College football week 10 thread: Wild Horses

Funniest line out of the Penn State cryfest on FB: "Joe Paterno would have won it!"

Yeah, Joe wouldn't have called three straight plunges from the 1 and a fourth-down pass.

He would have called four straight plunges from the 1.

 

A quick looksie at the standings ...

AAC
Army finishes with North Texas away and UTSA home. They'll be favored in both.
Tulane still has Temple, at Navy, Memphis. That Tulane-Navy game probably decides Army's opponent in the title game.

ACC
Miami is almost a lock at this point to make the championship game. The Syracuse game will be tricky, but the Canes aren't losing to Wake or Georgia Tech.
SMU finishes with BC at home, Virginia away, Cal at home. Looks like a Pony sweep to me and a trip to Charlotte.

Big 12
Too early to tell, but BYU is in a great spot. The second spot is very much up for grabs. Two 4-1 teams, two 4-2 teams and three 3-2 teams.

Big 10
I don't see Oregon losing. Indiana-Oho State game will likely decide the other participant.

MWC
Boise State and Colorado State are both 4-0 and don't play each other.

SEC
(insert shrug emoji here)

 

To expound on this, there are nine teams with either one or two losses in league play. No more undefeateds after A&M went down.

A lot of people are going to be pissed at Greg Sankey, which fills me with joy.

 

Things I never thought I would get the opportunity to think...

"Wow, I wonder what the old white guy could've done to make the black cop overreact like that. "

 

That conference is going to get 4-5 teams in the tournament. They'll get over it fast.

 

Clemson losing probably makes the ACC a one-team playoff conference. Even though Clemson hadn't beaten a team with a pulse this season, they sort of get rewards for letting Georgia drag them across Atlanta for three hours. The committee will probably rank Miami 9th or 10th and SMU somewhere in the teens.

Kansas State and Iowa State losing made the Big XII a one-team playoff conference this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Colorado is ranked the second highest of Big XII teams. All three of these teams are still in it though. If Kansas State wins out and Colorado slips one time, the Wildcats would have the tiebreaker. If all three win out, Kansas State would play the role of spoiler in Farmageddon.

B1G feels like it'll be Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana and Penn State if they all get to at least 10+ wins, but I think Penn State would be playing with fire if they lost a second game. Ohio State could probably afford to lose to Indiana and still get in at large.

Notre Dame is probably in pretty easily if they win out.

Boise State wins out to get your G5 spot.

That leaves the SEC to fill in the remaining four spots (or five if one of the Big Ten top four struggles down the stretch).

 

Pretty much everyone with two losses is playing musical chairs, with resumes better than some two-loss teams, worse than others. Any two-loss team that gets in, there's case why they shouldn't have.

A&M has to win out, as they already have two losses.

 

The playof has started now for everyone in the SEC with two losses. LSU-Alabama is basically an elimination game.

 

I think it’s easy for the committee to leave Army out because it’s easy to suspect— perhaps unfairly— that they wouldn’t be crushed to be excluded. The enormity of the Army-Navy game and the other commitments in players’ daily grinds are enough in and of themselves etc.

 

Don't forget Congress. Every player on both Army and Nacy was sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives. If you're running a monopoly engaged in activities that violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by one hell of a lot, it's imprudent to diss the services academies to maintain one's monopoly. College football is an illegal racket. The Supreme Court said so in the NIL case, unanimously. Could happen again with the playoff.

 

1) Senators nominate students for consideration by a service academy.
2) SCOTUS ain’t gonna invalidate college football any more than it will rule against NASCAR or legalized brutality known as MMA.