re: ESPN: "Because of a scheduling quirk, these two teams (bama-UGA) haven't met

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They played the third place team from the East last year (3-5 in conference play Florida). I don't disagree. Last year was a chance, and yes it was cyclical. This year, it was calculated.

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It was all a plan to give a 5th SEC team a chance to win it all. Next year is SC's turn. Florida always gets the shaft. Always. We have won pretty much all of our NCs with the hardest schedules in the land.
It takes luck to win it all. You can ask Stanford about that.