Ranked 8th in both AP and coaches

[tomdalton22]

Pre-season #14-16 -> #7/8 with losses to #3 & #5/6 ...tbh

If Michigan were Auburn or LSU with a week-1 loss to ND and an Iron Bowl/SEC loss to Bama, Finebaum would be screaming about how AUB/LSU should be in

Finebaum is the most annoying personality on the radio. I can't stand his show.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

Turned out Michigan is ranked higher in the CFP than I thought they would be, 7th instead of 8th, with UCF being ranked behind them. I interpret that to mean the committee is still considering Michigan. So, if

Bama beats Georgia
Texas beats OU
NW beats OSU

I think the committee will give Michigan a serious look for the 4th spot.

I think UCF is kind of a wild card too. If UCF beats Memphis they may very well be bumped up into that 4th spot if the games play out as I have them. I wouldn't mind seeing this happen. UCF beat Memphis by 1 point earlier in the season. But they lost their starting QB to a gruesome leg injury, which I wish I hadn't seen. So, I don't think it is unreasonable to think Memphis has a good chance to beat UCF.

If you think that there is no way NW can beat OSU, did you also think there was no way unranked Purdue could beat OSU?

If all three of the above games come out as I have them, then I think the selection committee will likely give Michigan a second look and I wouldn't be surprised to see them put Michigan in that 4th spot based on their overall season performance. If they don't, then you can have the great satisfaction of saying I TOLD YOU SO!

 

[byco42]

Turned out Michigan is ranked higher in the CFP than I thought they would be, 7th instead of 8th, with UCF being ranked behind them. I interpret that to mean the committee is still considering Michigan. So, if

Bama beats Georgia
Texas beats OU
NW beats OSU

I think the committee will give Michigan a serious look for the 4th spot.

I think I just saw a pig fly over my house.

I think UCF is kind of a wild card too. If UCF beats Memphis they may very well be bumped up into that 4th spot if the games play out as I have them. I wouldn't mind seeing this happen. UCF beat Memphis by 1 point earlier in the season. But they lost their starting QB to a gruesome leg injury, which I wish I hadn't seen. So, I don't think it is unreasonable to think Memphis has a good chance to beat UCF.

The QB being out spoiled any opportunity for UCF, which is too bad, because I think "the commitee" was looking for an opportunity to invite them and set a precident for future seasons.

If you think that there is no way NW can beat OSU, did you also think there was no way unranked Purdue could beat OSU?

Not on a neutral field.

If all three of the above games come out as I have them, then I think the selection committee will likely give Michigan a second look and I wouldn't be surprised to see them put Michigan in that 4th spot based on their overall season performance. If they don't, then you can have the great satisfaction of saying I TOLD YOU SO!

The committee would avoid an M-ND rematch and also factor that it would be a streamrolling if M played Alabama or Clemson.

All said with a nod to your scenario and no malice intended.

 

[tomdalton22]

Turned out Michigan is ranked higher in the CFP than I thought they would be, 7th instead of 8th, with UCF being ranked behind them. I interpret that to mean the committee is still considering Michigan. So, if

Bama beats Georgia
Texas beats OU
NW beats OSU

I think the committee will give Michigan a serious look for the 4th spot.

I think UCF is kind of a wild card too. If UCF beats Memphis they may very well be bumped up into that 4th spot if the games play out as I have them. I wouldn't mind seeing this happen. UCF beat Memphis by 1 point earlier in the season. But they lost their starting QB to a gruesome leg injury, which I wish I hadn't seen. So, I don't think it is unreasonable to think Memphis has a good chance to beat UCF.

If you think that there is no way NW can beat OSU, did you also think there was no way unranked Purdue could beat OSU?

If all three of the above games come out as I have them, then I think the selection committee will likely give Michigan a second look and I wouldn't be surprised to see them put Michigan in that 4th spot based on their overall season performance. If they don't, then you can have the great satisfaction of saying I TOLD YOU SO!

the group of 5 conferences shouldn't even be included in the playoff. They need to break off and create another division and have their own championship.

 

[biggunsbob]

College football doesn’t need expansion it needs reform. This article just makes to much sense. I also heard him on the Dan Patrick show today. What a meaningless week of college football. A eight team playoff with home sites in the first round would be something. Also in some years it may force southern schools to play in the cold in this first round. He is leaving Michigan in the article I guess because if the blowout lose but On the Dan Patrick show they mentioned them.

#8 ucf or Michigan or Washington @ Alabama.
#7 Michigan or Washington @ # 2 Clemson.
#6 osu @ @#3 Nd
#5 Oklahoma @ #4 Georgia.

Instead we get meaningless conference championship in which teams do not even play everyone in thier own conference in some cases during the season.

Yuck .
Texas vs Oklahoma.
Northwestern vs osu.
Pitt vs Clemson.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football-playoff-doesnt-need-expansion-needs-reform-005615013.html

 

[TheVictors]

Finebaum is the most annoying personality on the radio. I can't stand his show.

I won't watch it unless subjected to it by someone else holding the remote. Then they put him on SportsCenter as some guru when the guy is nothing but an SEC pitchman.

 

[hungry]

so UM had a great season, but OSU has not? That doesn't make too much sense.

It does partly make sense.

OSU, for the last 5 years or so, is 2nd in the nation to only Alabama in recruiting. They should be steamrolling everyone in the B1G every season. Instead they just flat out don't show up to at least 1 game a year, where they don't just get beat by some inferior team, they get the doors blown off. This season, they were predicted to win the east, win the big 10, and go to the playoff. They damn near struggled in every game except the last one...

There are these things called expectations that are set, sometimes unrealistically, before the season starts. The "media/experts" all predicted OSU to roll. These same media/experts picked Michigan to struggle, said to go 7-5/8-4 and finish behind OSU, PSU, and MSU in the east.

Michigan, on the other hand, far exceeded those early expectations (note that I did not refer to UM fans' expectations. Most of us expected this. OK, not the OSU annihilation, but you know what I mean.) Michigan finished 10-2 and 7-1, in a virtual tie with OSU, before the tiebreaker.

In closing, it is possible for one team to have a really good season and another, while beating the first team and still doing well, not have a great season, because they didn't quite meet expectations.

Of course, OSU could still blow the doors off of Northwestern and make the playoff. They could, also, lose to Northwestern.

 

[hungry]

My point is that the conversation is pointless.

Talking about Michigan making the playoffs makes as much sense as trying to colonize Pluto.

All conversation on this board is pointless...

 

[hungry]

Flat Earth is boring.

I drive up and down hills all the way to work and back. Flat earth is dumb.

 

[hungry]

Hey Tinsel . You to watch future stuff check this guy out. Hey has a whole series of colonizing the solar system. His outward bound stuff is pretty amazing. Wish I lived 4 to 5 hundred years from now. I do watch this stuff from time to time. Lol..

https://youtu.be/JkeLIAd2Nd0

I don't think this would be a good idea

the natives currently on Alpha Centauri would not be compatible with human co-habitation.

 

[hungry]

Turned out Michigan is ranked higher in the CFP than I thought they would be, 7th instead of 8th, with UCF being ranked behind them. I interpret that to mean the committee is still considering Michigan. So, if

Bama beats Georgia
Texas beats OU
NW beats OSU

I think the committee will give Michigan a serious look for the 4th spot.

I think UCF is kind of a wild card too. If UCF beats Memphis they may very well be bumped up into that 4th spot if the games play out as I have them. I wouldn't mind seeing this happen. UCF beat Memphis by 1 point earlier in the season. But they lost their starting QB to a gruesome leg injury, which I wish I hadn't seen. So, I don't think it is unreasonable to think Memphis has a good chance to beat UCF.

If you think that there is no way NW can beat OSU, did you also think there was no way unranked Purdue could beat OSU?

If all three of the above games come out as I have them, then I think the selection committee will likely give Michigan a second look and I wouldn't be surprised to see them put Michigan in that 4th spot based on their overall season performance. If they don't, then you can have the great satisfaction of saying I TOLD YOU SO!

Earlier in the year, I was thinking that Northwestern was fortunate to not have to play PSU and OSU. Now I think OSU was fortunate to not have to travel to Northwestern.

 

[biggunsbob]

I don't think this would be a good idea

the natives currently on Alpha Centauri would not be compatible with human co-habitation.

Yeah we need to start with the solar system first ! Did you like his presentation H? He does a lot of videos. I think his channel is fantastic.

 

[hungry]

Yeah we need to start with the solar system first ! Did you like his presentation H? He does a lot of videos. I think his channel is fantastic.

Sorry, Bob. I can't watch it at home, bad internet. I just looked at the title.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

I think I just saw a pig fly over my house.


The QB being out spoiled any opportunity for UCF, which is too bad, because I think "the commitee" was looking for an opportunity to invite them and set a precident for future seasons.



Not on a neutral field.



The committee would avoid an M-ND rematch and also factor that it would be a streamrolling if M played Alabama or Clemson.

All said with a nod to your scenario and no malice intended.

No malice taken byco. Perhaps I should have said, "would you have expected unranked Purdue to annihilate OSU by 29 points?" OSU was bad in that game. Worse I think than Michigan was in the OSU game. I couldn't believe I was watching OSU! NW should be pretty motivated in the conference championship. I hope they catch OSU napping and kick the shit out of them.

It is too bad for UCF, they have had a good thing going.

I am not so sure about avoiding a Michigan-ND match up. Michigan only lost by one TD and that rematch on a neutral field would garner national attention. With respect to being steamrolled, I think OSU would be steamrolled by both Bama and Clemson as much as Michigan, ND, or OU would.

 

[hungry]

On one hand, I'd like OSU to beat Northwestern and go to the play-off. Then Michigan would get to go to the Rose Bowl. I'd like that. OSU can go to the playoff and get smashed.

On the other hand, I want OSU to lose every single game they play, so in that way, I want Northwestern to win. I have no idea what that would mean for Michigan as far as a bowl game. They'd probably be in a bowl that I would less like to watch. I still would watch.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

On one hand, I'd like OSU to beat Northwestern and go to the play-off. Then Michigan would get to go to the Rose Bowl. I'd like that. OSU can go to the playoff and get smashed.

On the other hand, I want OSU to lose every single game they play, so in that way, I want Northwestern to win. I have no idea what that would mean for Michigan as far as a bowl game. They'd probably be in a bowl that I would less like to watch. I still would watch.

I have seen a projection of Michigan vs Florida in the Peach Bowl. I don't want to watch them play Florida again.

 

[tinselwolverine]

On one hand, I'd like OSU to beat Northwestern and go to the play-off. Then Michigan would get to go to the Rose Bowl. I'd like that. OSU can go to the playoff and get smashed.

On the other hand, I want OSU to lose every single game they play, so in that way, I want Northwestern to win. I have no idea what that would mean for Michigan as far as a bowl game. They'd probably be in a bowl that I would less like to watch. I still would watch.

The prognostications I?ve read indicated that in scenario two, Michigan would go to the Fiesta Bowl.

 

[wlvrnstlr4life]

Hey, guess what? If every team ahead Michigan loses this weekend, they are projected to be in the playoff, lol. What a fucking thing that would be.

 

[thewolverines24]

Hey, guess what? If every team ahead Michigan loses this weekend, they are projected to be in the playoff, lol. What a fucking thing that would be.

If a meteor hits AT&T Stadium, a sinkhole sucks Mercedes-Benz Stadium to the core of the Earth, and a herd of elephants trample every player in Lucas Oil Stadium, then Michigan has a real shot at the playoffs.

 

[TheVictors]

I have seen a projection of Michigan vs Florida in the Peach Bowl. I don't want to watch them play Florida again.