re: Has UGA clinched the East?

It's funny so many here putting so much stock into the "experts" on ESPN. You need to realize those people are paid to tell you waht to think and entertain you, not to give you the best sports coverage possible. Kirk herbstreit and his ilk are irrelevant to this anyway, you know who is relevant? The committee, ya know the ones actually making the decision. And we have a clear track record of how they decide see here

believe it or not there is precedent for waht is being discussed. In 2015 Iowa was undefeated and clearly in the playoffs when they played the Big10 CCG against a 1-loss MSU. MSU won so both teams were 12-1 with MSU having the conference title; they went ot the playoffs and Iowa finihsed 5th.


Let's assume that things play out like disucssed and a 1-loss UGA beats LSU in teh title game. I think it's also a relatively safe bet that Clemson and OSU will represent their conferences as champions. That's 3 spots (a 1-loss SEC champion UGA is a lock) off the bat with the 4th spot going to one of:

12-1 Oklahoma, Big 12 Champs
12-1 Oregon, Pac12 Champs
12-1 LSU, non champ

I fully realize that LSU would smoke either of those teams and is very likely the best team in the country. This has nothing to do wiht "eye test" or "who would win if they played". I'm saying that the ocmmittee has a proven record of how they operate and to date they have literally never put in a non-champion over a conf champ wiht less than 2 losses. Although I think LSU would be the better team, I don't know if the committee is going to tell OU/Oregon that despite having the same record and winning their conference they're getting left out. If the east was won by a team with like 3 losses and pulled some upset of LSU, I can very easily see the east/sec winner being left out and LSU still going. But with UGA already in in this situation I don't see the committee putting in 2 sec teams.