Andy

Carolina's 1-15 2001 team would house this group. If only the season had started in week 3, we might get the #1 pick.

Supposedly Hillman got dinged during the game. This week has been frustrating. I had him, I dropped the GB defense for KC after Watkins got hurt, Demaryius somehow didn't catch one of Peyton's 5 touchdowns, and my opponent pulled Jared Cook off the scrap heap. I should still win if Maclin and Olsen do what they should, but it's no guarantee.

Updated with committee rankings Top 25 games ------------------------ (1) Mississippi State at (5) Alabama (3:30 pm, CBS) (3) Florida State at Miami (8 pm, ABC) (4) TCU at Kansas (3 pm, FS1) (6) Arizona State at Oregon State (10:45 pm, ESPN) (8) Ohio State at (25) Minnesota (12 pm, ABC) (9) Auburn at (15) Georgia (7:15 pm, ESPN) (12) Michigan State at Maryland (8 pm, BTN) Washington at (14) Arizona (3:30 pm, FOX) (16) Nebraska at (20) Wisconsin (3:30 pm, ABC) (17) LSU at Arkansas (8 pm, ESPN) Northwestern at (18) Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC) (19) Clemson at (22) Georgia Tech (12 pm, ESPN) Virginia Tech at (21) Duke (12 pm, ESPNU) (23) Utah at Stanford (6 pm, Pac-12 Network) Missouri at (24) Texas A&M (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Toledo at Northern Illinois (8 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Akron at Buffalo (8 pm Tuesday, ESPNU) Kent State at Bowling Green (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) Ball State at UMass (8 pm Wednesday, ESPNU) East Carolina at Cincinnati (7 pm Thursday, ESPN2) Southern Miss at UTSA (8 pm Thursday, CBSSN) California at USC (9 pm Thursday, ESPN) Tulsa at UCF (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) Temple at Penn State (12 pm, ESPN2) Iowa at Illinois (12 pm, BTN) South Carolina at Florida (12 pm, SEC Network) Army at Western Kentucky (12 pm, CBSSN) Pittsburgh at North Carolina (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Miami (OH) at Central Michigan (1 pm, ESPN3) Eastern Michigan at Western Michigan (2 pm, ESPN3) Wake Forest at NC State (3 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) Appalachian State at Arkansas State (3 pm, ESPN3) Oklahoma at Texas Tech (3:30 pm, ESPN) Memphis at Tulane (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Indiana at Rutgers (3:30 pm, BTN) Rice at Marshall (3:30 pm, FSN) Georgia Southern at Navy (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Kentucky at Tennessee (4 pm, SEC Network) Troy at Idaho (5 pm, ESPN3) UNLV at BYU (7 pm, ESPNU) New Mexico at Utah State (7 pm, ESPNEWS) UL Lafayette at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) Texas at Oklahoma State (7:30 pm, FOX) Texas State at South Alabama (7:30 pm, ESPN3) South Florida at SMU (8 pm, CBSSN) North Texas at UTEP (10 pm, FS1) San Diego State at Boise State (10:15 pm, ESPNU)

IMO Bama would easily beat Florida State. This isn't 2013 FSU.

I think Baylor has the easiest route into the playoff as they will only need to beat hove vs Ok State and KSU and at Texas tech. Pretty much everybody else on the list needs to beat at least 2 too teams. And Baglor has the big 12 tiebreaker with the win over at TCH. Baylor isn't in right now. The top 4 is FSU, Miss St, Alabama and TCU or Oregon (personally I prefer TCU, but to each their own). Arizona St is ahead of them too. The Bears still need some help, I think.

Alabama sure seems to pull escape jobs like this every year. And they're probably the favorite to win the national title again as of now.

James projections are always super crazy. Yeah, I used them in a fantasy baseball draft one year. It was right around the time he projected Will Middlebrooks for like 25 homers and a .800 OPS that I realized his projections are the functional equivalent of a crackhead.

The latter I think. Mississippi State is probably the closest to a great team and even they needed Auburn to collapse on itself in the first quarter to give them a lead. I missed the second half of ND/ASU due to a work thing. I wish I could've bet on "ND will rally, then fall short by less than the margin of Everett Golson's first-quarter charity gift" in Vegas, because that was the most predictable [expletive] thing ever. (I'm not counting ASU's running-up-the-score TD, though I have no issue with it.)

LOL ok. ND's offensive line is horrific, Golson has gone full Dalton, and we're playing a backup defense (injuries and suspensions) in 90-degree weather. This one's over and has been for a while.

You never go full Dalton

That's not fair UCLA's QB probably wasn't handing the ball off to them all game No kidding.

I remember when ND turned the ball over 5 times against Syracuse and I was all like "This has never been a problem before, no reason to think this is going to be a recurring issue"

I've seen this thrown around a lot lately. It would add some emphasis on the top 2, which I like. I do feel like 4 is a terrific number, though.

I'll learn to live with it, but the inevitable expansion just reeks of CFB trying to be like every other sport, when a big chunk of the reason it's as popular as it is, is exactly because it's not like every other sport. At least, I feel like that's why. Maybe I'm just a moron and people are starving for a 16-team playoff where 5 SEC teams get in and nothing that happens before mid-October matters. I worry the uniqueness will go away. That's probably more selfish than anything, though.

Auto-bids for the Power 5 (which is an even worse idea, but it's going to happen). They're not expanding to 8 without them. Almost every league has 3-loss teams at least kind of in the race for the title, especially with the unbalanced schedules in the SEC and B1G. Current leaders: ACC: 7-1 Duke, 8-0 FSU B1G: 7-1 MSU/7-1 OSU, 7-1 Nebraska B12: 7-1 KSU P12: 8-1 Oregon, 7-1 ASU SEC: 7-2 Mizzou, 8-0 MSU LOOK AT ALL THE 3 LOSS TEAMS RUINING COMPETITIVE FOOTBALL. Yes, divisional leaders are the only teams in the race for a conference title at this point in the season. Good point.

Auto-bids for the Power 5 (which is an even worse idea, but it's going to happen). They're not expanding to 8 without them. Almost every league has 3-loss teams at least kind of in the race for the title, especially with the unbalanced schedules in the SEC and B1G.

All the games that are made relevant by an 8 teamer will not involve top 8 teams. Isn't that good? To most people, yes, which is why it will happen. I have this crazy idea that games between 7-3 Wisconsin and 6-4 Iowa (or fill in mediocre teams of your choice here) ought not to have some grand meaning to the national title picture. I can say with confidence as a Notre Dame fan that I've never rooted for a team that lost more than once that made me think "Damn, it's too bad we can't play for the national championship! We really deserve a shot!" But it'll happen, to 'make more games relevant', as if I'll be any more likely to watch a mid-tier ACC game just on the off chance that one of the teams involved might win the league and make the playoff.

Nobody ever thought a four team playoff would diminish the regular season. It's more the 8 team and especially the 16 team that would diminish it. 16 is too much, but I think the regular season matchups between the teams competing for spots would still have a ton of meaning. That aside, I find that the games this year feel like they have more meaning when the field is 4 instead of 2. If we were in a BCS format right now, the only thing that would matter would be MSST and FSU's games until/unless one of them lost. Now we have several games per week that are impactful and important And they all involve good teams. When we get to 8, they won't. you must hate the NHL and NBA playoffs. The most they ever are is background noise outside of the Bulls and Red Wings, so yeah, I'd say they're pretty pointless.

All the games that are made relevant by an 8 teamer will not involve top 8 teams.

Nobody ever thought a four team playoff would diminish the regular season. It's more the 8 team and especially the 16 team that would diminish it. 16 is too much, but I think the regular season matchups between the teams competing for spots would still have a ton of meaning. That aside, I find that the games this year feel like they have more meaning when the field is 4 instead of 2. If we were in a BCS format right now, the only thing that would matter would be MSST and FSU's games until/unless one of them lost. Now we have several games per week that are impactful and important And they all involve good teams. When we get to 8, they won't.

I downloaded that song specifically because of that video. I was there for the walk-off wild pitch. It was outstanding. What a fun-ass season that was.

In that case, where is the option where they get blown out and their best player tears an ACL tripping over first base on a meaningless bottom of the 9th HR. I vote for blowout followed by Adam Wainwright bellowing unprovoked racial slurs at an opponent, sparking a brawl in which several STL players are injured trying to take cheap shots.

Seriously, how can this not be the answer? You always hear this nonsense about how fans don't really want their rivals to be bad forever (Ohio St/Michigan as an example) because it's no fun to beat up on a bad team...[expletive] that. I never want them to win a game again.

Soriano was a big part of the reason the Cubs were the best team in baseball once. He was fun as hell to watch hit when he was on (Sept. 2007...dear god). And I was there for the walk-off slam. That's more than good enough for me. Godspeed, Fonzie.

Alabama has no business ahead of TCU. TCU has a better version of the Tide's best win (road vs 'neutral' site), plus another win over a ranked team.