Re: TNET: Clemson drops again in ESPN Playoff ranking outlook

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Oct 27, 2024, 1:37 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson drops again in ESPN Playoff ranking outlook ]

It’s a narrative shift, I think. A&M’s win, along with Notre Shame’s thumping of Navy, and Indiana looking so impressive, I think, prompted them to justify expulsion of “chaff.” It was all right to prop up a puny little “A She She” team, like Clemson, as long as those SEC and Big 10+8 (or whatever they call their conference now) teams that were questionable did not yet have “signature wins” and such. However, I noticed how her narrative changed, and those other cats decided to leave Clemson off the list of 12 after yesterday.

Last week, all 13 put Clemson in there, but this week 7 of them did not. I also noticed that among those 7, there were at least two or three that replaced Clemson with ArmPITT (looking at you, David Hale). Additionally, there were quite a few of them who put Indiana in, and they have looked good, so I won’t knock them too much for that one. It won’t matter though. The only way Clemson is ever getting in that playoff is to win the conference.

After the Georgia defeat, it was set in stone. I think they are good enough to do so, and I think they can play with anyone in the nation, but November shall determine things. What’s going to give them all the sads is having to contend wjth the possibility of THREE ACC teams possibly soaking up spots from their precious “POWER 2” conferences. That’s why Clemson’s ACC Championship will be all the more wonderful this year. Not only will Clemson dispatch the vile team (Miami, most likely) but they will also get a first round bye. It will make those ESECPN. Talking heads all the more upset seeing a lowly “A She She” team depriving their precious “Power 2” teams from a spot (even though the teams they’ll be screaming about will have 2 or 3 losses). It’s a tired routine, but predictable from them. College football is much better, I’ve noticed, when I spend all of about one day out of the week with ESECPN. Not watching College Game Day also helps a great deal too.

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Good post, and while I would advise Heather and others from relying on the transitive property too heavily, they're going to do it anyway as they really have nothing else to go on. For us, the optics of the score against Virginia is certainly misleading, so we obviously and rightfully take exception to those low information voters within the AP eager to weight our win against UNC's. Like Ole Miss, it's hard to say exactly what the service academies are about, and by extension, Notre Dame, but it is what it is.

Unfortunately, the bias is pervasive, and you and others are correct here in that this forces us to win out if ESECPN has any say in it. In fact, because it is, I would be amazed if they granted Clemson, Miami and SMU all a berth, even if the top two have an instant classic in the ACC Championship and the third is undefeated in conference play. It would violate their fiduciary responsibility to the SEC and Big 18, so let's hope the CFP committee is less compromised.

Let them doubt; Dabo has leveraged that in the past. And have faith all those within our ranks who may question Dabo and the complete platoon changes within the defense that allowed for garbage time points. While it may affect AP voting and ESPN defensive rankings, the reality is that we will benefit from that game time experience down the line given the abundance of coachable film for those guys to learn from.

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TNET: Clemson drops again in ESPN Playoff ranking outlook