THE SEC Championship game hurt us

No we should win it

It is part of the system and will continue to be because...money.

Many years this game has been a blowout. We just happen to be in a period where the two best teams don’t play each other.

Winning it damn near guarantees you are in.

To be the best you have to beat the best. I would rather see us raise our bar to Bama’s level than work backwards schemes to get to the playoffs.

Because we are PREMIER conference in the country!!

Nah, those games aren't going away anytime soon. Too much money to be made.

Pressure is a privilege.

To whom much is given, much is required.

Win the SECCG and you are in the playoff every year. Lose it and you should go home anyway.

We should win the damn thing. We had a chance to get Bama down by 3 scores, and missed a chip shot. Then we immediately gave up a TD.

Get a killer instinct and kill the bastards next time. Don't let them up off the mat.

Sankey needs to at least consider doing away with the CCG. Fact is that he presides over the most dominant conference in the league and, as such, will more often than not see this pointless title cost us CFP bids.

The committee has made it abundantly clear that they’re putting the most weight into archaic W-L records instead of analytics...it’s the Cy Young Award of college football. Until the committee shows willingness to step into the current era of analytics, one SEC team with a self-inflicted loss at the hands of Sankey’s CCG is going to continue to cost the conference. The SEC holds leverage and should be using it to force the committee to change.

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Why in the frick are we playing a play-off level game out side of the playoff? This game officially kept us out of the playoff as we basically were eliminated because we lost to the alleged #1 team in the last minute of the game.

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I get what you are saying, but....since we finished at #5, it is reasonable to think we would have made the playoffs if we had beaten LSU. That really was the game we should have won and would have gotten us into the playoffs.

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Bingo! We laid a rotten egg in that one. The loss in the SEC championship game enhanced our credibility. If that was our only loss, we're absolutely in.

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I absolutely agree. If we beat LSU we would have gone into the SECCG ranked either #1 or #2 and the loss would have put us down to #3 or #4....probably #3.

I said the exact same thing and got blasted by a few pukes who’ve replied here, with a different take (one is an IT tech who claims to sell enterprise).

If you’re in the SEC and you’re not called Bama, playing and losing a championship game is deadly. #4 just dominated undefeated #1 for 3 quarters, and had better stats, lost by a last minute TD, and dropped in rankings in favor of teams with worse resumes. Meanwhile a team is in that got to sit and rest and watch. If you don’t play in a CC, you don’t get in. If you play and lose a CC to the #1 team by a late TD, you’re and have the resume that UGA has, you’re at least #4. If ND is not going to be punished by not playing a CC, they should just not count the CCG.

Moral, every team should be required to be in a conference, and when #4 plays #1 and plays the way UGA did vs Bama, they should not be leapfrogged. It’s idiotic.