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I think the invalid fair catch by DeJean was 100% planned to help bail Iowa out of a desperate situation. It gave him an edge. DeJean had been returning punts for years on one of the perennially best special teams units in the country. He knew what he was doing IMO.

A side issue, but it's unreal how lucky Indiana was in their scheduling this year. They only played 2 of the top 9 teams in the conference going 1-1 against them, and beat up on the bottom half going 7-0. Similar for Notre Dame. They had a nice opening week at TAMU, lost to Northern Illinois...

Conferences are about teams and champions, not the aggregate. It's a hell of a lot harder to beat out Oregon, Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan (in most years) than ASU, BYU, Iowa State and Colorado. It's not even in the same neighborhood.

The committee's consideration of strength of schedule was very inconsistent. First of all, there's no way Boise should have been rated as high as they were leading into conference championship week which cornered the committee into giving them a bye, which seems ridiculous. Oddsmakers would...

The Big 12 is now a glorified G5 conference. They're the JV of Power 4. The Power 3.5 really. With 16 teams, they should absolutely be playing 9 games.

Plus Texas schedule Michigan which at the time was thought to be a top opponent.

Nonconference 2024 Georgia: Clemson, TN Tech, UMass, G Tech Texas: Col State, Michigan, UTSA, UL Monroe Tennessee: Chattanooga, NC State, Kent State, UTEP Alabama: W KY, S Florida, Wisconsin, Mercer Ole Miss: Furman, MTSU, Wake, GA Southern South Carolina: Old Dominion, Akron, Wofford, Clemson...

I doubt Ersery plays.

Ba Dum Tss! :clap::clap::clap:

Straight out of Waterboy.

What's the over/under on Alabama and Miami players opting out of their bowl games?

Lol. FSU trolling on Miami. They are bitter.

Heck ya. Duke's is the best mayo and it's not remotely close.

SEC bubble teams left out have the same complaint long held by strong conferences in FCS and D3 where weaker conferences still get auto bids over stronger conference teams left out (not an issue in D2). Regardless, the best half dozen or so teams that have any chance of winning it all are in the...

I don't have an issue with the teams selected. I have an issue with Boise getting a bye with their weak sauce schedule. They should be the #12 seed.

Positives and negatives to the SMU pick over Alabama. Positive: It validates the playing of conference championship games. Negative: It diminishes strength of schedule. We won't be seeing SEC teams adding a 9th conference game nor scheduling tougher non-conference games.

Here's what the field of twelve would be using Sagaran Ratings and Massey Ratings (edited):

I'll quibble with this. I like 5 auto bids. There's really only two AAA power conferences now in the SEC and BG10, a AA power conference in the ACC, and the A/JV power conference in the BG12. 5 auto bids are pulling in some teams that might not otherwise be considered in the actual top 12 if not...

Yeah. They got burned with a relative unknown as head coach. We know what that's like.