I'm not much of a College Football guy but how did Bama get into the playoffs without winning their conference and the team they lost to losing in that same championship?
Ohio State lost 2 games, one of which was by 31 points to Iowa. And they got blown out by Oklahoma. Big Ten Champion or no, they got blown out twice.I'm not much of a College Football guy but how did Bama get into the playoffs without winning their conference and the team they lost to losing in that same championship?
I'm not much of a College Football guy but how did Bama get into the playoffs without winning their conference and the team they lost to losing in that same championship?
Do you think it’s possible that coaches may be directed to put their team in bad situations in order to intentionally lose games?
Players are always going to play their hearts out in order to cash in on their next contract. And good coaches put their players in the best position to win.
Is it possible that coaches deliberately put their players in bad positions so that the team will lose? The player can still give maximum effort but maybe the coach deliberately tells the player to rush a gap or position himself in the field where the coach knows they won’t have an impact and the defense/offense will fail?
I gotta think it happens.
College football's system is very flawed and Auburn did get the shaft for having to play an extra game. If I was Auburn, I'm sitting there saying I have wins over Georgia and Alabama and only lost by one score to Clemson on the road but they're all in the final four and we're not.Because of their brand
Bama has 0 quality wins, I didn't think they should have been 4th based on resume but they're in because they're Bama and the Clemson vs. Bama for 3rd straight year was something the CFB committee couldn't pass on. That said, OSU can't blame anyone but themselves. Can't lose to Iowa (it's at Kinnick and all but) by 31 points. USC should have gotten more talk for the 4th seed, they had the higher SOS and more wins against the top 40 teams than Bama and OSU.
Auburn got hosed because of the conference championship game too. Georgia, Auburn and Bama were all 7-1 inside the conference, and Auburn beat both Georgia and Bama in the regular season, but was penalized for losing an extra game.
Highly unlikely, no one ever instructs their coach to purposely lose at the NFL level. At this point we can't out tank the Browns, so we can't get #1, no point to tank.I can’t imagine it either but as close as Joseph is to Elway I wonder if Elway’s given him direction to not win games. Obviously he’d have to also give him a promise that he’s going to stick around.
While I think Joseph has become the catch all scapegoat for a terrible team (much like Bednar was last season) he has to go after this season.
In my eyes the CFBP committee chose Bama because that Clemson v. Bama game is too hard to pass up. That game is going to be gooooood
He had to axe some good friends from the Crush like Kieth Bishop and Michael Young with the much lower stakes of Arena Football, so I’d expect cronyism to get Vance only so far.I can’t imagine it either but as close as Joseph is to Elway I wonder if Elway’s given him direction to not win games. Obviously he’d have to also give him a promise that he’s going to stick around.
A quick shout out to Ivan and Bonzai:
Check out the article in the Denver Post today. Good read. Lots of information around the current state of NFL offensive lines today. We've discussed a number of these points in the past - spread QB play in college, talent disparity between OL/DL in college, etc. But a few new points in there I hadn't considered.
Offensive lines of Broncos, others in the NFL are facing their biggest obstacles in years
The Nuggets (tied with the Celtics and Spurs) have the best home record in the NBA at 10-2. 3-7 on the road, though.
If they can tread water until Millsap gets back in February I think they're going to be a playoff team still. Jokic should be back in a few more games so that's not long term.
The team responded well on defense when Richard Jefferson got into these last couple games. If you watch the games on TV you can actually hear him yelling out instructions to the younger guys and it makes a big difference. Guys like Murray, Barton, and Juancho manage to get themselves out of position on defense pretty often and Jefferson corrected it on the fly.
Honestly, I don't have a huge problem with Alabama being in there. They lost one game to the same team that Georgia lost their one game, and Alabama was down by but one score in the 4th quarter. They didn't have many awesome wins, but the didn't have any bad losses either. Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State all had bad losses (either to a lame team, or a total blowout loss).
In the end, I would have been OK with either Alabama or Ohio State getting in. But I'm not up in arms about it.
On the VJ front, yeah - the Broncos are almost comical at this point. They are unprepared to play.