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Posted on 6/14/23 at 9:49 pm to RandySavage
Posted on 6/14/23 at 9:49 pm to RandySavage
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CFB is basically dead to me. Unbelievable what has happened in a very, very short period of time. I will still watch some but it will be more like golf where it's if I'm home and have nothing else going on. Definitely not appointment television anymore, even Auburn, and that hurts and is a place I never could have envisioned even 3-4 years ago.
You’ll be watching every Saturday and on here complaining as usual.
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Posted on 6/14/23 at 9:50 pm to auzach91
Yeah, I guess the only thing that surprises me is how fast it went to shite.
In like 3 years we got unlimited free agency, NIL with virtually no oversight, lost SEC on CBS, more expansion which gutted traditional rivalries, lost divisions, made the SECCG virtually irrelevant, and from an AU perspective our 2 biggest rivals won everything and we get Harsin (embarrassment on the field) and Freeze (embarrassment off of it). Just brutal.
In like 3 years we got unlimited free agency, NIL with virtually no oversight, lost SEC on CBS, more expansion which gutted traditional rivalries, lost divisions, made the SECCG virtually irrelevant, and from an AU perspective our 2 biggest rivals won everything and we get Harsin (embarrassment on the field) and Freeze (embarrassment off of it). Just brutal.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 9:54 pm to blzr
Some of us do have principles and a limit on how far we can be pushed, CFB has crossed that line. I've completely quit pro sports and while it won't be a hard boycott like that my intake is going to be significantly lower.
Already moved my trip to NorCal I had been looking forward to for like 8 years to a different time in September.
Already moved my trip to NorCal I had been looking forward to for like 8 years to a different time in September.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 10:27 pm to RandySavage
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Some of us do have principles and a limit on how far we can be pushed
Posted on 6/14/23 at 10:36 pm to RandySavage
Yet you’re here posting about it. And I find it hard to believe you moved a trip to NorCal to a different time in September so that you’ll avoid the AU game due to your disdain for CFB… like that’ll make a difference.
Your rant is sad, to be honest.
Your rant is sad, to be honest.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 5:31 am to RandySavage
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I will still watch some but it will be more like golf where it's if I'm home and have nothing else going on. Definitely not appointment television anymore, even Auburn, and that hurts and is a place I never could have envisioned even 3-4 years ago.
I’m a fan, but I don’t build my weekends entirely around the games anymore. I play golf every Saturday, if the game is on when I get home, I watch it. I use to plan every Saturday around Auburn football. I still enjoy watching on TV, but I have not been to a game since 2018 or so.
Maybe Brother Hugh can revive my fanaticism.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 6:13 am to jangalang
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What a horrible schedule.
Boring at home
Tough as nails on the road.
It may not be the best, but not horrible.
Home schedule could be a little better, but I wouldn't call it boring. Two teams that have never been to JHS before in Oklahoma and Cal, an Aggie team that may be the best they have fielded since joining the conference, Arky which should be a good game, and Vandy which is hopefully a nice easy conference win.
Road is tough with both Bama and UGA at their places, but that's been even years since 2014. Kentucky and Mizzou aren't juggernauts, and if they fall in the right places on the calendar could be great road trips.
I hate to lose LSU and the Mississippi schools, but it could be worse. I look at Tennessee and they have 3/4th of our same opponents (just swap aTm and Mizzou with Florida and Moo State) plus their OOC P5 game is in Charlotte.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 6:24 am to PJinAtl
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Home schedule could be a little better, but I wouldn't call it boring. Two teams that have never been to JHS before in Oklahoma and Cal, an Aggie team that may be the best they have fielded since joining the conference, Arky which should be a good game, and Vandy which is hopefully a nice easy conference win.
Playing Oklahoma at home will be an interesting game. The rest of the home opponents? Do not care about em.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 7:42 am to Rig
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Yet you’re here posting about it
Auburn football has been a massive part of my life for over three decades (too much so at many times to be honest). It's too ingrained to just stop cold turkey. Plus I still enjoy the community of it all.
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And I find it hard to believe you moved a trip to NorCal to a different time in September so that you’ll avoid the AU game due to your disdain for CFB
It doesn't really matter to me whether you believe it or not. I have the receipts.
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like that’ll make a difference
I'm not trying to "make a difference". I didn't ask for this it was forced upon us all by people only in it for themselves and the money they could make. But I promise you, if they lost me, they will lose others.
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Your rant is sad, to be honest.
Here we agree 100%, the whole thing is very sad.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 7:52 am to RandySavage
Tailgating by the eagles cage as a freshman was peak college football. NIL, white tents, mega conferences, etc have really transformed college football into something unrecognizable.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 8:06 am to tilco
Are they scrapping the SEC Championship or is there still some ‘division’ at play here? Haven’t been keeping up but it looks like they are doing some random scheduling and will take the best two teams for Title game? Assume there will be potential for weird ‘tie breakers’? Haven’t been paying attention but thanks for posting the schedule
Posted on 6/15/23 at 8:15 am to AUX3
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Are they scrapping the SEC Championship or is there still some ‘division’ at play here? Haven’t been keeping up but it looks like they are doing some random scheduling and will take the best two teams for Title game? Assume there will be potential for weird ‘tie breakers’?
SECCG is still in Atlanta. No more divisions, just top two teams based on conference records.
I haven't seen the tie-breakers, but there has to be multiple levels. First would be head to head, from there probably record against common opponents, then potentially something stupid like CFP ranking.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 8:36 am to PJinAtl
SECCG will be irrelevant 99% of the time other than I guess for seeding purposes.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 8:44 am to PJinAtl
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haven't seen the tie-breakers, but there has to be multiple levels.
I haven't seen the tie-breaking process either, but without divisions and the potential for so many non-common opponents with the 8 game schedule, I would imagine it will cause some serious headaches trying to figure it out past the first couple criteria points.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 9:02 am to RandySavage
The sucky thing is gonna be when the top 3 in the SEC are, say, #1 UGA, #11 AU, and #13 Bama, and we go play UGA in the SECCG and get beat 45-7, then Bama goes to the playoff and wins it and we get bumped to #13 and thus miss the playoff.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 9:04 am to auburnnyc94
Ha, I wouldn't rule out anything like that happening to Auburn but I can't see a world where the second best SEC team is not even in the top 10.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 9:13 am to RandySavage
Agreed but let me melt
Posted on 6/15/23 at 9:15 am to auburnnyc94
Far be it from me to stand in the way of a good melt 
Posted on 6/15/23 at 9:17 am to RandySavage
I miss TTs. Dude was a great melt partner when Haskins was on the plains.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 9:40 am to RandySavage
quote:Harsin did a lot of damage in his short tenure at Auburn.
Here we agree 100%, the whole thing is very sad.
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