn bit about teams like SMU with worse schedules.

We have a better SOS than Miami, SMU, and ND, and our loss was to, by far, the best team of the four. They beat the hell out of the SOS argument this past week and have now just completely thrown it out the window. So frustrating. 

[VO5 8,272]

Setting us up to get bumped out by the Clemson/SC winner. Pathetic 

[Hovadipo 55,273]

ACC is also an ESPN property if you subscribe to that line of thinking. We’re in big trouble. 

[LamarCheeks 18,314]

10 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

The B1G needs a hype machine like the SEC has. Whatever one they have, they need to turn it on against the ACC teams, SMU in particular.

The SEC's hype machine is that they're still associated with ESPN. So is the ACC. We broke up with ESPN/ABC a couple years ago. Draw your own conclusions ...  

[Papacap 469]

If SMU gets beat by Miami, and they stay ahead of IU, then it’s rigged. They drop IU 5 spots for a loss at OSU but keep SMU ahead of IU if they lose? Possible. But no logic to it.

[Demo 19,695]

Wish I was surprised. If Bama and Ole Miss don’t throw up all over themselves IU losing to #2 on the road would have gone from 5 to out. The committee pretty clearly is holding their nose placing IU. So the only thing you can do at this point is go out and beat Purdue by 70. That being said, man,would I be down with a bracket of Penn St and Miami.

[Banksyrules 4,605]

Am I wrong to think that the committee is just waiting to see what happens in the ACC championship game to determine who gets chosen in that conference? I don’t think we’re in trouble. 

[Hoosierfan1901 6,150]

5 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

Am I wrong to think that the committee is just waiting to see what happens in the ACC championship game to determine who gets chosen in that conference? I don’t think we’re in trouble. 

Nope, ACC Championship will be interesting 

[DChoosier 8,072]

So in the unbelievably moronic  ESPN strength of schedule metric IU went from 106 to 51 in ONE  game.  Glad we went up but what does that say about the metric when we went up 55 spots in ONE game.  They totally ignored it and didn’t hammer SOS tonight. Wonder why?  WTF! 

Tennessee “earned” a nice bump up because they beat 2-9 UTEP at home? Really? WTF!

Clemson is now lurking because they beat Citadel last week? Really? WTF!

Georgia “proved themselves” and move up because they beat friggin UMASS and ESPN doesn’t even mention that? If that had been IU ALL of them, except Booger, would have been all over us.  WTF!
 

All that being said. Beat PU, stay in the playoff, regardless of seed, and all is good.

[str8baller 5,133]

8 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

Am I wrong to think that the committee is just waiting to see what happens in the ACC championship game to determine who gets chosen in that conference? I don’t think we’re in trouble. 

That’s right. They’re penalizing Indiana because they don’t like their profile, which I said this past weekend. But we’re still gonna jump an acc team and a sec team could lose too. We’re in pretty easily at this point. 

[Banksyrules 4,605]

I just want to be in.  Besides Oregon, Georgia, and Ohio State (I want to meet them again), I think we have a punchers chance against the rest. 

[str8baller 5,133]

Also, I’m enjoying IU fans first real foray into watching the committee…lol. It’s all performative. Technically so is the basketball one but it is less consequential since 68 is an absurd amount of teams. 

[steubenhoosier 828]

In perspective. 10 is better than 13, and a helluva lot better than anyone here thought we’d be.

[str8baller 5,133]

1 minute ago, Banksyrules said:

I just want to be in.  Besides Oregon, Georgia, and Ohio State (I want to meet them again), I think we have a punchers chance against the rest. 

I’d pass on OSU again. But I agree. Down year at the top and we can play with any of the teams in the first round. 

[RaceToTheTop 25,187]

1 minute ago, Banksyrules said:

Am I wrong to think that the committee is just waiting to see what happens in the ACC championship game to determine who gets chosen in that conference? I don’t think we’re in trouble. 

If the committee holds to saying 'teams aren't punished for losing conference championship games', then SMU is guaranteed a spot because they are already in the ACC championship.  So SMU is a win over California away from being in, which is why it was so important IMO that IU was ahead of SMU.

Think of this scenario:

this weekend SMU beats to California, Miami loses to Syracuse, and Clemson loses to South Carolina.  This would put SMU and Clemson int the title game.  Would Miami, who is currently at #6, fall by Indiana?  IMO they should but this is the CFP committee.  Clemson then beats SMU in the title game.  Clemson gets the auto bid even though they are 10-3.  SMU is 11-2 but since they were 'ahead of IU before the conference championship', they take SMU.  Now it comes down to whether the committee takes IU with one loss or Miami with two and while I think they take IU, I don't trust the committee.

[RaceToTheTop 25,187]

5 minutes ago, str8baller said:

That’s right. They’re penalizing Indiana because they don’t like their profile, which I said this past weekend. But we’re still gonna jump an acc team and a sec team could lose too. We’re in pretty easily at this point. 

Not really 'in easily'.  All it takes is Texas A&M beating Texas and winning the SEC championship from IU falling out.

[Banksyrules 4,605]

1 minute ago, RaceToTheTop said:

If the committee holds to saying 'teams aren't punished for losing conference championship games', then SMU is guaranteed a spot because they are already in the ACC championship.  So SMU is a win over California away from being in, which is why it was so important IMO that IU was ahead of SMU.

Think of this scenario:

this weekend SMU beats to California, Miami loses to Syracuse, and Clemson loses to South Carolina.  This would put SMU and Clemson int the title game.  Would Miami, who is currently at #6, fall by Indiana?  IMO they should but this is the CFP committee.  Clemson then beats SMU in the title game.  Clemson gets the auto bid even though they are 10-3.  SMU is 11-2 but since they were 'ahead of IU before the conference championship', they take SMU.  Now it comes down to whether the committee takes IU with one loss or Miami with two and while I think they take IU, I don't trust the committee.

Yes they would kick Miami out. It would expose them for being frauds.  Just my opinion though.

[str8baller 5,133]

39 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

And funny how now they aren't talking about IU's SOS after playing Ohio State.  Hint:  it's 51, 26 spots ahead of SMU's.

But it’s gonna drop again by a bit after we play Purdue, so I don’t know why any IU fans worry about it either.  We had a fortuitous schedule, but we’re still good.