Re: if Clemson loses, but not in the ACCCG, there will still be

considerable pressure on the Committee to take Louisville

and not Clemson in the CFP.

Too much media "eye test" BS, flash and dash, style and profile,

action and Jackson, Petrino ridin' his motocycle machino....

H2H and Conference Champ won't mean much

when all the talking bobblehead spittle is about "quality of loss".

No one remembers we waxed Bird butt in the 1st half -

they only remember the 'what have you done for me lately' 2nd half Card comeback.

And who cares about 2 yards?

Just like Notre Dame really had us beat, and so did UNCheat, and so did Oklahoma, and....

The media lives in their own minds - veritable Alices in Wonderment.

Clemson needs to win out or

suffer the political realities of the media age.

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Oct 23, 2016, 2:34 AM

Regardless of what ESPN and the media might have to say, just think back to last year at just how incredibly different the initial CFB playoff committee rankings were compared to the AP poll, Coaches Poll, and ESPN power rankings. I think we were ranked 3 or 4 in the AP, 6 in the Coaches poll, and somewhere between the two by ESPN. If the committee has proven anything the past two years, it's that they make their own independent evaluations and it's the media that adjusts toward their rankings.

You guys can be worried about an ESPN conspiracy all you want, but the committee has shown that they value conference championships, head to head, strength of schedule (specifically LLC), and best quality wins over any other criterion. The best loss has only seemed to come into play after the other factors are taken into account.

There's no possible way that Louisville would ever get in ahead of us if we win out, and if we were to lose a game but still win the ACC, it could possibly knock us out depending on the loss, but it would knock Louisville out as well because we still have to head to head and Conference Championship plus they're loss to us becomes a miniscule worse.

All that is without even considering that a potential Louisville win over Houston has become much less meaningful in recent weeks.

HD can say what she wants, but the fact that matter is she has no bearing whatsoever on the rankings that matter, and she is completely wrong.

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