I'll catch some heat for this post, mostly along the lines of "wtf do we care what vandy does" but here's my take........if our season was less than what we had hoped for, I for one take great consolation sitting back, eating chips, and watching candy implode after not making the playoffs. They got DP tweeting Trump asking for an executive order. They are playing around with lawsuits over the process being 'corrupt.' They are posting in depth data analysis charts showing all of the reasons they feel they should be in cfp. The list just goes on and on. Like I said, it's just a consolation prize, but I'm here for it.
First of all who cares if Vandy is in or out of the CFP. This 12 team format is nothing more than a way to create ESPN viewership for MONEY!! They probably dropped Notre Dame below Alabama so that just in case Duke beats Virginia in the ACC playoff, they will be able to move Miami (FL) in. They aren't going to let the ACC have ZERO teams. Let's look at the possible scenarios. PS Vandy has 0% chance of getting in, same as Texas
Scenarios
1. If Virginia beats Duke. The committee has a great sigh of relief. Because all 4 of the Power4 conferences have at least one team in.
2. This is their nightmare. Duke beats Virginia -- Georgia beats Alabama -- BYU beats Texas Tech. This is what I would love to see happen.
Then you would have 11 teams locked in. Ohio St. - Indiana - Georgia - BYU - Texas Tech - Duke - (Tulane/North Texas/James Madison) - Oregon - Tex A&M - Ole Miss - Oklahoma. Leaving 1 open spot.
This one spot would be between Notre Dame/Miami (FL)/Alabama. PS tell Vandy they will not get in over Notre Dame/Miami (FL)/Alabama
This year at this moment, there are 11 teams that should be considered as earned their way into a chance to win the National Championship.
The Big 10-Ohio St., Indiana, Oregon. Since Indiana beat Oregon at Oregon, Oregon is out.
The SEC-Georgia, Alabama, Texas A&M, Ole Miss. Because of this ridiculous 16 team conference with no divisions, these 4 teams only played each other twice. Alabama beat Georgia, Georgia Beat Ole Miss. Ole Miss is out. Tex A&M can cry to the SEC office.
The Big 12-Texas Tech, BYU
The ACC-Virginia, Duke
Group of 5-None, they will never win a National Championship. But since we are so sensitive today, if you want to put a Group of 5 in every year where they get smoked have at it. Although this year the Group of 5 team might beat Virginia, then get obliterated by Ohio St. Giving Ohio St. basically a bye into the National Championship game.
The winner between Indiana and Ohio St. should be ONE Spot. The winner of Georgia and Alabama 2nd spot. The winner of Texas Tech and BYU 3rd Spot. The winner of Virginia and Duke the 4th spot. For you sensitive people out there add a Group of 5. One reason we have so many teams with 0 or 1 loss is because of these ridiculous 16, 18 team conferences with no divisions, schedules are not equal. Poor Tex A&M.
You would have a 5 team playoff. Rate them 1-5. Have THREE Byes and one play-in game. Georgia Ohio St. and Tex Tech get byes and Virginia against group of 5 as the play-in game.
I can't wait until they move it to a 16 team playoff. Then we will be arguing over teams with 3 and 4 losses deserving to be given a chance to be National Champion. A watered down socialist system.