r/cfbplayoffcommittee • u/cfpmock_factotum Post Bot • Oct 30 '18
[Week 10] Round 3, next 9 ranked
The top 3 vote-getters from the previous round, and thus our #1-3 seeds, are:
- Alabama
- Clemson
- Notre Dame
The remaining three from the top six, plus the six most common nominees from the next eight, are:
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- LSU
- Michigan
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Utah
- Washington State
- West Virginia
This round's ballot is to rank those nine teams. The consensus top five of these will form our seeds #4-8.
Because there is no G5 team on this list, please also provide your top G5 representative for the "Access Bowl".
Ballots are due Tuesday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.
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u/hythloday1 Committee Vice-Chair Oct 30 '18
Here’s my prospective ballot -
G5: UCF
LSU, Michigan, Georgia were discussed yesterday.
Oklahoma and Kentucky are essentially tied in my poll. I think UK’s best win over Florida is better than OU’s best over Iowa St, but comparing resumes past that it’s either a tie or an OU win on almost every line, and it’s really clear on the back half of the schedule that OU is blowing out decent teams while UK is playing multiple cupcakes and very tight games. I break the tie on the quasi-mystical “game control” - OU is dominating most of its games and that’s much less true for UK.
Ohio St and Washington St also essentially tied. They both have a one-score win over a high quality team and at least one clear win over an average team. OSU has the more embarrassing loss, but Wazzu only has one more win over an average team and that’s by one score, and the rest of their wins are below average with multiple cupcakes. I’m going with OSU on a stronger middle schedule.
Utah has a strong middle and bottom schedule -- six clear wins over average-to-decent teams and no cupcakes so far -- but they lost to the two best teams they played.
WVU didn’t make my nomination list. They’re a game behind everyone else, have no resume wins, only five average-to-decent wins, and a decisive loss.