[PrinceLightfoot]

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Travis Haney polled 20 anonymous coaches as to who they expected would make the playoffs:

1. FSU
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma
4. Oregon (10 votes)
9. UCLA (2 votes)
13. Stanford (1 vote)

I would say by far the most overrated team here is Oklahoma. I know we've been discussing UCLA, but UCLA makes a bunch more sense than Oklahoma to me.

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/travis-h...oachespoll

Well, the most overrated by the media in comparison to this coaches' poll would be UCLA, i.e. UCLA is quite often cited by the media as a playoff team but by only 10% of these coaches.

It would appear that only 13 of 20 coaches expect a Pac 12 team in the playoff. That is surprising to me. Either they don't think much of the Pac 12 or think so much of the Pac 12 that they believe the league will be cannibalizing itself.

On Oklahoma. Well, I strongly suspect 4 of the big 5 conference winners will make the playoff. Oklahoma seems like a good bet to win the Big 12 and thus have a very good shot at the playoff - particularly if the Big 12 is bad enough to not give the Sooners much competition. And I think that might be the case outside of Baylor. Oklahoma isn't losing any out of conference games (La Tech, Tulsa, Tennessee at home), so they'll have a very good record if the win the Big 12 and are a good bet for the playoff.
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Seems like the coaches believe that a two loss PAC12 champion would be left out of the playoff. I do not believe that entirely. It will depend on the quality of the opponents who handed the champion the losses and the circumstances of the defeats like point margin of loss.

[PrinceLightfoot]

[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=10437.msg95309#msg95309 date=1409085307]
Travis Haney polled 20 anonymous coaches as to who they expected would make the playoffs:

1. FSU
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma
4. Oregon (10 votes)
9. UCLA (2 votes)
13. Stanford (1 vote)

I would say by far the most overrated team here is Oklahoma. I know we've been discussing UCLA, but UCLA makes a bunch more sense than Oklahoma to me.

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/travis-h...oachespoll

Well, the most overrated by the media in comparison to this coaches' poll would be UCLA, i.e. UCLA is quite often cited by the media as a playoff team but by only 10% of these coaches.

It would appear that only 13 of 20 coaches expect a Pac 12 team in the playoff. That is surprising to me. Either they don't think much of the Pac 12 or think so much of the Pac 12 that they believe the league will be cannibalizing itself.

On Oklahoma. Well, I strongly suspect 4 of the big 5 conference winners will make the playoff. Oklahoma seems like a good bet to win the Big 12 and thus have a very good shot at the playoff - particularly if the Big 12 is bad enough to not give the Sooners much competition. And I think that might be the case outside of Baylor. Oklahoma isn't losing any out of conference games (La Tech, Tulsa, Tennessee at home), so they'll have a very good record if the win the Big 12 and are a good bet for the playoff.
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Seems like the coaches believe that a two loss PAC12 champion would be left out of the playoff. I do not believe that entirely. It will depend on the quality of the opponents who handed the champion the losses and the circumstances of the defeats like point margin of loss.