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There isn’t much drama yet with the College Football Playoff rankings, but that hasn’t stopped college football experts from predicting how potential scenarios would play out if certain teams win out, or if there’s an upset in the SEC Championship Game.
Trevor Matich took his swing at the fall out from a possibility of Georgia beating Alabama with Clemson, Notre Dame and Michigan winning out. Matich, in a conversation on Wednesday on “The Paul Finebaum Show,” said the Wolverines could win out from the No. 4 position and be left out of the CFP.
Matich’s top four, without suggesting an order, would be Clemson, Notre Dame, Georgia and Alabama.
“If Georgia beats Alabama in a close one in the SEC Championship Game, Georgia is in the Playoff,” Matich said. “They will be the SEC champion with one loss and the best individual win of the season with the win over Alabama should they beat them in the championship game. But Alabama is still better than any team in the country. Paul, if you think Alabama faced Michigan on a neutral field right now, who is the better team, who wins, Alabama or Michigan?”
Matich’s argument jibes with what the committee has revealed in recent rankings, meaning the on-the-field resume carries weight.
“The committee would think that too, so if that happens, if Georgia knocks off Alabama in the SEC Championship, if Clemson and Notre Dame win out. Then Michigan can win out from their No. 4 position and still not make the Playoff.”
Some of the matchups down the stretch are Notre Dame against Florida State, Syracuse and at Southern Cal. Clemson is at Boston College, home against Duke and South Carolina to close the regular season.
Georgia and Alabama each play Auburn along with UMass and The Citadel, respectively, along with Georgia Tech and Mississippi State. Michigan is at Rutgers, home against Indiana and at Ohio State to close the regular season.
"If Georgia knocks off Alabama in the SEC Championship and Clemson & Notre Dame win out then Michigan could win out from the #4 position right now and still not make the playoff" – @TMatich pic.twitter.com/yh050KPu7D
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) November 7, 2018
If that happens SEC Bias theorists heads explode. Especially if UGA vs Alabama in natty again
Dellav8r its like people dont understand the term “best” when they say best team in the country.
Oh I know. Best means best no matter what conference. People seem to forget that part
This talk is crazy UGA has two rivalry games left and Bama has the Iron Bowl and a ranked MSU.. It’s possible for bama to lose a game and UGA to drop another prior to the SECCG…
Correct. Consider this scenario, however unlikely: UGA and Bama both lose to Auburn, and then UGA beats Bama. They each end up with 2 losses and both miss the playoffs.
This gives the Committee the chance to show it doesn’t have any SEC bias and shut the whiny masses up. (I’m looking directly at Danny Kannell.)
Someone is nervous!
You must be… You have done nothing but troll since Bama beat LSU… You must be terrified since LSU took UGAs manhood..
And Auburn destroyed Alabama in their rivalry game…What happened next week while Alabama sat at home?
National Champs…#1 in the nation… BYU has won a NC more recent than UGA…
You sure are hanging onto what Auburn did… Is that because UGA couldn’t beat Bama? LMAO
And Bama couldn’t win their division…UGA did…L
We know what happened when UGA played Bama…. Bama won the NC and UGA went back to claiming moral victories thru their rivals…
Yes, but everyone also knows (as the hundreds of articles prove) that there were several key calls that changed the game…Officiating always a little off when Bama is on the field..
National Champs…. It’s ok… UGA got a participation trophy…
UGA won the SEC while Bama sat at home LOL
Oh man that hurts… LMAO. Bama won the NC…
I bet losing to your biggest rival hurt, LOL.
Winning the NC is all that matters… You should trash talk UK fans. UGA is closer to their level than Bama’s.
You get dumber and dumber every day..
You’re the idiot trying to trash talk when Bama beat UGA for the NC… You’re the Dumba$$ trying to trash talk after getting beat by twenty this season to a team Bama blew out….
You’re the dumb one it seems.
I hope it happens. It means we’ll expand the playoffs that much sooner.
Gus ain’t gonna be in another playoff even if it’s expanded to 8 teams, Weagle. Chill out.
So two wasn’t enough. Four isn’t enough. Six won’t be enough. Eight will hurt nine and ten’s feelings. Ten would be unfair to eleven through sixteen. Sixteen would disrespect seventeen through twenty-four. And twenty-five would cry foul! How about we just start the season with #1 blowing out #130 and so on. That why everyone feels important. Oh, and let’s not keep score and give everyone a participation trophy because they’re all winners.
Crap. I almost fell getting off this soapbox.
Michigan still has to play OSU and others, they probably won’t win out.
Tough choice to cheer for; Harbaugh or Meyer?
Not enough to finish 3rd in the conference and still be given a ticket to the playoffs, now they’re openly suggesting that even if UGA beat them in a neutral site game, that Bama still gets the rematch. Regular season already doesn’t matter for them so why not make the SECCG become irrelevant, too? Hell, just start the season with the knowledge that it’s just a seeding tournament to see where Bama ranks and who earns the right to play them.
You talk about the regular season being irrelevant and yet Georgia got a mulligan against the team that beat them in the regular season. Bama also lost to the same opponent. Georgia just benefited for being in the easier division. You complain about Bama only being 3rd in the conference when Georgia did nothing more than Bama. Same record, same loss. Bama just happened to be in the tougher division where the team that beat them both plays. So Georgia got a redo for their loss while Bama didn’t and you think Georgia was worthy and Bama wasn’t. I’m sure Saban would’ve loved the chance Kirby got to rectify his only loss. Bama was just as worthy of their spot last year as Georgia. They just didn’t get an extra game against Auburn. Where’s the proof? 2nd and 26.
Georgia did do more than Bama… They had an extra win on their record against another team that won their division in a championship game scenario. I’m not saying Bama didn’t deserve to make the playoffs, but UGA had the more impressive resume due to the extra win in the SECCG.
So how about Bama just let us win the SEC Championship so the Big 10 gets left out again? Come on Bama, be a team player…