re: Paul Finebaum Casts Doubt on SEC’s Elite Status This Season

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Paul is often wrong about a lot of things.

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Paul knows as much about football as Stephen A Smith knows about basketball, and for some reason ESPN calls both “experts “.

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Not hardly. But you should be thankful that you got a Notre Dame team that had the luxury of playing us without our starting QB and 3 injured OLinemen.

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The interception king?

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Otherwise, they could have very well have got UGA in the natty game. And uh...well, we all know how that would have gone

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Yea, Ohio State the dawg crap out of Georgia.

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"There's the snap. The kick is up...aaaaaaaaaand, he hooked it! Wide left! UGA wins!"

Ahhhh....it never gets old.

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I hate to admit it but I have nothing to say about that.

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How is having to win 3 or 4 playoff games instead of 2 lowering the standards?

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Because you can lose 2 football games in the regular season and easily make it. I think that happened like once before in the history of the game?

In the past, in order to win a National Championship, you needed to have a special season. Ohio St's season was so special many of you wanted to fire your coach during the season.

Ohio St literally would not have won the national championship last year if the requirements for making the playoffs weren't lowered. That's just plain out fact. I'm not blaming Ohio St for it, if Alabama did the same thing I'd be like - well that's what happened. Not our fault for the system.

But I'm not going to pretend like it's not a lower standard and that it's not dumb.

And hell, Alabama should have made the playoffs if we're being honest. They were #11 I think, AQ status and what not prevented it. But lets assume they made the playoffs, then won 3 or 4 playoff games to win it all. Telling me that somehow that team, or a team like that, winning the national championship wouldn't be a large marker that it's a lower standard?

Really?

Ohio State would have been left out of an 8 team format following the loss to UM. A loss like that at home, late in the season, would’ve left a bad taste in the committee members’ mouths. No way 3 Big 10 Teams get in after Oregon and Penn State. (PSU goes bc the committee is not going to penalize them for losing the extra game—same with Texas)

OSU got a ridiculously favorable first two rounds: at home vs Tennessee (game should’ve been played in Knoxville since both of their losses were on the road), followed by a rematch in the Rose Bowl versus Oregon.

All the expanded playoff gave us was a winner who was inconsistent during the regular season, got a do over in the playoff and a free pass after scoring only 10 points to an unranked rival at home.

I'm not gonna lie. I have felt the SEC hasn't been super strong for a few years. As we see this NIL deal continue on, i suspect our absolute and objective dominance won't be quite the same. But then... this is the beginning phase. it will level out, and i'm sure they'll iron some shite out. in the end, it's OUR recruiting beds that are always the hottest.

He's gotta stir the pot. His clientele is dying off.

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They would police their football teams more than the SEC

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Name one SEC school that ever policed its football team even a little. Vanderbilt?

I bet you still cry over that Javon Bullard hit

You're new to Paul Finebaum I see. Every year for the last 30 years in the doldrums of late June to late July, when no college sports are going on...he literally has nothing to talk about. It's when the show turns into a mix of Jerry Springer and old school WCW professional wrestling where callers cut promos on each other like they're Arn Anderson.

That's when he throws rage bait out there to see how many will bite.

Looks like you bit.

Was elite long before Texas..Oh shite Burrow just tossed another TD.