11-20-2016, 07:10 PM
(11-20-2016, 06:52 PM)larkinforever link Wrote:Currently ranked 8-3 (or worse) teams and their (1) losses and (2) wins vs. currently ranked teams:
Unranked 8-3 Stanford - losses to #6 UW, #9 Colorado, #23 WSU; 1 win against ranked team (#12 Under Stanford Control (again))
#12 8-3 Under Stanford Control (again) - losses #1 Alabama/#21 Utah/unranked Stanford; wins #6 UW/#9 Colorado
#13 8-3 Florida State - losses #4 Clemson/#11 Louisville/unranked UNC; 0 wins
#16 8-3 Auburn - losses #4 Clemson/#22 Texas A&M/unranked Georgia; win #25 LSU
#21 8-3 Utah - losses #6 Washington/unranked ×ÉÉ/unranked Oregon; win #12 Under Stanford Control (again)
#22 8-3 Texas A&M - losses #1 Alabama/unranked Miss St/unranked Ole Miss; wins #16 Auburn/#24 Tennessee
#23 8-3 WSU - losses #9 Colorado/#20 Boise St/unranked EWU; 0 wins
#24 8-3 Tennessee - losses #1 Alabama/#22 Texas A&M/unranked South Carolina; win #13 Florida
#25 6-4 LSU - losses #1 Alabama/#5 Wisconsin/#13 Florida/#16 Auburn; 0 wins
Straight-faced arguments can be made for some but certainly less than all of the above teams being ranked above Stanford.
Looking at the list like that, the only team with a clearly more compelling resume then Stanford is the condoms with 2 wins over top 10 teams. LSU, Utah, Auburn, FSU are clearly less compelling. On the whole, the SEC seems to be getting way too much benefit of the doubt, as per usual. We are likely dinged (possibly reasonably) for how inept our offense looked for part of the year, combined with how thoroughly we got whooped on our prime time game against UW. Of course, that thrashing pales in comparison to how FSU got taken apart by a two loss Louisville team.
We'll see if the playoff committee sees things a little more reasonably, as they did last week.