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re: OOC Canceling Spreads
Posted on 12/10/25 at 11:28 am to BZ504
Posted on 12/10/25 at 11:28 am to BZ504
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UGA usually has a weak schedule
I'd love to hear any kind of supporting info for this
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always has the same school scheduled at the end of the year
yes, our P4 in state rival. A team that's been better than lsu of late
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They didn’t play tOSU this year.
umm..ok? Neither did a lot of people?
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Posted on 12/10/25 at 11:33 am to WG_Dawg
Miami.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 11:34 am to BZ504
quote:It doesn’t matter much to me if he complains or not. The new reality is that SEC teams have zero incentive to play competitive OOC games. And, that’s a shame.
Kirby shouldn’t be complaining.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 11:36 am to BZ504
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UGA usually has a weak schedule and always has the same school scheduled at the end of the year and in most years that school would be a group of 5 school. Kirby shouldn’t be complaining. They didn’t play tOSU this year.
UGA has had the best OOC in the SEC since the NCAA went from 11 to 12 regular season games.
It's not even that UGA's schedule is not weak. It's literally the BEST in the conference on average since college football went to 12 games.
It was crappy after the SEC expanded while we still had just 11 games though. That's ancient history these days.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 11:41 am to BevoBucks
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t doesn’t matter much to me if he complains or not. The new reality is that SEC teams have zero incentive to play competitive OOC games. And, that’s a shame.
While true, even without that incentive UGA will be playing a stout OOC slate.
Here are the number of P4 OOC games UGA has scheduled each year for the near future:
2026 - 1/3
2027 - 2/3
2028 - 2/3
2029 - 2/3
2030 - 3/3 (though I imagine one will get dropped)
2031 - 2/3
2032 - 2/3
2033 - 2/3
With a 9 game conference schedule, that's 11 out of 12 games each year against major conference opposition. THere's no incentive to do so, but UGA will still have the toughest OOC of any team in the SEC (and probably in the nation).
Posted on 12/10/25 at 11:46 am to DawginSC
quote:Scheduling competitive OOC was one of the things I was most excited about with the expanded playoffs. The fact we’re losing that with zero additional $ from ESPN for adding a conference game is a tragedy.
With a 9 game conference schedule, that's 11 out of 12 games each year against major conference opposition. THere's no incentive to do so, but UGA will still have the toughest OOC of any team in the SEC (and probably in the nation).
This post was edited on 12/10/25 at 11:48 am
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:00 pm to ChiTownJ
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Not enough 5 star guys on the bench to put in?
What would you know about 5 stars?
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:02 pm to BevoBucks
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It is time to turn conference championship week into play-in week
It is time to turn conference championship week into play-in week
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:09 pm to BevoBucks
The real problem here is that the CFP committee will now have even fewer data points to compare the SEC to B1G, BigXII, EZZ etc...
This post was edited on 12/10/25 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:12 pm to BevoBucks
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September has essentially become college's version of preseason
Am I the only one or did it seem we did not get a cluster of great matchups this season on any given Saturday?
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:14 pm to paperwasp
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Our football team is like the walking wounded already,
Everyone wanted 9 SEC games and I was always baffled by it.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:15 pm to BevoBucks
Georgia plays Georgia Tech every year and Tech isn't a glorified rent a win anymore.
More big conference games means fewer big OOC games. People will scream and shout about "iron sharpens iron" but you need some cupcakes in the schedule. If, for nothing else, just to give you time to heal up.
More big conference games means fewer big OOC games. People will scream and shout about "iron sharpens iron" but you need some cupcakes in the schedule. If, for nothing else, just to give you time to heal up.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:15 pm to paperwasp
You mean the 12 game season or conference games?
If the overall schedule, that would take a miracle to get EVERY school to agree.
If conf. games, people already gripe about the time between rematches (or some even occurring for the 1st time).
If the overall schedule, that would take a miracle to get EVERY school to agree.
If conf. games, people already gripe about the time between rematches (or some even occurring for the 1st time).
This post was edited on 12/10/25 at 7:21 pm
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:27 pm to Lonnie Utah
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The real problem here is that the CFP committee will now have even fewer data points to compare the SEC to B1G, BigXII, EZZ etc...
Which is their own damn fault. The ONLY reason they didnt exclude Bama for ND was because the SEC would have went scorched earth in the subsequent contract renewals
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:27 pm to BZ504
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UGA usually has a weak schedule and always has the same school scheduled at the end of the year and in most years that school would be a group of 5 school.
Georgia scheduled opening games against Clemson and Oregon prior to scheduling Oklahoma, which was cancelled because of the conference realignment.
Then came the drop of the division schedules.
Additionally, Kirby has always believed in sharing revenue with smaller schools that depend on that money to fund their other sports programs.
Kirby's warning about the nine game schedule should be taken seriously by the middle tier of the SEC.
All of these six new coaches will absolutely struggle to get to a two loss season. Two loss records seems to be the new criteria for even being considered for an at-large playoff slot.
This post was edited on 12/10/25 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:28 pm to The Baker
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quote:Our football team is like the walking wounded already, Everyone wanted 9 SEC games and I was always baffled by it.
I still do...but just go to 11 game season and have more bye weeks
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:32 pm to The Baker
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Everyone wanted 9 SEC games and I was always baffled by it.
Nope
Did you hear Kirby during the post game panel interview.
He stated that other SEC coaches that he has talked to are not happy about it either.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:32 pm to The Baker
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Everyone wanted 9 SEC games
I'm not sure this is correct.
The reasoning behind going to 9 games was not only strength of schedule, but a minimum of 4 SEC teams automatically qualifying for the playoff.
Also, ESPN finally gave in and upped the payout for extra games.
This post was edited on 12/10/25 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:40 pm to WG_Dawg
Because I am a fan that enjoys watching good games.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 12:42 pm to Dawgs2122
You should and when you lose to bama and have one more slip up you can be just as dumb as Texas for keeping that unnecessary game on the schedule
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