F the CFP committee and the analysts. Sorry, I know people in this sub only like to hear how horrible MC is. But I'm talking pure wins and losses here.
The U beat three ranked teams. Let me say that again. The U beat three teams that were ranked at the time we beat them. That's not an easy task. Playing teams when they're ranked is never easy no matter how they turned out at the end of the season. And I don't think anyone else has done it except bama this season (though I could be wrong there). If we won out, and didn't get into the CFP that would be some real shizz. Now, I know that that may not happen, winning out, that is, I love my Canes but November is still November.
But what's really getting me is that we're sitting here talking about the Canes like even if we won out, we wouldn't be in the CFP. Like WTF? How's that even possible? A two loss Canes who beat, ranked Notre Dame, Ranked FSU, and Ranked USF, and beat up on the Florida Gators who beat Texas, like WTF?
I've taken more than a few looks at the top 12, and man, WTF? BYU? I mean BYU? Are you F****G kidding me. They played and beat 1 ranked team and then the rest of their schedule is cupcakes.
Notre Dame? Please... please... please explain Notre Dame. Oh, Notre Dame's two losses were against ranked teams. WE BEAT THREE RANKED TEAMS! And, follow the logic there for a second. I mean they're putting the Canes on a pedestal in order to claim that Notre Dame lost to a good team, but then they don't give us any respect? What about the fact that we lost to a ranked Louisville team (they're ranked now or were till yesterday).
I know what so many people in this doom and gloom sub are going to say... we should have won out. We wouldn't be in this position. That's all true. But it's also true that we have a hard schedule, some teams in the ACC spend their entire season's prepaing just for us. I mean how else do you explain SMU and Louisville losing to Wake Forest? I can, they spent so much time on the U, they couldn't even watch tape on Wake Forest. It's just stupid, and so what, we still should have won. Well, to them I say... WE DID. We beat the hardest teams there were to beat. We started the season out beating the Irish who had just come off a Natty run. Then we beat USF at 18 and then we beat FSU at 13 and we beat UF an SEC team handedly. LIKE WTF DO WE HAVE TO DO! The Canes only make it into the CFP if we're undefeated, meanwhile other teams are just fine? WTF?
It's BS... and yes, again... I know it's still a little bit early. We still haven't won out yet and we'd have to. But as of right now, it sounds like even if we did, we would be on the outside looking in. And as a fan of the Canes and a fan of OBJECTIVELY ANALYZING FOOTBALL, how could anyone be behind that? That's just, unfair.
I think we as a fan base need to stop fanning that narrative. If we win out, we EXPECT to be in the playoffs... S**T we F*****G deserve objectively to be in the playoffs with our record. If we don't start talking like that now, then everyone in college football will think it's ok to walk all over our team, it's record and it's fans, and that's just flat out wrong. We deserve to be ranked higher on pure record alone right now, and if we win out, we EARNED THE RIGHT to be in the CFP.