Al's NCAAF CCG Plays
It's Conference Championship Week!
First, I gave you Fresno St -2.5 last week. That hit and it brought our regular season total to 38-21 on official plays. Mighty fine work if you ask me.
We even hit on 3 of the 4 bonus plays in our revenge week. I’m pretty sure the bonus plays were right around .500 on the year.
So with the regular season in the books, let’s look at the conference championship matchups this week and see if we can do a little window shopping.
No Official Plays This Week
First and foremost, there are no official plays this week. Maybe that’s a bummer, but it allows us the freedom to simply enjoy good football and throw some beer money on the sides we like.
Miami and the ACC Chaos Theory
As a Miami Hurricane fan/alum, I’m already working on the mental gymnastics to get Miami into the playoff. Here are my favorite options at the moment:
Miami jumps Notre Dame based on nothing but fan peer pressure.
Miami jumps BYU if they lose to Texas Tech again.
Ole Miss does the honorable thing and backs out of the playoff now that Lane Kiffin has left for greener pastures at LSU.
None of those are going to happen, but a guy can delude himself for a week.
If you aren’t fully up-to-date on the College Football Playoff, there’s a particularly fun scenario I can’t stop myself from rooting for: the ACC being left out of the playoff completely.
If 7-5 Duke wins the ACC, they are almost certainly going to be ranked behind the American Athletic Conference champion (UNT or Tulane), AND the Sun Belt conference champion (JMU, barring a huge upset).
That would leave Duke as the sixth highest ranked conference champion and out of the playoff altogether. With Miami currently outside looking in, there would be no ACC representative in the 12 team field. Embarrassing. Delightful. Chaotic. College Football at its finest.
Beer Money Bets
All of that aside, here are the sides I like this week, just for fun.
Troy +21.5
The Troy Boys are thriving at the right time. They’re much worse than James Madison, but more than 3 TDs feels like too much.
BYU +13.5
Miami’s hopes rely on the committee feeling bad for them and finding an excuse to jump a team like BYU. Comparing records, BYU’s more deserving. So Miami needs to see BYU get blown out. I think they keep this one respectable.
Virginia -3.5
The other fun thing to root for, ACC chaos, is almost certainly not going to happen. The ACC is going to fix this one so they get a team into the playoff. UVA by a touchdown feels right.