Twitter reacts to Clemson's latest Playoff ranking |
Clemson moved to the top spot
in the College Football Playoff rankings Tuesday, with little if any criticism.
In fact, the night created a debate the 9.5-point favorite Tigers hope they won't see out in Saturday's game with No. 7 Miami (8 p.m., ABC): Clemson is in win or lose. Just my opinion. Most chaotic scenario in my opinion is if Miami, Oklahoma and Ohio State win. 11-2 Clemson vs. 11-1 Alabama vs. 11-2 Ohio State. I'd take the defending champs there. I think you'd still need a loss by Wisconsin or Oklahoma, unless you're leaving out Miami even if it wins. People are making too big a deal about Ohio State being 8th. They're playing the No. 4 team, and two others ahead of them guaranteed to lose. The ESPN Playoff rankings show broadcast debated a similar scenario, with host Rece Davis championing the Tigers and analyst Kirk Herbstreit considering the idea. The scenario they laid out was Miami and Auburn winning their respective conferences with Ohio State as the Big Ten champion and USC and TCU also 2-loss conference champs. "I'm of the belief that Clemson should be in regardless, barring a 58-0 loss to Miami," Davis said. "It depends on what the committee looks at," KIrk Herbstreit said. "A big win over Auburn out of conference - you hate to say, 'Oh, they don't need to win their championship,' but in the very least, if it's a close game, Clemson will definitely have the resume to put them in. Then you'll have two teams from the ACC in this thing." Answering Davis' idea of Clemson being in regardless, ESPN's Jesse Palmer tweaked the results with Georgia as a one-loss SEC champion. "If Clemson loses, they're not automatically in, guys...What if Auburn loses to Georgia?" Palmer said. "That trump card in Clemson's schedule drops and there's four one-loss teams in." "That's still a scenario I would put Clemson in," Davis answered. Championship weekend kicks off Friday night with No. 10 Southern Cal taking on No. 12 Stanford in a weekend with five total top-12 matchups (No. 1 Clemson-No. 7 Miami; No. 2 Auburn-No. 6 Georgia; No. 4 Wisconsin-No. 8 Ohio State; No. 3 Oklahoma-No. 11 TCU). The final CFP selections come in a noon Sunday show on ESPN. Some extra Playoff points from Twitter: The committee decides what it wants to rank teams and then retrofits an explanation for it. Doesn’t mean it won’t get the 4 best teams. Just means there’s no real rules for how it happens. “We think Auburn is No. 2, therefore they are.” New #CFP rankings: Clemson, Auburn, Oklahoma, Wisconsin. Proof positive that: Wins vs. current Top 25 teams based on ranking: Herbstreit and Galloway saying the Auburn-Clemson head-to-head means nothing. In the argument between Oklahoma and Clemson, the Committee looked at quality wins (wins against teams over .500). I just don’t get it. Oklahoma had much better wins than Clemson, and then use a certain metric like “quality wins”. Aaaaaand we're done with 2017 weekly CFP rankings. Win and they're in -- Clemson, Auburn, Oklahoma, Wisconsin. Bama a chess piece at No 5 if Okla and or Wisconsin lose. Cut off at No. 9 Penn St. Interesting. Hocutt says Ohio State AD Gene Smith's recusal could be "extended." Last year, Clemson AD Dan Radakovich couldn't vote on potential Clemson playoff opponents.
However, if one of those spot open, Clemson could bump Alabama and Ohio State.
It would still come down to Bama vs. OSU for No 4 ... UNLESS Clemson loses. I think they'd stay ahead of both.
1) 2 wins vs top-ranked teams > 2 losses
2) Best (current) teams > most “deserving” team
1. Clemson 3
2. Auburn 3
3. Oklahoma 3
4. Wisconsin 1
5. Alabama 3
6. Georgia 2
7. Miami 2
8. Ohio State 2
9. Penn State 1
10. USC 1
11. TCU 1
12. Stanford 2
Pretty sad take.
In the argument between Auburn and Oklahoma, they took amount of CFP 10 wins to mean more than losses.
Narrative change.
Now that Auburn has beat two top CFP 10 teams (both are in SEC), it means more than their two losses.
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