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Kelley Ford on multiple SEC teams being in the CFP. · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  You spoke exactly the language that I was hoping you would spoke half a game
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  one to two and then two to three less than I mean, so razor
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  thin at the top half. So it leads me to this, and I
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  have this theory. I'm not saying it's going to happen. SEC fans are
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  beating their chests. We're gonna get four teams in. We're gonna get five
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  teams in the playoff. I've said since spring, careful depending on what happens
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  everywhere else, because that matters. If the Big twelve, for instance,
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  has an undefeated team and then a one loss team, or the ACC has
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  an undefeated team and then two, you know, two teams with one loss,
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  or the Big ten. You could find the SEC with potentially three or
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  four nine win teams, a couple ten win teams, and eleven win team.
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  And based on the way the committee wants to go, and we don't
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  really know this, I don't know that the league gets as many in as
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  they think because the league could cannibalize itself. It absolutely could, Jake.
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  And it all comes down to you touched on it, the committee's behavior,
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  and you know, how much space do we have in the committee to be
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  able to decipher objectively what is nine and three in the SCC versus what is
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  ten and two in the Big twelve or the ACC. And that's oversimplifying it
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  because if Missouri goes nine and three, that's much different than if Florida goes
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  nine and three. Right, Like, those even those two nine and threes
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  are not the same. But let's speak broadly for right now. If a
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  team, generally speaking, if a team in the SEC goes nine and three,
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  it is more likely than not that it will buy objective numbers like mine
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  in my most deserving rankings. That's harder to achieve. That's a harder record
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  to obtain than most likely, you know, a ten and two in the
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  Big twelve. We're in the ACC. Like, that's just the depth of
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  the conferences and just the weekend, week out grind of the power rating of
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  the team that you have to play every single week. In the SEC,
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  it hits a different level than even some of the other Power four conferences.
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  So to get back to your point of let's just pump the brakes because we're
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  not. It might work out that the SEC doesn't get as many teams people
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  think. I agree with you. But if the committee, if we can
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  trust them to know the difference between nine and three and the SEC and ten
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  and two and say that the ACC, I think that helps the SCC,
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  right, that helps the SEC get more teams in, and my most deserving
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  numbers will do that. Jake. Hopefully we can talk about those throughout the
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  season this year as we've done in the past, because more importantly than ever
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  now with the field at twelve as opposed to four, as you're debating,
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  you know, at large spots five, six, and seven versus the first
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  couple teams left out, you can't just look at the win loss record.
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  You really have to dive into what was the difficulty to achieve that record relative
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  to what would be expected of a baseline team against that schedule. So it's
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  going to be really, really interesting, and we're gonna have to trust the
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  committee to know the difference lean the strengths of these conferences. Good stuff,
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  Kelly Ford. Make sure to find him at k Ford Ratings. Good at
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  Kford Ratings dot com. Kelly, I appreciate your time, great stuff.
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  As always, we'll be looking and uh make sure to share that out as
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  you continue to push that out this week and we'll do it again next week.
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  Awesome. Jake, appreciate its always have a good one.