Skip Bayles' 4 team playoff projections..

[57stratdawg]

Florida State, Alabama, Texas AM, and.... Mississippi State

 

[SignalToNoise]

I've always thought he was an idiot, but I guess I can like him for a day.

 

[Confucius Say]

Florida State, Alabama, Texas AM, and.... Mississippi State

Well that does it. We are officially screwed.

 

[AtomicDog001]

Is that even possible?

Florida State, Alabama, Texas AM, and.... Mississippi State

Regardless, I'll take it.

 

[coach66]

I pray for his soul after the UM Social Media Mafia sets him straight*

nm

 

[dawgstudent]

You know the Rebel distress signal was illuminated to round up the troops.

 

[AFDawg]

3 SEC West teams?

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Theoretically, if we all go 1-1 against each other and are all 11-1 at the end of the year, and the Pac-12, Big 12, and Big 10 champions all have 2 losses ... it could happen.

 

[615dawg]

Its not as doubtful as one thinks.

Say MSU beats Texas A&M, Texas A&M beats Alabama, and Alabama beats MSU. All three finish with 11-1, 7-1 records. Alabama wins the tiebreaker and beats whoever from the East.

Oklahoma and Oregon drop games late - say Oklahoma State or Baylor beats OU and USC/UCLA beats Oregon in the Pac 12 championship game.

The way the polls work, A&M would probably move up to 3, and 4 would be an open battle between MSU, Oklahoma and Oregon, none of which won their conference. MSU's only loss to #1 Alabama, and Okies and Oregon lost to lower ranked teams.

 

[57stratdawg]

Hahaha quick. Let's find a paid PR Firm employee to tweet it to highly prized recruits under the fake profile of a 20 year old white girl from Dallas!

 

[BigMotherTucker]

that made my brain hurt.

 

[patdog]

Even if all that happens, there's no way the committee will put 3 SEC teams in the playoff. It would have been possible if the selection was formula driven like the BCS was, but no way it will happen with a committee selecting the 4 teams.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

Even if all that happens, there's no way the committee will put 3 SEC teams in the playoff. It would have been possible if the selection was formula driven like the BCS was, but no way it will happen with a committee selecting the 4 teams.

You're right... hell, it's gonna take some breaks to get 2 SEC teams in the playoffs, IMO....

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

You're right... hell, it's gonna take some breaks to get 2 SEC teams in the playoffs, IMO....

Exactly. This thing is going to be politicized like crazy to obtain "geographic balance."

 

[futaba.79]

Don't forget the Archie factor. He'll never support us.

 

[coach66]

Archie would have a flashback to

"Peyton signs with UT ", he's lucky social media didn't exist then.

 

[Dawg1976]

Archie would be permanently banned from Oxford if he voted for MSU.

 

[o_1984Dawg]

I think geographic concerns would prevent 1 conference from getting 3 teams, but also I think 2011 Bama opened up a lot of eyes to how little winning your conference should actually matter.

 

[Crazy Dawg]

Again, y'all may think I'm crazy but I personally know Archie and Eli. If a State deserves it he will vote for us. But we have to deserve it FIRST.

 

[BiscuitEater]

A OT question ...

Say MSU beats Texas A&M, Texas A&M beats Alabama, and Alabama beats MSU. All three finish with 11-1, 7-1 records. Alabama wins the tiebreaker and beats whoever from the East.

"If" this did happen and all three ended at 11-1, 7-1 - What are the tie-breakers for the SEC Championship Game?

 

[Shamoan]

yeah, he went full retard with that one.

 

[KurtRambis4]

No doubt the social

media Rebs will be in full force to rebuke this. I've got to hand it to those loons, they go fullblast when it comes to social media.

 

[patdog]

Combined record of the 3 teams' cross-divisional opponents. So we'd be screwed. They couldn't just use the playoff rankings like they did the BCS rankings because the playoff rankings won't be released until Tuesday night each week.

Link

 

[Hanmudog]

Theoretically, if we all go 1-1 against each other and are all 11-1 at the end of the year, and the Pac-12, Big 12, and Big 10 champions all have 2 losses ... it could happen.

I think a one loss SEC team might still get taken over an undefeated Big 10 team. The Big 10 blew their wad in week one.

 

[drt7891]

The kiss of death. We are gonna have some pissed off injuns..

 

[coach66]

I agree, Manning's are good guys and

Would do what they thought was right but you do agree they would be burned at the stake I hope.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

I already don't like this "committee" approach to selecting the teams, and it hasn't even happened yet.

 

[drt7891]

I doubt that. In all seriousness, if we deserved to go, Archie would not be the reason we wouldn't go. Anyway, Archie holds all the cards at that table... he's the only thing besides a few undefeated seasons they can hold onto. It'd be about like us pissing off John Grisham, which was the absolute dumbest thing we ever did in our history.

 

[Dawg1976]

Would do what they thought was right but you do agree they would be burned at the stake I hope.

That was my point. Archie probably would vote for us if we are deserving. But it would be Peyton to TN all over again for the Mannings.

 

[drt7891]

And it would be ole miss' loss if they piss him off enough. I know he's loyal to OM, but OM has a lot more to lose in that deal than Archie does. The mannings are good people... I don't know them personally, but know people who do.... And, just like we did Grisham, OM would be dumb as **** to sever that relationship over something stupid.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

Archie would be permanently banned from Oxford if he voted for MSU.

At the end of the day, Archie will do what he is charged to do. He won't play favorites.

 

[Sutterkane]

This is where I don't like having a committee to judge who gets in and who doesn't. The BCS got it *right* when it came to picking who played, they just didn't have enough teams they could fit in a for a few of those years. They used a little bit of analytics but also brought in a large base of people for a survey who voted on what position they felt the teams belonged. They didn't use a neanderthal tribal vote to decide. There's people on that committee that have never been in athletic administration much less played, coached, or managed anything football.

 

[DerHntr]

I don't care what happens with any team the rest of the season, there is zero chance that a human committee will pick three teams from any conference, especially the SEC.