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Meaningless game to Alabama. Alabama's remaining games after this are Western Carolina and Auburn at home. 99% chance of winning both. Then SEC title game. Win SEC with 1 loss and you go to the BCS title game.

I'd be surprised if Saban leaves his starters in if this gets to a 30+ point lead for A&M.
 
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:
Meaningless game to Alabama. Alabama's remaining games after this are Western Carolina and Auburn at home. 99% chance of winning both. Then SEC title game. Win SEC with 1 loss and you go to the BCS title game.

I'd be surprised if Saban leaves his starters in if this gets to a 30+ point lead for A&M.
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I completely disagree.
 
Alabama will finish #1 on the computers even with this loss, given a win over Georgia or Florida in the title game. Even if voters put them #4, as long as they're mixed on Oregon/KState/ND, which they will be, Alabama gets in. A loss today would open the door for not getting in, but ultimately, I think this game means nothing as far as national title prospects for Alabama go, since I think they will get in even with a loss today.
 
Basically if a 1-loss SEC Champion doesn't make the BCS title game, the NCAA is at risk of losing the SEC to secession, so Obama would have to step in to keep the SEC in the union by coming up with a grand compromise anyway.
 
Wisconsin clinched their division today. Only the Tressels and the Sanduskies are ahead of them.

Maybe Duke can pull a Wisconsin.
 
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:
Alabama will finish #1 on the computers even with this loss, given a win over Georgia or Florida in the title game. Even if voters put them #4, as long as they're mixed on Oregon/KState/ND, which they will be, Alabama gets in. A loss today would open the door for not getting in, but ultimately, I think this game means nothing as far as national title prospects for Alabama go, since I think they will get in even with a loss today.
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If Oregon and K State end up undefeated, neither Bama nor UGA (if they were to beat Bama) would be in the NC game.
 
Oregon's at about 20% odds to go undefeated until their bowl game. They have Stanford, at Oregon State, UCLA/Southern Cal (neutral).

It would be interesting to see if the voters believe an undefeated Notre Dame deserves to make it over an SEC-champion Alabama. Also would be cool if the AP voters are asinine enough to hand Ohio State a split national title if all the other undefeateds lose a game.
 
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:
Oregon's at about 20% odds to go undefeated until their bowl game. They have Stanford, at Oregon State, UCLA/Southern Cal (neutral).

It would be interesting to see if the voters believe an undefeated Notre Dame deserves to make it over an SEC-champion Alabama. Also would be cool if the AP voters are asinine enough to hand Ohio State a split national title if all the other undefeateds lose a game.
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Oregon will be undefeated.

There's a reason I didn't include ND in the above comment.

0% chance OSU would get even a sniff of the National Championship. Even if AP voters ignored the bowl ban, the Big Ten is historically abysmal this season
 
OSU is at #5 right now in the AP, so the voters must have some respect for the Big Ten. I think you're forgetting who we're talking about here, NOD. The AP voters are mostly people who don't actually watch or follow college football outside of one team. The vast majority of them can't name more than 2-3 players on any of the undefeated teams. They look at W/L records. I think it's very possible that an OSU team that is not among the top 15 teams in the country, that cheated to get where they are, and that will not win its own conference, is awarded a split a national championship.

Notre Dame and Ohio State, your 2012-2013 co-national champions
 
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:
OSU is at #5 right now in the AP, so the voters must have some respect for the Big Ten. I think you're forgetting who we're talking about here, NOD. The AP voters are mostly people who don't actually watch or follow college football outside of one team. The vast majority of them can't name more than 2-3 players on any of the undefeated teams. They look at W/L records. I think it's very possible that an OSU team that is not among the top 15 teams in the country, that cheated to get where they are, and that will not win its own conference, is awarded a split a national championship.

Notre Dame and Ohio State, your 2012-2013 co-national champions
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In any other year in the Big 10, a 10-0 OSU team would not be #5. They'd be #1 or #2.
 
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I know NOD is pretty happy about the Dawgs clinching the East for the second straight year. Not excited to be going up against Bama in the championship game, but we saw saturday they can be beaten.

Of course Aaron Murray is not Johnny Football and realistically UGA will get crushed by Bama, but it's nice to be in the national conversation again.

For those of us scared of a Kansas State-Notre Dame national championship -- there is no way Notre Dame stays undefeated. I believe USC can take both the domers and Oregon down putting the SEC champion (Bama) back into the NC. There's a good article on the SEC's important role in the championship in the wall street journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 16210.html
 
From the WSJ article dukeberto posted: "Frankly, any title game that doesn't include the SEC's best wouldn't feel as legitimate."

I don't agree with that line of thinking. What the SEC has accomplished over the past 6 years should have no bearing on this season.
 
UNC up 7 on UVA early. I've always thought that Erik Highsmith has the best sports name in history. It's like a cross between Heisman and Naismith.
 
we went to the game but left at half. it was miserably cold and i had no intention of sitting through a unc win as a popsicle
 
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