Mumme Poll Week 14 – Regular Season Final Rankings

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Apparently, you all witnessed the same butt-whipping to the Longhorns that the CFP Committee is willing to overlook. Also, it seems they’re willing to overlook the loss to a horrendous Florida team, too.

Others receiving votes: SMU, USC, Arizona State, Jacksonville State, Mizzou, Tennessee, and Troy (?)

We’re not far off from the final CFP rankings at the top of the Poll, however, it’s interesting to note that Kennesaw State snuck in to the Top 25. Also seems we are fairly in agreement that BYU would deserve a spot over Miami, and if the Duke Blue Devils somehow pull the upset against Virginia and BYU wins, the funniest thing ever could happen…no ACC representation in the CFP.

Talk about your swift and immediate action on lawsuits that would ensue…and an expanded (16 teams? 32 teams? Championship Week play-in games, say you?) playoff would go into effect immediately. I’m of the opinion they’ll sneak in Miami if they have the chance, though the Notre Dame viewership compared to the Hurricanes would likely get the Irish in, even after losing to Carson and Co. earlier this season. Mario Cristobal implosion coming in 5, 4, 3…

Anyway…in regards to the last question…who is the first newly minted SEC coach to get the axe:

  1. Pete Golding – 41%
  2. (tie) Lane Kiffin/Alex Golesh – 19% each
  3. Jon Sumrall – 9%
  4. (tie) Ryan Silverfield/Will Stein – 7% each (probably because both fanbases could care less)

Thanks for participating in the Mumme Poll this season…we’ll drop one last one after Saturday’s slate of games, so you can predict the final CFP brackets.

26 thoughts on “Mumme Poll Week 14 – Regular Season Final Rankings”

  1. “if the Duke Blue Devils somehow pull the upset against Virginia and BYU wins, the funniest thing ever could happen…no ACC representation in the CFP.”
    I agree that would be awesome and I would be making fun of ACC fans everywhere. However, I thought that conference winners get into the CFP 12 team format. I may be wrong about this but seems like Duke would get in as a 5 loss team. They just won’t get the automatic BYE like last year.
    Will you please clarify for us?

    • I just had someone explain this to me this morning…it goes to the five highest ranked conference champions…as it stands, Duke is ranked below G5 teams so if those G5 teams were to win their conference championship and Duke did, as well, but Duke is ranked lower than the two G5 conference champs, then Duke is excluded from the CFP bracket.

      In other words, a conference champ is an automatic bid…if they are one of the top 5 ranked conference champs. As it stands, the SEC, Big XII, and B1G conference champs would be top 3…if Tulane or North Texas (AAC Championship game between the two) wins and if James Madison wins (Sun Belt), then based on the current CFP rankings where Duke is not in the Top 25, a Duke win would likely only put them behind the AAC or Sun Belt Champs. Worst case for the ACC is that North Texas and JMU both win, finish with 12 wins each, and they have an 8-5 Duke as their conference champs. Hard to see them leap-frogging Duke above 12 win teams. Just my two cents.

      • Additionally, if Virginia wins, then one of those two teams would fall out of the playoff picture. Likely that would be JMU, ranked lower than North Texas and Tulane as of right now. Although Sumrall is leaving, the Committee showed last night that Kiffin’s departure didn’t affect the eye test with Ole Miss, so Tulane or North Texas would still likely get in.

        If Virginia wins, kiss the idea of a Carson Beck-Bulldog matchup, as there’s little justification for including Miami in the playoffs. If BYU wins with the Virginia win, that’s an almost certain lock. Some may argue that Miami won the head-to-head with Notre Dame, but Notre Dame’s only losses are by 4 total points to the current #7 and #12 teams, and they’ve rattled off 10 stratight wins since. And none of those games have been particularly close. Add in the the Irish has a larger national audience than Miami, and the ‘Canes are effectively eliminated.

        What would be hilarious is to beat Alabama and drop them from the CFP, but they are all too familiar with the crowing and gnashing of teeth from Tuscaloosa, so Alabama could be eliminated, but they are also saying that conference championship losses shouldn’t affect final standings (too much), but with the SEC already flaunting five teams in the CFP, I could see them pushing out Alabama and giving Miami a nod over Texas or Vanderbilt…you know, for “parity”.

        Who knows.

        • Whoever you had explaining all this to you this morning deserves a beer. Thanks for the clarification. Go Dawgs! and Go Blue Devils!?!

          • Lol. I work with a bunch of data and analytics folks, and they are way more knowledgeable about predictives and outcomes than I am. I should really consult with them about my Fabris Pool picks more often.

        • Had this conversation today with an Alabama fan:
          Them: ” Uga loses to Bama in the championship. Both stay in the tournament. Bama loses a playoff game but UGA wins out. UGA would have the Natty having lost to Bama twice in the same season. That’s not fair.”
          Me: ” Then we’d have to listen to y’all bitch about it for fucking ever. Tyler Simmons was not offsides.”
          Them:
          Me:

          #FTMF. Fix it, Kirby.

      • The ACC might want to consider being a basketball only conference. Wait, they’re kind of shit at basketball as well. Damn, they just suck.

  2. Not wanting to tempt the Karmic Bitches, but how cool is it that 3 “other” Texas schools are ranked higher than the Horns? Makes me almost want to pull for SMU and TCU.

    • Me too..but to be honest, Texas really is better than them..that is the fallacy of the selection process..it’s not about who’s better. But yeah..F’ Tejas.

  3. Expect ND to be gifted for owning the “Most Favored Team” status.
    How is it that the ESPN Hoe Committee (and the Yankee sports media) gives great consideration to close losses (ND) but is not supposed to consider the points in blowouts?
    Size of W/L matters or it doesn’t . Just depends on who you are.
    SOS is a big deal ..not…or they’d have to re-do their selections.
    Kirby has his team take a knee when the game is won..because style points aren’t supposed to count.
    Is it simple W or L or is there an astirisk by the L’s (*L) for the Irish?
    Is the size of the score only when ND loses a close one?
    Heck…if they’re going to ignore close losses to good teams, Auburn’s had a pretty good season.
    This CFP is a Charley Foxtrot and it’s going to get worse…because the answer to every snafu is going to be to have a bigger tournament…not an honest and reasonable playoff.

    • Just to further explain my rambling post..
      Suppose Florida was on the bubble this year and the committee considered their close loss to Georgia and it was enough to slide them into the playoffs. Remember that Georgia purposely left a certain 7 points on the field when Gunner took that knee on their one ydline. How would we feel about that? But it could happen if the committee is going to put an asterisk by close losses to good teams.

  4. I do not believe that Miami is a great team but I think they are better than BYU and they beat Notre Dame. It seems like they should get in over BYU if BYU loses again to Texas Tech.

  5. The one sure thing this Mumme Poll tells us is that at 4 Nerds voted in it.

  6. The CFP Committee and playoffs is a fair, well organized and efficient process. – Kim Jong Un

  8. If only….the CFP committee only released 1 set of rankings, after the last week of the regular season (and before the conference championship games – that way, those games really wouldn’t count against anyone) so that teams did not “jump” each other as that is not even how it’s supposed to be. I thought that they were supposed to start from scratch each week…guess not. The dumbest thing in the rankings is the Notre Dame love and not using the head to head with Miami to rank Miami over Notre Dame (same record, so head to head SHOULD matter).

  9. I’d personally like it if the CFP could expand based on how many worthy teams there are in a given year. They could have a minimum number of teams, say the current 12, but if there are 16 worthy teams, like this year, flex out to 16 teams to include BYU, Miami, Texas and Vanderbilt. Make the final rankings prior to the conference championships the final rankings PERIOD and not worry about the results of those games as they are only to crown the conference champion. THEN there would really be no punishment for losing that game. Not every year has that many teams that deserve a shot, but this year, there are more teams than usual that I think have a valid argument, but they weren’t ranked previously high enough and had to try to move up and couldn’t make the field.

    • We’ve gone from the BCS formula where only two teams got a shot…to having a tournament where every team with a pulse gets a shot..
      There are NEVER 12 teams that can make an honest argument that they are the very best team in college football.
      There are pretenders aplenty.
      And TV dollars that say, more, more, more more, more.

  10. Which of North Texas, James Madison, Tulane and Virginia would you take in a straight up game against Auburn or Tennessee or even Florida?
    They’d be underdogs to the average SEC team in every case.
    THIS is why the CFB committee and play offs are ridiculously stupid.

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