Championship Drive on ESPN claims UF won't make playoffs even if undefeated

[Slevin]

Yes ESPN

Beating the #1 team, #3 team, # 5 team, and # 7 team while also having two non conference P5 teams on the schedule just simply isn’t good enough because of Towson and UT-Martin.

 

[soflagator]

Yes ESPN

Beating the #1 team, #3 team, # 5 team, and # 7 team while also having two non conference P5 teams on the schedule just simply isn’t good enough because of Towson and UT-Martin.

My guess is she's confusing the FCS rule with regards to bowl eligibility(technically we're not bowl eligible because of that). But in any event, it's about as dumb a position as one could possibly take. As you say, that schedule, 13-0 including two P5 OOC teams, we're in. For that matter, in that unlikely event, we're probably the 1 seed.

 

[fischerwood]

Yadda Yadda Yadda....ESPN ...Yadda Yadda Yadda

 

[-THE DUDE-]

It’s not even close to possibly why even get angry over this? We go undefeated we are in. We won’t but if we did we are in. We lose 1 and beat uga and bama we are in...don’t waste your energy getting upset over this.

 

[Towels 'N Sporks]

These people clearly don't know college football and are just repeating things they have heard from experts from the past and applying it to us. Yeah if a pac 12 team won out and had 2 games on the schedule like ours there is a chance they wouldn't get in because their strength of schedule would be extremely low. Ours stays high regardless of those two games. we could lose any game on the schedule and if we win the seccg there's probably a 95% chance we STILL get into the playoff, if not higher, so don't listen to these idiots.

 

[GatorKen714]

There's a reason the E in ESPN is the first letter.

 

[Zambo]

I noticed in your post, you said “she”. I’m guessing this is someone who either a) doesn’t know at all what she’s talking about, or b) just wants attention and figures a shock value story will create just that.

 

[NavetG8r]

These are the same people that refer to Bruce Jenner as she and her.

And brave...o_O

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

You beat LSU and Georgia and people aren't going to care if UT is in Martin or Knoxville.

 

[Double Gator Dad]

If we finish undefeated we are in period.
The SEC office would never let that happen no matter what
Try not to let the morons get to you

 

[AnObfuscator]

I'm watching the show "Championship Drive" on the ESPN app.

Well, there's your mistake right there. Why would you do that to yourself?

 

[GatorJB]

You beat LSU and Georgia and people aren't going to care if UT is in Martin or Knoxville.

There's not much of a difference between those two teams anyways.

 

[Dekle]

I'm watching the show "Championship Drive" on the ESPN app. They are talking about the Gators and our win, and they are actually debating whether or not we might be held out of the the Playoffs by the Committee because of our two games against FCS teams.

First of all, they start by saying that if we were to lose one game (say LSU) and win out, how the two FCS games might keep us out and that it would definitely be a consideration for the Committee. The reporter says "I promise you...the two wins against UT-Martin and Towson will be a sticking point." That is absolutely ridiculous to me. Why does it matter that we played UT-Martin and Towson instead of Akron and Charlotte? Are they really any different? We would have had to beat Auburn, Georgia, and Bama most likely to be at that point. Not to mention the rest of our SEC schedule and Miami and FSU. How is this even a discussion?

But, here is where it gets absolutely ridiculous. They start having a legitimate conversation about whether or not we would make it to the Playoffs EVEN IF WE WERE UNDEFEATED!!!!! One reporter literally said that she thinks the Committee may not put us in because of those two wins. She said she "cannot say that definitively" because of those two games. So, two games that are without question intended to be our two easiest games of the schedule would somehow trump the fact we would have beaten Auburn, LSU, Georgia, and Bama and would be undefeated in the best conference in the nation? Ridiculous that this is even being talked about.

Are you kidding me? This is the stupidest conversation I have ever heard. How does this stuff even make it on major TV?

I hope you aren't paying for that App. Geez. That cra-cra!

 

[rogdochar]

Oh my word - an intercepted broadcast ! ... Tell Pelosi. She'll send subpoenas.

 

[GatorMan5K]

Bunch of snowflakes, the whole lot.

 

[RiverRat]

Does anyone really care what a bunch of num nuts on espn really think? i don't think any are on the selection committee.
I would love to see Fl. go undefeated to fine out.

 

[GatorAuthor]

Agree with all the posts here. It's premature speculation, incorrect, irrelevant, etc.

Now, if it's an issue to be considered, why is it we schedule UT-Martin and Towson instead of Akron and Charlotte? If in a close situation we get points off for playing FCS teams, are we gonna keep scheduling them?