Name: Texas A&M's Claim to the #1 Seed: A Realistic View
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Texas A&Ms like they have a realistic claim at the number one seed. I mean, you could say it's a realistic claim. Any, anybody can say that they have a claim to this, and that's kind of the problem. And I think it goes back, I'm gonna give you an example. The example is Boise, I mean, excuse me, USF as we talk about USF, they're ranked 24th, who they beat? They beat a ranked Florida team and they beat a ranked Boise State team. Like that was at the very beginning of the year. Just like the strength of schedule for Ohio State, it's kind of predicated upon the other teams and what they do. You beat the #1 team in the country week one in Texas. You beat the number 17 team, Illinois at that time. Could Washington have been ranked? Yes, 100% they could have. And then look at them now, then you had Penn State, that was supposed to be the big new matchup, didn't really live, they didn't live up to their expectations, and that somehow that dramatically impacts this. You know, as we go and talk about this, and you have the strength of schedule, like that's kind of where Ohio State, you would say is lacking, I think based on Texas A&M they're 15th. Ohio State's 41, um, Indiana is 33, and it's obviously heavily favored in the SEC as they continue to get ranked even though some of them have 3 losses. And so, here's my take on it, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave it, Bob, it's a little bit of the eye test in watching these games of Indiana. You know, uh, Texas A&M, Ohio State, heck, even some of the rest of the SEC. Ohio State and Indiana have really handled their business. Now, the Penn State game on the road should not have came down to that through an interception. I mean, they were winning at halftime pretty, pretty handily, made some mistakes, but Ohio State, week in and week out versus whomever has controlled that game start to finish. You weren't even that Texas game, Bob, that you and I were present. It was 14-0 with 3 minutes to go in the football game. You, there was no reservation that they were not the better team on the field in any of these games. That's why I feel that they are number one in the country. And it's interesting because, you know, you look at A&M and you're like, OK, they're an SEC team, but they, they haven't played a schedule like Oklahoma or a schedule like, uh, Florida. Where they've had a lot of the best teams. I mean, they haven't played Bama, they don't play Bama. They haven't played Georgia, they don't play Georgia, haven't played Tennessee. They don't play Tennessee. They haven't played Ole Miss. They don't play Ole Miss. Their big game at the end of the year is going to be Texas. And just like Ohio State will be playing Michigan. Now, you mentioned the A&M, they've got a victory on the road, 1 point victory against Notre Dame. Good, good win. Number 9th team in the country. Ohio State beat Texas. They're the number 10 team in the country. It was at home. It was 14-0 with 5 minutes to go in the game. So they controlled that thing from start to finish. Both of these teams have had schedules that I feel like have kind of let them down a little bit. But Ohio State, I feel like has been probably more dominant in that, during that time. And, I don't want to hear about Texas A&M being the SEC because they've played a super soft schedule. You know, when you start talking about it, like, it's not like Wisconsin. Wisconsin's played a crazy tough schedule in the Big 10. Ohio State didn't get that schedule. And so, you can only play who's on there. Both of these teams scheduled tough nonconference games with Texas and Notre Dame, so I give them credit for that. Um, And then people pointed out, look at Indiana's tight victory over Penn State. I'm like, all right, well, you know, there's teams that have won tight a lot. They haven't done that. They've controlled most of their games. So I'm gonna leave this as well. Uh, yeah, I, I have seen enough of Texas Tech that I think they're a really good team. And I believe they're the most consistent team in the SEC. I don't know if they're the best. I think Bama might be the best now with where they're playing, but I think that if they make the SEC Championship, which I believe they will. They should ultimately get one of the buys, win or lose, just like I think both of the Big 10 teams that get in, assuming Ohio State and Indiana hold serve, that would be your 4 buys. And then that would be it. But if you also, also, remember, remember Alabama, there's a whole thing. Alabama went to South Carolina and that was extremely close, right? And you saw the whole thing of, hey, they beat the preseason number 13 team and we just went on the rankings of that. And that every team gets better. State was like the one or two preseason team. They were #2. They were #2 preseason, right? So. Illinois was ranked as high as 9th 1 time. Like that's, that's what I'm saying. I mean, you bounce around and you can kind of look at this any which way. I think both the teams have had pretty good schedules, but they haven't been the toughest you're gonna find, but they both looked really good, uh, and fairly consistent in that.

Texas A&M's Claim to the #1 Seed: A Realistic View

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