Written by Bart Doan at Bloguin
This is why we have a playoff. If the little guy can’t get in now, he never will be able to.
Memphis ripped Ole Miss this season — the same team which defeated mighty (and since, mightier) Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The best team in Tennessee isn’t one of the SEC clubs. It’s those Memphis Tigers.
We’re a long way from this stuff being an actual argument. I understand that. This piece is like being with a girl five dates in and arguing about how many kids you want to have. There’s an awful lot of stuff that needs to go down in the interim to even suggest that’s worth carping about.
That said, Memphis took Ole Miss outside behind the shed, and, along with Houston and Temple (whom the Tigers play later in the season), stand as highly impressive unbeaten “Gang of Five” teams that have a realistic shot of running the table.
Gang of Five sounds like some sort of weak, modern spin-off of “Party of Five,” and all of ’em are just looking for their Jennifer Love Hewitt.
This isn’t to say any of them are definitively going unbeaten. I’m a solid 0-for-whatever I predicted this weekend, so far be it for me to make such claims of grandeur.
This is to say that if by chance, one of them does, the CFB Playoff committee needs to open the door and let them in.
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