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[Hannibal]

No. Most had them at 7 to 8 wins.

Correct. Or at least six.

[Pasadena Blue]

There are multiple threads on these very thing at MGO and anyone taking your position is chastised.

M is looking like a potential CFP contender.

any how many times we bashed MGO for its irrationality? ... not worth reading, who do you keep doing it? You know what the position of the majority of posters here is.

M is CLEARLY not a CFP team, not even remotely close.

I have no idea what will happen against PSU, although I do think HARBAUGH > Franklin.

Against O-state ... yes, we should be beaten soundly. Yet, I thought we should have been beaten soundly two years ago as well --- so who knows.

So, even if we somehow win these 2, beat Iowa in the B1G --- an extremely unlikely scenario, I still don't think we are deserving of the CFP, and I am fairly confident the Committee will see it that way as well. There will be plenty of other 1 and 2 loss teams to choose from.

[lineygoblue]

I'd rather not see M in the CFP anyway. Its too soon.

Let them go with the glamour teams.

[iam416]

PB:

Your post is full of fair. You suck. :-)

I'll stop with the CFP talk, but whether or not M is "deserving" -- I don't think it's remote. And I GUARANTEE you that this forum will change its tune entirely on the "deserving" front if M should beat Penn State, Ohio State and Iowa.

[WM Wolverine]

It would require a lot more to happen than just M running the table (a very, very unlikely event) to worry about whether M would be deserving to be in the CFP if they did so.

[lineygoblue]

Michigan has been deserving of a post season playoff berth before, and been denied because of unwritten rules and national bias.

[Hannibal]

Wondering whether we'll make the playoffs by winning out is like wondering whether the hottest chick in the class will pay for your dinner if you score a date with her. 11-2 + a B1G championship would be such an unqualified success that the playoff hardly matters.

[The Oracle]

True that.

[Prime2]

Ah Talent, you are full of shit, this cowboy had Harbaugh beating Meyer even before he met his team in order to assess Hoke's incompetence.

OP = Rock of Gibraltar

[THE_WIZARD_]

Talent = Sandbaggus Douchebaggus

[Prime2]

Translated for our illegal Mexican posters:

Talanto = MuchoAnus

[edindetroit]

I can count on my pecker

Is that some new kind of math?

[Jeff Buchanan]

Oh, I think M would be "deserving" of a seat at the CFP table if it runs the table, as unlikely that scenario is.

You're talking about leaving the BT Champion, a P5 champion, out while giving a seat to an independent like ND, a 2 loss P10 champion or a B12 champion that got there by not having to play a CCG at all.

If that unlikely scenario of choices does play out, it's going to be damn interesting to see how the Committee deals with it.......not to mention a 6 team play-off will be born.

[iam416]

I still don't understand why it's some sort of extremely unlikely scenario. I'm fairly certain advanced stats will say it's at least a credible possibility.

Look, I think M would get destroyed in the CFP. But I also think they have a very legitimate chance to make it. What will be interesting, as I said, is if Stanford beats Notre Dame and Utah wins out to win the P12, does the CFP take 11-2 Utah or 11-2 M? That's going to be a fascinating question.

[Jeff Buchanan]

No contest ..... Utah beat M. That's the most justifiable reason the Committee will have if it sets up like that. M fans will howl, the BT will howl, they can just STFU.

I think the worst case for the Committee is going to be dealing with a one loss ND but I could see them getting in over a 2 loss P12 or B10 champ but, Oh the injustice.

I'd be down with that only because I hate the Domers.

I think you are right about the reasonable probability that M runs the table and vies for a play-off berth. I'll be looking for that analysis by mid-week or so and post a link.