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re: Tide Football Thread in honor of TidalSurge
Posted on 12/10/24 at 7:13 am to Sl0thstronautEsq
Posted on 12/10/24 at 7:13 am to Sl0thstronautEsq
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Posted on 12/10/24 at 8:04 am to Wulfgar
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:09 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:10 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
That doesn't say he opted out of the bowl.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:10 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
Where does it say he opted out. Just says he is going pro.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:13 pm to labamafan
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:16 pm to Night Vision
That says a lot about the current players at Alabama. Booker, Campbell and Moore are only players in 1st team list.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 2:18 pm to labamafan
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Booker, Campbell and Moore are only players in 1st team list.
Ryan Williams?
Posted on 12/10/24 at 3:30 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
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Middle name "Lynx"?
That was my big takeaway.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 3:39 pm to RollTide33
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105mph? Koht to Georgia confirmed.
Underrated post. Kudos.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:10 pm to RollTide33
Forgot to list him but Bama used to dominate that list.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:18 pm to labamafan
The ACC might not be around much longer. What schools would the SEC go after?
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:21 pm to biggsc
Why would they go anywhere. They got two teams in playoff. Only one less than sec.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:22 pm to labamafan
Funny seeing zero Dog players on the defensive list.
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:24 pm to labamafan
Never know with what FSU is trying to do
Posted on 12/10/24 at 4:25 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
Yep.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 6:40 am to labamafan
Pat Smith
@patsmithradio
SECCG on Saturday peaked at 19.7M viewers and averaged 16.6M on ABC. That was a decline from last year's Ala-UGA game (17.5M). Texas-UGA was the 4th most watched SECCG in history.
*Big 12 Championship 6.9M viewers
*ACC Championship 6M viewers
4:30 PM · Dec 10, 2024
@patsmithradio
SECCG on Saturday peaked at 19.7M viewers and averaged 16.6M on ABC. That was a decline from last year's Ala-UGA game (17.5M). Texas-UGA was the 4th most watched SECCG in history.
*Big 12 Championship 6.9M viewers
*ACC Championship 6M viewers
4:30 PM · Dec 10, 2024
Posted on 12/11/24 at 7:37 am to Night Vision
And yet they decided to put SMU against Penn State instead of us. Probably cost themselves a huge amount of money with that decision.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 7:55 am to RollTide33
My theory on SMU getting in and not us is that the media LOOOOVES the concept of the movie "Hoosiers", a team with guys no one has heard of and team with a coach with a bit of a chip on his shoulder, and a team that no one believes in. SMU is that team.
The committee succumbed to media pressure to make "Hoosiers" come to life with choosing SMU over Alabama, AND, the media is still butt hurt from the committee selecting Bama over FSU last year, despite what happened to FSU in their bowl game where they got completely spanked by UGA,
Trouble is, when the committee goes the "Hoosiers" method of selecting teams, you get teams like TCU getting completely and utterly destroyed on national TV proving they had ZERO business being there.
The committee succumbed to media pressure to make "Hoosiers" come to life with choosing SMU over Alabama, AND, the media is still butt hurt from the committee selecting Bama over FSU last year, despite what happened to FSU in their bowl game where they got completely spanked by UGA,
Trouble is, when the committee goes the "Hoosiers" method of selecting teams, you get teams like TCU getting completely and utterly destroyed on national TV proving they had ZERO business being there.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 9:08 am to Amarillo Tide
The reason why SMU got in was not about whether they were better than Alabama (they're not), it was about avoiding a lot of heartburn for ESPN.
You don't let SMU in after losing on CCG week in this new expanded playoff era, conferences are going to end the CCG. They may not care a ton about the ACCCG but the SECCG is a golden goose for them.
The reality is that the CCG does not make sense in this era. CFP committee doesn't want that reality to become evident in year 1 of the 12-team playoff. Understand the CFP is really an ESPN venture with the power conferences and immediately breaking the seal on this quagmire is not in their shared interest. That also contextualizes Byrne's OOC comment. He's stating to ESPN/CFP that "oh you want to save your CCG ratings, well say goodbye to your early season ratings wins from us." It was more of threat than whining.
However, there is going to be a circumstance where the committee can no longer hold up the ruse like they did this year. Hell, if Clemson could have ran the ball and had a few penalties on SMU actually called in the second half then they probably beat them bad enough that the committee would not have been able to elect to save the CCG system over putting in the superior resume.
The end of the CCG is near. I imagine when it happens that the compromise will be all FBS teams getting a 13th game, go to 16-teams, some sort of reorganization of the power conferences back into divisions that round-robin for an AQ bid, and some G5 AQ concession to avoid lawsuits.
You don't let SMU in after losing on CCG week in this new expanded playoff era, conferences are going to end the CCG. They may not care a ton about the ACCCG but the SECCG is a golden goose for them.
The reality is that the CCG does not make sense in this era. CFP committee doesn't want that reality to become evident in year 1 of the 12-team playoff. Understand the CFP is really an ESPN venture with the power conferences and immediately breaking the seal on this quagmire is not in their shared interest. That also contextualizes Byrne's OOC comment. He's stating to ESPN/CFP that "oh you want to save your CCG ratings, well say goodbye to your early season ratings wins from us." It was more of threat than whining.
However, there is going to be a circumstance where the committee can no longer hold up the ruse like they did this year. Hell, if Clemson could have ran the ball and had a few penalties on SMU actually called in the second half then they probably beat them bad enough that the committee would not have been able to elect to save the CCG system over putting in the superior resume.
The end of the CCG is near. I imagine when it happens that the compromise will be all FBS teams getting a 13th game, go to 16-teams, some sort of reorganization of the power conferences back into divisions that round-robin for an AQ bid, and some G5 AQ concession to avoid lawsuits.
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