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Kirk Herbstreit explains how ‘style points are going to matter’ down the stretch
By Rolando Rosa
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Kirk Herbstreit was on the panel of ESPN experts who digested the latest rankings, and the jockeying for position to qualify for the 2022 College Football Playoff will be fascinating as it unfolds down the stretch.
LSU checked in at No. 7 in the latest edition of the rankings. The Tigers are a team that’ll be an intriguing case study, according to Herbstreit.
“For LSU, they’ve just got to worry about trying to beat Arkansas right now, coming back down to Earth and proving they can be the team that they were last Saturday,” Herbstreit said on the Playoff rankings release show on Tuesday night. “Again, I think based on history, going back to 2014, it’s building momentum into December. And we can look at the strength of schedule and look at all these different metrics.”
Herbstreit argues that LSU has a very high fear factor for its opponents based on the amount of upsets they’ve pulled off this season, most recently against Alabama.
“Greg, to me at the end of the day the biggest thing that I’ve seen giving teams a push across the finish line, especially when there’s that cluster, it’s who do you not want to be on the field with,” Herbstreit said. “Who do you not want to play, I think based on momentum of the last 3, 4, 5 weeks of the season.”
Herbstreit believes that the quality of victories and the manner in which teams win games will heavily factor into the decision making process for the committee.
“What Rece is saying is fair, that would give Tennessee a trump card with that head-to-head battle,” Herbstreit said. “Style points are going to matter, whether we like that or not the last stretch of the season.”
