Top 10
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 8:17 pm
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Okay, here is the CFP Committee's Top 10:
#1 Clemson [12-1]
#2 Oklahoma [12-1]
#3 Georgia [12-1]
#4 Alabama [11-1]
#5 Ohio State [11-2]
#6 Wisconsin [12-1]
#7 Auburn [10-3]
#8 USC [11-2]
#9 Penn State [10-2]
#10 Miami [10-2]
Not that it would matter much with regards to which bowls these teams have been selected to play in; seeing how the remaining New Year's 6 games, not attributed to the playoff tournament, are unrestricted with regards to how many teams from any particular Power 5 Conference may appear in these speculatively prestigious venues --- this, however is what I would have done differently.
USC having won their Conference Championship, I would have put them @ #7. Auburn, now with 3 losses, I would have dropped down to #8 --- I know that Auburn beat 2 of the teams in the top 4, and both teams were supposedly the #1 team at the time. But Auburn simply didn't have the ability to continue at that pace. Georgia flat out won the rematch, and I'm not so sure Auburn is even at 100%. Georgia stretched them. And the 3rd loss was ugly.
Next, I would not have Miami in the top 10 --- if you move down the list a couple of names, UCF is sitting there at #12. The Knights are undefeated @ 12-0, and Miami just lost for the second week in a row, this time by 35 points. No reason why these team sholdn't be switched around. And, yes, I believe UCF's unbeaten record warrants them a place in the top 10 --- Washington, now ranked #11, going into last week, was ranked #17, 2 places behind then #15 UCF. The Knights moved up 1 ranking after last week's win, whereas the Huskies leapfrogged them, by jumping 4 ranking up. Granted, the Apple Cup win vs Washington State looks better on paper than UCF's win over USF. But I would venture to say, that the consecutive wins over So Florida & Memphis would look just as impressive. On top of that, Washington sat idle this week, and still moved up 2 spots in the rankings.
That all said, I would still keep Washington @ #11 as I move UCF up to #10, while dropping Miami to #12 --- Washington may have been idle, but Miami got manhandled. And, not paying a game in the last week, to finish 10-2, looks better to me than losing 38-3 to finish 10-2.
Other than that, I am okayish with the rest of the top 10. I do not like seeing two teams from the same conference in the playoffs, and, with the way they ranked the teams last week, the only way we were going to not have two SEC school in there, was for Oklahoma & Wisconsin to have won --- it's the way the committee set this thing up --- so this is what we wound up with. [how fitting is it in this scenario to have a word that could either mean, to be a past tense of winding things up; or the past sense of an injury]
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Okay, here is the CFP Committee's Top 10:
#1 Clemson [12-1]
#2 Oklahoma [12-1]
#3 Georgia [12-1]
#4 Alabama [11-1]
#5 Ohio State [11-2]
#6 Wisconsin [12-1]
#7 Auburn [10-3]
#8 USC [11-2]
#9 Penn State [10-2]
#10 Miami [10-2]
Not that it would matter much with regards to which bowls these teams have been selected to play in; seeing how the remaining New Year's 6 games, not attributed to the playoff tournament, are unrestricted with regards to how many teams from any particular Power 5 Conference may appear in these speculatively prestigious venues --- this, however is what I would have done differently.
USC having won their Conference Championship, I would have put them @ #7. Auburn, now with 3 losses, I would have dropped down to #8 --- I know that Auburn beat 2 of the teams in the top 4, and both teams were supposedly the #1 team at the time. But Auburn simply didn't have the ability to continue at that pace. Georgia flat out won the rematch, and I'm not so sure Auburn is even at 100%. Georgia stretched them. And the 3rd loss was ugly.
Next, I would not have Miami in the top 10 --- if you move down the list a couple of names, UCF is sitting there at #12. The Knights are undefeated @ 12-0, and Miami just lost for the second week in a row, this time by 35 points. No reason why these team sholdn't be switched around. And, yes, I believe UCF's unbeaten record warrants them a place in the top 10 --- Washington, now ranked #11, going into last week, was ranked #17, 2 places behind then #15 UCF. The Knights moved up 1 ranking after last week's win, whereas the Huskies leapfrogged them, by jumping 4 ranking up. Granted, the Apple Cup win vs Washington State looks better on paper than UCF's win over USF. But I would venture to say, that the consecutive wins over So Florida & Memphis would look just as impressive. On top of that, Washington sat idle this week, and still moved up 2 spots in the rankings.
That all said, I would still keep Washington @ #11 as I move UCF up to #10, while dropping Miami to #12 --- Washington may have been idle, but Miami got manhandled. And, not paying a game in the last week, to finish 10-2, looks better to me than losing 38-3 to finish 10-2.
Other than that, I am okayish with the rest of the top 10. I do not like seeing two teams from the same conference in the playoffs, and, with the way they ranked the teams last week, the only way we were going to not have two SEC school in there, was for Oklahoma & Wisconsin to have won --- it's the way the committee set this thing up --- so this is what we wound up with. [how fitting is it in this scenario to have a word that could either mean, to be a past tense of winding things up; or the past sense of an injury]
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