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Could a 1 loss Bama (who would not be SEC Champs in either scenario getting to 1 loss) get left out of the Playoffs? 0 loss Wisconsin & TheU would get in before Bama 1 loss UGa (SEC Champs), OU (Big12 Champs), Clemson & TheU (ACC Champs) would go before Bama 1 loss TheU (non-ACC Champs) & Wisconsin (regardless of whether B1G Champs) would NOT go before Bama 2 loss Auburn (SEC Champs) would go before Bama (they'd be Champs & have head-to-head) No other 2 loss team (whether Champs or not) would go before Bama.

TBH, 1-2 ain't no great shakes, but a small sample size. Anas will lose playing time if he doesn't improve.

You spelled Anas wrong in the last line. Nobody else missed more than 1 FT. Weren't several of Anas' misses front ends of 1&1? Maybe he needs to shoot them underhanded.

Let's not forget the failure to score to end the 1st half. Even if you only get a FG, you win the game. INT on 2nd & goal from the 3 with 22.7 seconds kept SO in the game. Too conservative with 3 & out in the 4th Q after stopping SO on 4th down (after allowing SO to convert a 4th & 17 to even keep the drive alive). 2 PT conversion on 1st TD? Failure to call timeout after SO failed to score on 1st & goal with 2:00 left in 4Q. You have 3 of them. If they don't score, you run the clock out. If they do (which you knew they would), you've got 30+ more seconds on the clock to drive to try to score a FG or TD to go ahead. 3 turnovers including the above INT and a fumble on the drive when down 1 and under 2:00 in 4Q All of the above is sub-optimal.

2nd & goal w/ 22.7 seconds and no timeouts. I think the pass call is the right play so you can have run/pass threat on 3rd & 4th down if it's incomplete. Inexperienced QB makes a bad decision and throws it right to a LB dropping in coverage. Really enjoy the coverage. Thanks @ColonelMike

If UCF wins out, would they get in over a 2 loss team? Probably not. Should they? Hmmm. If not, you're basically admitting that only P5+ND have a chance to win NCAAF championship before the season even starts.

I don't think that's true. Not trying to be a smart aleck here, but what does that mean? I am honestly trying to learn how 1B is judged defensively. When I googled "1b defensive metrics 2017" I got this page 2

Barring total collapse across the nation, NO 2 loss team is making Final 4. There are currently 9 P5 + ND teams with 0 or 1 loss. 4 of those teams match up this weekend. Loser of TCU v. OU is out. If ND loses, they are out. If TheU loses, their only hope is win out, beat Clemson in the ACC Champ and be last 1 loss team standing. Loser of Bama v. UGa could still be a 1 loss team. If that happens, both go, taking 2/4 spots.

If both have only 1 loss, I like UGa > OU

I don't get that. Votto is fundamentally unsound at 1B. How that translates to a GG finalist is beyond me.

Don't forget the BoSox and the marathon bomber.

UofL overcame a soft SOS by being dominant early and hanging on late to secure a Top 8 seed in 2017. They rode that home field advantage at JPat to Omaha after defeating UK in the Super. The 2018 schedule is out and it looks like they may need to be dominant again (which will be tough based on departures). ACC - the 30 games you get are beyond your control. Based on past history and projected talent, schedule is definitely front-loaded and good mix of H and A. Highlights include: UNC (Top 8 [#2] last year) at JPat to kick off the ACC schedule MAR 9-11 @Wake (Top 16) for weekend #2 Clemson (Top 16) in weekend #3 @fsu (Top 16) in weekend #4 NC St. (#3 in UK Regional) in weekend #5 UVa (#2 in TCU Regional) in weekend #7 Non-Conference - big addition of 2 home games against Texas Tech who were Top 8 (#5). Home & home w/ UK (Top 16), @Vandy (#2 but won Clemson Regional) and IU (#2 in UK Regional) are solid tests. The rest is nothing to write home about. Missed opportunities to schedule big opening weekend (UofL is playing round-robin at The Citadel where Coach Mc played) and the off ACC weekend (Indiana St. at JPat). That said, I trust McD and know they will be ready when the bell rings. Go Cards!!!

Yeah, but for any of this to matter they will have won v. LSU, @ Miss. St. & @ Auburn and played UGa in SEC Champ. Gotta play the hypos.

Grant appears to be arguing, based on experience last year presumably, that not making your Conference Championship game can be a good thing. He's able to point to PSU's only loss as being to a Top 3 team on the road. It's a valid point. (As many have pointed out, they suffer from not many / any good wins, but OK.) My beef is that the loser of UGa v. Bama in SEC Champ game (if it happens) went 12-0 and then lost on a neutral site to a Top 3 team. The SEC East is wretched, but UGa has the ND win. Bama's FSU win is now tarnished, but people thought it was good at the time and the SEC West is competent. 12-1 Bama or UGa get in over 11-1 ND for my $ (particularly if it's UGa). Pac12? Child please. Big12? If OU is convincing from here on out (think style points), maybe a 12-1 OU team gets the #4 spot if everything else falls right, but only because of win at tOSU. ACC? unless its a 13-0 Miami or a 12-1 Clemson who throttles the U in the ACC Champ game, I think they get left out.

That was a head snapping reversal Mentsch!

Play along instead of tearing apart the hypothetical, please. For me, UGa gets the #4 seed b/c they beat ND at ND and their loss (to Alabama on a neutral field) is better than ND's loss to UGa at home. NOTE: The most likely part of this equation is 1 loss UGa. They'll be favored against all future opponents except Bama. ND has a tough road to the end of the season, but should also be favored in all games so that could easily happen. Assuming Bama is #1, toughest thing might be finding #2 and #3 to make this a battle for the final playoff spot. Figure the B1G winner gets in above both if they have 1 loss (and certainly if Wisconsin is undefeated). Can't argue for Clemson over UGa or ND. Oklahoma is the only Big12 school you could make an argument for (particularly if tOSU is the B1G representative), but a loss to Iowa St. at home is not as good as either ND or UGa losses. Washington is only Pac12 team that could be a 1 loss champion, but their loss is worse and their schedule is bad. No way they get in over ND or UGa. So, the real question is would the other Power 5 conferences allow a final 4 w/ 2 SEC, 1 B1G and 1/2 independent / 1/2 ACC? In this instance, I think they'd have to. Maybe that would force them to start talking about 6 or 8 teams. My vote would be 8 teams. Round 1 before Xmas. Round 2 around /on New Years Day. Round 3 a weekish later (not to interfere with NFL).

8 and a bunch of dudes. 10 has played very few snaps on defense this year and was absent today. The CBs were wretched but only slightly worse than LB, S and DL. At some point, there was no reason for UofL to bother punting or kicking off deep because WF was going to score regardless of where they got the ball. Might as well have gone Hal Mumme and gone for it on 4th down and onsides kick every time. Awful. That said, refs missed 2 OL downfield on WF last TD. Didn't matter. UofL was going to lose regardless.

As most of you know, seating has been free and first come at JPat except for UK games and maybe a fundraiser game each year. With the success of the program, UofL decided to change that for the 2018 season. As I understand it, season tickets were claimed and paid for through a couple of weeks ago and seats were selected this week. Chairback seats were extremely reasonable at $150/season. ($120 for seniors & youths or if you bought 4 tix - really made it hard to justify buying 3.) Berm tix were $100 and $80. I'd be interested to see how many of each they sold. They tweeted on 9.21 that "More than 1/3 of available seats gone in 1 day." Although the website was jacked up, I was happy to get 2 seats in Row F of Sec. 205 yesterday afternoon when my slot came open.

Unless I'm forgetting something, the Astros did a complete tear down and rebuild. They didn't have any contracts like Votto, Bailey, Mesoraco, etc. to deal with. (No need to rehash whether those were good contracts when signed OR even now, I'm just saying that makes the Reds rebuild a different animal than the Astros.)

If your Dusty Baker, in 2 yrs. you win 95 and 97 games, win your division and get bounced in the NLDS, you get fired.

The only runs scored by the Cubs in the NLCS were via HR.

TiVo is a wonderful thing. Hung around until the 7th and TiVo'd the rest of the game. Added 90 minutes to the recording and only missed the last out. Watched the remainder this morning as I was getting ready for work (without knowing the result). Pretty competitive and drama-filled baseball. That said, just can't get into the "all or nothing" approach in MLB right now. In GM1, 3 HRs, 3/9 total hits were HRs, 4/4 runs scored via HR and 17/51 outs via K. In GM2, 8 HRs, 8/19 total hits were HRs, 10/13 runs scored via HR and 19 Ks in 66 outs. Bring back Whitey Herzog!!!

I'd look for him to end up with the Nats. Who is NYY eyeing for their position?

Sometimes a team will try to do anything to throw off a P if they know a valid appeal is coming when the ball is put back into play. Bluff stealing is the usual. I think if the P even fakes a throw to drive the bluff back to the base, he has now lost the opportunity to appeal bc that must be the 1st play made once the ball is put back into play for the appeal to be valid. I think a fake throw counts as a play which voids the appeal. Certainly if he threw to the base to drive him back, that would be a play.

BC basically ran 2 plays (inside run to #2 or rollout dump pass to a back / TE) the entire 2nd half. UofL defense refused to stop either one. As I've said before, defense lacks talent, is coached awfully, executes poorly and plays stupid. Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln? With all that said, they are driving to win the game when Smith (who appeared to be going through the motions all day anyway) coughs up the ball and gives BC perfect field position to win the game on a FG. Ugh.