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Yeah, I don’t see how you can look at a league that has seen 7 different teams win the title in the last 7 seasons and 11 different teams make the finals in that span and say there’s no parity.
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The main argument against it is they’ve played the easiest schedule in the league so far. In the West, there are 6 teams that are 9-16 or worse. They have 20 games scheduled against these teams and have already played 13 of them. Meanwhile, they’ve only played 3 games against the 9 teams that are 15-10 or better. They still play those 9 teams 25 times. Of course they’re also 24-1 despite their second best player only playing in 6 of those games and they won 68 last year despite Chet missing over half the year. 74 is a lot of wins. I’d be shocked if they don’t get to 70 though.
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Michigan fired their coach due to an inappropriate relationship. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47269785/sources-michigan-fires-coach-sherrone-moore-9-3-season
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2023 Florida State's QB got hurt, then whoever played QB the next two games could barely complete a pass. They subsequently lost 63-3 to a Georgia team that Alabama had beaten in the SEC title game. I know they had a ton of opt outs but still. I disagreed that Florida St got left out but I understand the decision. That same Alabama team then lost in OT against a Michigan team that won the title. Only loss was to a Texas team that made the playoffs. They beat 6, 11, 13 and 21 in the final rankings (FSU beat 13 and 15). Was it a little weird they jumped FSU? Sure. But they were absolutely deserving of being in the 4 team playoff that year.
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I mean, they have one of the best 3 or 4 wins of the season by winning at Georgia so saying they did nothing is a bit over the top. Also, they got left out at 9-3 all the way back in 2024 so clearly they didn’t get the benefit of the doubt then.
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Agreed 100% on the process. Wasn’t their reasoning that the Miami H2H win didn’t matter before because Notre Dame was in a different group than Miami? I can’t remember exactly what the reason was but it was dumb. I’m glad Miami got in over Notre Dame. Didn’t really care that much about Bama vs Notre Dame. One one hand, Notre Dame didn’t lose to Florida St. But they also didn’t beat a team as good as Georgia either.
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Time for a little FCS minute. UC Davis got the 8 seed, which meant a bye and a home game. If they won, they'd get to face the North Dakota St buzzsaw (won 10 of 14 titles), who was 12-0 this year. However NDST lost at home to Illinois St today and Davis won which means we get to host a QF matchup next week. Only other two times we made the QF, we were on the road and lost. Will be a tough game because Illinois St beat NDSt, but still cool. Was at the game today (just got home) and will be going next week too.
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Is Bama's O-Line awful? They can't run the ball and Simpson has very little time to throw when he drops back.
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I hope regardless of the result of OSU-Indiana, that the loser gets either the 2 or the 3 seed so they're on opposite sides of the bracket. Neutral site so it's not like whoever gets the 3 seed would have to play at the 2 seed (like in the FCS playoffs).
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Indiana, OSU and Texas Tech are locks for byes. Georgia gets a bye with a win (and maybe a close loss). Oregon probably gets the bye if Bama wins. Georgia, Oregon, aTm, Ole Miss ACC/G5 and a G5 team are in. I think OU gets in regardless of the Bama result so that's 10. I think if Bama loses but keeps it close, they shouldn't be penalized. But if this continues the way the first half went and they lose something like 31-7, I'm fine penalizing them for it. I also think Miami should get in over Notre Dame. The resume's aren't that much different and Miami beat them. That has to matter. Though if Bama is left out they might both get in anyway.
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Doesn't have to be an either or. Can just lump them all in together.
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Exactly. FIFA’s going to tell him to horsefeathers off because all they care about is making as much money as possible which means hosting games in the biggest stadiums that will draw the most fans.
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Group I seems like the toughest group with France, Senegal and Norway. Maybe F depending on which Euro team advances from the playoff since it already has Netherlands and Japan.
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So we hope Turkey gets bounced.
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Well we're getting a Euro team. Rio just said every group must have a European team.
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Nice, we avoided Italy and Denmark's playoff group. So better odds now we get a minnow.
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I'll take that. So roughly a 3/7 chance we get a minnow in Pot 4. Could be less than that due to the UEFA limitations of 2 per group.
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Yep, they can't draw one of the UEFA playoff teams.
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No Jordan from Pot 4 either. So from that pot we're down to the 4 UEFA teams, New Zealand, Ghana and Cape Verde.
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Downside is we now can't draw Qatar or Saudi Arabia from Pot 3. That's fine though.
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Hell yeah, we got Australia from Pot 2.
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ELO ratings for each Pot. I'm assuming for the playoff teams it's the highest rated team in each playoff.
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Maybe I'm misremembering (or I just tuned in later) but I swear the 2022 draw happened a lot quicker. I seem to remember recording it, starting it late assuming I could fast forward, but checked in here and people were like "the draw is starting already".
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One incompetent corrupt buffoon rewarding another incompetent corrupt buffoon.
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First time we got a group with Egypt, Jordan and Austria, finished 3rd and went out to England in the R32. That would be a bad result.
