Monday, September 15, 2014

Playoff Promotion

How important is it to come ready to play week in and week out in college football? Well simply put, your team loses... You're fighting an uphill battle the rest of the year. Teams that stille have a chance in my opinion to get back into the conversation is: USCjr, USC, Georgia, Oklahoma State, and Michigan State. All with one loss have a chance to climb up the metaphorical hill. If any of those five teams win out that means they went on to win their respected conferences. Of those five I am going to go out on a limb and say that if Oklahoma State goes on to defeat Texas, Oklahoma, and Baylor than I think they have a great chance. USCjr and Georgia has a tough road ahead of them with that tough sec schedule and Michigan State and USC need to find out how to play within themselves.


AP Top 25
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1Florida State (37)2-01466
2Oregon (17)3-01424
3Alabama (1)3-01346
4Oklahoma (2)3-01325
5Auburn2-01252
6Texas A&M (3)3-01195
7Baylor3-01134
8LSU3-01114
9Notre Dame3-0917
10Ole Miss3-0840
11Michigan State1-1832
12UCLA3-0807
13Georgia1-1729
14South Carolina2-1718
15Arizona State3-0680
16Stanford2-1560
17USC2-1459
18Missouri3-0446
19Wisconsin1-1414
20Kansas State2-0326
21BYU3-0246
22Clemson1-1209
23Ohio State2-1204
24Nebraska3-0172
25Oklahoma State2-1126

This being the AP top 25 means nothing at this point. There has only been 3 weeks of games and that is no where near to the end of the road. The first committee rankings come out Oct 28. Now this still only means that the committee has identified around 8-10 teams that could be in the conversation at that point. I expect the digital conversation to build and build leading up to this date only to explode upon the release at 6:30 on the 28th. Twitter is still the driver for talk about the #CFBPlayoff. Whether its bashing the system or selling your teams ability. I advise college football fans to join and follow the conversation on Twitter and Instagram. There is a long way to go and I think there are many more upsets to come! My prediction for a major upset is West Virginia over #4 Oklahoma. West Virginia is a tough place to play and after their tough play against Alabama I think they rise to the occasion. 

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