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My own personal eyeball test says Michigan isn't good enough. But, that said, I still expect to beat OSU.
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Expect? Based on what? Is that the game we'll see the Real Rudock?I'll let you ban hate speech when you let me define hate speech.
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Aren't you supposed to be only paying attention to recruiting at this point?Comment
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Well, I didn't get the humor as I'm a literal sort of guy. Besides, here's the scenario, quite believable actually even if not likely, where it could happen.
talent's post Taken literally, he just clicked back up on my credible scale.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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Why? It plays with the Committee whether you like it or are sick of it.Originally posted by froot loops View Post
I listened to an interview with Bill Hancock who is the CFP Selection Committee Chair a week or two ago on a sports radio show. The eyeball test was mentioned frequently. It is one of the many things the committee looks at.
No question, it is part of the CBB Tournament selection. I don't have a problem with it at all as a criteria for the CFP selections either.
Also part of this interview was mention of a thing Hancock put on this summer where he invited a bunch of sports writers to learn how the committee works. They were assembled into groups of 16-20 (the number of people that will be on the actual committee), given scenarios and told to pick the final 4. Rinse and repeat. They spent 2 days doing this.
Chris Childers who works with Rick Neuheisal on one of the CFB shows was there and said it was incredibly interesting to see the process and how people and groups picked the final 4. In the end, he thought that despite all the criticism his view is that its a good system only made better by going to 6 teams. He's against auto bids for conference champions because, for example - and there are others, a 12-0 ACC champ may be a lesser team than a 10-2 SEC or any of the other Power5 conferences. Why? The eyeball test.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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Agree. If you're not using the eyeball test, go back to the old system where it's RPI, computers and whatever other BS they used.Comment
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The old polls were a subjective system. So we fixed the problem by going with another subjective system.Comment
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We IMPROVED the old system by adding 2 more teams to the playoff. I'm ammused by all the hand-wringing. We've had the system for all of one year and so far they got it exactly right.Comment
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True but going to a selection committee added no value over the previous system. Clemson isn't an objectively better number 1 than the other candidates.Originally posted by Mike View PostComment
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Luckily, the playoffs aren't decided after 8 weeks.Comment
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Originally posted by Jeff Buchanan View Post
People say this phrase all the time and I'm quite sure their eyeballs aren't watching all of these games. They quite often evoke this "test" when it goes against any of the other things that are supposed to be used.
I remember last year when people were talking up the SEC versus everyone else. They really used it when Mississippi State and Mississippi were #1 and #2.
It is like the NFL draft, nobody ever goes back sees if their eyeball test was worth a crap.Comment
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Have you WATCHED them play?Originally posted by Hannibal View Post
I caught the first half of the Clemson drubbing of GT. If you look at just the objective numbers you don't get the full effect of how ruthlessly effective the Clemson offense is.
Deshaun Johnson was 21/33 for 265y and 2 TDs. RB Wayne Gallman ran 13 times for 115y at a 8.8y per play and scored 2 TDs. There were a couple of Defensive TDs and a Safety off a blocked punt from STs. The offense was 10/16 on 3rd downs.
This is a great CFB Team. By the eyeball test they are WAY better LOOKING than any of the other contenders and I've seen all of them play at some point and for parts of games. osu has been inconsistent. LSU is, well, they look like a better Michigan but not by much. Bama is over-rated IMO based on what they look like.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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.Originally posted by froot loops View Post
I'd agree with that. It's too bad but you're probably right. Many of the members of the Committee will not have actually seen every team they have to choose from among the top teams that will be realistically considered.
There realistically not going to jump down to team #9 or #10 to pick one of those teams to get a berth even though they really LOOK good.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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Even with a glasseye and a wicked astigmatism?Originally posted by hack View Post"Whole milk, not the candy-ass 2-percent or skim milk."Comment
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M has a path to the playoffs. It's unlikely, but crazier things have happened.
I have no idea why people get at all perturbed by the week 1 CFP ratings. It's pretty clear that they are absolutely and totally fluid. Yeah, MSU is #7. Eh, whatever. If they win out, they are in. Period. End of story. For that matter, Florida State, I think has a very credible path to the CFP with the potential to beat Clemson and Florida. And they start off at the luck #16 spot.
I think this is a massive upgrade from previous efforts. Massive.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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