(11-26-2017 07:37 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(11-25-2017 03:05 PM)HAL 9100 Wrote:  Since UCF already beat Memphis handily, is it really a given that Memphis winning the championship would guarantee them jumping UCF? It’s a reasonable expectation, but if Memphis only wins by 3 points or so, I can see a scenario where the CFP committee keeps UCF in front.

Won't matter. You still have to win the conference.

After 3 years of this same question popping up at the end of each season, you think people would remember that.

Even though the discussion leading up to it every year involves multiple teams in the race from some conferences, in the final ranking, the CFP committee ONLY considers 5 teams for the access bowl slot:

The Champs of the AAC, MWC, CUSA, MAC, Sun Belt.

That's it. No BYU, no runners-up. Only G5 champs. Period. Don't win your league, and you ain't going. Highest CFP ranked team in the league only counts for tiebreaker stuff for winning the division and getting to the CCG.

Once you have your CCG, the winner is the only candidate from each league.

You could be #1 in the country, get upset by an unranked team in the CCG, and you aren't going.

(11-26-2017 09:43 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(11-26-2017 07:37 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(11-25-2017 03:05 PM)HAL 9100 Wrote:  Since UCF already beat Memphis handily, is it really a given that Memphis winning the championship would guarantee them jumping UCF? It’s a reasonable expectation, but if Memphis only wins by 3 points or so, I can see a scenario where the CFP committee keeps UCF in front.

Won't matter. You still have to win the conference.

After 3 years of this same question popping up at the end of each season, you think people would remember that.

Even though the discussion leading up to it every year involves multiple teams in the race from some conferences, in the final ranking, the CFP committee ONLY considers 5 teams for the access bowl slot:

The Champs of the AAC, MWC, CUSA, MAC, Sun Belt.

That's it. No BYU, no runners-up. Only G5 champs. Period. Don't win your league, and you ain't going. Highest CFP ranked team in the league only counts for tiebreaker stuff for winning the division and getting to the CCG.

Once you have your CCG, the winner is the only candidate from each league.

You could be #1 in the country, get upset by an unranked team in the CCG, and you aren't going.

The real question is, if several teams ahead of UCF and Memphis lose badly this weekend, and Memphis eeks out a 3 point win over UCF, and we end up ranked like 7th and 11th, Would BOTH teams go? One to the access spot, the other to an at-large spot. Of course, it WILL NOT HAPPEN this year. We are too low in the polls, but I could see something like this happening next year with a head start in the polls.