MSU still #16 in CFP poll

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Our losses are to #6 Auburn, #7 Georgia, & #1 Alabama

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

Worst Power-5 three loss team of all time**

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Herbsriet and booger showing State some love

Also talking about how hard it is to play in Starkville

 

[LawDawg97]

Yep. Love all the credit, but just more nauseating how close we came to sitting there around #8 or #9.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

But I think what we take from this staying at 16 means if we win out, at 9-3 we have a great chance to still make a NY 6 bowl game! We are the 4 th highest ranked SEC team. There are 12 spots in NY 6 games. There are other Power 5 teams above us who could of lose giving us a chance to move up if.... IF..... IF we take care of bidness!

 

[LawDawg97]

But I think what we take from this staying at 16 means if we win out, at 9-3 we have a great chance to still make a NY 6 bowl game! We are the 4 th highest ranked SEC team. There are 12 spots in NY 6 games. There are other Power 5 teams above us who could of lose giving us a chance to move up if.... IF..... IF we take care of bidness!

Good point.

 

[ShrubDog]

#16isourspot

 

[Shmuley]

#WeBelieve!111!11!

 

[TheStateUofMS]

Moral victory*

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

And another way to look at us getting respect now: in 2014 we beat #8, #6, and #2 to get to #1.

This year we LOSE to current #7, #6, and #1 and we do not drop from #16. We have arrived folks!

 

[EAVdog]

Something is wrong, I don’t see perennial blue blood Tennessee anywhere on the list?

 

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

So it must be a huge payout differential for everyone to be jizzing over a NY6 bowl game but give me a Jan 1 Citrus Bowl or Outback Bowl vs Ohio St or Penn St or one of the Michigan teams vs playing UCF in the Peach Bowl.
Yea it's on Jan 1 but the others are on the 30th or worse - Friday night the 29th.
To me, at that point it's still all about playing on New Years Day.
And now that the Playoff games are on NYD, so many more people are tuning in all day vs just another Saturday/Fri night of bowl games.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Modern History (CFP) has not been kind to Tennessee

Don't Let Facts confuse the narrative

Bill Martin@MSUBillMartin
Weeks in the Top 20 of the #CFBPlayoff Rankings since it started in 2014 (22 total weeks)
Alabama – 22
Auburn – 16
@HailStateFB – 12
LSU – 12 Ole
Miss – 11
Georgia – 10
Florida – 10
Missouri – 4
Texas A&M – 3
Tennessee – 2
#HailState

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[Go Budaw]

So it must be a huge payout differential for everyone to be jizzing over a NY6 bowl game but give me a Jan 1 Citrus Bowl or Outback Bowl vs Ohio St or Penn St or one of the Michigan teams vs playing UCF in the Peach Bowl.
Yea it's on Jan 1 but the others are on the 30th or worse - Friday night the 29th.
To me, at that point it's still all about playing on New Years Day.
And now that the Playoff games are on NYD, so many more people are tuning in all day vs just another Saturday/Fri night of bowl games.

Normally I’d agree with this, but I got a hankering to go to a game in Mercedes Benz Stadium. Place is legit. Plus, Atlanta is a much easier trip for pretty much all of our fans / alumni.

 

[Dawg1979]

i know you've all seen it and know it, but it still amazes me to read it. Our loses are to:

the perceived #1 team in the country: Georgia
the now #1 team in the country: Bama
and the team that beat the perceived #1 team in the country: Auburn

 

[GloryDawg]

Moral victory*

Usually Moral Victory don't mean poop but in this case the Bama game did.

 

[maroonmania]

But I think what we take from this staying at 16 means if we win out, at 9-3 we have a great chance to still make a NY 6 bowl game! We are the 4 th highest ranked SEC team. There are 12 spots in NY 6 games. There are other Power 5 teams above us who could of lose giving us a chance to move up if.... IF..... IF we take care of bidness!

Biggest benefit is that we should stay ahead of LSU in the CFP rankings now if we win out and that certainly helps when it comes to the bowl pecking order.

 

[Pars]

we don’t need to just handle business. We need to thump Arkansas in their place. And hang 1/2 a 100 on UM

 

[johnson86-1]

But I think what we take from this staying at 16 means if we win out, at 9-3 we have a great chance to still make a NY 6 bowl game! We are the 4 th highest ranked SEC team. There are 12 spots in NY 6 games. There are other Power 5 teams above us who could of lose giving us a chance to move up if.... IF..... IF we take care of bidness!

There are already 3 SEC teams pretty much guaranteed to make NY6 Bowls. Don't see how a 4th SEC team makes it, especially with two blow out losses. Hopefully I'll be proven wrong, but

No way we're passing Bama, UGA, or Auburn. The Group of 5 is going to have a team. The ACC looks extremely likely to get two NY6 bowls with Miami and Clemson. The Big10 looks very likely to get two out of PSU, OSU, and Wisconsin. The Big 12 is guaranteed one and then TCU and OSU are knocking on the door. The PAC12 is guaranteed to get one and have three teams with only two losses so far. Notre Dame seems likely to be in. Even if one of the Big 12 of PAC12 end up with only one team in teh NY6 and Notre Dame doesn't make it, I'm guessing it's more likely that the Big 10 gets a third team before the SEC gets a 4th team.