(07-15-2017 07:02 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(07-15-2017 06:59 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-15-2017 06:45 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(07-15-2017 06:17 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(07-15-2017 06:05 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote:  Couldn't disagree more. Only 2010 TCU team would have had any shot of beating top 4 team.

Then they would have lost. Lots of teams have fared poorly in the playoffs. The fact is, the G5's have pretty consistently done well in their bowl game vs teams they "had no chance" to beat. Let it play out on the field. If they are outclassed---they are outclassed. If the G5 wins---they advance.

That sounds nice in theory but it doesn't work.

We know these teams are outclassed. We don't need blowouts to prove it.

I remember watching the 2009 Sugar Bowl when Barry Switzer working for Fox for the game said "Alabama is going to crush Utah" He basically said the game wasn't worth playing. He was right. Utah outclassed Alabama. I know we didn't need to watch Alabama get outclassed by Utah that night to prove who the better team was...but it was fun to watch a lowly MWC scrub team crush a mighty sec team.
The 2 games Ive made the most money on betting was that Sugar Bowl and the Rose Bowl when TCU beat Whiskey....

"Remember that one time!"

That's all you have. It's a tired argument.

Exceptions do not make rules.

Saban is the ultimate exception though when you think about it.

They've pushed the Florida schools around on the recruiting trail in a way few could have predicted possible in this day and age.

He's running an exceptional program more so than riding an exceptional brand.