So do we want Bama to keep winning until SEC championship so that win keeps looking better? Or do we want them to lose so we knock out another 1-loss team?
Yeah, not much screen game despite all the blitzing was surprising. They brought that one guy off the edge late, unimpeded, and Hooker saw him and STILL got sacked. Made no sense.
Need Bama to win and lose to GA. Need Clemons and TCU to lose. Need a 2 loss Pac 12 champ. Need the loser of Ohio St/Mich to lose again or just suck. So lots of help. I’m kinda not hopeful but anything can happen. Would love a shot at GA again
I’m not really worried about Oregon. We have better wins, and both teams loss to the same team. Ours was on the road, and closer. Theirs was neutral site (I think) and an absolute ass whipping. There is no realistic argument for them over us.
Throw out the Bama win—I think you’re wrong there. I agree on the others. But you’ve also listed five things, and we only need four of them. And none of them are incredibly unlikely. Very likely IMO: 1. Bama loses again 2. TCU loses 50/50 3. Clemson loses 4. Two-loss Pac-12 champ 5. OSU/Michigan isn’t close. None of these are long shots. Pick four. And smash the bottom half of the East too.
There isn’t right now, but they still get Utah and the UCLA/USC winner, who will probably be in the top ten. They have the chance to make a good last impression.
I am gonna gripe about one thing. Our tackling, especially from the secondary, is atrocious. It makes me visibly angry, especially when I see LSU DBs taking down Bama receivers 1 on 1.
That’s the one. But that was a long time ago, and everyone has a bad game. If Oregon wins convincingly from here on out, people will talk themselves into them turning a corner. Not 100% sure we need a two-loss Pac-12 champ, but it’d be great if none of the one-loss teams separated from the pack. We don’t want any of the three winning a couple 20-point blowouts in their last two games. I tend to think Oregon is the most dangerous (eye test, win streak), then UCLA (hypothetical avenging their sole loss), then USC (only loss was close, but their defense stats are horrendous).
I can definitely see it happening, but it won’t make sense. The entire season has to matter. Why bother playing the first game of the season if it’s not going to matter?
It matters, but you can make up for it. If Oregon finishes 12-1, on a 12-game winning streak, with two wins over top ten teams and two more over top 25 teams and their only loss to the #1 team in the country? That’s “in the conversation for the playoff” territory. Wouldn’t be a guarantee, but they’d be giving themselves a chance.
