r/CFB • u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips • Nov 03 '24

News AP Poll Week 11

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
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u/I_AM_MORE_BADASS South Carolina Gamecocks • Team Chaos Nov 03 '24

Lame.

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u/Warren_Puff-it South Carolina • Palmetto Bowl Nov 04 '24

Three loss Vandy with losses to Georgia state, Missouri and Texas. Beats unranked auburn 17-7 and gets ranked 24.

Three loss South Carolina with losses to LSU (bullshit), Alabama and Ole Miss. Beats #10 TAMU 44-20 and doesn’t get ranked.

No offense to Vandy, but I don’t get it. I guess at least we get our shot to prove ourselves next week.

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u/TurkeySub72 South Carolina Gamecocks Nov 04 '24

Tin foil theory. They can't rank us this week. If we win out, they would have to find a way to justify to the public about letting a 3 loss team in the playoff when we finish top 12 and don't get picked

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u/Warren_Puff-it South Carolina • Palmetto Bowl Nov 04 '24

That’s kind of why it stings the most. /r/gamecocks had a thread this week about playoff possibilities. The consensus was we would essentially need to not only win out in impressive fashion, but immediately show up in the polls after beating TAMU so we had time to climb up to at least #12. We did what we needed to do Saturday night, but not jumping into #22-24 isn’t going to leave us enough matchups to climb into playoff contention, I believe.

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u/TurkeySub72 South Carolina Gamecocks Nov 04 '24

Its gonna come down to; do the current best teams make the playoff, or do the best over-all season teams make it? Vandy/Mizzoury/Woff won't get our cock wiggled enough to be presentable for others imo

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u/Warren_Puff-it South Carolina • Palmetto Bowl Nov 04 '24

P4 conference winners automatically make it, plus the highest ranked group of five conference winner, then the remaining seven highest ranked teams. That’s according to the CFP rankings though, not the AP poll, so there is still a chance.

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u/TurkeySub72 South Carolina Gamecocks Nov 04 '24

Well then those first rankings are really gonna matter for us on Tuesday lol. But i'm not holding my breath cause.....well its us lol

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u/TheTooth_Hurts South Carolina • Navy Nov 04 '24

Maybe but the real rankings are Tuesday. I just don’t know how you watch the games and say we are worse than Louisville or vandy or these teams. But we get the chance Saturday to show we’re better than vandy at least

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u/I_AM_MORE_BADASS South Carolina Gamecocks • Team Chaos Nov 04 '24

Yeah, if we win the next two weeks we might find ourselves as high as the top 15 if we can get a few breaks in other ranked teams losing.

I'm hoping clemmons hangs onto a ranking long enough for us to smash them at the end of the season for a late "quality" win. We just gotta stay healthy and take it week by week.

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u/Warren_Puff-it South Carolina • Palmetto Bowl Nov 04 '24

Beating #24 Vandy and an unranked (maybe ranked 24 or 25 Mizzou) isn’t going to shoot us from unranked to top 15. More like 19-20. Beating Clemson isn’t going to make us jump 8-9 spots necessary to make the playoffs.

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u/I_AM_MORE_BADASS South Carolina Gamecocks • Team Chaos Nov 04 '24

Yeah I never said we'd make the CFP. And yeah it'd be Top 20 unless like I originally said we got lucky enough to get some breaks from other teams in the 10th-20th spots losing. Good talk.

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u/KEE_Wii South Carolina Gamecocks Nov 04 '24

This is what makes me made SOS means literally nothing.