Kirby Hocutt Refuses to Say Washington is in Ahead of Michigan

Submitted by BursleyHall82 on

Sorry if this was covered in the noon-games thread, but Kirby Hocutt was interviewed on GameDay this morning, and he refused to say that Washington is in ahead of us. He was given every opportunity to, but he refused to say they're in and we're out. Sure seems like he's keeping the door open.

I'm not holding out hope if VaTech doesn't win, but it seems like we have better odds than Jim Carrey did in "Dumb and Dumber."

Story is here.

The money quote: “I can’t speculate because I’d be trying to guess what 11 other members think about (Washington),” Hocutt said. "Small margin of separation between Nos. 4 and No. 5. Great performance by the Washington Huskies. Late tonight, we’ll continue our discussions and have everybody’s body of work in front of us."

 

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December 3rd, 2016 at 7:59 PM ^

Michigan owned PSU in the head to head.  PSU needs to win by 20+ points tonight to jump Michigan in the standings.  The committee chairman basically said this just a few days ago.  IMO, yesterday's game doesn't mean a whole lot other than Washington locking up a spot in the CFP.  If Clemson loses, Michigan is in and I would bet money on that one.

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uofmchris

December 3rd, 2016 at 4:51 PM ^

Advice. Spend time with family and friends. Dont waste 3 hours watching a shitty game tonight praying Clemson loses.

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doggdetroit

December 3rd, 2016 at 5:34 PM ^

Clearly, there were some people on the committee that felt Michigan was the better team but also more people who felt Washington was the better team, hence Washington being slotted at #4 and Michigan being slotted at #5. 

Fast forward to Friday night, and Washington goes on to beat Colorado on a neutral field in a more dominant performance than Michigan's performance against Colorado at home. If there was some close debate about the two teams, that pretty much ended it. The people who felt Michigan was better may not change their minds, but the people who felt Washington was better (and there are more of them) are not. 

With Alabama putting it into cruise control at this point, Michigan will have to get in over the B1G champion (assuming Clemson loses). The Washington thing is over now. 

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JTrain

December 3rd, 2016 at 6:12 PM ^

Had we beat Iowa, I'd say we deserve it. But we didn't. I think Washington deserves to be in.
If Clemson loses then we should be in though. JMO.



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NateVolk

December 3rd, 2016 at 7:10 PM ^

I think it's pretty obvious how they are looking at things. A two loss Washington is way different than a one loss Washington. If Washington had two losses going in to last night, doubt they would have been ahead of Michigan nor been able to leapfrog Michigan by winning.

They are Michigan State from last year. Being from a power conference, winning it, and only having the one loss is almost always a ticket puncher provided there aren't a bunch of awesome teams out there with the same amount of losses.

Metrics be damned.

Dominance, a tough schedule, metrics, but no league title keeps you in the game provided there aren't four other power conference champions/teams with fewer losses.

See USC and see Michigan. Both are probably top five teams easily right now. But they won't be allowed to leapfrog P5 conference champions with fewer losses.

I think you can count on that being set in stone. 

Same losses, yes MIchigan could get in. But not more losses. 

Those are fair precedents if that's the case.

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MikeInA2

December 3rd, 2016 at 7:56 PM ^

They were facing the "death penalty."  That would have been justified for the Football program for the most horrific story in sports history.  I'm really hoping they don't get into the CFP.

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