Austin Reaves just missed a FT on purpose, tracked down the rebound and made a very difficult short touch shot from the baseline, no backboard, to force OT. THE CLUTCHEST LAKER.
Record
• BYU: 11-2
• Notre Dame: 10-2
• Miami: 10-2
Strength of schedule
• BYU: 22
• Notre Dame: 44
• Miami: 45
Strength of record
• BYU: 9
• Notre Dame: 13
• Miami: 14
The committee is going to get the final at-large spot objectively wrong. Sad for BYU and CFB.
Objectively, how do you defend this:
Miami (10–2)
– ESPN SOS: 45
– ESPN SOR: 14
– Did not play for a conference championship
– Losses: Two 8–4 teams (SMU, Louisville)
BYU (11–2)
– ESPN SOS: 22
– ESPN SOR: 9
– Played in the Big 12 championship
– Losses: No. 4 Texas Tech on the road & in the Big 12 title game
Notre Dame (10–2)
– ESPN SOS: 44
– ESPN SOR: 13
– Did not play for a conference championship
– Losses: Miami (who lost to two 8–4 teams) & No. 7 Texas A&M
With LeBron’s streak of 1,297 consecutive games with 10+ points snapped, the next two longest active streaks are KD at 267 & SGA 170.
So, if SGA never misses a game, and hits 10+ every night, he can catch LeBron early in the 2039-2040 season when he’s 41 years old.
Good luck!
If LeBron’s incomprehensible 10+ point, 17 year, 1,297 game streak were ever going to end, that was simply the greatest way imaginable:
Sitting on 8 points, tie game, ball in hands, chance to keep streak alive with a make or get to OT with a miss, he… made the right play.
Assisted for the open 3. Ball game. Lakers win.
Just perfect. And we’ll never see anything like that streak again.
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If you're going to penalize a 1-loss Power Conference team for a weak strength of schedule... BYU's SOS is better than Ole Miss and Notre Dame.
If you're going to penalize a team for not having the strongest power ratings (which incorporate prior year's history and recruiting rankings)... BYU's FPI is higher than Oklahoma's.
If you're going to penalize a team for a non-competitive / bad loss... Alabama lost by 14 to a team with a losing record and Miami lost to two unranked teams.
If you're going to use strength-of-record like you indicated you would, BYU's SOR is the second highest of teams 6-12.
BYU also (1) made its conference championship game and (2) if you sum up the wins of the teams it has beaten, it is THIRD in the country. It is hard to win games and BYU has beaten a lot of teams with a lot of wins.
This. Makes. No. Sense.
The @CFBPlayoff should be ashamed of itself. It has literally contorted itself into a pretzel to avoid putting BYU where it should be ranked (somewhere between 6th - 9th).
RT to get the info out there. They need to feel pressure.
My one year olds got his priorities straight because when he wakes up his first words of the day are “milk. Waffle. Tractor. Dirt.” In no specific order