But once we beat ourselves we won't get credit because we'd then be having a down year
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It does seem like the longer we hang around, the narrative of who the best team is constantly changes. If our schedule is so weak, how did we go from un-ranked to the #1 team in the country in the shortest of amount of time in the history of CFB?
It don't matter. 2 touchdowns.
The narrative changes because people get bored with the same team atop the polls, week after week. Fans want turmoil and debate. Media outlets especially want it.
State was the hottest thing ever right after the Auburn game, but now we're old news and "haven't played great" in the eyes of everyone who hasn't watched us and doesn't know our team dynamic.
Anybody remember how tired we got of FSU last year? It was awful. How about Notre Dame a few years ago? Every not-#1 fan base in the country wants the top team to be "not as good as the polls say" because they want to believe their 1-loss team has a shot at getting in. It's only gotten worse this year with the playoff –*which was the intent all along. Make more money by making fans crazier.
Well, they also want to see us beat any unranked team we play by 20+ points (given we are #1) and we just aren't really built to do that. We just don't have so many top talented players that we can come into a game that we aren't fired up for and walk all over someone.
Actually we are built that way and we can and have walked over people. There is a plan in place to win the whole thing and it takes a whole season to do that. Winning by 70 every Saturday does not give us the best chance to reach our goals. Besides Auburn we haven't played anyone yet that we couldn't beat as absolutely as bad as we wanted to. And Auburn will be the only team we play this year that falls into that category.
Which is why I like this playoff committee. They actually watch games and grade teams on the eye test. If you look at our games, we haven't really been tested in any game. We dominated LSU, even if the score didn't reflect it. A&M wasn't as close as the score. We beat Auburn by 15 points. We have been dominant, and the committee has seen that. I believe we will be dominant again Saturday.
I seen that too. I seen every national sports writers write stuff about us up to about 2 weeks ago. They wrote stuff going to lengths to describe that were aren't a fluke and that we've been kicking the shit out of everybody we play right up to the point were we let our scrubs have some practice. The whole country was saying in unison, "Mississippi State is not only good, they are dominant, and they are for real".
That one loss was to a highly ranked team (at the time) and they have two really good wins. But we all know sixth is as high as they are going to go because their resume just doesn't compare to the teams above them, and it's likely that they get jumped, even if they win out. But yes, the eye test probably has more to do with where they are than anything else. If they just looked at scores, ASU wouldn't be sixth.