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          Seems tough.

          Beating Clemson is as good a reason as any to give South Carolina a higher vote over the other 3-loss SEC teams (and I think they’ve looked better anyway). Miami deserves to drop below, also.

          So maybe SMU wins next week and is the sole ACC team in, Boise State wins and is the G5 team.

          Maybe that’s enough to bring South Carolina from its current 15 to 11 after Boise State, leapfrogging Miami, Clemson, Alabama, and Ole Miss.

          The big question is what happens to the SEC and Big 10 championship game losers. Does a 10-3 Georgia get in over the 9-3 SEC teams? What about an 11-2 Texas who has only lost to Georgia, but twice? If Penn State gets demolished by Oregon, what does that mean for them and the rest of the Big 10 contenders?

          There’s still room for chaos, as shifting narratives retroactively change how we (and more importantly, the CFP committee) view strength of schedule and strength of record.

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            Ok, so, not totally surprising that the AP voters didn’t put South Carolina ahead of Alabama, but I still think they deserve to be. And for the AP poll, South Carolina was at 16 rather than 15 for week 14, and has a little bit further to go to get into the top 7 non-conference-champs.

            We’ll see what happens, but I’ll be pissed if Alabama gets in and South Carolina doesn’t.

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    I’m basically just rooting for every Underdog today, except the Aggies fuck the Aggies.

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    3 Texas @ 21 Texas A&M, the return of the Lone Star Showdown after a 13-year hiatus. Winner of this one goes will be rewarded with their first SECCG appearance

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    Got to say I’m pretty darn surprised about Texas’s inability to pass the ball tonight.

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      I don’t think “inability” is the right word. With how poor A&M’s run defense came to light in their South Carolina and Auburn games, it was obvious we wouldn’t need to pass. The thing is, our run game was pretty pedestrian until it showed up out of nowhere the Kentucky game last week

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    oklahoma @ LSU

    Using a timeout on the first series on offense at home? It’s like Brian Kelly wants people to pile on even more criticism of his coaching ability

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    UF @ FSU

    Confession: FSU isn’t that different from Florida, it’s just that literally everything about them is a little bit worse, always has been, and always will be, and yet somehow they refuse to admit it.

    For that they deserve all the bad things.

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      31-11, Florida wins and causes a relatively minor kerfuffle, at least by today’s standards, with a flag plant.

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      Yeah, this FSU team could hang with Florida if they played clean. Florida is improved but are not elite.

      FSU has not played clean. 24-3 Gators early in the 4th.

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      Gators up 14-0 at the half. Clearly the Noles have some talent, but they’re just a mess. Florida has had some frustrating drops that have left the offense not putting up the points, but one more score should do the job.

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        Napier has done one hell of a job just believing in himself this season. Honestly good for him but still fuck the gators

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          All while still doing at least one head-shakingly stupid thing every single game. I’m not sure he’s got Saban or even Kirby ceiling, but the chaos factor should be fun/memeworthy if the team keeps improving. See you next season.

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      The numbers tonight aren’t going to really show it, but Lagway does things that make one really optimistic for the next year or two, portal-willing.

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      Not to jinx my team, but man this FSU offense is sloppy. Of course, so are the Florida receivers.

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    Wait what happened after the Michigan Ohio State game? I just caught a little bit of that. Did they say the Ohio State players got pepper sprayed

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      So Michigan did a flag plant, which caused a fight. It was dying down some, but there was still a Michigan player running around with the flag, and the fight started back up when a tOSU player tug-o-war’d it away from him, then other Ohio State people started chasing a Michigan fan/staffer/something who grabbed the now-sad rag of a flag, and random cops started pepper spraying people all over the place. I guess folks from both teams got sprayed.

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    25 Kansas State @ 16 Iowa State (Farmageddon)

    Major implications for the Big XII/playoff in this one. Wish it was in a snow storm like last year

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      Dlyan Sampson leads the SEC and sets the record for single season TDs and Yards at Tennessee, not a Doak Walker finalist. What an absolute joke

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      I said this over in the other thread but I’ll repeat it here. Tennessee has yet to play a full game against a meaningful opponent. Is this good or bad if you’re our opponent in the cfp?

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        It was tough and much closer than this scoreline suggests. But I’ll take it. Playoffs here we come. Go Irish!.

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          ngl, wanted y’all to take the L. I think that was our surest path to hosting. I’ll take a replay of the Miracle at South Bend any day of the week though

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    Iron Bowl

    Other two big games don’t have the early makings of an upset, but if the Orange or the Trojans keep it competitive I am potentially rooting for chaos there?

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    Florida @ FSU

    They’re already down a touchdown, but FSU has about 3 quarters to do the funniest thing imaginable.