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TSIO - Don't Go to Atlanta
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/History-says-only-these-14-teams-can-make-the-2018-College-Football-Playoff-120651737/Spoiler: We didn't make the cut.
No. 6 Washington: The Huskies are a very good team. Chris Petersen is among the best coaches in the country, and they’ve got plenty of NFL talent (from the backfield to the offensive line to the secondary). But … the Huskies don’t have a five-star on their active roster (and no, five-star Jacob Eason does not count this season as he's not eligible to play) nor have they reeled in a top 10 class the last four cycles — anther critical indicator historically for championship game participants and playoff teams. It should be stated that Washington did buck that trend in 2016, so it's hard to rule the Huskies completely out. No team since the start of 247Sports' recruiting database has won a title without at least one of those two things, however. Washington could be the first, but it will be tough slogging against the truly elite teams in the country in terms of talent and coaching (see Alabama vs. Washington in the 2016 Peach Bowl).
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We are at 35 for 2018 so we are almost to the bare minimum threshold. BUT we don't have a legit 1st round, Heisman trophy level QB along the lines of Watson, Newton or Mariota which you need if you are only at 35- 40 four stars. 60- 80 four stars in progress enables you to be Ohio State or Bammer and win NT's with less than elite QB play.
Whelp, Wheels up, heading to Atlanta boys!
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't recall us having a composite 5-star player since Shaq was on the team. Budda wasn't one, so I'm not sure who they think we had on our team in 2016 that would qualify for this criteria. That's a blatant error before they even started their analysis, which isn't a good sign.
But regardless, this kind of "analysis" is just lazy and faulty. To start, it's being based off of a highly subjective measure (composite rankings, which includes ESPN's recruiting staff, a department that has less funding than Fetters' hot dog budget). And that subjective measure doesn't even look at those rankings holistically. If they were to measure the composite rankings of the entire roster, then their analysis would be a lot more convincing. But arbitrarily setting the cutoff at 5-star recruits is just a bad methodology.
My understanding is THAT refers to not having a top 10 class but making the playoff anyway.
The entire premise of the article is the criteria required to make the playoff and it states not one team has made it without at least 1 composite 5-star.
We don't have Matt Leinhart though.