Texas A&M's Claim to the #1 Seed: A Realistic View

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00:00Texas A&M, they have a realistic claim at the number one seed.

00:05I mean, you could say it's a realistic claim.

00:07Anybody can say that they have a claim to this,

00:10and that's kind of the problem, and I think it goes back.

00:12I'm going to give you an example.

00:13The example is Boise.

00:15I mean, or excuse me, USF.

00:17As we talk about USF, they're ranked 24th.

00:19Who'd they beat?

00:21They beat a ranked Florida team,

00:24and they beat a ranked Boise State team.

00:26Like, that was at the very beginning of the year.

00:28Just like the strength of schedule for Ohio State,

00:31it's kind of predicated upon the other teams and what they do.

00:34You beat the number one team in the country week one in Texas.

00:39You beat a number 17 team, Illinois.

00:41At that time, could Washington have been ranked?

00:43Yes, 100% they could have.

00:46And then look at them now.

00:47Then you had Penn State.

00:48That was supposed to be the big noon matchup.

00:51Didn't really live.

00:51They didn't live up to their expectations,

00:53and somehow that dramatically impacts this.

00:57You know, as we go and talk about this,

00:59and you have the strength of schedule.

01:01Like, that's kind of where Ohio State, you would say, is lacking.

01:05I think based on Texas A&M, they're 15th.

01:08Ohio State's 41.

01:10Indiana is 33.

01:12And it's obviously heavily favored in the SEC

01:16as they continue to get ranked,

01:18even though some of them have three losses.

01:20And so here's my take on it, and I'm going to leave it.

01:25Bob, it's a little bit of the eye test.

01:28And watching these games of Indiana, you know, Texas A&M, Ohio State,

01:35heck, even some of the rest of the SEC,

01:37Ohio State and Indiana have really handled their business.

01:40Now, the Penn State game on the road

01:42should not have came down to that through an interception.

01:44I mean, they were winning at halftime pretty handily, made some mistakes.

01:49But Ohio State, week in and week out,

01:52versus whomever has controlled that game start to finish.

01:56You weren't – even that Texas game, Bob, that you and I were present,

02:00it was 14-0 with three minutes to go in the football game.

02:03There was no reservation that they were not the better team on the field

02:07in any of these games.

02:09That's why I feel that they are number one in the country.

02:12And it's interesting because, you know, you look at A&M and you're like,

02:15okay, they're an SEC team, but they haven't played a schedule like Oklahoma

02:19or a schedule like Florida where they've had a lot of the best teams.

02:23I mean, they haven't played Bama.

02:24They don't play Bama.

02:25They haven't played Georgia.

02:26They don't play Georgia.

02:28They haven't played Tennessee.

02:29They don't play Tennessee.

02:30They haven't played Ole Miss.

02:31They don't play Ole Miss.

02:32Their big game at the end of the year is going to be Texas.

02:35Yep.

02:35And just like Ohio State, we'll be playing Michigan.

02:37Now, you mentioned A&M.

02:39They've got a victory on the road, one-point victory against Notre Dame.

02:43Good win.

02:44Number nine team in the country.

02:46Ohio State beat Texas.

02:47They're the number 10 team in the country.

02:48It was at home.

02:49It was 14-0 with five minutes to go in the game.

02:51So they controlled that thing from start to finish.

02:53Both of these teams have had schedules that I feel like have kind of let them

02:56down a little bit.

02:58But Ohio State, I feel like, has been probably more dominant during that time.

03:02And I don't want to hear about Texas A&M being in the SEC because they've played a super soft

03:08schedule.

03:09You know, when you start talking about it, like, it's not like Wisconsin.

03:12Wisconsin's played a crazy tough schedule in the Big Ten.

03:14Ohio State didn't get that schedule.

03:16And so you can only play who's on there.

03:18Both of these teams scheduled tough non-conference games with Texas and Notre Dame.

03:22So I give them credit for that.

03:24And then people pointed out, look at Indiana's tight victory over Penn State.

03:28I'm like, all right, well, you know, there's teams that have won tight a lot.

03:31They haven't done that.

03:32They've controlled most of their games.

03:33So I'm going to leave this as well.

03:35I have seen enough of Texas Tech that I think they're a really good team.

03:39And I believe they're the most consistent team in the SEC.

03:42I don't know if they're the best.

03:43I think Bama might be the best now with where they're playing.

03:47But I think that if they make the SEC championship, which I believe they will,

03:52they should ultimately get one of the buys, win or lose, just like I think both of the Big

03:56Ten teams that get in, assuming Ohio State and Indiana hold serve, that would be your

04:00four buys.

04:01And then that would be it.

04:02But also, remember, Alabama, there's this whole thing.

04:07Alabama went to South Carolina.

04:09And that was extremely close, right?

04:11And you saw the whole thing of, hey, they beat the preseason number 13 team.

04:15And we just went on the rankings of that.

04:17And every team gets better.

04:19Penn State was like the one or two preseason team.

04:22They were number two.

04:22They were number two preseason, right?

04:24So Illinois was ranked as high as ninth one time.

04:28That's what I'm saying.

04:30I mean, you bounce around and you can kind of look at this any which way.

04:33I think both the teams have had pretty good schedules, but they haven't been the toughest

04:36you're going to find.

04:36But they both looked really good and fairly consistent in that.

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