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Are "College Football is so broken" threads the new melts for teams that can't compete?
Posted on 12/8/25 at 7:18 am
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Posted on 12/8/25 at 7:19 am to Dawgs2122
But it is broken, and that's coming from a fan of a team that has never competed and will never compete for a natty no matter the landscape of college football.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 7:21 am to Dawgs2122
Every school in the SEC can compete. Some of these Athletic departments just aren’t committed to competing.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 7:28 am to Dawgfanman
And college football is still broken and breaking further
Posted on 12/8/25 at 7:55 am to Dawgs2122
Georgia is still competing at a high level but I don't know for how long.
Our NIL value simply doesn't compare to that with schools like OSU, Texas, etc. We continue to be outbid for high profile recruits so I think we are going to be relying on players who really want to be at UGA regardless of money.
As such, in the current environment, coaching is going to become even more of a premium for schools like Georgia aka coaching up 4 star players since we will be landing less 5 star players.
Our NIL value simply doesn't compare to that with schools like OSU, Texas, etc. We continue to be outbid for high profile recruits so I think we are going to be relying on players who really want to be at UGA regardless of money.
As such, in the current environment, coaching is going to become even more of a premium for schools like Georgia aka coaching up 4 star players since we will be landing less 5 star players.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:39 am to Dawgs2122
It very clearly is broken now.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:40 am to Gatorbait2008
The Gators are clearly broken.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:41 am to GurleyGirl
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Georgia is still competing at a high level but I don't know for how long. Our NIL value simply doesn't compare to that with schools like OSU, Texas, etc. We continue to be outbid for high profile recruits so I think we are going to be relying on players who really want to be at UGA regardless of money. As such, in the current environment, coaching is going to become even more of a premium for schools like Georgia aka coaching up 4 star players since we will be landing less 5 star players.
Find it hard to believe UGA doesn’t have the money to keep at the top for quite some time. Plenty of very very wealthy donors in their coffers.
With that said, your point remains. It’s only a matter of time where 3 teams dominate because they can buy super teams year in and out and the landscape is so fricked on top of that.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:42 am to Dawgs2122
Imagine what it would be like if the AP still decided the National Champion.
Melts would be epic
Melts would be epic
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:47 am to Dawgs2122
I think they say “it’s broken” because each conference & independents are treated differently. The ONLY way to fix that would be everybody set up identically where NOBODY “has an advantage”.
But then you have those not wanting it set up like the NFL where each team/division/schedule is identical.
Somehow, they want it BOTH WAYS!
But then you have those not wanting it set up like the NFL where each team/division/schedule is identical.
Somehow, they want it BOTH WAYS!
Posted on 12/8/25 at 8:54 am to southernboisb
Runaway NIL that offers no guidance or cap.
CFP committee that changes its criteria weekly.
Coaches getting fired and receiving tens of millions of dollars for sucking at their jobs.
Players having no loyalty to their schools and sitting out games if they don’t get their way or are too scared to get injured and ruining their draft stock.
Players spending 8-10 years playing college football.
Yeah, I’d say it’s broken atm.
CFP committee that changes its criteria weekly.
Coaches getting fired and receiving tens of millions of dollars for sucking at their jobs.
Players having no loyalty to their schools and sitting out games if they don’t get their way or are too scared to get injured and ruining their draft stock.
Players spending 8-10 years playing college football.
Yeah, I’d say it’s broken atm.
This post was edited on 12/8/25 at 8:55 am
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:03 am to Dawgfanman
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Some of these Athletic departments just aren’t committed to competing.
Truth. I lived through this in the 80s / early 90s at Missouri. They didn't make athletics (especially football) a priority, didn't commit the $ to keep up in facilities, didn't pay coaches, didn't pay players under the table (enough), and we not only were not competitive - we dropped to the very bottom. This in turn eroded the fan (and donor) base. By the time they woke up, we were so far behind and it has been really hard and taken a long time to getting back to even being consistently relevant. Sure there have been good years, and more than not lately - but that can be fleeting. Fan bases and donors are a generational thing - once you lose them, it can take a generation to get them back and keep them back. To be be truely competitive year in / year out your program has to commit, and commit hard... every year.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:11 am to Dawgs2122
It would be hard to argue for even the best teams that NIL, transfer portal, and conference realignment have been overall positives to college football. The CFP format is still far too subjective but so was the BCS but that’s the least of the issues. The current format is unsustainable long term
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:15 am to Yaboylsu63
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Find it hard to believe UGA doesn’t have the money to keep at the top for quite some time. Plenty of very very wealthy donors in their coffers.
OP made Georgia's NIL situation sound like Kennesaw State or Valdosta State in the other thread. Laid it on pretty thick there.
Georgia has money. It's just that Georgia occasionally will get outbid for high school recruits and we're losing 1 or 2 five stars per year that we never would've lost before in recruiting. The Tyler Atkinson and Justus Terry kids had both only been to Austin once before they committed to Texas. Georgia had been recruiting both since the 9th grade and texting everyday and writing love letters and getting them on campus a dozen times. That's what's different.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:18 am to Dawgs2122
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Are "College Football is so broken" threads the new melts for teams that can't compete?
Hasn't it always been that way?
I think these threads were around in the 2010's and the sentiment led us to what we have now.
We need to stop allowing non-winners from dictating how things are done on the field.
Furthermore, if you'll indulge me, also stop allowing them from dictating how things are done also in life and government policy.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:21 am to Dawgs2122
Melt?
James Madison University is in the college football playoff. The same James Madison that gave up 20 points or more to Old Dominion, Texas State, and Marshall. Their signature win of the season? 6-6 Washington State. They beat Georgia state by a touchdown.
Oregon can beat this team by 50 if they don’t start sitting the first team in the 2nd quarter.
Add that to a rematch with Tulane and Ole Miss… who Ole Miss already throttled showing they don’t belong. But let’s rewind that game and try it again.
And that’s just the peak of the iceberg right now.
James Madison University is in the college football playoff. The same James Madison that gave up 20 points or more to Old Dominion, Texas State, and Marshall. Their signature win of the season? 6-6 Washington State. They beat Georgia state by a touchdown.
Oregon can beat this team by 50 if they don’t start sitting the first team in the 2nd quarter.
Add that to a rematch with Tulane and Ole Miss… who Ole Miss already throttled showing they don’t belong. But let’s rewind that game and try it again.
And that’s just the peak of the iceberg right now.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:21 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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we're losing 1 or 2 five stars per year that we never would've lost before in recruiting.
The talent's definitely being spread around. How else do you have Vandy and a few other teams improving like they have?
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:23 am to CleverUserName
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James Madison University is in the college football playoff.
This is what everyone wanted. The hot takes on ESPN (don't think Herbie wasn't a hot take artist at times) would often say after one of them beating a lousy P4 team: "... and these guys have shown they can compete with P4 teams!"
The idiots who barely follow CFB would agree with them because it lined up with their fee-fees and well, have led us to what we have now.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:23 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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Georgia has money. It's just that Georgia occasionally will get outbid for high school recruits and we're losing 1 or 2 five stars per year that we never would've lost before in recruiting. The Tyler Atkinson and Justus Terry kids had both only been to Austin once before they committed to Texas. Georgia had been recruiting both since the 9th grade and texting everyday and writing love letters and getting them on campus a dozen times. That's what's different.
I think when these high profile kids get agents, actual recruiting is less effective. I know for UGA part of the pitch is that "we will get you to the NFL", but you know these agents are telling them that they will get there no matter where they go. And they are probably right for the 5 stars. 5 stars who don't at least make an NFL roster at some point (outside of QBs) a lot of times have other issues going on or they just peaked early and were playing against literal children as an adult and then don't have that advantage in college.
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