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Bowl projections

I didn't grow up a Broncos fan and honestly disliked them until the year Wade Phillips was the coach and they simply couldn't buy a win. It was nice to see them dig themselves back from that time and then win 2 Super Bowls with Elway. I also enjoyed the run with Manning as QB and can see that Nix/Payton could make the Broncos super interesting for years to come.

That's a long winded way of saying nothing bothers me about Shedeur in a Raiders uniform and see tons of upside both in terms of his future success and marketing opportunities.

I'd love the opportunity to spend a weekend in Vegas seeing Shedeur crush some team not named the Broncos down the road.
 
manhattanbuff said:
Miami would have to trade above the Raiders. Don’t see them giving up the capital necessary.
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Miami would be better off drafting Travis than Shedeur. He'd be a huge difference maker for them as a lockdown corner who is in some offensive packages.

Anyway, I think Prime will guide things to the Raiders or Giants.
 
I keep looking for bowl projections but I keep seeing absolute bull**** like this.



We are going to a bowl goddamit! I predicted it. We are not going to the ****ing playoff
 
Buffnik said:
Miami would be better off drafting Travis than Shedeur. He'd be a huge difference maker for them as a lockdown corner who is in some offensive packages.

Anyway, I think Prime will guide things to the Raiders or Giants.
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I don’t see the NYG because I think their leadership is in flux. Raiders have a co-owner who’s Shedeur’s mentor.
 
Darth Snow said:
I keep looking for bowl projections but I keep seeing absolute bull**** like this.



We are going to a bowl goddamit!
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I think we'll end up as the 3 seed after Miami drops another game and then Clemson beats SMU in the championship game.
 
manhattanbuff said:
I don’t see the NYG because I think their leadership is in flux. Raiders have a co-owner who’s Shedeur’s mentor.
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It's not the Mara family going forward? They've been like the Rooney & Hunt families of sound generational ownership

Plus the NY market. It would be "5th Avenue Shedeur".
 
dio said:
Josh Pate argued today that if the committee doesn't give the SEC 5 teams then the SEC will takes it ball and go home, because they are so much better.
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I can agree that the SEC is far better with more good teams than the B1G, but who does he want the 5th SEC team to replace as things currently stand? Indiana is the only possibility and it’s only due to their schedule that is pretty bad, but they are ranked 6th, so the committee would need to drop them all the way out just to get Tennessee in at the 11seed or something.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
I can agree that the SEC is far better with more good teams than the B1G, but who does he want the 5th SEC team to replace as things currently stand? Indiana is the only possibility and it’s only due to their schedule that is pretty bad, but they are ranked 6th, so the committee would need to drop them all the way out just to get Tennessee in at the 11seed or something.
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Will need more cross-conference games? Perhaps certain weeks later in the year are tbd, and then are cross-conference games based on that weeks rankings?

Neutral locations
 
This season will probably help drum up conversation to get the playoffs to a 16 team field.
Four extra teams would most likely include and extra spot from SEC, Big12 and ACC.
 
InTheBuff said:
This season will probably help drum up conversation to get the playoffs to a 16 team field.
Four extra teams would most likely include and extra spot from SEC, Big12 and ACC.
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Dont need 16 teams. Every conference 9 conference games and force more P4 non-conference games to start the season. CU playing NDSU should never happen. Their warmup game can be MWC or similar. Bama playing Mercer last weekend and Vols having UTEP this week is a joke. UT already played Chattanooga and Kent State.

Also under the new playoff Domers need to be forced into a conference
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
I can agree that the SEC is far better with more good teams than the B1G, but who does he want the 5th SEC team to replace as things currently stand? Indiana is the only possibility and it’s only due to their schedule that is pretty bad, but they are ranked 6th, so the committee would need to drop them all the way out just to get Tennessee in at the 11seed or something.
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Indiana replaced by South Carolina (if Indiana loses)



It's all a self-fulfilling prophecy with the SEC and he glosses over the fact they only play 8 conference games.
 
InTheBuff said:
This season will probably help drum up conversation to get the playoffs to a 16 team field.
Four extra teams would most likely include and extra spot from SEC, Big12 and ACC.
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I actually think that a 2-round conference playoff and then cutting it to an 8-team playoff would be better than a 16-team playoff. 4 auto-bids an 4 at-large would make for a lot of excitement while having more teams in it still in November. Like with hoops. As amazing as the Dance is, the excitement builds for it the couple weeks before that with conference tournaments which matter.
 
I might be crazy, but I thought that the seeding would be wonky because of how the byes are assigned.

Example: if SMU wins the ACC and ends up ranked 10. Would they not stay the 10 seed even though they get the bye? I keep seeing these projections with the Big 12 winner and the ACC winner as the 3 and 4 seeds, I don’t think that’s correct?
 
Bread said:
I might be crazy, but I thought that the seeding would be wonky because of how the byes are assigned.

Example: if SMU wins the ACC and ends up ranked 10. Would they not stay the 10 seed even though they get the bye? I keep seeing these projections with the Big 12 winner and the ACC winner as the 3 and 4 seeds, I don’t think that’s correct?
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The teams with byes are automatically seeded 1-4. It’s why Ohio State is ranked 2nd but seeded 5th. It was a way to keep an emphasis on winning a conference.
 
Buffnik said:
Miami would be better off drafting Travis than Shedeur. He'd be a huge difference maker for them as a lockdown corner who is in some offensive packages.

Anyway, I think Prime will guide things to the Raiders or Giants.
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I see a lot of comments about Prime somehow determining who drafts Shedeur. What I never see is anyone explaining how he would do that. Nik how do you see Prime having any influence over how an NFL team uses its first round draft pick? Outside of claiming Shedeur will refuse to sign and is going to sit out the entire year, I don’t see any leverage on Prime’s side (and I don’t believe the threat of sitting out is serious).
 
steviet said:
I see a lot of comments about Prime somehow determining who drafts Shedeur. What I never see is anyone explaining how he would do that. Nik how do you see Prime having any influence over how an NFL team uses its first round draft pick? Outside of claiming Shedeur will refuse to sign and is going to sit out the entire year, I don’t see any leverage on Prime’s side (and I don’t believe the threat of sitting out is serious).
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He already came out and said he would go behind the scenes and help steer teams away from Shedeur
 
Bread said:
I might be crazy, but I thought that the seeding would be wonky because of how the byes are assigned.

Example: if SMU wins the ACC and ends up ranked 10. Would they not stay the 10 seed even though they get the bye? I keep seeing these projections with the Big 12 winner and the ACC winner as the 3 and 4 seeds, I don’t think that’s correct?
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Top 4 are conference winners in highest ranking order. So CU could win their ccg, but be ranked below four other ccg winners (ie Boise), and then be seeded outside of the first four bye games. Right now we would be the likely #12. We will need to jump at least Boise somehow, while winning out, to get a bye.
 
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steviet said:
I see a lot of comments about Prime somehow determining who drafts Shedeur. What I never see is anyone explaining how he would do that. Nik how do you see Prime having any influence over how an NFL team uses its first round draft pick? Outside of claiming Shedeur will refuse to sign and is going to sit out the entire year, I don’t see any leverage on Prime’s side (and I don’t believe the threat of sitting out is serious).
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I don't know enough about the back channel negotiations which occur in the NFL to say.

What I do know is that there are ways to orchestrate a trade so that everyone can save face while coming away from the table pretty happy about how things worked out. Like when SD drafted Eli, promptly traded him to the NYG, and walked away with Rivers + a few valuable draft picks - no party to that negotiation had much to complain about.
 
Birch1 said:
Top 4 are conference winners in highest ranking order. So CU could win their ccg, but be ranked below four other ccg winners (ie Boise), and then be ranked outside of the first four bye games. Right now we would be the likely #12. We will need to jump at least Boise somehow, while winning out, to get a buy.
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I know CU has to win out, but if they do and Boise State stays on top of CU because of inertia in the rankings, I'm going to be pretty pissed off.

Boise State's best "win" is probably their 3 point loss to Oregon.

Outside of that, it's either their win at UNLV or their home win vs. Washington State. Sagarin has its flaws, but as of right now, it has UNLV as the 50th best team, and Washington State as the 59th best team.

I know that CU hasn't played the world's most difficult schedule, but it's been miles tougher than BSU's. Sagarin would rate NDSU, Baylor, UCF, Texas Tech and Utah as a better win than either UNLV or WSU, and Cincinnati would rate as a better win than WSU. If CU wins out, as of right now, BYU and Kansas would also be better than those two wins.

On the flip side, CU has played two teams worse than 50th in the Sagarin rankings (Arizona, at 68th, and CSU, at 83rd). Besides the three BSU opponents that I mentioned (Oregon, WSU, and UNLV), BSU has played one opponent in the top 100 Sagarin rankings- Georgia Southern, at 93rd.
 
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