Beat SMU and go to CFP?

[Sean Miller Fan]

Lets play this out. If we beat SMU:

- Have to figure we beat UVa

- Split Clem/Lou

- Beat BC

That's 11-1. Now lets say the loss is to Clemson. That means we likely wont play in the ACCCG. Do we get in at 11-1.

Big Ten will send 3: Oregon, PSU, OSU/IU winner

SEC will send 3: UGa, Texas, Ten. Lets pretend the Bama/LSU winner drops another game and A&M loses another.

ACC: 2 Pitt and Clemson. Lets say Clemson beats Miami in ACCG. Miami may be 12-1 but has a weaker resume/SOS than Pitt since they played 3 non-P4 teams in the non-con and Pitt would theoretically have a really good road win at SMU

Big 12: 1

ND

G5

 

[cashisking884]

Miami’s win at UF would be more impressive than wins against Cinn and WVU.

Loss would have to be to Clemson in your scenario. No way Pitt can lose to the team Miami went on the road and beat, and get in over 12-1 ACC runner-up Miami.

 

[TD_6082]

I wouldn't assume a 1 loss Pitt team goes over a 1 loss Indiana.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I wouldn't assume a 1 loss Pitt team goes over a 1 loss Indiana.

You'd have to look at the resumes. IU's schedule is garbage and it cant really get much better.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Miami’s win at UF would be more impressive than wins against Cinn and WVU.

Loss would have to be to Clemson in your scenario. No way Pitt can lose to the team Miami went on the road and beat, and get in over 12-1 ACC runner-up Miami.

Well yea.

If we beat SMU, UVa, and Clemson, we basically have an ACCCG appearance locked up based on tiebreakers if we just split the last 2. But lets say we beat Clemson, lose to Lou and lose to Miami. We'd be 11-2 and still have an outside shot depending on what else happens.

 

[upj87]

You'd have to look at the resumes. IU's schedule is garbage and it cant really get much better.

me thinks pounding the schitt out of their big 10 schedule by two and three touchdown margins mitigates that and gives them the edge over squeaker wins over the likes of Cincy, NC, Cal and WVU...not to mention the current national love affair with Cignetti with the talking heads in the sports media..

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

me thinks pounding the schitt out of their big 10 schedule by two and three touchdown margins mitigates that and gives them the edge over squeaker wins over the likes of Cincy, NC, Cal and WVU...

There is a chance they finish the season without a win over a team with a winning record.

 

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

Beat SMU and have a chance to go to the playoff? Sure.

But going at least 3-1 after that would not be some rite of passage. Any team left on the schedule could beat us, though you'd like to think at least Virginia certainly wouldn't.