AEW Champion’s Power Rankings and Playoff Predictions

The committee is praying for a close Clemson win so they can keep SMU in the playoff and avoid the final rankings having a firestorm about Alabama being in over various other teams.
 
I’m sure we’ll get peak James Franklin this Saturday, and I’d be surprised if Penn State doesn’t lose by at least 10-14 points.

Being him, he’s going to put any theory of “no harm done by losing a conference championship game” to the test.
 
I can’t see them putting SMU in over Alabama as an at-large.

The committee has baked the cake already IMO. Alabama is going to be the #11 seed.
 
nwwarrior09 said:
I can’t see them putting SMU in over Alabama as an at-large.

The committee has baked the cake already IMO. Alabama is going to be the #11 seed.
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Correct. The teams in this top 12, who don’t play this weekend are not falling out of the top 12. If SMU loses, Clemson takes their spot in the top 4, and SMU is out. The committee has said as much. Edit, Clemson, being ranked below both B12 teams would then end up as the 12th seed, not in the top 4.
 
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Hammerdrill said:
Correct. The teams in this top 12, who don’t play this weekend are not falling out of the top 12. If SMU loses, Clemson takes their spot in the top 4, and SMU is out. The committee has said as much. Edit, Clemson, being ranked below both B12 teams would then end up as the 12th seed, not in the top 4.
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Piss on Clemson, because SMU is more talented then them, and should beat them
 
My final predictions:

1 Oregon
2 Georgia
3 ASU
4 Boise State
5 Texas
6 Notre Dame
7 Ohio State
8 Penn State
9 Tennessee
10 Clemson
11 SMU
12 Indiana

I don’t think SMU belongs in over, say, South Carolina, who just won at Clemson, but the committee knows if they remove SMU, they are effectively ending conference championship games immediately. They won’t want to do that.

My time predictions:

Friday night, Dec. 20: Indiana at Texas

Saturday, Dec 21:
Noon: Clemson at Ohio State
4 pm: SMU at Notre Dame
8 pm: Tennessee at Penn State
 
Posted this on another thread but wanted to cement it in my thread, too:

One thing is certain: The super-conference era is off to a miserable start as far as figuring things out on the field. Three of the four Power 4 conference title games featured a team that neutral fans rightly could question the merits of, citing the age-old “Who’d they beat?” question.

Penn State didn’t play Indiana or Oregon during the regular season (or Michigan for that matter) and lost at home to OSU.

Texas didn’t play Tennessee, Bama, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Missouri or LSU, and lost at home to UGA. (They did destroy Michigan in Ann Arbor.)

SMU didn’t play Miami, Syracuse, Georgia Tech or Clemson in the regular season, and lost at home to BYU in non-conference play.

I believe Texas is PROBABLY the second-best SEC team, but it would be easy to see POPS and SMU as not worthy of conference title game appearances … they just had a much easier path.

The above is the chief folly of the entire super-conference structure.
 
Well it's official, in the first season of the expanded 12 team playoffs, the unheard of happened. Indiana University, a perrineal dormat of the big ten, is in the playoffs!
I don't know that anyone outside of Bloomington really understands the oddity of this. I mean of all the D1 football programs going into the season, Indiana had to have one of the lowest projections of making the playoffs. Heck, they were picked 17th, in the 18 team Big ten? Now we can debate all day who gets slotted where, but honestly I don't care. They could have to play the Kansas City Chiefs and I'd be ok with it. For this team to have the season it's had, it's like they already won the Super Bowl this season.
 
14Red said:
Well it's official, in the first season of the expanded 12 team playoffs, the unheard of happened. Indiana University, a perrineal dormat of the big ten, is in the playoffs!
I don't know that anyone outside of Bloomington really understands the oddity of this. I mean of all the D1 football programs going into the season, Indiana had to have one of the lowest projections of making the playoffs. Heck, they were picked 17th, in the 18 team Big ten? Now we can debate all day who gets slotted where, but honestly I don't care. They could have to play the Kansas City Chiefs and I'd be ok with it. For this team to have the season it's had, it's like they already won the Super Bowl this season.
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Arizona St was another surprise playoff team. They were predicted last in the Big 12 conference. That coach has done remarkable job.
 
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