orguy wrote: Football loyalties are largely where you went to UNDERGRAD. The whole grad school thing is not relevant. If you went to SMU undergrad then you are probably a fan. If you went to grad school at SMU while graduating from another university your home school probably plays better ball than the Ponies have recently and thus..
I would route my undergrad school over SMU if they played. It would feel wrong not to. But, at least the past few years, I do follow SMU football more closely, and support it more than my ungrad school.
Your statement, however, that "If you went to SMU undergrad then you are probably a fan" isn’t correct. Invariably, whenever a new SMU undergrad starts where I work and I ask them about SMU football, I get a polite response along the lines that "its just not my thing."
It will be their thing whe we win. People love to jump on the bandwagon.
Nah, Baylor barely beat TCU at home and then lost to a weaker WVU team. TCU beat WVU (barely). TCU showed that they belonged. We'll see if Baylor proves that we should have eight teams in a playoff.
Other than the Armed Forces Bowl at Ford, which has been SMU's best attended bowl game?
Two teams in the same conference playing basically the same schedule, how do you justify any ruling for one over the other except head to head? That said, Patterson has his kids playing at a very high level and I think if they were in the final 4 they would win it all. Just makes finishing out all the games you play even more important. The "lack'o at Waco" is TCU's problem, not the system or the NCAA or anything else.
All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand
Because you are not picking just a conference champion between 2-the selection criteria clearly states you are picking the best 4 teams among all teams. I think its a toss-up but I can clearly envision a situation where a team had a better overall resume than another despite a loss to that team. You would have to compare the wins and losses among the 8-9 contenders not just compare 2 teams. I think its arguable losing by 14 or so to a pretty average WV team is worse than the fantastic performance of TCU in Waco where they were winning for about 58 minutes. How about a team getting blown out to an average team 42-10 but still beating TCU by 3 at the gun at home. Still doesn't matter? How about an even greater Strength of Schedule disparity. Its not a simple as a Big 12 elimination analysis based on the Selection Criteria
Same type of analysis why UCONN got an NCAA invite and SMU didn't despite losing to SMU 2 times
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"With a quarter of a tank of gas, we can get everything we need right here in DFW." -SMU Head Coach Chad Morris
When momentum starts rolling downhill in recruiting-WATCH OUT.
WV gave TCU the ball 5 times in their territory, and TCU won on a last second fg. The "what if " game can be played all day long. But the fact remains they played the same conference schedule and weak OOC. And they played each other and Baylor won. Now ask me who I would put my money on today and I would have a different answer, but the fact remains that Baylor won the "One True Champion" conference.
The UConn example does not fly because the OOC was not comparable.
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Nacho wrote:Baylor should be in the playoff. They beat tcu. Osu selection is a joke. Typical ncaa.
Just to be sure, Nacho, are you talking about the Baylor University that just blew a 20 point lead over Michigan State to lose the Cotton Bowl game? That Baylor University? Should be in the playoffs? Just want to be sure that's who you mean.
