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Reaction to the Miami Hurricanes dropping from 1 to 7 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings.
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00:00Well, is the University of Miami getting screwed again?
00:05Is that the vibe of the sports world down here after the college football playoff rankings came out?
00:14I guess, but is anybody surprised?
00:17No.
00:18For whatever reason, Miami and probably the ACC in whole,
00:23but Miami I think gets held to a different standard than other teams.
00:27But you and I were talking, we had our potluck here at the radio station today.
00:31We'll talk about that today.
00:32We have a loaded potato today.
00:33But you and I were talking about it.
00:35You know, I have such a weird disconnect with the college football playoff rankings
00:41because Miami was the underdog Saturday night going to Notre Dame.
00:48And they lost.
00:50So they're not expected to win.
00:52They're the underdog.
00:53I understand that they're going to fall.
00:55You're not going to be number one when you lose a game.
00:59But to fall six slots to number seven and have two loss SEC teams ahead of you,
01:07I don't understand the logic.
01:09You're punishing Miami significantly because they lost to a team that was favored.
01:19Miami was on the road without their best offensive player.
01:25And they were within a score at the end.
01:29Like, I just don't understand how the committee looks at that and says,
01:35yep, two loss teams in the SEC are better than that.
01:38And I understand I watched the reasoning and the logic and apparently it all it all center.
01:45You know what it centers around?
01:46It centers around whatever Miami doesn't have that.
01:49You know what I mean?
01:50So this time it centers around wins.
01:52Who were the quality wins?
01:54But if Miami had a bunch of quality wins on the schedule, then it would only center around,
02:01you know, something else.
02:02Number of losses.
02:03You know what I mean?
02:03Like, it's just, I don't know.
02:05I hate doing the Miami is a victim thing all the time,
02:09but they do seem to be held to a different standard than other football programs.
02:13I don't know, Hawk, if it's a Miami thing specifically.
02:16It might be.
02:16I'm not saying that you're wrong there.
02:18I just think the college football playoff committee has shown us two things.
02:23One, they're wildly inconsistent, period, end of story.
02:26From week to week, they're wildly inconsistent.
02:28And then when they're pressed on their decision-making,
02:31their answers are typically like, well, this is what we decided,
02:34so this is what it is, without actually having, like,
02:38a reasonable explanation behind any of it.
02:40And two, it's less about anti-Miami, more about they value the SEC over anything else.
02:50I get it.
02:51And, like, they're not going to put two ACC teams in unless they absolutely have to
02:57because they're going to give the SEC the benefit of the doubt every single time.
03:02As evidenced by these updated rankings, the good news is for Miami,
03:06you run the table, you get into the ACC championship game with one loss
03:10coming to a team in Notre Dame that likely is going to be a top five,
03:13maybe even the number one ranked team by the time it all comes.
03:16You'll be okay.
03:16To the end, you're going to be okay, which is good for the Canes.
03:19But, yeah, man, like, there's – that's why it's just not even worth being outraged about it.
03:24The problem is, though, like, Tim Reynolds of the AP, he tweeted out last night,
03:28the CFP committee is announcing very loudly that the ACC is not getting two teams in
03:34under any circumstances.
03:36Now, if that's the case and they go to the ACC championship game and they don't win,
03:42but they only have one loss on their record and it's to Notre Dame on the road
03:46when Notre Dame was favored and Miami was within a score at the end of the game,
03:52if they don't make the college football playoffs under those circumstances, we riot.
03:59The funny part is, if they do get to the ACC title game and lose, it'll likely be,
04:04not for sure, but it'll likely be against Wake Forest.
04:08And this is what we were talking about, the irony in Wake Forest.
04:12At that point, getting to the ACC title game, they'll be a top 10,
04:15probably a top 7, 8 team at that point because they would, too,
04:20have run the table following the loss against Miami.
04:23Miami's signature win would be Wake Forest.
04:25And if they were to lose to Wake Forest, they're a two-loss ACC team
04:31with their only two losses coming to a top 5 Notre Dame team on the road
04:35without Malachi Toney and at that point a top 5 ACC champion whom they also beat.
04:41I dare you to keep Miami out at that point.
04:43That would be the thing.
04:44Then you'd have a quality win, a legit quality win on your schedule.
04:48And perhaps more important to the CFP committee, which they proved to us,
04:53a quality loss because apparently there's value in losing as well,
04:59even if it's a head-to-head against a team that you're either keeping in or keeping out.
05:03There's value in losing if you're an SEC team.
05:05If you're an ACC team, there's no value in losing,
05:07and there's very little value in winning.
05:09If this season ends without Miami going into the college football playoffs,
05:17listen, again, we're a month away.
05:19But if this season, where for the majority of the season,
05:23they had two players favored to win the Heisman Trophy,
05:29if this season were to end without them going to the college football playoffs,
05:33we riot.
05:37We rioting this time.
05:39Like bust to Paul Feinbaum's house, bust to college football playoff committee's house.
05:43No, bust to Paul Feinbaum's house.
05:46That was for fun.
05:47Okay.
05:47The rioting will be, we're burning down the Barnes & Noble and Boca.
05:53I like that story.
05:55We're not condoning that.
05:57I'm not suggesting that.
05:59But I'm just saying if the college football playoff committee keeps Miami out,
06:02you better have extra security at that Barnes & Noble.
06:05I'm going ham.
06:08They would have to lose, what, two or three?
06:11No.
06:12They have, they dropped from one to seven based on one loss on the road to a favored Notre Dame
06:21team.
06:22They can run the table, finish the season with one loss,
06:28but lose in the ACC championship game.
06:32And there's a decent possibility they don't make the college football playoffs.
06:37Because of one loss to Notre Dame on the road where they were not favored.
06:43Yeah, that's ridiculous.
06:45That would, if they lose one and then lose, if they have three losses, maybe.
06:49I don't, I don't think there's no chance if they lose the ACC championship game.
06:53If they only have one loss, because Tim Reynolds tweeted out after the college football playoff committee
06:58dropped them to seven last night, Tim Reynolds tweeted out,
07:02the CFB committee is announcing very loudly that the ACC is not getting two teams in under any circumstance.
07:12And if that's the case, you can run the table if you're Miami.
07:15You could have one loss on your record.
07:18And again, it's a one possession loss to Notre Dame on the road when you're not even favored.
07:23You could have that one loss, but you lose the ACC championship game.
07:27You're not in the college football playoffs.
07:30Now, I'm, this is just football.
07:32This isn't no favoritism.
07:34This isn't a Gatordom or a kingdom.
07:36They are one of the best 12 teams without Malachi Tony in the country.
07:40That's ridiculous.
07:41If they even, if they even try to insinuate that.
07:43They're one of the top five teams in the nation without Malachi Tony.
07:47Seriously, I believe that the way they played in that second half.
07:50Because, by the way, that there's no team that is head and shoulders above the rest.
07:55I think Georgia has a, has a foot on top of everybody's throat right now.
08:00They're, they're the best.
08:02Yeah.
08:02But I don't think that you look at them and go, there is literally no chance that Georgia will lose
08:08in the college football playoffs.
08:09These guys are the champions.
08:10I just don't feel that way about them.
08:12No, it's kind of like last year, like Indiana wasn't just great.
08:16UM was there.
08:17You know, UM lost some.
08:18Yeah, it's very, it's, the parity's getting there.
08:20It's parity this year, too.
08:21And I think it's what the transfer portal's doing just to sports, period.
08:26But, yeah.
08:28Last, last year, you could, you could question, like the Notre Dame, when it would be the, it would be
08:32the Kings being Notre Dame, where you don't have a tough schedule.
08:35Are they, we've talked about this, and I don't even know, strength of loss or strength of schedule, meaning more
08:40and all that.
08:41The Kings don't have a strength of win or strength of schedule, but watch football, watch football, and you can
08:47tell this team can play with anybody.
08:49The, the only thing that you're kind of rooting for, which is Solana and I, we were talking about it
08:53before the show, is you're kind of rooting for Wake Forest to run the rest of the table.
08:57And if you lose the ACC championship game, you lose to Wake Forest, because they'll be a top 10 team,
09:06and you've beaten them earlier in the season.
09:08So now you do have a signature win.
09:11Yeah.
09:12That's the silly, that's the silly part.
09:15We split, so is that good that we split or bad that we split?
09:19It would be good.
09:20I mean, you need a signature win.
09:21That's the only one that they've got on the schedule.
09:24Wake Forest would, in this scenario, right?
09:27I mean, we're, we're, we're talking four games down the line here, but in this scenario, Wake Forest, who is
09:32ranked in the poll, by the way, 13, at 8-1.
09:36Wake Forest has to run the table, get into the ACC title game.
09:41At that point, going into the ACC title game, Wake Forest would be 11-1.
09:47Miami, in this equation, would be 11-1.
09:49Wake Forest and Miami are going to be in the top seven, eight seeds.
09:53Both of those, those games.
09:55If Wake Forest were to beat Miami, which is not out of this world, Wake Forest is going to be
10:00a top five team, which means Miami's only two losses came to top five teams with one loss.
10:07Notre Dame, on the road, and Wake Forest at a neutral site.
10:10But Miami also beat that same Wake Forest team.
10:13They would have a signature strong victory.
10:17On the road.
10:18Which would be that same Wake Forest team.
10:20But even Alabama being ranked third.
10:24Crowder, I'm not even taking shots at the SEC.
10:26I swear I'm not.
10:28Yeah.
10:28But wrap my head around, try to convince me how it makes sense that Alabama, who has losses to two
10:37top ten teams, Georgia being one of them, and then Tennessee being the other.
10:42Well, if you're going to prop up Alabama, who has lost to two top ten teams, then shouldn't you prop
10:48up Miami, whose only loss came to a top five team with one loss?
10:54Like, that's the only thing that I don't understand.
10:57Oh, Alabama has two good losses.
10:58And they have some great wins, too.
11:00Don't get me wrong.
11:00They have two great losses to two top ten teams.
11:03Well, Miami's only loss came to a top five team.
11:05So, like, why doesn't that benefit them?
11:07You just said it.
11:09And, like I'm saying, just speaking football, you said it.
11:11Alabama has lost to two top ten teams.
11:13Miami's lost to one top ten team.
11:15Miami has no wins over top ten teams.
11:18Alabama has wins over top ten teams.
11:21It's why the SEC people, and I'll speak from just the blue and yellow flag, it's why we're so cocky.
11:27It's because, okay, we're losing?
11:29Yeah, we're losing SEC teams.
11:31And then you get in the college football playoffs, and last year, let's be honest, the SEC has not won,
11:35what, a championship in six, seven years?
11:38But when you go top two or three, y'all can jump in, and the Big Ten can sneak up
11:43Ohio State.
11:43Look at the top 15.
11:45It's going to be eight SEC teams in there.
11:47And that's why the bias is there, and that's why we act the way we do.
11:50Roll your eyes if you want to.
11:51It's true, Solana.
11:52You know what I think?
11:54I think you should go home to Greenbow, Alabama.
12:01Hey, man, Jenny did Gafford so wrong.
12:04Goodness gracious.
12:05That's the funny movie I hate is how Jenny treated Forrest.
12:08Barry Jackson from the Miami Herald tweeted out,
12:11The systemic institutional bias against ACC and in favor of SEC will never change.
12:19ACC needed 24 teams in the field to even get a second team in.
12:24Miami kicking SEC butt in postseason last year changed nothing.
12:29Hard to overcome systemic bias.
12:34Who said this?
12:35Barry Jackson.
12:37Oh, okay.
12:37Barry's from South.
12:38Okay, I get it now.
12:39It's not systemic.
12:40It's fact.
12:41It's systemic.
12:43It's acting like this is, yeah.
12:45You know what you say, trends or just a system.
12:48Who's better in the college football playoffs last season?
12:51Miami.
12:52Miami.
12:53Which conference, though?
12:56Who would it be?
13:00No, SEC had two teams in the top six, right?
13:04Well, that's systemic bias.
13:07I don't know if you got math going, the right one.
13:09The median.