re: Hard to admit, but the SEC is no longer the big dog in college football!

Lol we have 5 teams in the playoff try again

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Ohio State is now playing at a level comparable to some of the SEC dominant teams of the past

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How would you know this? OSU played 2 good teams this season (Texas and Indiana)...struggled to put away a 3 loss Texas team that UGA trashed and then lost to the Hoosiers. Indiana's best win is against that same Ohio St team,. So, who knows if either one of them is any good.

But relax, we're about to find out. If UGA and Oklahoma end up playing each other for the natty, are you going to come back and recant all of this?

Everything SEC fans are saying this year is what they said last year. And but for an OT win by Texas over Arizona State (another team that according to SEC fans had no business beating an SEC team), the SEC would have had no one in the semifinals. Let's just see how it plays out on the field.

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the SEC would have had no one in the semifinals.

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I don't use the injury excuse, like some schools do (including many Buckeye fans), but it was going to be hard for us to advance when our QB got injured in the SECCG and you had a young QB making his first start in the semi finals of the playoffs on a national stage with a trip to the natty on the line. That would have been hard for any team.

But again, no excuses. We didn't get the job done and OSU did. I will say this...UGA this season is a better team than last year's edition and we're going to be healthy this time. What we did to Bama the other night was with half a dozen injured players and missing our starting center with 3 starters playing hurt including our best LB. We're going to be at full strength and hitting on all cylinders this time. See ya in the playoffs.

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Georgia

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not an elite team

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The fact you have one dominant (maybe two) Ohio State team that fills its face with cupcakes all year and gets a crow hop swing into the college playoffs doesn’t make the whole conference better.

It just means Ohio State has been dominant.

You have to look at the whole conference’s strength. Arkansas would be a middle of the pack to higher team in the Big10 this year.

Don’t fall for the media hype dude.

The whole “SEC” rules college football idea has always been blown out of proportion by SEC fans and fans of other conferences. The difference has never been as stark as many claimed….it was, is and has been for a looooooonggggggg time, seated in the fact that top to bottom the SEC is slightly, by a very small amount, more physical, athletic and well coached than other conferences. It isn’t night and day different, it’s more of a 2 pm to 3 pm difference. It’s slight, but it has been this way from the beginning. In terms of all time wins, national championships, bowl wins, winning %, any metric, the SEC has 6 teams in the top 20 all time winningest CFB programs not counting ATM and Texas and Oklahoma. That’s all time, not just a decade or 2 here and there. The big10 has 2 and the various conferences that ATM, Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska have been in over the years has 2 at any given time from one of those conferences. That’s not a slight difference over a short period of time that’s a substantial difference over the entire history of CFB. Being in a 6 pony race is harder to stack wins than it is in a 2 pony race. UGA also has a long history of playing 2 teams outside the SEC who are in the top 20. Its ALWAYS been true that the SEC is deeper and more competitive and that ain’t close….dominance over a decade is subtly different, stacking wins playing 3-4 of the top ptogtams every year and 2 others regularly is just not been done outside the SEC big 6.

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The SEC is finding out what happens when everyone can pay players completely out in the open.

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I miss the car posts from 2012 Alabama lol

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The fact you have one dominant (maybe two) Ohio State team that fills its face with cupcakes all year and gets a crow hop swing into the college playoffs doesn’t make the whole conference better.

It just means Ohio State has been dominant.

You have to look at the whole conference’s strength. Arkansas would be a middle of the pack to higher team in the Big10 this year.

Don’t fall for the media hype dude

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Indiana would be a 9-3, 8-4 team playing UGAs schedule and Ohio State would be 9-3 or 10-2. Still good, maybe not good enough to make the playoff. They are not beat up and crippled like UGA and Alabama was Saturday night from pounding on and getting pounded on by nfl talent for 4 months. Ohio State claims there last loss to UGA was due to injuries yet they had played NOBODY week in and week out that season. UGA had key players out also….and the players who could play were beat to a pulp from the regular season. There is a reason the nfl is a SEC league. There were 480? NFL players from SEC programs in 2025. Around 270 each from the big 10 and 12. 379 from the ACC. That is not a subtle difference….its substantial.