If SMU Doesn’t Get into the CFP

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- 12/08/2024 at 10:08 AM #237056
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  The Miami Ute
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  I foresee conferences not named the B1G and SEC dropping CCGs altogether. I already see some foreshadowing from the talking heads.
- 12/08/2024 at 10:24 AM #237062
  
  Rick Walker
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  I think even the SEC and BIG could get rid of them. Part of me thought Oregon would just roll out their 2s and 3s and let themselves lose to Penn state so they could stay healthy and get the 5 seed, which is arguably a better draw for them
- 12/08/2024 at 10:25 AM #237063
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  Utah
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  I mean…conference championships were installed for the money only.
  
  So…what pays the conference more? CCG with no playoff team or no CCG and a playoff team?
  
  That’s your answer.
  - 12/08/2024 at 10:28 AM #237066
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    Or no CCG and multiple playoff teams. So far, the bracket is happening just as I thought.
- 12/08/2024 at 10:35 AM #237070
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  The Miami Ute
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  Much, much respect to the committee. They absolutely made the right call on picking SMU over Bama.
- 12/08/2024 at 11:06 AM #237081
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  2008 National Champ
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  Conference Championship game cost Utah in 2019 and SC in 2022. Both one loss teams that had an argument for the playoff until they lost the CCG. I’ve wanted those CCG’s gone for a long time.
  - 12/08/2024 at 11:10 AM #237083
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    EagleMountainUte
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    If you play 9 conference games already I see a point. 8 I want to see a championship. Especially with divisions essentially.
    - 12/08/2024 at 11:27 AM #237089
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      I just never saw a reason for the Pac-12 to eliminate themselves which was always the risk. Sure Utah and SC should have won their games to prove that they were the best team in the conference but those weren’t the stakes. It was always the faint hope that by beating someone you had usually already played that year would be enough to overcome the bias of the committee towards other conferences.
      
      Just like the article you linked to the other day: Utah won the conference in the regular season in 2019 outright. SC did also in 2022. The benefit of getting those teams into the playoff would have rewarded Oregon and Utah with Rose Bowls and added about 50 MM to the conferences coffers. Instead Oregon and Utah still went to the Rose Bowls but the playoff money went elsewhere.
- 12/08/2024 at 11:21 AM #237087
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  UtesRock
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  I think the committee did a good job. Bama can suck it! Lost to a weak OU, etc..
- 12/09/2024 at 12:53 PM #237262
  
  USS Utah
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  A little advice for Alabama: Next time don’t lose to Vanderbilt.
- 12/09/2024 at 1:04 PM #237264
  
  Utes 69
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  advice for SMU don’t lose to the zoobies.
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