re: Georgia should pull a Notre Dame

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Wait until the 1 year an unnecessary OOC game unexpectedly leaves your university out of the playoffs at 8-4 or 7-5. OSU is probably 1 more loss from being outside the top 24 and they didn’t have to schedule the UTx game.

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I get that, but we had games with ND, Clemson and other teams when there was a 4 team playoff format and a 12 team format. The better traditional teams (Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, etc will be top 24 without any trouble the vast majority of time.

When was the last time Alabama was not in the top 24 teams? Or Georgia or Ohio State? And, look at the schedules when we had a 4 team playoff system and almost every team had premier matchups at least from time to time.

Georgia or any other University leaving the SEC is just plain dumb.

I can't believe people even entertain those thoughts.

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I get that, but we had games with ND, Clemson and other teams when there was a 4 team playoff format and a 12 team format. The better traditional teams (Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, etc will be top 24 without any trouble the vast majority of time. When was the last time Alabama was not in the top 24 teams? Or Georgia or Ohio State? And, look at the schedules when we had a 4 team playoff system and almost every team had premier matchups at least from time to time.

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All of this was before 9 game SEC schedule was known, and back when you had to worry a little bit about fighting your way into a 4 team playoff (see 2023 FSU vs 2017 Bama and 2021 UGA).

The mindset has only recently changed to don’t schedule your way out of the playoffs, after seeing Indiana get so heavily rewarded 2 years in a row.

I will say, the committee seems to be factoring in SOS much more now, so maybe that helps turn the tide. Don’t think Bama has canceled our OSU matchups yet.

UGA and Oklahoma are largely responsible for the current state of affairs in CFB attributable to television......good, bad or indifferent they sued the NCAA and won allowing conferences to negotiate their own broadcast deals.

That lawsuit and decision is going to make it damn near impossible for a conference to sign a CBA with member schools in the opinion of many legal scholars and lawyers...the same anti-trust exemption the NCAA "claimed" is almost identical to what conferences are trying to claim they currently have. While it is ludicrous to suggest UGA, for instance, should leave the SEC it may soon be the only way ANY program is able to make a network deal and more to the point is going to make it damn difficult for a CBA between players and anyone other than the individual school which is going to further convolute CFB. Without some regulating body which can somehow wrangle a similar anti-trust style exemption that pro leagues enjoy it is going to be almost impossible to find a legal way to regulate college athletics. Congress can do anything they want to but that too will have to stand up to the scrutiny of the courts....its a mess. LSU and Texas Tech weren't wrong this season, they were just first....

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Leave the SEC in football, just play your 6 games a year against the SEC “rivals,”and sign a lucrative contract as a solo school that still plays elite competition

Without the championship game, who gives a shite about the conference you are in. Get around all the “rules” the SEC puts in place.

Meh, actually I don’t care. Never thought I would say this in my life, but after this year, college football will be on the back burner for Saturdays now. Kinda sad we got here.

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I wish you would just so I could point and laugh at you.

#1. You aren't getting 6 games a year against SEC schools. You'll be lucky to keep Auburn and Florida. And most likely you'll lose Florida since they already have an OOC rival game every year.

And you'll struggle completely on filling your schedule in the middle of the year. You'll have to pay teams to come play you as everyone else is in conference play. You are not Notre Dame who established rival games over the past 80 years.

#2. The conference championship game didn't even exist until 1992.

#3. Georgia will struggle to get a TV deal. Notre Dame has NBC and it's the only team NBC broadcasts. You do not have a big draw. All these posts talking about this year Georgia's numbers were big are doing it BACKWARDS. Those numbers come from a schedule and the other big name teams, not just Georgia. If you want to look at real Georgia viewership then look at the numbers from the worst games where only Georgia is a name.

It's funny that your entire premise is based on getting a SEC schedule and benefits while not being in the SEC.

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I saw last night ND Miami had the most when they added Peacock which isn't tracked by Neilsen.

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ABC also has streaming on ESPN that I'm assuming wasn't counted.

No idea what those numbers are.

People are comparing the wrong games though. It's not about your most viewed games, which brings in viewership of other teams. It's about your viewership numbers when you aren't playing anyone.

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All of this was before 9 game SEC schedule was known, and back when you had to worry a little bit about fighting your way into a 4 team playoff (see 2023 FSU vs 2017 Bama and 2021 UGA).

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Fair point, but like you said we had to fight our way to a 4 team playoff. Now it will be a 24 team playoff, and less pressure.

Almost every single year there have been more than 1 or 2 four loss teams in the top 24 teams. In 2023 there were 8.

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The mindset has only recently changed to don’t schedule your way out of the playoffs, after seeing Indiana get so heavily rewarded 2 years in a row.

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And I understand that mindset....when we were in a 4 or 12 team playoff system. But 24? You will have to work awfully hard not to make a 24 team playoff. If Alabama scheduled Florida State in a 12 team playoff format, why would they hesitate in a 24 team playoff format?

In 2021, when we were in a 4 team playoff format Georgia scheduled Clemson. In 2017, also a year in a 4 team playoff format, Alabama scheduled FSU.

I mean, if teams were doing it under a 4 team and 12 team format, why would they hesitate in a 24 team playoff?

SEC games average roughly 4.9–5.2 million viewers, well ahead of the Big Ten (around 2.3–2.8M), and the conference accounts for a large share of total college football viewing time. Marquee SEC matchups (especially Georgia-Alabama, Red River Rivalry, Alabama-LSU, and Texas vs. other power brands) routinely produce the highest individual audiences in the sport.Bottom line: Texas has the highest current averages, but Alabama and Georgia are the most reliable long-term draws, with Oklahoma and LSU right behind them as major national brands. From SuperGrok AI

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LSU fool.

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Tautology.

I don't disagree, just reporting what he conveyed. He did specifically mention Chicago. Tons of people at UA were from there. In his apartment complex. He said they were fine, just not southern. He didn't really elaborate on what exactly that meant.