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Originally Posted by tredadda
I hope Cincinnati made it, but my gut tells me that if a 2 loss Alabama makes it and OSU wins, Cincinnati will be the odd team that is left out. Granted I think if they make it as a #4 seed, they get crushed by UGA (assuming they beat Alabama).
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I would agree if Cincinnati wasn't playing this weekend or if they were playing an unranked team.
The way it should be viewed (IMO) is nothing before yesterday matters.... Cincinnati is #4 and they have to play their way out of it.
In other words, at the end of the weekend, there shouldn't be this over-analyzing SoS and all these other things, because all of that is taken into account in their #4 ranking.
So, it only comes down to how much more/less impressive the wins/losses are this weekend on whether Cincinnati is in or out. What's a win against Baylor versus a win against Houston? If Ok St beats the higher ranked team by 3 more touchdowns than Cincinnati's win, is that impressive enough to give them the nod?
All that said, there could be something said about recalibrating at the end of the season and saying a quality win at the time probably wasn't or whatever, given preseason polls are bullshit... but, they kind of make their bed by over-rating teams early in the season, which throws wrenches in everything, so there's really no going back from that.