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re: Make no mistake, S. Carolina, OM, and Alabama not getting in is a huge blow to the SEC
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:40 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:40 pm to RollTide1987
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Why schedule powerful OOC opponents
Because fans want to watch quality football during the regular season? Some of us still just like to watch football games on Saturdays in the fall. Schedule a bunch of nobodies, and many people will just wait to watch during the post season - much like college basketball.
What nobody seems to be acknowledging is the fact that college football is getting worse and worse as it tries to satisfy this obsession with the playoffs. We demand a more clear champion, and we ruin the product along the way.
The solution is simply a tournament of champions. Win your conference, go to the playoffs. You think your conference is unfairly tough? Change to a weaker conference. This make the conference championships meaningful again, let's you schedule anyone you want OCC without affecting your chances, and takes away all of the opinion polls/committees/panels, and leaves the selection up to the results on the field.
Besides, Alabama wasn't going to win it all anyway, so why get all overheated?
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Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:41 pm to gobnugget
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Carolina is the only team with a legit beef and that's because of the LSU game shenanigans.
Agreed
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Bama and Ole Miss lost to bottom feeders. Don't do that and you're both in.
One might ask why on earth Ole Miss can whoop Georgia, South Carolina...but lose to Florida, Kentucky. Id argue that the toll it takes to play these huge games...absolutely affects other games on the schedule.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:42 pm to jonnyanony
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The point is the margin for error is much larger for teams in shite conferences. The SEC is pretty hard to escape with two wins still hoping you get in.
The teams in other conferences need to get in, you can’t just keep awarding SEC teams because they played a harder schedule.
Why would the teams in other conferences play games if you just put the SEC teams in because their games were “harder”?
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:44 pm to Bham4Tide
They set a precedent by not having teams with 3 losses in the CFP. Just like they set a precedent by not having a team with 2 losses in the previous CFP format.
Don't lose to Vandy or Oklahoma and Bama is in. Plain and simple.
Don't lose to Vandy or Oklahoma and Bama is in. Plain and simple.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:45 pm to Tillman
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Bama has won a ton of titles , let teams like SMU and Arizona St have their moment
Everyone gets a trophy!
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:49 pm to RollTide1987
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Ole Miss and USCe just got equally screwed.
This.
I think 2-loss SEC teams will get in regularly in the future but you can’t bitch about being screwed with 3 losses when ACC and Big 10 teams get in with 2 losses.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:50 pm to Bham4Tide
Poor bama. Y’all should go to the Big 12 where you can compete
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:52 pm to Bham4Tide
No it’s not. Win the games and you’ll be in dumbass.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 12:56 pm to Bham4Tide
This will get downvoted but it’s true. It’s just not their team being pushed off the ledge. The fact the 4th place team, Indiana is in the playoffs when they only played one team above them is a joke. The field won’t get expanded, unless there are play in games. The media is tired of the Bama factor and this does hurt the SEC for the long run
Posted on 12/8/24 at 1:04 pm to tide06
Top 10 teams don’t lose 3 games. If the CFP had allowed Alabama, Ole Miss or South Carolina, then they would have diluted the game.
Right now I think the SEC is in a similar situation as the Big 10 was back in 2006-2008. I remember seeing so many Big 10 posts bragging about the strength of their conference and how a 2 loss LSU was going to get embarrassed. I also remembered seeing the SEC dominate the bowl season with many of the top SEC teams saying that they played tougher games in conference. That was where the conference pride thing really took off. The SEC teams knew they were already facing the best teams in conference and proved it in the bowl games afterwards.
We just need for our three representatives to prove the SEC deserves those three in the national playoffs, and our bowl game representatives to prove their status on the football fields. That is how you shut down the other conference fans. They can no-longer claim it’s mysterious bagmen and cheating boosters.
Right now I think the SEC is in a similar situation as the Big 10 was back in 2006-2008. I remember seeing so many Big 10 posts bragging about the strength of their conference and how a 2 loss LSU was going to get embarrassed. I also remembered seeing the SEC dominate the bowl season with many of the top SEC teams saying that they played tougher games in conference. That was where the conference pride thing really took off. The SEC teams knew they were already facing the best teams in conference and proved it in the bowl games afterwards.
We just need for our three representatives to prove the SEC deserves those three in the national playoffs, and our bowl game representatives to prove their status on the football fields. That is how you shut down the other conference fans. They can no-longer claim it’s mysterious bagmen and cheating boosters.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 1:17 pm to Bham4Tide
Expand to 16-teams. Seed by BCS computer rankings. Allow committee power to avoid first round rematches.
End the SEC championship game.
SEC and B1G should get plenty of teams in and make tons of money.
The split between SEC and B1G is coming. Expansion will come for teams to continue scheduling tough games for TV inventory.
Mid-level schools and their power brokers have overplayed their position.
End the SEC championship game.
SEC and B1G should get plenty of teams in and make tons of money.
The split between SEC and B1G is coming. Expansion will come for teams to continue scheduling tough games for TV inventory.
Mid-level schools and their power brokers have overplayed their position.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 1:17 pm to Marcusaureliussayshi
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Top 10 teams don’t lose 3 games. If the CFP had allowed Alabama, Ole Miss or South Carolina, then they would have diluted the game.
They will moving forward with because the best teams are being concentrated into two leagues where they have to play each other more often.
And as far as three loss top twelve teams go:
2022: FSU, Utah
2021: Ole Miss, Utah
2019: Wisconsin
2018: LSU, UGA, UF, Texas, UK
There will be deserving 9-3 teams every year moving forward due to imbalanced scheduling.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 1:19 pm to Bham4Tide
Bama needed to take care of Michigan last year. That is where most of this stems from.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 2:04 pm to RollTide1987
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They also have established that you don't have to beat anyone good to be rewarded.
Ok. But they did beat everybody they were supposed to beat. Alabama did not.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 2:05 pm to Bham4Tide
You lost three games. You don't deserve to get in when you don't win your conference and lose 3 games. Period. End of story. Stop your crying.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 2:07 pm to tide06
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They will moving forward with because the best teams are being concentrated into two leagues where they have to play each other more often.
Expanding the leagues is exactly why all the top teams in conference WONT all be playing each other. 20 team conferences will all game their schedules so the biggest brands are all 10-11 win teams.
This post was edited on 12/8/24 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 12/8/24 at 2:07 pm to Bham4Tide
The uproar over this is so dumb.
You can’t leave out a team who was firmly in before the conference championship games before they lost for a team who was squarely out of the playoff and did not play a game this weekend.
Stop the madness.
If chalk happened, bama gets in easily but that did not happen.
You can’t leave out a team who was firmly in before the conference championship games before they lost for a team who was squarely out of the playoff and did not play a game this weekend.
Stop the madness.
If chalk happened, bama gets in easily but that did not happen.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 2:07 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Name the bad team Sc lost to. Every team that beat us was 8-4 or better.
Ok. Your point? If they had put South Carolina in over SMU I would not have had a huge problem with it. At least y'all got beat by good teams.
You are misunderstanding me. I am saying Alabama did not beat the teams they should have beaten. They got beat by bad teams. Not great teams. Not good teams. Bad teams. That is why they got left out. And Alabama gets the benefit of the doubt because of their recent past.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 2:09 pm to Bham4Tide
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S. Carolina, OM, and Alabama
All three of these teams are garbage and do not deserve a playoff, GTFOH.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 2:10 pm to Bham4Tide
It's pathetic. Terrible committee this year
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