Here’s how the rankings are manipulated with teams like Tennessee and Missouri.
Alabama is #10
BYU is #11
Miami is #13
“Alabama has to stay ranked high because of their FOUR ranked wins!”
Half of Alabama’s ranked wins are Tennessee and Missouri. Those two teams are a combined 0-6 vs. ranked opponents and have beaten ZERO bowl eligible teams.
Let’s simply replace Tennessee with a team like 7-3 Louisville (who beat #13 Miami, Pitt, and James Madison), and replace Missouri with a team like 7-3 Arizona (who just beat #25 Cincinnati on the road last week).
If you make those two little changes, Alabama suddenly now has just 2 ranked wins.
With Arizona ranked, BYU now also has two ranked wins. With Louisville ranked, Miami’s loss to them is no longer to a “horrible unranked team!”
So now you’d have:
8-2 Alabama with 2 ranked wins
9-1 BYU with 2 ranked wins
8-2 Miami with a Top 10 win over Notre Dame
BYU clearly jumps Alabama (should already be ahead of some Top 10 teams)
Then what you’d have to take into consideration is that Miami beat Florida State, while Alabama lost to Florida State by 14. Miami likely jumps Alabama too.
With just a small change to #20 and #22, taking out Tennessee and Missouri (who have ZERO wins over bowl eligible teams), and replacing them with Louisville and Arizona (who have FIVE wins over bowl eligible teams), the resumes and CFP cases of teams ranked #10-#13 change drastically.
@CLickteig1@LittleFSUboi@CurtMWeiler We lost to UVA PITT and STANFORD- doesn’t matter, I’ll take 10 wins a season and a playoff berth every year vs whatever the fuck the last 2 years have been.
@GabeyCardStacks I think it’s just being your own worst enemy. Winning 10 games every year, you gradually increase your expectations. Also, fan is short for fanatic, so I don’t think any fan of a top 10-15 program is or should be okay not being a legitimate contender.
I need yall who are bringing up NIL to keep that out of my mentions. Mike has lost to 10 teams with smaller NIL budgets. He loses consistently with more money and more talent. The program is done responding and climbing for him.
@Bee_Miami@MDSTILLWELL@ChefMattFSU You don’t lmao? Tons of money in track. It’s not football money, but it a very good living without taking the football beating.