The Inaugural College Football Playoff Rankings Official Thread

[The ADD]

You can't look at this as static. There are factors that will change this so I wouldn't get tied to issue with Miss St being 4th.

 

[Swagnificent]

Not when they don't have a QB. Threy throw it like 15 times and run it 50 times.

outside of last year, LSU never had a QB. They still won 2 national titles including the game when they embrassed ohio state.

LSU has historically had the best defensive lineman in college football and formidible offensive lineman and running backs. When you can dominate the line of scrimmage cause you got men up there and the other squads got boys, you don't need to throw. You can just run it down their throats and then stop them on defense.

 

[Swagnificent]

nah
im pretty sure whoever wins the big 12 tcu/baylor will get that spot in teh end off miss state
if kansas state keeps winning that final game will vault them

same for tcu esp with the way texas is playing

no it won't. k-state got 2 losses already. no way a 2 loss conference champ jumps a 1 loss Miss St. only way to jump Miss St. would be if they had only 1 loss.

 

[MikelArteta]

I meant vault Baylor
If Kansas state is 9-2 heading into the last game against Baylor and ranked in the top ten and Baylor wins they are getting that 4th spot

no it won't. k-state got 2 losses already. no way a 2 loss conference champ jumps a 1 loss Miss St. only way to jump Miss St. would be if they had only 1 loss.

 

[Swagnificent]

they got the 4 teams I think should be in it, I just disagree with the order....miss st/ala shouldn't be a semi final game...they just played...not only that, it seems like a bullshyt way to make sure there is an sec team in the ship game so that can be a talking point about how strong the league is....fukk that, if they get there this year, they should earn it....fsu should play one of them, ore should play the other....plain and simple....

i think most sec fans would prefer this. it would mean there's a good chance at an all-sec final. I can see Miss St. beating Oregon and Bama beating FSU.

 

[Swagnificent]

TCU is the best team I've seen this year and that loss to Baylor was a fluke. They better be in the top four when it's all said and done.

they gave up 61 points SIXTY-ONE fukkin points.

sorry bruh but giving up 61 points ain't no fluke. They have NO BUSINESS being in the playoff after giving up 61 points to another team.

 

[Swagnificent]

breh
any other conference loses a game in teh bcs era and well its to bad, sec? its ok because its sec

only two teams have beat oregon since 2012 arizona and stanford

its ok for bama to lose to auburn or lsu

just think about what you just said. you comparing arizona and stanford to auburn and lsu. auburn and lsu have won 3 BCS national titles in the last 15 years. The entire PAC-12 has won just 2 (both USC). Arizona and Stanford are no right to be compared to auburn and lsu. Those two programs are steeped in history and prestige. They have had heisman trophy winners and national titles. Arizona and Stanford don't have that.

I know you don't buy into the SEC mystique, but comparing arizona and stanford to auburn and lsu is just laughable.

 

[Swagnificent]

miss state wasnt even ranked and shot up to number 1 after beating a garbage overrated lsu team that doesn't even have a semblance of a offense and a texas a&m team that frauded it up

look at arkansas wins against nicholls state, texas tech, northern illinois, uab, and that one sec win over lsu, 5-5 team that lost to bama by 1

that overrated LSU team beat Wisconsin which is now headed to the big 10 title game and has a heisman trophy candidate that ran for 400 yards.

LSU and A&M get that preseason respect because of the caliber of players on their squads. Just wait till May nad how many dudes from those teams get drafted into the NFL. The reason the SEC gets the respect it does is because year in year out, they have the top recruiting classes and put the most dudes into the NFL.

This is like complaining about why graduates from ivy league schools are preferred over other conferences in terms of academics. If Harvard recruits the smartest kids from high school, then it shouldn't be a surprise that employers will prefer harvard kids at graudation over montana poly-technic institute.

 

[MikelArteta]

I'm talking recently
Stanford has been to 4 straight bcs bowls.

Oregon has only lost two Stanford and zona in the past 3 years that's it.

Sec is a overrated league.

I remember before fast uptempo couldn't work in the sec

Only sec teams could run that smash mouth football

Eff the sec, rank a bunch of them inbred ass schools high then they beat up on one another while still maintaining high rankings.

Its ok for bama to barely beat arky or LSU

But any other school your dropping

just think about what you just said. you comparing arizona and stanford to auburn and lsu. auburn and lsu have won 3 BCS national titles in the last 15 years. The entire PAC-12 has won just 2 (both USC). Arizona and Stanford are no right to be compared to auburn and lsu. Those two programs are steeped in history and prestige. They have had heisman trophy winners and national titles. Arizona and Stanford don't have that.

I know you don't buy into the SEC mystique, but comparing arizona and stanford to auburn and lsu is just laughable.

 

[MikelArteta]

It was game 1
Wisky didn't even have their starting qb but a converted wr at the helm

that overrated LSU team beat Wisconsin which is now headed to the big 10 title game and has a heisman trophy candidate that ran for 400 yards.

LSU and A&M get that preseason respect because of the caliber of players on their squads. Just wait till May nad how many dudes from those teams get drafted into the NFL. The reason the SEC gets the respect it does is because year in year out, they have the top recruiting classes and put the most dudes into the NFL.

This is like complaining about why graduates from ivy league schools are preferred over other conferences in terms of academics. If Harvard recruits the smartest kids from high school, then it shouldn't be a surprise that employers will prefer harvard kids at graudation over montana poly-technic institute.

 

[MustafaSTL]

that overrated LSU team beat Wisconsin which is now headed to the big 10 title game and has a heisman trophy candidate that ran for 400 yards.

LSU and A&M get that preseason respect because of the caliber of players on their squads. Just wait till May nad how many dudes from those teams get drafted into the NFL. The reason the SEC gets the respect it does is because year in year out, they have the top recruiting classes and put the most dudes into the NFL.

This is like complaining about why graduates from ivy league schools are preferred over other conferences in terms of academics. If Harvard recruits the smartest kids from high school, then it shouldn't be a surprise that employers will prefer harvard kids at graudation over montana poly-technic institute.

I can tell you don't watch these games. If you did, you'd know that Melvin Gordon didn't even get rushes in the second half (confusingly so, but still). Melvin killed LSU in the first half and Wisky was beating them comfortably until they took Melvin out in the second half.

 

[Swagnificent]

People still rolling around with the myth that the SEC puts out the most NFL players

Start looking at the rosters...mostly filled with Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12, ACC, non power 5 players
Don't even get me started on NFL stars...SEC maybe has 3 or 4 and thats if you count Peyton's old ass

men lie. women lie. numbers don't.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24730332/infographic-sec-schools-dominate-nfl-rosters

If you want to play in the NFL, you should probably head to an SEC school. Then again, if you're playing for an SEC school, you're probably there for that reason. But when you look at a position by position breakdown of NFL Week 1 rosters, SEC schools dominate.
Nine positions are powered by SEC players. Let me clarify. If you canvas the NFL defensive end position from Week 1, Georgia had the most players on NFL rosters with seven. Florida was tied with Miami for the most wide receivers, Tennessee is Guard University and if you're a defensive back there's a good chance you went to LSU or Alabama.
All in all, according to the NFL, 247 colleges were represented on NFL Week 1 rosters, and these were the 12 schools powering the bulk of talent:

1. LSU: 38 players
2. USC: 37
3. Alabama: 36
4. Georgia: 34
5. Florida: 33
6. Florida State: 33
7. Miami: 31
8. California: 29
9. Ohio State: 29
10. Notre Dame: 28
11. Tennessee: 28
12. Wisconsin: 27

thats 5 SEC schools in the top 12. no other conference has more than 2.

and don't forget the NFL Draft. http://www.si.com/nfl/2013/04/29/sec-nfl-draft

For seven straight seasons, the SEC has lorded over college football, racking up national championships, producing must-see Saturday games and inciting endless debate between its supporters and detractors. With each year The Streak lives on, fans outside the South wonder when some other conference or team will begin to close the gap.
If this year's NFL draft is any indication, however, the discrepancy is actually wider now than it has been at any point since The Streak began.
When the final name was called on Saturday, the SEC had set a modern record with 63 draft picks, more than double that of any other conference. The SEC East alone had more picks (32) than the next-nearest conference, the ACC (31). The SEC's total was the most any league had produced since the Pac-10's 55 in 1983 and represented one-quarter of all players drafted. The league also tied another record with 12 first-round selections. Even if you tossed out the combined seven picks produced by SEC newcomers Texas A&M and Missouri, the league still would've broken the Pac-10's mark.

Paralleling its run of BCS titles that began in 2006, the SEC has had more players drafted than any other league during that span, but never to this extent. Over the previous seven drafts it averaged 39.5 picks overall and 7.7 first-rounders. Just last year, the SEC barely edged the Big Ten for most picks, 43-42. This was clearly an unprecedented talent crop even by the SEC's own lofty standards -- but that doesn't mean it was necessarily an anomaly.
The spike makes sense considering that most of the players drafted entered college in 2008 or '09. That means their recruitment began at least a year earlier. Well, what was happening around 2007 and '08? For one, Nick Saban had just arrived at Alabama. Obviously, much of the SEC's recent draft dominance has centered on Saban's dynastic program.

But the conference had also just begun its BCS streak. While SEC fans at the time pointed to Florida's 41-14 rout of No. 1 Ohio State in the 2006 BCS championship game as evidence of their league's superiority, the truth is the overall talent differential wasn't that great yet. Just a year earlier, in fact, the ACC had led the way with 51 NFL draft picks and 12 first-rounders. At the time, one might have reasonably expected the cycle would eventually spin in a different direction.
Not anymore. No ESPN or media conspiracies -- not even everyone's favorite SEC criticism, oversigning -- can explain such an enormous discrepancy. It's pretty simple: The best coaches and recruiters reside in the SEC (thanks in part to the schools' greater financial commitment), and the best players increasingly reside in the South. It's also fair to assume that once the SEC won those first few BCS titles, a self-fulfilling prophecy arose. The conference became a selling point to elite recruits, an increasing number of whom saw the league as their best opportunity to win titles and play in the NFL. Now, even more of them choose an SEC school than when The Streak began.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Bama,Oregon,FSU and tOSU gonna be the final teams

 

[Swagnificent]

I looked it's not a lot...maybe 6 or 7 to a team and thats including the practice squad

and its not just scrubs filling the NFL rosters. SEC had the most players named to the NFL top 100 list. 20 of the top 100 players in the NFL as voted by their peers were players that came from the SEC. Including #1 overall Peyton Manning. 20% of the top 100 players are SEC products. By far the most of any conference.

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/sec-players-nfl-top-100-2014/

Football season is right around the corner.
NFL.com released its annual top 100 players of 2014, and 20 former SEC players were ranked. That doesn’t include three others from either Missouri or Texas A&M who played in the Big 12.
Former Tennessee star Peyton Manning topped the list and was named the NFL’s best player for 2014. Georgia’s AJ Green was the only other former SEC player ranked in the top 10. LSU’s Patrick Peterson and Auburn’s Cam Newton both rounded out the top 25.
Georgia had the most with five selections, with Alabama, Missouri and Tennessee right behind them with three selections each. Here’s the entire list in order, with a team breakdown below:
1. Peyton Manning, QB, Denver Broncos (Tennessee)
9. AJ Green, WR, Cincinnati Bengals (Georgia)
22. Patrick Peterson, CB, Arizona Cardinals (LSU)
24. Cam Newton, QB, Carolina Panthers (Auburn)
27. Patrick Willis, LB, San Francisco 49ers (Ole Miss)
32. Kyle Williams, DT, Buffalo Bills (LSU)
39. Joe Haden, CB, Cleveland Browns (Florida)
48. Geno Atkins, DT, Cincinnati Bengals (Georgia)
50. Eric Berry, S, Kansas City Chiefs (Tennessee)
53. Greg Hardy, DE, Carolina Panthers (Ole Miss)
54. Alshon Jeffery, WR, Chicago Bears (South Carolina)
57. Justin Houston, OLB, Kansas City Chiefs (Georgia)
62. Marcell Dareus, DT, Buffalo Bills (Alabama)
67. Jason Peters, OT, Philadelphia Eagles (Arkansas)
74. Tim Jennings, CB, Chicago Bears (Georgia)
88. Evan Mathis, OG, Philadelphia Eagles (Alabama)
90. Eddie Lacy, RB, Green Bay Packers (Alabama)
94. Sheldon Richardson, DT, New York Jets (Missouri)
98. Jason Witten, TE, Dallas Cowboys (Tennessee)
100. Matthew Stafford, QB, Detroit Lions (Georgia)

 

[Swagnificent]

i think over the last 10 years, the SEC has had the most players DRAFTED. On the actual 53 man roster though? not sure....

check my last couple of posts. no matter the metric. whether its the number of players drafted, number of players on NFL rosters, number of players in the top 100. no matter the metric. SEC DOMINATES. not just leads but dominates.

it doesn't matter what the metric is. it could be top 10 recruiting classes, BCS national titles, players drafted into the NFL, etc. the SEC dominates.

there is not one single metric measuring college football that does not show the SEC is the best (by a wide margin in most cases).

men lie. women lie. numbers don't.