re: Alabama's path to the SECCG

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Unfortunately the SEC CG is about to become as irrelevant as the baseball and basketball SECCG.

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Nah. Being the 1 or 2 seed not only provides a bye, but also presumably puts you up against the champion of the ACC or Big 12 later on

I like the sound of playing SMU or BYU in New Orleans or Atlanta

Losing the SEC championship game gives you 3 loses and most likely knocks you out of the top 12 and the playoffs.

Winning the SEC Championship game against a 1 loss Texas team most likely means you have to play them again in the playoffs.

As things stand now, I see no positive outcome for this team playing in the SEC Championship Game. I mean if your goal is winning the SEC Championship game, maybe.

Hard pass on making it to that game. No thanks.

5th seed is the ideal seed and the easiest path to the semifinals.

5th seed hosts the 12th seed, which is almost guaranteed to be the top ranked G5 team.

Then in the 2nd round the 5th seed would play the 4th seed, which is the lowest ranked P4 champ

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We try not to punish, but we also are watching the games and I think that's important for us as we deliberate."

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Sounds like if you barely lose they won’t count it against you. But if you get crushed they might

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Too many people are confusing Tennessee with a good team

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Uga is going to crush tenner.

There is 0 chance the committee leaves out a team that made it to the SEC conference title game. ZERO Heck, there's zero chance they leave out the Big Ten runner up, too. It's the other conferences where this is a possibility. A two-loss Miami that lost it's conference is probably left out.

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If UGA beats UTk and finishes 10-2, how do they not go over us?

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If every favorite wins every SEC game from here on out, this is what the final conference standings would look like:

1st Texas (7-1)
T-2nd Alabama (6-2)
T-2nd LSU (6-2)
T-2nd Georgia (6-2)
T-2nd Texas A&M (6-2)
T-2nd Ole Miss (6-2)
T-2nd Tennessee (6-2)

With all of those 6-2 teams, you can throw any head-to-head results out the window.

It goes to SEC opponents' winning percentage, and we have the tiebreaker over all the other potential 2-loss teams at the moment because we didn't play Miss State or Kentucky, the worst two teams in the league this year.

Teams that played BOTH Miss State and Kentucky:
- Texas
- UGA
- Tennessee
- Ole Miss

Teams that played played Miss State, but not Kentucky:
- A&M

Teams that played played neither Miss State nor Kentucky:
- Bama
- LSU

That's why in the doomsday where there is an 7-way tie of 6-2 teams, the SEC Championship Game would actually be an Alabama/LSU rematch!

Auburn is going to pull one out of its arse and beat A&M. I’m calling it now. And they’ll play their arse off against us and put a scare into us.

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Even if TN loses they hold the tie breaker with us head to head

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Not true. It's different criteria when multiple teams are tied.
For example , there is a scenario where multiple teams can tie at 6-2 and LSU would get to the SECCG over Bama.

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We don’t want to play in seccg.

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I beg to disagree.
If we go to the championship game, we'll play one game against a decent team in a neutral site. Win and we get a first round bye in the CFP.
If you don't play, you'll have no first round bye, and quite possibly have to play the first game on the road.
I'd rather the neutral site game instead