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Why? It's not like uGA has any experience playing against him either.

1. Awesome username, that speech is legendary. 2. I agree with you, I never felt that Georgia was at all threatened in that game. Obviously, Alabama will be a much bigger test. Tennessee has gone 0-35 against Top 10 teams from 2007 to now based on my Wikipedia perusal, so it would have been quite an embarrassing loss. Even Arkansas is 6-28 against Top 10 teams since 2007.

To be fair, no one has ever compiled statistics even indicating that cut blocks increase the number of injuries per play. It's a common narrative, yet so is peeing on a jellyfish wound to steralize it (no, this does not doing anything helpful). Until I see some numbers, I'm not buying that cut block increase injuries.

And Colley Matrix rates UCF as the 6th most deserving team based on their record and opponents played to date.

FWIW, FEI rates UCF as the 6th best team in the nation with the 117th toughest schedule.

I understand the debate is great for media organizations, but much of it seems unnecessary. The CFP committee won't say if they are choosing the best four teams or the four most deserving teams. For example, say Tua gets injured, Bama loses to Auburn and georgia, but Tua is completely healthy for the bowl game. I think all of us would say Bama is a top four best team, but a non-conference champion with 2 losses probably isn't a top four most deserving team. Once that confusion is cleared up, the UCF debate becomes much simpler. If the best four teams make the playoff, FEI and the eye test (for injuries, suspensions, etc.) are the best metrics to use. For the four most deserving teams, strength of record metrics or the Colley Matrix is probably a better option. The eye test should be completely ignored if the four most deserving teams are chosen.

Or I could be in the GT Band ;)

30-24? If only they had a GT icon to use...

I noticed the schedule section, too. The good news for Georgia though is that if they win all division games and split versus Auburn and Alabama, they're going to Atlanta. The overall strength of schedule will end up being 15-20th in the country probably. Not easy by any means, but not ridiculous either.

Haha wow. Even GT has an indoor facility.

As many as there were, they really weren't all that loud at the Orange Bowl!

Hahaha yep! Now everyone gets to see the GT hacking job.

I have trouble thinking GT will be a win the week after playing (the real) GSU. Honestly both teams are plenty capable of beating georgia, especially if no QB takes charge in Athens.

You do realize that all the people who can do math in Georgia go to Tech, right?

Moderator - please take this post down. I forgot to add two words. Otherwise, if you keep the post up and everyone sees it, the two words are "good one" just before the hyperlink.

Georgia Tech pulled a pretty on georgia this past year.

I was going to say something funny, but I'm really only here on this site to call georgia fans out on their "statistics". So kudos to MSU.

So GSU and GT both ran the ball on 79% of plays last year. I'm not sure why you'd fear one over the other for that reason. Although, GSU does claim 6 national championships as opposed to Georgia Tech's 4 and Georgia's 2 (although CPJ did win two titles with GSU).

I can't believe Louisville is on the okay to underestimate list...I wouldn't underestimate Bobby Petrino ever.

Having a DC really wouldn't have mattered. For what it's worth, GT doesn't have an offensive coordinator, too. If you look at advanced stats such offensive FEI, GT had one of the best offenses ever. While that probably wasn't the case (although quite possible), the offense was very, very good.

It's nice to see some reason in these comments :) SEC is still better, but it's pretty darn close. And we all know, on any given day, any team can pull out the win!

Well I can't say I was happy about that, although in the comment above I tried to give verifiable facts with no unreasonable opinions. Just want to show both sides of the story, you know.

Please provide a source that does not say the current capacity of Bobby Dodd stadium is 55,000. I would be very interested to see it. (or a source saying capacity has been reduced in the past 5 years). Hahaha I agree with your fact! Most recruits do go elsewhere. No school has enough scholarships to get most of the recruits. As for CPJ crowing...seems no different than Spurrier to me.

1) Paul Johnson getting butt kicked: recruiting classes will always be debatable (anything not 1st could be called a failure), but Paul Johnson did reach 100 DI wins faster than Richt (and he took the same number of games as Meyer I believe). He also has DI national championships. 2) The stadium seats around 55,000 (a 38% increase over your estimate). 3) GT does not play a triple option attack but rather a spread option attack (the triple option is merely a family of plays used in many offenses, including the spread option). 4) You are correct that GT is primarily an engineering school. In fact, it is a top 5 engineering school in the country (and number one in several disciplines). For some student athletes, this is a deterrent. For others, this is a bonus. The student athletes that truly care about getting an education appreciate the quality of education at Georgia Tech. Also, the offensive scheme does impact offensive recruiting, although it's much more difficult to argue whether that change is driven by coaches who look for talent to fit the scheme or by players who refuse to play in that scheme. Lastly, on a related note (to the ACC's respect), the recent release of the preseason FPI concerns me. I honestly haven't looked at the actual rankings past an image of the top ten. The rankings themselves are not the cause of my concern. My concern is that the FPI is advertised as the best publically available computer ranking. Computers require data input to give an output (in this case, rankings), and, as the season has not started, the computers theoretically have no data in which to form an output. It would certainly be nice if ESPN would publish their formula. It would still be copyright protected. That's my pet peeve with them. So far as I know, the only computer ranking I know of that released its formula is the Colley Matrix, which gives a truly unbiased rating for each team based only on record and opponents. It is not very sophisticated and is not designed to be predictive, but it is for sure unbiased, which should mean a lot.