Will be interesting on where they place the top 4.

my interest is where they put Cincinnati. The AP and Coach poll have them at #2.

Good article recapping it all.

Predicting the top 10 of first 2021 Playoff rankings
Connor O'Gara | 24 minutes ago

Honestly, it's gonna be a mess.

The first Playoff rankings are going to reflect the chaos we've already seen this year. We have stunning unbeaten Power 5 teams like Michigan State and Wake Forest, and preseason favorites like Alabama and Ohio State already with a loss as a double-digit favorites, and then we have Georgia.

OK, so we know Georgia is going to be No. 1. But that's about all we know.
Are we sure that unbeaten Oklahoma is going to be No. 2? Or will the selection committee roll with Alabama, Cincinnati or even Michigan State? It feels like we're bracing for a 2-7 that's all over the place. Is 1-loss Ohio State going to be ranked ahead of 1-loss Oregon?

Thankfully, I don't have a seat at the selection committee table. I will, however, pretend that I do in order to predict how Tuesday's first Playoff rankings (7 p.m. ET on ESPN) will play out.

Remember, this is what I think will happen, not necessarily what I think should happen.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth....playoff-rankings-2021/

1) Georgia 2) Bama 3) Mich-State 4) Oregon 5) Ohio State 6) Cinci.

Where are the Florida teams?? Oh, yeah, in the shitter. Dan Mullen, never my favorite choice when he was hired, is finally on the hot seat. That said, none of the guys who were available in 2017 has done squat. So, what do I know? I would have gone after Pruitt, Sumlin and (can't think of his name at Houston). So, again, what do I know? (Rhetorical question, obviously not much.)

Tennessee will finish with a better record than Florida. Florida could be forgiven for losing to Alabama and Georgia, but Kentucky and Louisiana? That three minutes before the half with Georgia was probably the worst football scenario anyone could imagine.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

College Football Playoff rankings: Snub to Cincinnati and Group of 5 is simply unbearable

https://www.espn.com/college-f...up-5-simply-unbearable

johnnyboy - It certainly was. In fact, it was Zookish. Mullen is on a very hot seat.

Dan Mullen is a lazy a$$ recruiter. He needs to realize that 9 out of 10 times, he's not going to out-scheme superior athletes. UF's recruiting class is ranked in the 20s, which should never happen

Mullin has spent considerable time, energy and money developing his quarterbacks. Its remarkable how little the Gators have to show for it. As for Cincinnati, I am biased because I do not see them ranked above Alabama. Yes Alabama lost to Texas AM but there other games and schedule are brutal and far more difficult than Cincinnati's. That's not Cincinnati's fault but does anyone believe that they could best Alabama?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Did anyone believe UCF's 2017 team could beat the team (Auburn) that beat the eventual champs (Alabama) that year?

Big upsets can occur when given the chance to occur, but can't if they aren't.

The CFP pollsters' placement of UC at #6 gives them plausible deniability.

Their story is that some of the teams ahead of UC still have a chance to lose, whereas UC is expected to win out, and if those happen, UC is in.

Their hope and the logic behind it is that they can say they put UC in a place to have a chance, but better teams didn't lose. "Oh well, sorry."

Remember how a suckass ND team was glorified and elevated last year?

As one commenter put it for UC, "Maybe they should have had a better team in 1954."

The only game Cinci has lost in the past two years was against current #1 team Georgia. It took Georgia a record breaking 53 yard field goal to beat Cinci with 3 seconds to go in Jan 1, 2021 bowl game.

Cinci returned 90 percent of the team from that game. Georgia probably improved from that game as well but Cinci did as well with Senior laden team.

I'd like to see the rematch.

You make good points. I admit my bias too. This will be exciting to see.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Suckass ND team? They beat #3 and only had 2 loses. Maybe mediocre but not suckass. The Peach bowl did'nt mean shit to Auburn. Not much of a upset when a team has players that aren't playing for fear of injury and loss of millions. Just my opinion

I did get laugh when UCF signed Auburn's coach and he had to see their National Championship banner at the bounce house.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

"The Peach bowl did'nt mean shit to Auburn"

Oh Now YOU DID IT...poked my inner bear...(...activate UCF fandom rant coming...)

That's a false narrative. I was at the game and I saw them play really hard and looked to me they were trying to win. UCF only scored 13 first half points when typically they would have scored twice that many.

You must not have watched the game. Plus, UCF had more players play in the game that went to the NFL than Auburn did. Nice try.

Also, Scott Frost who already took the Nebraska job came back to coach UCF in the bowl game.

Auburn had only one player sit out that game, Carlton Davis. It was reported he was injured and was preparing for the draft. He is currently on Injury Reserve with the Tampa Bay Buccs. Prob a good decision for him to sit out that game. Would have dropped his draft stock losing.

Then the same UCF team went undefeated in 2018 and barely lost to LSU (with our 2nd string qb) who went on the following year to win the National Championship. This is very similar to Cincy's current situation.

Cincy is in a two year win streak with a great coach and players. Only loss is a narrow win by Georgia in the bowl game. Did that bowl game not mean shit to them as well?

Hey competitive football players, this game means shit, don't play well and lose on purpose. Wha? Yeah right you are wrong.

Cincy is a really good team. You probably haven't watched them. I watched every down when they pounded UCF, and the Notre Dame game who is currently at #10.

I've watched Georgia as well. They are pretty damn good as well and look unbeatable.

It will be interesting to see how it finishes. Hope Cincy remains undefeated and gets a chance to play for a National Championship. They lose a ton of players after this year and I don't know how much longer they will hang on to Coach Luke Fickell. I hope they keep him while both UCF and Cinci head off into the Big 12 in 2023.

Meanwhile, UCF can slide to bowl eligible (6-3) with a win this weekend. I'll be at the game, Go Knights!

As I have ranted now ever since this topic started, the only solution is to bag the quest to determine a "true Natl Champion". It is a fool's errand and will only make fans pissed off (right, Dave?). It truly was better before this quest. Basketball started with an 8 team tourney. Now, they are up to 70-some and still, STILL the ones left out are pissed claiming (rightly so) there is no difference between them and the last ones let in. They cannot expand the football playoffs enough to not piss off fans (unless they totally trash the conferences and traditional rivalries which they are already doing. See Okla/Texas as only one example). Do you think 12 will be enough? No way! No. 13 will be able to make a very good case that they are better than no. 12. Just go back to the bowl system and the conference tie-ins and people will be much, much happier. "We won our conference and our bowl!" So WHAT if there are two or three teams ranked no. 1 at the end of the season? That means two or three teams and fanbases are happy. That's a good thing. And, we will start watching (and attending) all the bowl games again. That's another good thing. This crap system is all in the name of making ESPN a shit ton of money. It is not about the teams or the fans. Who even watches a whole game anymore, esp one of the lesser bowls? Who can stay up? We used to be really excited about Jan 1 and all the bowl games. It was an orgy of football and it was done AND we only had to worry about one day of sleepiness at work. The current system goes on for eternity and it SUCKS.

I should have concluded, "It SUCKS and it can't be fixed to the satisfaction of the fans."

Make College Football Great Again!



I would like to see more parity in college football. I think one way to clean it up is not allow the schools to make their own schedules and have the NCAA or an independent org schedule games. That may help.

and, btw, Saturday morning ESPN College GameDay is at Cincinnati tomorrow. Will be interesting to see how their fans react to all of this.

I'm looking forward to going to a college football game tomorrow. Gonna be cold and rainy in central Florida. Where's my poncho...

Supposed to be windy, but, not rainy.

You are too hung up on trying to get UCF into a better position and in order to do so, you seem to be willing to blow up all the traditions that used to make college football great (or at least the few that remain, anyway). Nationalize scheduling?? That means blowiing up the conferences and traditional rivalries. None of the changes made in the past 20 years has made college football better for the fans or players. You seem to be in ESPN's bed where it is all about making tons of money.

The gift that keeps on giving ..... CentoDavo's hyper partisan, blind loyalty and totally misguided rants ...... they fucking crack me up.

and no Dave, I am not going to do a point by point rebuttal of your nonsense as your ears are too full of black&gold crazy to hear the truth.

Dave calling me a "hater" in 3,2,1 ........

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Edited: 11/05/2021 at 09:52 AM by LBLarry

Oh and Garcia ..... could you please post something that is not look like one big never ending sentence!! that shiznit is unreadable!!


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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Anybody with a 6th grade education can read it. Since you cannot write a sentence with the correct verb or commas, I am guessing that does not include you.

Fucking classic coming from somebody that posts this unreadable bullshit!!







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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Here's something you can work on -

See Spot. See Spot run. See Sally. See Sally pet Spot.

Easy enough for you?

Here is something for you to work on ..... once a Gator asshole, always a Gator asshole.




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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

ooooh, wow, you sure got me there. I'm sure you had to "think" long and hard for that one.

LOL.

Go Knights. Going to be bowl eligible tomorrow after we win. Who gets lined up with an improving and hungry UCF Knights?

(and, agree a paragraph break would have been nice, but I got thru it).

One more point to make on CFP rankings. Both Houston (7-1) and SMU (7-1) are in AP and Coach rankings. They both got dropped from CFP consideration. No sign of either team.

Conspiracy theory here: they dropped them so Cincy can't say they play any ranked teams. Cinci plays SMU in a couple weeks and probably Houston in the conference championship game.

Keep LOL LbLarry, I'm here for you.

His feeble and redundant BS is not worth working that hard for.

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

For those with little recall and less sympathy, there are some combinations of poster's browser & settings, reader's browser & settings, OS, and this ancient forum software that cause line feeds and paragraph breaks to be ignored.

If people could focus on and reply to the content, rather than attacking the poster, that'd be great. This is NPNR, not NSR.

"If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell" (Carl Sandburg). Never truer than on this forum.

2nd poll: cfp top ten:

1 Georgia
2 Bama
3 Oregon
4 Ohio State
5 Cincinnati
6 Michigan
7 Michigan State
8 Oklahoma
9 Notre Dame
10 Oklahoma state

Cincy got lucky to beat Tulsa tonight. Very close game. Went down to final tulsa drive, needed a td and two point conversion. After several attempts cinci defense holds up and get the ball back after several goal line stances. Lucky lucky lucky.

UCF moves to bowl eligible with a defensive struggle against Tulane, 14-10. Tulane played really good to stay in the game. Kind of like their Oklahoma game and Cinci. they had a chance for the upset. They have some good players. UCF offense sputters (freshman qb isn't that good) but defense played really good.

#9 Wake Forest goes down. #3 Michy State loses to purdue.



Edited: 11/06/2021 at 04:50 PM by Central Floridave

I watched the end of Ohio State- Nebraska game. That was a close game as well. Nebraska had a chance but a last minute INT sealed the win for the yuckeyes.

LSU currently 7-0 against Bama...don't expect that to last very long.

Week 11 AP top ten

1 Georgia 9-0
2 Cincinnati 9-0
3 Alabama 8-1
4 Oklahoma 9-0
5 Oregon 8-1
6 Ohio State 8-1
7 Notre Dame 8-1
8 Michigan State 8-1
9 Michigan 8-1
10 Oklahoma State 8-1

Week 11 Coach top ten

1 Georgia
2 bama
3 Cinci
4 Oklahoma
5 Ohio State
6 Oregon
7 Notre Dame
8 Michigan
9 Michigan State
10 Oklahoma State

Michigan State loses to Purdue 40-29 but remains in top ten.
Ohio State struggles with Nebraska
Cinci struggled with Tulsa
Bama barely beat LSU 20-14. LSU was playing tough @bama
Oklahoma beat Bye Week University
Notre Dame shellacked Navy
Ok-State killed West Virginia
Georgia really really beat up Mizzou. 43-6
Oregon beat Washy 26-16
#11 Texas A&M beat #14 Auburn 20-3
Last week top ten Wake Forest got beat by North carolina 58-55 in a shoot out. Exciting game.
Interesting, UTSA 9-0 at #16
Houston remains 8-1 at #17
SMU who was ranked got beat by Memphis and dropped from rankings. Memphis starting Qb returned from injury and played great.

Week 2 CFP rankings out tuesday 9th, 9pm.

NCAA basketball starts this week.

I surfed all day Saturday and at night, when I finally tracked down the scores, I was happy I went surfing. Gators are the new, old FSU.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Rumors that Mullen will be fired at end of year. Mullen fired two coaches today. He may be next.

Where will Cincinnati end up in College Football Playoff committee's rankings Tuesday?

https://news.yahoo.com/where-c...ootball-222149992.html

3rd poll comes out tonight. all 4 top teams won.

I simply asked him to post something that is actually readable ( and he has since posted stuff with actual paragraph breaks .... so he can do it)

He got his panties all twisted, stomped his feet and I responded.

I reserve the right to talk smack in any forum and If the admins don't like it, they are free to delete. If a forum user doesn't like what I have to say, they can put me on their "Ignore" list.

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Edited: 11/16/2021 at 04:07 PM by LBLarry

I see the rankings stayed the same. good to see Oklahoma lose a game to baylor. They were on the edge of dropping a game for awhile.

Ga, Bama, Oregon, Ohio state, Cinci, Michi, michi-state, Notre dame, Okie-state, Wake forest.

My prediction: Oregon and Ohio State should win out. Ga and Bama will face off in the SEC championship, but unless it's a blowout, neither team will drop from the top 4, and Cincy will be left out at #5, despite the CFP's "best effort" to pave a path for them. If Cincy does get in, it will be at #4, so they play #1 in the semi, making it the most difficult path to a title.

no team with 2 losses will be in the top 4

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Garcia, I had the issue with line breaks on one device for a long long time. I honestly don't remember how I fixed it though. The odd thing is that everything else I used to post with worked fine. This old forum software, just have to shake your head at it.

Cincinnati will have to get past a surging #24 Houston Cougars (9-1) team that is currently in first place in AAC conference. It seems their performance has dropped off some the past few games. Houston has really come on towards end of season and look good. They could be lined up in the AAC conference championship game.

Remaining games:

Georgia: Charleston Southern, @georgiatech, SEC Champ game
Bama: #21 Arkansas, @Auburn, SEC Champ game
Oregon: @23 Utah, Ore-State, Pac12 champ game (prob against Utah again)
Ohio State: #7 Mich-State, #6 @Mich, Big 10 champ game

Oregon trailing Utah 28-0 at halftime?????

How did Oregon beat Ohio State earlier. Going back to that game that was a major game.

I watched first half of buckeyes. It was 35-0 early against mich-state.

Cinci May slide in top 4 (if it wasn't rigged)

1) Georgia
2) Ohio State
3) Alabama
4) Cincinnati

5) Michigan
6) Notre Dame
7) Oklahoma State

Conference Championship Games:

Friday Dec 3

#10 Oregon (10-2) vs #17 Utah (9-3)

Saturday Dec 4

Noon- #9 Baylor (10-2) vs #5 Oklahoma State (11-1)

3pm Utah State (9-3) vs #19 San Diego State (11-1)

3:30pm Appy State (10-2) vs #24 Louisiana (11-1)

4pm #1 Georgia (12-0) vs #3 Alabama (11-1)

4pm #21 Houston (11-1) vs #4 Cincinnati (12-0)

8pm #2 Michigan (11-1) vs #13 Iowa (10-2)

8pm #15 Pitt (10-2) vs #16 Wake Forest (10-2)

Cincinnati aims to prove it's more than a Cinderella by breaking into exclusive College Football Playoff
The Group of Five's best chance to play for a national title -- ever -- wears black and red
Dennis Dodd

By Dennis Dodd
1 hr ago
8 min read

https://www.cbssports.com/coll...lege-football-playoff/

IF I was a betting man, I would have lost huge last night. I saw Georgia blowing past everyone and coming close to shutting Bama out. Wow was I wrong.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

I hear ya !!!!

Bama's O line picked a VERY opportune time to play their best game of the season!




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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

As of 6 hrs ago, 24/7 Sports has UCF playing UF in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa.

Go Bearcats! Beat Bama!!!

Get tampa tix before it's officially announced later tonight. I'm already in with UCF season tix benefits to buy on UCF side.