#9 Vanderbilt Commodores @ #20 Texas Longhorns (SEC on abc) Noon

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What is the purpose of the orange circle with the lock in it as seen in my screen shot?
 
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Let's just assume that Vandy winds up losing today at Texas. For the sake of using the current AP polling (which I don't think resembles what the committee will do), Vandy was at the 9th line coming into today, but now they are out and everyone slides up and leaves a vacancy at the final at large spot #11 seed.

Between Vandy and Tennessee are Miami, BYU, Notre Dame, and Texas Tech. Tech and BYU play each other and will consolidate there. I only see the BIG 12 getting one team in so it doesn't matter to me if BYU or Tech both finish with 1 loss.

That 11 seed will come down to a 10-2 Notre Dame and 10-2 Tennessee. If Tennessee and Notre Dame wind up being right next to each other going into the final week of the season at 9-2. Something tells me that 9-2 Tennessee beating a Top 15 9-2 Vandy will give more of a boost to the resume than a 9-2 Notre Dame beating a likely 7 loss Stanford team.


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JMSqb11 said:
It doesn’t matter in regards to the playoff. There is no world where a 9-2 Tennessee ranked ahead of a 9-2 Vandy is on the bubble of a playoff bid.

If Vandy was 10-1 when we play them, we’d have to win to knock them out and hope we get in. Vandy at 9-2 means they are out and have to beat us to get in.

Apparently you are failing to realize that Vandy dropping below us after today in the Tennessee wins out scenario does NOT somehow put us in worse shape.

All today is doing is putting Tennessee at the 5th spot in the SEC (Texas won’t beat UGA and A&M).

9-2 Vandy vs 9-2 Tennessee means Tennessee stays in the playoff with a win while Vandy needs to win to have a chance.

Math is not strong area for you.
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You are so confidently wrong that it’s maddening. And insulting, to boot. Quit calling people clowns and being a jerk.

A 9-2 Vandy doesn’t help us as the assumption is that we beat them.

Is a win over a 10-2 team better than a win over a 9-3 team?

We didn’t need to worry about “being ahead of Vandy” until after we beat them. Their loss today just weakens our win over them.

Texas winning and Vandy losing does NOT benefit us in ANY way. Your assumptions are so wrong-headed.

What you fail to realize is that 5 SEC teams will not make it in. We need Ole Miss to lose and even then we need our resume to be better than theirs if both at 10-2–a better victory over a 10-2 Vandy would have helped us.

I hope I’m wrong—I hope we make it at 10-2 as the 5th SEC team, but I just doubt that happens without a lot of chaos.
 
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OrangeEtBlanc said:
You are so confidently wrong that it’s maddening. And insulting, to boot. Quit calling people clowns and being a jerk.

A 9-2 Vandy doesn’t help us as the assumption is that we beat them.

Is a win over a 10-2 team better than a win over a 9-3 team?

We didn’t need to worry about “being ahead of Vandy” until after we beat them. Their loss today just weakens our win over them.

Texas winning and Vandy losing does NOT benefit us in ANY way. Your assumptions are so wrong-headed.

What you fail to realize is that 5 SEC teams will not make it in. We need Ole Miss to lose and even then we need our resume to be better than theirs if both at 10-2–a better victory over a 10-2 Vandy would have helped us.

I hope I’m wrong—I hope we make it at 10-2 as the 5th SEC team, but I just doubt that happens without a lot of chaos.
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9-2 Vandy means we are ranked AHEAD of them when we play them. 10-1 Vandy means they are ranked ahead of us when we play them and they are in the playoff field and we are not.

There is no world where Vandy at 10-1 with us needing to win while on the bubble is somehow a better scenario than us being 9-2, ranked in the 10-12 spot facing off against a Top 15-18 team.

Vandy at 10-1 means we are ranked lower than we would be with them at 9-2.


Also in regards to 5 teams, the biggest help to the SEC is that Penn State imploded and assured that the Big Ten will only get 3 teams in. It was long thought that that the SEC and Big Ten would get 8 total teams (4 a piece as evidenced last year) in the playoff this with 1 from ACC, 1 from Big 12, Notre Dame, and the G5 team. With Big Ten now only getting 3 teams, that leaves a spot open for another at large.

It will all come down to a 5th 10-2 or better SEC team, a 10-2 Notre Dame with no significant wins, or a Big 12 / ACC team. If Notre Dame is truly on the bubble, that means there are 2 final at large spots left for that 5th SEC team, Notre Dame, and a host of other Big 12/ACC teams.

You are delusional if you think a 5th SEC team, given the currently top 15 teams, has not shot at making the playoff.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
We need to find a defensive line like Texas has today.
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Having a good D-line is seriously underrated IMO. You guys had a pretty good one last season if my memory serves well.

My Dawgs still wouldn’t have a NC since 1980 without those two great D-lines.
 
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