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Will the Cards be ranked?

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PushupMan said:
Not bean, but real playoff to me means every conference champion gets in, and any at large teams get in based on overall W-L record, with ties being settled by an objective set of criteria (head-to-head, record against common opponents, strength of all opponents based on W-L, etc).
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But the caveat exists with the first thing you mentioned, not everyone plays everyone within its own conference.
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Summary of Saturday: at least it wasn't Virginia

Cardiac Red
I think we went into that game just sure we were going to win and when Tennessee came out playing lockdown D our guys didn't adjust and we were instantly down 10-0 and we didn't respond well to that at all. We did make a couple of mini runs but Tennessee tightened up on D and knocked down some 3's that put us right back on our heels. Hopefully a lesson learned. We'll get better..
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shadow force said:
The play that stood out to me was late in the 2nd half when Cards were trying to inbound the ball and the UT guy stretched out and caught it at this hard angle before it went out of bounds, then turned and fired it in to his teammate. If you saw it you know what I mean, even if it doesn't sound impressive in words.

You're right the UT players were much more aggressive and physical than us. They dictated the pace and took the Cards completely out of their game and rhythm with active hands and smothering defense.
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That actually happened on at least 3 inbounds play where we couldn't even get the ball in. One of those lead to a turnover. That can't happen.
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Summary of Saturday: at least it wasn't Virginia

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Basically if it weren't a different shade of orange it looked like every time we played Virginia:

1. Chase people through a gauntlet of screens for 28 seconds and lose contact with a three point shooter. Late shot clock threes are big body blows.
2. Look like our offense is composed of Conscientious Objectors to entering the lane and beating the air out of the ball on the perimeter for 25 seconds.
3. Have a big rebounding margin because we had a high volume of misses vs. their high volume of makes.

A clear setback from the sort of fluid passing game we had seen previously, but we clearly needed the upgrade in competition to shine light on weaknesses.
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Knucklehank1 said:
Per Kelly Dickey:

Louisville will have a 15% chance of making the ACC Championship game if it beats Stanford and Pittsburgh because of the possibility of three or more teams tying at 6-2. UofL would win a multi-team tiebreaker with Miami and Clemson because those three teams didn't play each other and have no common opponents, causing the tiebreaker to be the combined win percentage of ACC opponents.
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...and I don't find the odds of Clemson losing at Pitt and Miami losing at Syracuse to be as remote as you'd think.
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Per Kelly Dickey:

Louisville will have a 15% chance of making the ACC Championship game if it beats Stanford and Pittsburgh because of the possibility of three or more teams tying at 6-2. UofL would win a multi-team tiebreaker with Miami and Clemson because those three teams didn't play each other and have no common opponents, causing the tiebreaker to be the combined win percentage of ACC opponents.
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SMU still stings

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I thought after Pitt and Southern Cal that JB might have learned his lesson about being to pass happy. I was wrong because if he just runs I.Brown, on any of those last 3 offensive possessions we failed to score, I think we win that game even with the bad call at the end.

I love he’s our coach and am happy with his results so far but imo he has lost a couple of games on his own poor decisions.
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Will the Cards be ranked?

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Thecycle27 said:
That is the problem. The whole system is built of predictive metrics not performance. Basing the playoff on Vegas, let’s not play the games.

IU and BYU are undefeated at this point what they would do against anyone is in the future should be irrelevant. They are 1 4-5 teams that remain undefeated. They should have been ranked in the top 4-5. They were ranked 8-9 respectively. The impact is they will both be sitting behind 1 loss teams next week. They lose they drop out of playoff rankings. Wouldn’t be shocked to see Alabama jump both of them. IU and BYU are undefeated defeated behind Penn St and Tennessee? Why? Penn State has beat no one. Tennessee has beat Alabama. The loss to Ohio State and Arkansas were completely ignored. There is zero justification for where the committee put BYU and IU. Let’s BYU and IU prove they aren’t worthy don’t rank based off predictive metrics. That is for us degenerate gamblers.

What are we doing? We are rigging it for TV.
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If we had a real playoff, these rankings wouldn’t matter.
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Will the Cards be ranked?

TheRealVille
Thecycle27 said:
That is the problem. The whole system is built of predictive metrics not performance. Basing the playoff on Vegas, let’s not play the games.

IU and BYU are undefeated at this point what they would do against anyone is in the future should be irrelevant. They are 1 4-5 teams that remain undefeated. They should have been ranked in the top 4-5. They were ranked 8-9 respectively. The impact is they will both be sitting behind 1 loss teams next week. They lose they drop out of playoff rankings. Wouldn’t be shocked to see Alabama jump both of them. IU and BYU are undefeated defeated behind Penn St and Tennessee? Why? Penn State has beat no one. Tennessee has beat Alabama. The loss to Ohio State and Arkansas were completely ignored. There is zero justification for where the committee put BYU and IU. Let’s BYU and IU prove they aren’t worthy don’t rank based off predictive metrics. That is for us degenerate gamblers.

What are we doing? We are rigging it for TV.
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Well, to start, there's no criteria of where a team is ranked based solely on won loss records. I noticed you didn't include undefeated Army in the top 6.

The people ranking these teams do consider wins vs losses and a team like Alabama or Georgia they believe is better than an undefeated IU team. The only justification they need is their opinion. I believe they know most fans of college football would agree.

So if they were to put IU in the top 5 it would be solely on their undefeated record against a very weak schedule. Despite believing Alabama is the better team, it would be a dishonest application of their duty to rank the teams.

What if IU beats OSU and then gets shocked by Purdue the next game. Would that one loss still be worthy of a top 5 ranking over a 2 loss team like Georgia?

Now BYU is a different story, having played a much tougher schedule than IU. They should be over every 2 loss team.
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