Can we still get in NCG with a loss?

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  1. WestCoastTiger

    WestCoastTiger Founding Member

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    Anything can happen with the BCS.

    The question is let's say we win at Ole Miss and beat Arky but lose to a red hot UGA team.

    That gives us 1 loss, let's say Okie St wins out.

    That leaves us Bama and Oregon. We beat both of those teams can we not be in NCG? Sure it can happen because we are dealing with computers and some human element.

    It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

    Arky and UGA are two of the hottest teams in college football right now besides our Tigers.
     
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  2. lsu-i-like

    lsu-i-like Playoff advocate

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    Bama's loss is the most impressive in that case, IMO.
     
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  3. Mjolnir

    Mjolnir Prodigal Son

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    Wow.

    I would emotionally state, Yes. But it depends on how far we'd fall from losing to Georgia, I'd guess. Rankings do have meaning.
     
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  4. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    A loss that late would hurt us.
     
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  5. sonof504

    sonof504 Founding Member

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    Didn't OU lose in their conference title game the year they played LSU?

    Look at the polls, LSU is way ahead of everyone else, even an undefeated Ok.ST.


    If LSU loses and drops more then two spots, then you're putting a one-loss Bama team who lost to LSU and played a softer schedule.
     
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  6. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    but they don't have the extra top 5 win in Oregon

    I think it more than compensates in the end

    LSU gets in with either a close loss to Arkansas or Georgia (although GA needs to win out so the loss doesn't look bad)
     
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  7. Mjolnir

    Mjolnir Prodigal Son

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    A loss to GA would wreck it because their "body of work"/strength of schedule isn't really that good. It would be "better" to lose to Arkansas, I think, if we could still represent the West (which I doubt) unless 'Bama loses again (which I doubt and hope to Hell not).
     
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    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    Well it's not like a Georgia loss would take away the Oregon, Bama or Arkansas wins.

    We would still have 2 top 5 wins and another win to a team just outside the top 10, nobody can touch that. West Virginia might be close to top 15 by then if they win out. It's just too much to overlook.

    Again, Georgia, at this point would vault into the top 6 or 7. It wouldn't look like a bad loss.

    Trust me.
     
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  9. LSUTiga

    LSUTiga TF Pubic Relations

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    We lost our second to last game on 11/23 back in 2007 and still got in so nothing is impossible.
     
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  10. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    Late losses used to be a back breaker.

    But in the age of talking heads giving their opinions and swaying voters, you are correct, everything is in play.

    If Kirk Herbstreit goes on TV that Saturday night and says LSU has the best resume out of Bama, Oregon and LSU, then voters will most likely follow suit.

    We'll have the best computer polls out of those 3 teams. So we don't need the human voters in their entirety.
     
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