I’m not sure of this as I could see both possibly getting in with a narrow Texas Tech loss. BYU will be out if they lose.
Will Ole Miss drop out of the top 10/11 because of Lane Kiffin?
Yes, that is the precedent
GoA Conference-Central Rankings 12/01/2025 (via AP)
Three Big Ten (0 change)
Five SEC (0)
One ACC (0)
One Big 12 (0)
One at-large (0)
ND (0)
No change from prior week.
Current normal rankings, rearranged to denote order of being chosen.
- Big Ten Champ (tOSU or IU)
- SEC Champ (UGA or 'bama)
- Big 12 Champ (T-Tech or BYU)
- ACC Champ (UVA or not!) (edited)
- Other (Tulane)
- Big Ten (conf champ loser)
- ND (#9)
- Big Ten (Ore #5)
- SEC (Ole Miss #6)
- SEC (T A and/or M)
- SEC (OU (#8)
For #12:
If UGA loses, they are in.
If UGA wins, 'bama drops and da-U looks to be in. Last week Da-U was ranked higher than Utah and Vandy. I don’t see any of this changing.
For “other”: I think they look at the conferences, and have decided that the American Conference is on the whole, better than the Sun Belt. if Tulane loses to North Texas, would that vault North Texas above a winning JMU?
And if Duke wins, they won’t make the playoff
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Who’s “they”? Duke? Hmm, that’s interesting. That could allow both Tulane/North Texas AND JMU to make the playoff?
Not a fan of either team, but the U belongs in before ND.
No one belongs, really. Just crown the winner of OSU/Indiana national champs. No need for playoffs this year.
Well, I guess Penn St. is back to the drawing board in their search for a new coach. Reports are now that Sitaki is telling people he will be remaining at BYU after basically saying yesterday that reports that he was in negotiations with Penn St. were correct. BYU is working on a new contract with him and some of the boosters have indicated they are willing to step up and pay him like they paid AJ Dybantsa.
Tech is 4 this week and you think they will drop to at least 11 if they lose the conference championship to #11 BYU? Yet #3 A&M lost to #16 Texas and only dropped 4 spots?
The only team I see having a possibility of dropping out that is currently shown as in is Alabama. If they lose they drop out and Miami is in if BYU loses. If BYU wins they move in and ND drops out if Alabala wins.
So the B1G championship has no affect on the last team in. The ACC championship only decides if their champ gets in. If VA wins they get a conference champ spot if Duke wins the ACC doesn’t get their champ in.
So ND gets bumped if BYU and Alabama win. If either loses ND stays in. If both lose Alabama is out, ND moves up and Miami is in.
Yes.
Maybe a close game, unlike the last one, would get both teams in.
They will find a way to keep ND in. That’s big money, so many fans and haters.
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By YOU, I think you mean DTNF based on phrasing. I think TTech is probably in if they play a competitive game against BYU even if they lose.
BYU needs to win to get in.
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I agree with the ND statement. But I think if BYU wins and Alabama loses Alabama is out and BYU. Though it would be interesting how they would rank them. Because if they have BYU jump ND then they could end up with ND and Miami next to each other which would make it awkward having ND in while the first team out being a team that beat them.
Though I just saw someone say the committee says they won’t punish a team for losing their conference game which is why they moved Bama ahead of ND. So if Bama Loses they can move them down one but still keep them in while if BYU loses, they weren’t in to begin with so they are still out.
It’s awkward having ND ahead of a team that beat them regardless of whether they are “next to each other” or not.
Miami beat ND head to head, and lost by 3 to Louisville and in OT @ SMU. Their other “big” wins were vs South Florida, FSU, and Pitt (all were ranked at the time but are not now).
ND lost to their 2 best opponents (Miami and A&M), and beat USC and Pitt (who is no longer ranked).
So to me, Miami has the better wins, but also worse losses. If only there was a way to decided between them…
Eh. that was three months ago.
“Hey, you owe us money that we never paid you and for which you didn’t work!”
Wilson received $30K, then transferred.
So, sounds like they are owed the $30K, no big deal.
Attempted analogy: I contract with a house painter to spend a year painting my house. I pay him a first installment of less than 10% of the full contract. He decides not to paint my house and paint someone else’s house instead. So, I’m legally allowed to ask for the full 100% of what I was going to pay him?
Sure, the other house he chose to paint was a bitter rival of mine, and one of the unspoken reasons I contracted with him was so he wouldn’t paint any other houses during that time.
$30K + $360K for Pain & Suffering (i.e. the $360K in legal fees they spent to get back the $30K)
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punitive damages, not pain & suffering
and legal fees in the US are generally not recoverable, with the exception of instances where states have explicitly made it apply. That’s why stuff like civil asset forfeiture is so insidious.
Got get into those deep student athlete pockets!