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re: Vanderbilt is getting shafted.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 11:27 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 12/3/25 at 11:27 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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AbuTheMonkey
80 percent of this board can’t think outside of football lol. Of course the northern and west coast schools have huge amounts of wealth. “But muh football, Pawwwlll!”
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Posted on 12/3/25 at 11:59 pm to Nasty_Canasta
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AbuTheMonkey
80 percent of this board can’t think outside of football lol. Of course the northern and west coast schools have huge amounts of wealth. “But muh football, Pawwwlll!”
Of course they don't.
This will in all likelihood be the third year in a row that a school outside the SEC will win the national title. There are realistically only about 6 - 7 teams right now who can win it all - Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia, Oregon, Texas Tech, Notre Dame, and maybe Alabama. That's 1.5 SEC teams who have any realistic shot to win the whole thing. Oklahoma? Your offense is offensive; you're out. Ole Miss? You have no staff and your defense was mediocre anyway. A&M? Maybe, but you haven't improved all that much over the course of this year. And Alabama has holes galore and will get beat by a more complete team.
Funny how that has happened when NIL became a lever that all programs could use and not when some bullshite backwater car dealership in Cullman, AL or Metairie, LA could fund a roster of top 100 players underneath the table.
There are 3, maybe 4, programs in the SEC that can truly compete economically with the top of the top of the top: Texas, A&M, Florida, and Georgia. LSU's promise to Kiffin of $25M or whatever it was going forward won't even put them in the top 5 NIL programs in America. Other schools have 5 or 10 Todd Graves (or Todd Graves times 10 or 100) on the rolodex. Most of the SEC is fricked in an open NIL world; they are just late to realize it.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:03 am to morriscat2
Should have beat Texas in Austin. That was THE game
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:58 am to morriscat2
At the moment Vandy is better than Alabama and OU as well.
Bama really struggled down the stretch run.
Ou didn’t look good either. Bama win props them up.
Bama really struggled down the stretch run.
Ou didn’t look good either. Bama win props them up.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 6:32 am to dandan
Vandy has no chance, none. They benefitted from a weak schedule and a bad UTenn team.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 7:15 am to lewis and herschel
Posted on 12/4/25 at 7:33 am to BAMAneck
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Pavia asking Trump for help.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 7:35 am to morriscat2
You have made it big time. You now join a long list of teams that have been shafted from playing in championship games.
Seriously though, it is bullshite.
Seriously though, it is bullshite.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 7:47 am to morriscat2
Are UGA fans so salty in here because Vandy took that QB?
Posted on 12/4/25 at 8:17 am to BAMAneck
The video of Pavias trash family getting arrested at Neyland was hilarious. He really is trash.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 8:28 am to paperwasp
quote:If you look at Sagarin, and just took the top 12 regardless of conference champions Vandy would be in at 11 and Texas at 12.
We really need someone like Kenpom or Bart Torvik to create football rankings using openly-disclosed algorithms.
Oklahoma would be out.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:12 am to llfshoals
It's simple. Committee needs to follow their own rules. How do at-large teams get chosen for March Madness? Primarily by following strength of record and strength of schedule. Texas and Vandy would both get in if they did. Texas Tech/BYU would be out and Notre Dame or Miami wouldn't make the cut. What really messes things up is the silly Group of 5 automatic bid.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:13 am to morriscat2
It sucks they aren't going to get in because it might be a once in a lifetime thing for that program, they are really good and exciting and they are so close..............but they are not getting shafted.
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 9:14 am
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:14 am to hornfan46
Does anyone really get screwed with 12 teams when. it used to be 2 then 4.....
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:18 am to morriscat2
The least Pavia can do is get to the playoffs before he starts drawing his pension.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:20 am to morriscat2
Who did you play non conf? Virginia Tech? They were worse than any SEC team you played.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:26 am to morriscat2
I would care but pavia is trash. So I am just fine with vandy getting screwed.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:52 am to llfshoals
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look at Sagarin
I honestly didn't realize he was still doing rankings.
His site was the goat back in the day.
But yeah, CBB uses the NET and despite the usual last-in last-out annual controversy, it seems to work pretty well, probably because most generally understand how it works.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:58 am to hornfan46
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What really messes things up is the silly Group of 5 automatic bid
Agree, this was a capitulation at the time because the SEC was dominating football.
Filling a 12-team bracket with a handful of teams (AQs) that don't even deserve to be there is just stupidity.
Again, until a 'cinderella' actually wins a title or even successfully competes in one of these things, I refuse to believe it's a reasonable approach for the sport of football. Elite teams with superior talent are always going to win this in the end.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:21 am to morriscat2
At the beginning of the season I simply wished for a winning season and a bowl bid.
They exceeded that expectation. They are not getting into the playoff and I can live with that. They should have won one more game.
My world would be complete if they could just crush Michigan in a bowl game. I don't ask for too much.
They exceeded that expectation. They are not getting into the playoff and I can live with that. They should have won one more game.
My world would be complete if they could just crush Michigan in a bowl game. I don't ask for too much.
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 10:22 am
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