Final Playoff Predictions

[ifuaintagatorumustbegatorbait]

Book it!

1.Ohio State replaces Clemson at #1 after Clempsoning against Tarheels in ACC title game.
2.Sooners beat Okie St. to take Big 12 title.
3.Notre Dame rolls Stanford.
4.UF hangs on to overcome a late rally from Bama in SEC title game to get final remaining playoff spot.

P.S. These predictions are for entertainment purposes only.

 

[Gator Fever]

Clemson
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Florida

 

[ifuaintagatorumustbegatorbait]

I don't see how Clemson beats NC. Nobody wants to play the Tarheels right now.

 

[ocalaman]

Clemson has always had talent, but much like Georgia, always seems to lose a game or two they shouldn't. N.C. is playing very well and I think it will be a good game, but whichever team wins I don't think they have the defense to win a game in the final 4. I predict the Final 4 to be Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson & Notre Dame. Oklahoma's loss to Texas was awful and since they don't play a championship game in the Big 12, Notre Dame will get the edge for the final spot by the committee.

 

[alaskanseminole]

So no one thinks OSU drops one to either Michigan or Michigan State?

I think the final four will look like this:

#1 Bama
#2 Ok St
#3 UNC
#4 ND

 

[djegators]

So no one thinks OSU drops one to either Michigan or Michigan State?

I think the final four will look like this:

#1 Bama
#2 Ok St
#3 UNC
#4 ND

Bama would be ecstatic with that bracket.

 

[GatorNation79]

IIIIFFFFF we beat the Noles...I don't see us beating Bama...they are too much and they are playing really well. We'll see what happens.

 

[alaskanseminole]

IIIIFFFFF we beat the Noles...I don't see us beating Bama...they are too much and they are playing really well. We'll see what happens.

You'll destroy us.

A. We don't have Winston
B. We don't have an Elite coach

FSU would actually be better off forfeiting.

 

[GatorGray]

You'll destroy us.

A. We don't have Winston
B. We don't have an Elite coach

FSU would actually be better off forfeiting.

You and I are on the same page here.

 

[CompuGator]

IIIIffff we beat the Noles... I don't see us beating Bama... they are too much and they are playing really well.

Sigh. Despite McElwain's amazing accomplishments in his 1st year as Gator head coach, and whatever plans our defense might be able to execute to stop Derrick Henry[#], such an SECCG game would likely be the one that validates widespread preseason fears that this team doesn't have enough championship-quality Gators yet, and thus won't score enough points and won't give our defense enough rest between series. So we might tally an encouraging half-time score, but later a grim final score that reminds us of the 2009 SECCG.

Unless Ole Miss beats a deflated LSU at home this weekend, and wins the Egg Bowl "at Mississippi State" (but isn't this game always played on the somewhat neutral field in Jackson instead?). Altho' as we and LSU partisans already know, Bama gets special consideration & privileges that can be redeemed for national-championship games (egregiously the 2011-season do-over in the BCSCG: 11--1 not-even-own-division-champ Alabama vs. 13--0 SEC-champ LSU).

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Note *: While you're pondering Bama as an opponent, don't you think that now would be a great time (if not lonnng overdue) to replace that jug of Tide detergent in your signature-image with some other brand--any other? Your choice of the cleaning product to depict has long struck me as a dayyam strange choice by a Gator fan.

Note #: Perhaps E-dub should be consulted about a viable & effective caliber.

 

[ifuaintagatorumustbegatorbait]

UNC ain't making the damn playoffs buddy! smh...The only chance the ACC has is an undefeated Clemson. Tarheels end that discussion. So no ACC in the playoff. Sorry

 

[PacoGator19]

UNC ain't making the damn playoffs buddy! smh...The only chance the ACC has is an undefeated Clemson. Tarheels end that discussion. So no ACC in the playoff. Sorry

Correct. The only ACC team that has a chance to make the playoffs is Clemson.

 

[alaskanseminole]

UNC ain't making the damn playoffs buddy! smh...The only chance the ACC has is an undefeated Clemson. Tarheels end that discussion. So no ACC in the playoff. Sorry

Link?

 

[GatorGray]

Link?

HERE you go.

 

[alaskanseminole]

HERE you go.

Well played. LOL

 

[CompuGator]

We'll see what happens.

Especially on Saturday, December 5:

• 4:00 p.m. ET: SEC! CG, at Atlanta's Georgia Dome, on "CBS Sports".
• 7:45|8:00 p.m.: ACC CG, at the never-full open-air Panthers Carolinas Ericsson (1996--2004) Bank of Italy America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. At least the ACC or Disney-ESPN-ABC isn't foolish enough to compete head-to-head with the SEC CG telecast. But look whom their telecast is competing against:
• 4:45|5:00 PT 7:45|8:00 ET: Pac-12 CG, at Levi’s® Stadium in Santa Clara[$], Cal.: Presumably scheduled out of sensible concern that if they scheduled a kick-off at 8 p.m., occupying a prime-time telecast time-slot in Pacific time, they might be nearly-completely ignored--even by regular fans of college football--at the corresponding 11 p.m. in the Eastern Time Zone, which contains at least 7 campuses in the rival "Big Ten"[@]. So the Left-Coasters decided that scheduling their parvenue CG at a time competing head-to-head with the established ACC CG telecast was nothing at all to fear (hee, hee!). But, um, not so fast:
• 8:17 p.m. ET: B1G® (also officially but innumerately "Big Ten") CG, at Lucas Oil Stadium in exciting Indianapolis, Ind., "on FOX". Oooh! Is there a fracture in the old Big 10-Pac-10 Rose-Bowl cartel? Those 2 arrogant conferences, whose stubbornness blocked any but mythical college-football championships for years, are now competing head-to-head with the kick-off times of their CG telecasts!? Wouldn't it be better for the Big Ten to schedule its parvenue CG to match their customary late-season noonish kick-offs, thus getting that telecast time-slot to themselves?

So if readers here are still in the mood, after our SEC CG, to watch more football, they'll be able to see whether, e.g.:

• basketball power North Carolina really has become powerful enough in football to beat Clemzin; or
• undefeated Iowa, the flagship university of the native state of the Stoops brothers, really is powerful enough to make the buckeye-nut fondling Urban Meyer flee to a hospital afterwards, then seek an escape from coaching again, by declaring his resolve to "spend more time with his ESPN family".
• wailing and gnashing of teeth echoes across the Great Plains for a week, remembering recent-past defections that deprived the now 10-team Big XII X "12" Conference of annual national attention & income from its recent-past conference-championship game.[#].

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Note $: The 49ers' more-or-less new stadium in Silicon Valley, thus now 40--50 miles south of San Francisco. I hope the taxpayers & other legal residents of Santa Clara County got a better deal than the late-1980s/early-1990s shafting that S.F. Giants billionaire owner Bob Lurie tried to scam from the inept--or colluding--consultant lawyers retained by S.C. County & its municipalities. But I digress.

Note @: Indiana, Maryland, Meeechigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers. Don't know about Purdue; it's near the time-zone boundary; if it follows the course of the Wabash, its West Lafayette flagship campus seems to be on the west bank, and thus barely beyond Eastern Time, in the Central Time Zone.

Note #: I'll leave it at "glance(s)" and "seems"; I've already exceeded my football time-budget for today. And follow-ups focused on the Big "12" really belong in a thread like the 2-days-old "Baylor out": <http://florida.forums.rivals.com/threads/baylor-out.27731/>.

 

[Michi-Gator]

You and I are on the same page here.

Lol

 

[gatorshime]

UNC LOL....Who Unversity of North California? I do hope the ruin the ACC's only hope.

OSU as both Michigan schools are weaker than they are saying and Iowa has played nobody.

SEC will send U.F. or Bama. Hard to see us stopping Henry but, you never know.

Notre Dame because of its name and a weak schedule.

The winner of Ok. St. And Oklahoma.

 

[Michi-Gator]

Link?

If neither loses prior to the ACC CG and OSU loses a game, NC would be in

 

[ifuaintagatorumustbegatorbait]

"If neither loses prior to the ACC CG and OSU loses a game, NC would be in"

No way! Please explain?

 

[djegators]

Actually, the ACC is due to eff themselves the way it is playing out, and the PAC12 already did....too bad there are not really any good scenarios for two SEC teams to make it...

 

[PacoGator19]

If neither loses prior to the ACC CG and OSU loses a game, NC would be in

How so? What if Iowa goes undefeated? Oklahoma State could lose, but if Oklahoma wins out they would get in over UNC. Michigan St could win out and get in. A lot of things have to happen that all go UNCs way for them to make the playoff. UNC is not in a position where they control their own destiny. They need some breaks and upsets to happen.

 

[Michi-Gator]

I am operating under the premise no two loss team gets in, can't make the regular season that meaningless.

Pac 12 is out.

So if they win 12 in a row including a win over the #1 team you think they are left out?

Iowa will not win out, take that to the bank

 

[djegators]

Seems to make sense a one loss ACC champ would make it if PAC 12 is out.

 

[CompuGator]

If neither loses prior to the ACC CG and OSU loses a game, NC would be in

What impressive attention to details: There currently are 2 undefeated OSU, and they are both candidates for the CFP:

• Ohio State U.
• Okie State U.

How are we, especially male readers who suffer bashing from women for being unable to read minds, supposed to know which one you're referring to? I trust you'll excuse my skepticism about your advice being so worthwhile that we can "take it to the bank"? Ummm, no, but thanks anyhow.

 

[Michi-Gator]

What impressive attention to details: There currently are 2 undefeated OSU, and they are both candidates for the CFP:

• Ohio State U.
• Okie State U.

How are we, especially male readers who suffer bashing from women for being unable to read minds, supposed to know which one you're referring to? I trust you'll excuse my skepticism about your advice being so worthwhile that we can "take it to the bank"? Ummm, no, but thanks anyhow.

Sorry Compu, tOSU

 

[TAYLOR1027]

I think UNC making the playoff is a real possibility.. They are probably playing the best ball right now, maybe second behind bama. ND will lose to Stanford, Ohio st. will knock out Iowa. that leaves B10 (Ohio st.) SEC (Bama/UF winner) B12 (OK St./Ok winner, if OkST is undefeated entering that game) and ACC (Clemson/UNC winner, if UNC doesn't lose before the championship game). I think UNC is sitting at 10-11 after this weeks rankings, they will have two very winnable games on their schedule plus the championship. I think there is really only one team that is for sure in the final rankings and that's Ohio St. But who knows that the fun of it all!!!

 

[Michi-Gator]

If UNC wins out they would have 12 straight wins with the last being over the #1 team in the country who beat the #4. Pretty strong case if it played out that way

 

[djegators]

I agree....committee won't find it easy to leave a one loss conference champ out....but if anyone can do it, it is the ACC.

 

[oozie7]

What impressive attention to details: There currently are 2 undefeated OSU, and they are both candidates for the CFP:

• Ohio State U.
• Okie State U.

How are we, especially male readers who suffer bashing from women for being unable to read minds, supposed to know which one you're referring to? I trust you'll excuse my skepticism about your advice being so worthwhile that we can "take it to the bank"? Ummm, no, but thanks anyhow.

LMAO

 

[ifuaintagatorumustbegatorbait]

Some of you folks picking Bama for the final bracket should be ashamed of yourselves! smdh

 

[ftball0129]

Such a "crap shoot" at this point. So many have weak schedules until the end of the season. Time for a game of War.

 

[ifuaintagatorumustbegatorbait]

UNC only move up to 17. No way that make the final playoff even if they beat Clemson. The committee obviously doesn't respect their weak ACC schedule. ijs

 

[GatorGray]

Interesting side by side comparison of the current method vs. the BCS method:

 

[PacoGator19]

Yep UNC is still only at #17. I just don't see them getting into the top 4. The ACC is just too weak and UNCs schedule is too weak.

 

[BayAreaGator]

UNC can tap dance on Clemson's face for 4Qs. It shouldn't matter. Barring a collapse of all 0 and 1-loss teams, I don't see how UNC deserves to (or will) be in the Final 4. A resume that literally consists of a loss to USCe (possibly the worst team in the SECE), wins against the coastal division/the worst group of 5-6 teams in Power 5 college football and a win vs Clemson. A better question would be "Does an undefeated ACC Coastal team who's best win is vs. USCe, deserve to get into the playoff"?

 

[Michi-Gator]

Let me preface this by saying that I don't think UNC wins their next 3, but if they do:

The committee has made it clear each week is done independent of the previous week, but if you ignore that:

They have 16 teams in front of them, but remove the 5 two loss teams.

Now we have 11. This weekend is Okie St v Baylor and TCU v OU. Eliminate the two losers.

Now we have 9. 3 of those 9 are in yhe Big 10, remove two unless Meatchicken wins it, then remove all three.

But we now have seven. Florida and Bama play, now 6.

They beat Clemson, now 5. Now remove Navy, so, if UNC wins out, they are there unless:

ND wins out.

tOSU or Mich St beats an undefeated Iowa in title game

OU and Okie St meet with neither losing prior

Bama/Florida leave SEC title game with one loss

So in all honesty, if UNC wins out, the scenarios to keep them out are as complicated as getting them in.

 

[grommit]

My only prediction at this point is that FSU does not make it a third year in a row to the championship games in the post season.

 

[PacoGator19]

Let me preface this by saying that I don't think UNC wins their next 3, but if they do:

The committee has made it clear each week is done independent of the previous week, but if you ignore that:

They have 16 teams in front of them, but remove the 5 two loss teams.

Now we have 11. This weekend is Okie St v Baylor and TCU v OU. Eliminate the two losers.

Now we have 9. 3 of those 9 are in yhe Big 10, remove two unless Meatchicken wins it, then remove all three.

But we now have seven. Florida and Bama play, now 6.

They beat Clemson, now 5. Now remove Navy, so, if UNC wins out, they are there unless:

ND wins out.

tOSU or Mich St beats an undefeated Iowa in title game

OU and Okie St meet with neither losing prior

Bama/Florida leave SEC title game with one loss

So in all honesty, if UNC wins out, the scenarios to keep them out are as complicated as getting them in.

exactly my point from earlier. A whole lot of things have to happen and go their way for them to make the playoff.

I would also argue some 2 loss teams could possibly stay in front of them.

 

[djegators]

I understand all the reason given above, but the reality is, are they going to leave out a one loss champion from a big 5 conference? There will have to be compelling reasons to do so.