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Everyone who wanted new blood in the CFP may just get it this year ... other than Bama.
Clemson = out
Ohio St has a loss
Oklahoma is struggling again tonight, as they've done every week

Should be an intriguing season
 
Wonder what Cincy has to do to get a shot…
 
McLovin said:
Wonder what Cincy has to do to get a shot…
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If they go undefeated they’ll have a win over ND which will greatly enhance the resume.
if Oregon and Okla lose — both possible— then that would definitely open a spot for Cinc.
Also SEC has a lot of top tier matchups that could eliminate some folks.
 
I think it is great that no ACC teams are in the top 4!
 
McLovin said:
Wonder what Cincy has to do to get a shot…
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They'd have to go 13-0 with all comfortable wins. And Notre Dame would need to go 11-1 with their only loss being to Cincy. They would also need all p5 teams to have at least one loss, and two losses when it comes to the SEC.
 
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with Cincy moving onto the Big XII soon they probably have a better (not great) shot this year than the would've otherwise.
 
Slasher said:
They'd have to go 13-0 with all comfortable wins. And Notre Dame would need to go 11-1 with their only loss being to Cincy. They would also need all p5 teams to have at least one loss, and two losses when it comes to the SEC.
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Notre Dame has not passed the eye test yet IMO. But regardless, I have this feeling that even if what you say above happens and the final spot is between ND and Cincy, it goes to ND. Would love to be wrong about that, but it seems to be how the CFP committee wants to choose their teams.
 
McLovin said:
Notre Dame has not passed the eye test yet IMO. But regardless, I have this feeling that even if what you say above happens and the final spot is between ND and Cincy, it goes to ND. Would love to be wrong about that, but it seems to be how the CFP committee wants to choose their teams.
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There would be an absolute mutiny if Cincy goes undefeated with a win AT Notre Dame and Notre Dame got in the playoff over them.
 
Slasher said:
There would be an absolute mutiny if Cincy goes undefeated with a win AT Notre Dame and Notre Dame got in the playoff over them.
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That would really expose the hypocrisy of the CFP. Also goes to show how hard it is to keep a football program consistently at the top.
 
McLovin said:
But the real question is, would the CFP even care if Cincy is mad at them?
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You’d also have the AAC and the Big12 mad at them.

no chance of ND getting in over Cinci if the cats are undefeated
 
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If it's ND vs. Cincy and Cincy has a head to head win AND is undefeated... it would be tough to leave them out, but not impossible. If the Cincinnati game victory is seen as close or flukey they'll be plenty of discussion on the college football shows about how the totality of the schedule shows that Notre Dame is a better, more deserving team, instead of a Cincinnati team who played a bunch of G5 teams and "got lucky".

Cincinnati's season really is a one-game season to make their argument. If they lose to Notre Dame, it won't matter how dominant they are in conference, it would take a catastrophic amount of turmoil to get them to the top-4.... if they fail to win convincingly they leave themselves open to be surpassed... possibly even by a team they beat.
 
Slasher said:
There would be an absolute mutiny if Cincy goes undefeated with a win AT Notre Dame and Notre Dame got in the playoff over them.
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Get ready for that to happen but I think ND will slip a few times and it may be a mute point
 
McLovin said:
Notre Dame has not passed the eye test yet IMO. But regardless, I have this feeling that even if what you say above happens and the final spot is between ND and Cincy, it goes to ND. Would love to be wrong about that, but it seems to be how the CFP committee wants to choose their teams.
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You'd hear how UC doesn't play as tough a schedule so they weren't as beat up as ND, blah , blah, blah.........
 
Cincy needs to beat ND and beat them handedly. Only then will they be considered, albeit briefly, for the playoffs. But if the B1G AND the ACC are left out this year, then you best believe those 2 conferences are going to pull some weight and get the playoffs expanded.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
Cincy needs to beat ND and beat them handedly. Only then will they be considered, albeit briefly, for the playoffs. But if the B1G AND the ACC are left out this year, then you best believe those 2 conferences are going to pull some weight and get the playoffs expanded.
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With Penn St, Iowa, Ohio St, Michigan, I'm sure the BiG will get one team in.
 
We should root for our former cellar mate Arkansas. I would love to see Ole Miss stun Bama. After that they don't have to worry much. Oregon has such an easy schedule.

I think this is the year UGA finally wins it, but they have to get past the next two weeks.
 
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I just hope Notre Dame or Ohio State doesn't get matched up against Alabama in a playoff game.
 
Alibi Ike said:
I just hope Notre Dame or Ohio State doesn't get matched up against Alabama in a playoff game.
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No problem. ND is out after today.
No one on the rest of the Irish sked is ranked so little chance for them to climb up.

Ala & Ga looking tough to top. Cinci needs Okla and Oregon to lose, and for one team to dominate the B10.
 
Well that didn't take long for the Pac 12 to remove themselves from the playoff picture, like usual.
 
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Vowelguy said:
5 teams ahead of Cinc
SEC champ
Sec runnerup
Oklahona
BiG champ
BiG runnerup
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Oklahoma will lose a game before the CFP. They have not looked impressive at all this season.
 
4 Penn State plays 3 Iowa this weekend with 5 Cincy playing home vs Temple. Cincy takes care of business and the door is open for a top 4 AP ranking.

If Cincy cracks top 4 in the AP, we will get see very soon just how serious the CFP committee is when then release their first rankings on Nov 2 (assuming Cincy is still undefeated).
 
McLovin said:
4 Penn State plays 3 Iowa this weekend with 5 Cincy playing home vs Temple. Cincy takes care of business and the door is open for a top 4 AP ranking.

If Cincy cracks top 4 in the AP, we will get see very soon just how serious the CFP committee is when then release their first rankings on Nov 2 (assuming Cincy is still undefeated).
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Cinci is not going to be ahead of oklahoma. They’ll probably be 6 or 7 in the cfp poll
 
Was reading the ESPN article this morning about what each team needs to make the CFP. Here was the write up for Ohio State. If this actually happens, the CFP selection process is a joke. Cincy still might not make it even though they may end up being the only undefeated team in the regular season.

The game was at Ohio state. Oregon beat them decisively on the road. How could they even consider throwing that result away? What’s the point of playing the regular season if this is how they are going to “pick” the teams?
 

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