24 Team Expansion Next Year

so fricking gay

between this, unlimited transfers, nearly total roster turnover yearly, $50M player budgets, and conference expansion based on anything BUT regionality, I don't see how even the most passionate die hard fans can't have lost just a little bit of the enjoyment.

This isn't college football.

I don't like it because each expansion makes the regular season less meaningful.
But in a way it's might be beneficial to the SEC since going to a 9 game conference schedule obviously means more losses for SEC teams.

This really angers me even though I knew it was coming

All this does is shift the importance from games impacting top 10 teams to games impacting teams in the 20s who have no actual shot of winning the title. Now regular season games have little significance for the top teams who can now lose 3-4 games with no real consequences. Sure you may lose a bye week but those byes have seemed to hurt more than help in the 12 team format.

The scheduling stipulation for P4 teams is bullshite. Top programs will just try to schedule the worst P4 team they possibly can, which isn’t that tough with the mega conferences now, and then play a FCS and Sun Belt school to round out their OOC schedule. All they’ll have to do is just try to go 6-3 in conference play and they’ll be sitting pretty for the playoff. I guarantee we see teams who are locked into the playoff resting starters in rivalry week.

And I have no interest in watching #17 UVA vs #19 Houston in a game that we’re assigning some new meaning to just bc a CFP logo will be on the field when everybody knows they’ll just get run over the next round against a top 5 team.

All in the name of progress I guess

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All this does is shift the importance from games impacting top 10 teams to games impacting teams in the 20s who have no actual shot of winning the title. Now regular season games have little significance for the top teams who can now lose 3-4 games with no real consequences.

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exactly, it's maddening. Throughout the history of the sport it was awesome to see a top 5 or 10 team get upset because you knew they were on the brink of falling out. If they somehow got a 2nd loss they were pretty much eliminated which was entertaining as hell for everyone in america. Now it will literally take 5 losses for a bama or OSU to miss the playoffs. The regular season means absolute jack shite now.

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between this, unlimited transfers, nearly total roster turnover yearly, $50M player budgets, and conference expansion based on anything BUT regionality, I don't see how even the most passionate die hard fans can't have lost just a little bit of the enjoyment.

This isn't college football.

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Exactly. I quit watching the NFL several years ago for various reasons. I can see me losing all interest in college football soon as well. What a shite show it has become. All of it is so ESPN can make more money. Has nothing to do with bettering the sport.

Enjoy what’s left of this season boys. I don’t think I’ll have half as much interest starting next year.

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Enjoy what’s left of this season boys. I don’t think I’ll have half as much interest starting next year.

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It's complicated. For example, we're definitely not lined up to be as good next season as this season. We'll have two complete recruiting cycles without 5 stars and top 100 national recruits everywhere, and it will begin to show up.

But if we can go 9-3, we'd be in the playoffs and it'd be more meaninfgul Georgia football and make the season longer. And who knows, we might get hot and win the national title next season and people say "this was Kirby's best coaching job."

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Next season sits very well assuming the QB spot is covered.

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Could win the Joe Moore Award for the second straight season next year, assuming they figure out Greene's replacement. If Ogboko keeps trending like he's trending, it could happen. And then Cortez Smith was ID'd by our coaches as the center of the future when he was in 10th grade. We should be fine there.

Will be interesting to see if Kirby breaks his own rule and is the top bidder for whoever the top portal cornerback is or whoever Kirby thinks the top portal cornerback is.

But there are some worries about depth on this year's team, and I think next year is when it really really shows up. Depth on the offensive and defensive lines and inside linebacker and the secondary could put us in a pickle with a few injuries. The last two recruiting classes just haven't had the same pedigree, and next year is when it will probably show up.

And who knows what the quarterback situation will be. Obviously having a quarterback who's not getting the job done can frick up a season quicker than anything.