Paul Finebaum Thinks The SEC Is Hurt By 12-Team College Football Playoff

by Larry Leo

January 12, 202513 Comments

On The Matt Barrie Show, ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum called it "significant" that an SEC representative won't compete in the championship game and considers it "a cause for a lot of concern" in the south...

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"That is a dramatic moment," Finebaum said. "It is a seminal moment in time that I really didn't expect, especially with a 12-team Playoff."

"Georgia would have been in the four-team Playoff this year. Ohio State probably wouldn't have. They would have been right on the cut line, so it does make it more complicated," Finebaum said. "I mean, there's a couple SEC teams in the past that probably wouldn't have gotten through a gauntlet like this."

"As I walked out of the stadium a couple of hours ago, I kept thinking more about what Texas let go," he said. "If you were ever going to beat Ohio State, Friday night was it. And they couldn't do it."

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Chip82•1 month

Sankey and his staff screwed the SEC this year with their horrid scheduling.
Kirby and Lane both had legitimate gripes.
Michigan beating Ohio State just exemplifies how much of a contrast there is between the number of top tier teams in the SEC compared to the number of top tier teams in the B1G.

cbree88•25 days

What point are you making here? The Bug Ten has more too-tier teams than the SEC? That definitely might be true right now.

Stinger_1066•1 month

Paul has been around long enough to know that things fluctuate. The opposite could be true next season. This is a gross overreaction.

Timeoday•1 month

It is crazy. The team that beat Texas twice is not in. The team in got beat by Texas. Strength of Schedule does matter, especially as the season comes to a close.

Stinger_1066•1 month

The team in got beat by Texass?

Revorising•1 month

Man who cares anymore. The golden era of college football is over.

sstig•1 month

Best team $$ can buy. Oh$o S$a$e

s2•25 days

gumpville yelling, HOLD MY BEER. $$$

Buttermilk Pancakes•1 month

Melt Bitch! Glad to see this loser eat the crow. Maybe he should realized the SEC isn't all that cracked up to what it was. Hell a shitty Illinois beat a South Carolina team they said belonged in and Bama got smacked by Michigan. He should be lucky Georgia isn't in the Natty otherwise OSU would kick the all out of them too! Ding Dong the SEC is dead but don't worry Ole Miss should have gotten in and Missouri is printing shirts for beating a down OSU and Iowa by 3 points in back to back years. SEC SEC SEC!!!!

thatthang•1 month

Now this is how you melt

CrystalPreserves•1 month

melt.

CrystalPreserves•1 month

melt.

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