So Tennessee is barely better than an overrated Alabama, but jumps both Clemson (never really in trouble vs the Criminoles) & Michigan (who stomped #10 PSU). Even accounting for the likelihood that PSU is also overrated, this seems like exhibit A in the SEC bias case.
Go stock up on lube, because they’re already talking about three SEC teams in the playoff.
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Not happening, if for no other reason than Bama will absolutely lose again.
Tennessee has played a better schedule than Michigan and has the best win of the 3. Plus they crushed LSU in Baton Rouge the week before. Tennessee is good, I can’t help you if you can’t see that.
Michigan better win out because their non-con schedule was Charmin soft, and PSU and Ohio State are the only quality wins to be had.
They have a shot against Ohio State but yeah you are 100% right. 1 loss Michigan has probably about as much shot as 2 loss Texas
My only point was that if TN was behind Mich & Clemson before Saturday, I see no reason for the jump. Maybe they should not have been, but a just-barely win against an Alabama team that has been asking to get beaten does not seem worth the jump - especially with the way Mich handled #10 PSU.
Michigan beat they team they haven’t had any issue beating in the past. Tennessee beat a team that has destroyed them for 15 years
So … Kentucky should be #1? Or Kansas??
If the number 15 team loses to the number 3 team, the number 15 team will drop in the standings.
You know, because they did exactly what you would predict they would do.
Logic exists in a realm separate from CFB rankings.
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Yes thinking Tennessee is good is the same as thinking Kentucky should be #1
Michigan vs Tennessee for 3 or 4 is completely pointless anyway. They both have to play top 2 teams on the road. But as for the argument, Tennessee has played 10 times tge schedule that Michigan has played and yesterday was the first time I sat back and thought, yeah I can see them in the playoff again, and they have been 4 all year
Sometimes 15 loses to 3 and moves up. Sometimes an unranked loses to a high ranked team and moves into the ranking. Sometimes a team ranked high wins and drops anyway. What does it matter?
It doesn’t.
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Are you deliberately missing my point? What happened on SATURDAY that justified TN jumping Mich & Clemson? If TN has been so good all along, why were they not #4 already?
They beat Alabama, which is the single best win that any team has so far this season.
“No man with a good car needs to be justified”
College GameDay is in Eugene today, and somebody has one of those inflated floppy stick figures (like stores use to advertise) and they put a toga on it. I really, really hope that’s a nod to Animal House.
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If Iowa had a bad offense they would be a consistently top 10 team every year but they can’t be even that good
Iowa’s offense is the biggest trainwreck in sports. I can’t help but watch every game they play