NCAA Football 2016: Mr. Saban's Wild Ride

[Akiyama]

Badga mothafucka, who among you has beaten 3 top-10 teams?

lol

[Krandor]

Fuck I can't believe WSU almost blew it against the goddamn Beavers.

Fuck it, should make it into the top 25 so happy.

[Coren]

Refs have been horrible in the acc forever. Tyche stop whining. You sound like Jimbo.

Spoiler: show

Oh look, a missed holding call for a safety!

And this isn't a ref missing a blatant face mask.
https://mobile.twitter.com/STSouthla...598400/video/1

[Tyche]

You know that the officiating has been bad and favored to you when your sb nation Twitter account has anecdotal retorts readied. Clemson fans been extra salty about it on r/cfb/. I posit that it's because so many talking heads still think they aren't the best team in their division, so they're extra defensive. Or that their QB that was supposed to be a Heisman frontrunner isn't even the best qb in his division. Anyway, you don't go undefeated against that schedule without some fortunate breaks. In the end, Clemson closes out close games. That's why they're top 4.

[Krandor]

#25 in the AP and Coaches poll for WSU, fuck yeah

[Tyche]

Beat Washington plz

[archibaldcrane]

BADGA at #8, could they make the playoff with 2 losses if they win the Big-10 championship game? Hard to see the playoffs without a Big 10 team, given that we're 4 of the top 10 teams for the 3rd week now.

[Krandor]

Beat Washington plz

Knocking Washington out of the playoffs would be beyond amazing

[Anoat]

As expected, Jimbo Fisher has been fined $20,000 by the ACC for his comments about the officiating. Par Narduzzi was also fined $5,000 for his comments as well.

[Coren]

I will say Jimbo's right... it wasn't a cut block. It was either Clipping or Tripping, depending on perspective. Further, the call against the sideline wasn't on Jimbo; it was against an assistant coach who was also cussing at another ref.

[Tyche]

BADGA at #8, could they make the playoff with 2 losses if they win the Big-10 championship game? Hard to see the playoffs without a Big 10 team, given that we're 4 of the top 10 teams for the 3rd week now.

I'd think a one loss UL would get in over a two loss Wisconsin.

[Akiyama]

I'd think a one loss UL would get in over a two loss Wisconsin.

If Wisconsin wins the Big 10 and UL doesn't win the ACC, I can almost guarantee Wisconsin gets in over UL.

I doubt what the standings are now will actually stay that way come the end of the year, though, so who knows what crazy shit will happen.

[Tyche]

I don't think they would. If it came down to a two loss big ten winner and a one loss Louisville with a Heisman winner that lost to the #2 team on the road in a super close game, Louisville would go. This is assuming Louisville doesn't continue to play down to competition and get back to hanging 50-burgers. I'm not so sure that they wouldn't take a Michigan team that had one loss to Wisconsin in the title game over a Wisconsin champ.

[Zetanio]

I am excited for the National Championship game this weekend.

[Anoat]

I don't think they would. If it came down to a two loss big ten winner and a one loss Louisville with a Heisman winner that lost to the #2 team on the road in a super close game, Louisville would go. This is assuming Louisville doesn't continue to play down to competition and get back to hanging 50-burgers. I'm not so sure that they wouldn't take a Michigan team that had one loss to Wisconsin in the title game over a Wisconsin champ.

I'm interested to see what happens if UL wins out and Clemson wins out the regular season but gets upset in the ACC Championship game. I don't know if the playoff comitteee would consider including a one loss, non-ACC championship team in the playoff.

[archibaldcrane]

Louisville will only have 1 top 25 win if they win out, right? And won't even play in the ACC title game? It would be weird if there's two ACC teams and no big 10 teams for sure.

[Tyche]

It'll probably be two, assuming Houston wins this week. They're sitting at 26. Wisconsin will probably be at four? If they win out. But I'm sorry, michigan state doesn't count. So we will call it 3. But regardless, I can't imagine a scenario where Michigan and Ohio State drop two games. I haven't looked at their schedules though. I feel pretty confident some big ten team makes it.

[Coren]

Only way I see B1G not getting a team in is if Michigan beats OSU and then loses in horrible fashion in the title game.

I'm trying to decide what combination of wins/losses gets Clemson to the playoff game in Atlanta. I can't really afford to fly back out to Glendale again for a semifinal game. I think Bama would have to drop a game to LSU (not likely) and for Clemson to jump to #1 over Michigan. Alternately, if Clemson plays a bunch more close games but otherwise wins, we could drop to 4th and play Bama in the semi.

[Anoat]

More sexual assault cover up stuff coming out of Baylor today. 60 Minutes is apparently dropping a bomb on them on tonight's show. Yikes.

[Krandor]

First Set of Rankings

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Michigan
4. Texas A&M - LOLWUT
5. Washington
6. Ohio State
7. Louisville
8. Wisconsin
9. Auburn
10. Nebraska
11. Florida
12. Penn State
13. LSU
14. Oklahoma
15. Colorado
16. Utah
17. Baylor
18. Oklahoma State
19. Virginia Tech
20. West Virginia
21. North Carolina
22. Florida State
23. Western Michigan
24. Boise State
25. Washington State