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re: Week 11 AP Poll
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/8/26 at 8:15 pm to TS1926
Individual games don’t mean crap anymore. Sure, Miss St. beat Minnesota. Who freaking cares. Just like who cares that Texas beat Ohio St 2 months ago. Both those teams are mid level.
UGA is a contender because of defense and their OC. Indiana is a contender because Cignetti saw he had offensive issues and made a change at QB. Miami has dynamic play makers all over. All 3 have lost and can lose, but going into December those are the 3 teams whose coaches have used the season to prepare the best. Miami losing Toney could end up helping them in the playoffs when other players will have to step up.
At some point you guys will come to understand the regular season is just a means to the playoff. That’s why I was laughing all season at those big games in September you guys were acting like were mini Super Bowls when they were basically pointless. Ohio St/Texas, Ole Miss/LSU, Bama/Tennessee, Bama/UGA. All were fun appetizers. Even ND/Miami will end up meaning little. The real games start in December.
UGA is a contender because of defense and their OC. Indiana is a contender because Cignetti saw he had offensive issues and made a change at QB. Miami has dynamic play makers all over. All 3 have lost and can lose, but going into December those are the 3 teams whose coaches have used the season to prepare the best. Miami losing Toney could end up helping them in the playoffs when other players will have to step up.
At some point you guys will come to understand the regular season is just a means to the playoff. That’s why I was laughing all season at those big games in September you guys were acting like were mini Super Bowls when they were basically pointless. Ohio St/Texas, Ole Miss/LSU, Bama/Tennessee, Bama/UGA. All were fun appetizers. Even ND/Miami will end up meaning little. The real games start in December.
re: Week 11 AP Poll
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/8/26 at 1:54 pm to Boomer65
Miami is beatable but they have a very solid team compared to most of the other top 12. UGA, Miami, and Indiana are the top 3 as they play defense and have playmakers on offense.
re: When Syracuse beats the Irish at home in the season finale
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/8/26 at 1:52 pm to JimTiger72
Cuse’s players are starting to quit on Brown. They have lost the mojo they use to have to compete. As a GT fan I am familiar with this and I watched that game yesterday and Brown is essentially a dead coach walking so players are already looking for their next transfer.
re: Week 11 AP Poll
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/8/26 at 1:44 pm to CNB
You guys continue to lick your own butt, The SEC is down. It’s why they have ceded the last 3 Natties to Yankees. Instead of pointing fingers fix it. I’m a southern homer but all I see are a bunch of mid level teams who don’t play defense but play the role of soap opera stars.
That’s the SEC today and a lot of you know I’m right. It’s all reality TV crap with Kiffen, Trinidad, Manning, etc. The most boring team is UGA and they are the only hope for the SEC because they still play like SEC teams use to. The problem is you have other conferences now playing ball like the SEC use to. You ask who has Wake beaten? Fine. I ask who has Tennesee beaten? Who has Texas beaten? Thank goodness we have playoffs so the truth will be revealed. I will say the excuses are always good for a a few months of post season message board fodder.
That’s the SEC today and a lot of you know I’m right. It’s all reality TV crap with Kiffen, Trinidad, Manning, etc. The most boring team is UGA and they are the only hope for the SEC because they still play like SEC teams use to. The problem is you have other conferences now playing ball like the SEC use to. You ask who has Wake beaten? Fine. I ask who has Tennesee beaten? Who has Texas beaten? Thank goodness we have playoffs so the truth will be revealed. I will say the excuses are always good for a a few months of post season message board fodder.
re: Georgia appears to be this years Indiana
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/7/26 at 10:52 pm to Dawg4Life47
In a playoff system opinions no longer matter. A lot of good teams will make the playoffs and then play a bunch of games and 1 team will go undefeated. That’s all that matters. And yes, injuries will happen. Look at Miami without Toney. What if Stockton goes down? What if Mensah goes down? Then you have teams that no one is even thinking about like Wake. Yes, UGA looked very good tonight, but the reality is Ole Miss doesn’t play defense and aren’t playoff worthy so how big was that game we’ll see in the playoffs.
re: Boring arse Georgia…
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/7/26 at 10:00 pm to molardog1
UGA is the only hope for the SEC because they play defense. The top 3 are UGA, Miami, and Indiana. I don’t care about losses. What I care about is winning games on a neutral field in December and January.
re: We can all admit the Big 10 is down this year. Way down
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/3/26 at 2:15 pm to TheRouxGuru
It’s not that the BIG stinks it’s that the SEC doesn’t play defense. So you are use to QB’s running free and 30plus point games whereas the BIG actually plays defense. But, it will all come out in the end.
re: Indiana is awful
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/1/26 at 8:01 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
The reason the SEC has fallen down a notch is defense. Why doesn’t anyone talk about that on this board.
Look at the scores of SEC games and you’ll see why they lose in the playoffs. Sure, Indiana’s offense isn’t as good as last year but the BIG plays much better defense than the SEC. So, you can sit here and make fun of 20-16 type scores but that is what you’ll get in playoff football.
Look at the scores of SEC games and you’ll see why they lose in the playoffs. Sure, Indiana’s offense isn’t as good as last year but the BIG plays much better defense than the SEC. So, you can sit here and make fun of 20-16 type scores but that is what you’ll get in playoff football.
re: The product is trash all across the board...
Posted by RunningJacket on 11/1/26 at 3:58 pm to White Tiger
In 10 years the fans will be asking why we didn’t have a real playoff all along and those of you defending the bull crap of the past will be dead or not watching by your own statements.
We finally have a meaningful November for more than a handful of teams. And when we expand to 24 next year we’ll finally have a real sport and post season. Kirby is just whining to whine but the audience he and Saban had the past few years is smaller and smaller as people realize they actually like the champion coming from a playoff instead of an annointment by a committee.
We finally have a meaningful November for more than a handful of teams. And when we expand to 24 next year we’ll finally have a real sport and post season. Kirby is just whining to whine but the audience he and Saban had the past few years is smaller and smaller as people realize they actually like the champion coming from a playoff instead of an annointment by a committee.
re: lots of empty seats in Chapel Hill
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/31/26 at 7:45 pm to BatonProv
Who freaking cares? Why are certain fans obsessed with crowd sizes? It’s just weird and has nothing to do with the play of any team. What matters is donors.
re: No way Indiana is top 5. NB
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/31/26 at 6:36 pm to lsusa
You guys are just funny. UGA rolls a mid level UF and they are deserving, but Indiana beats a solid Minnesota team and they aren’t top 10 material. Just hilarious. It’s as if you have the ability to not remember the last 3 playoffs. Good football can be played anywhere not just in the south. A month to go until the real season begins.
re: The Sec hasn't made a natty appearance in 3 years
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/26/26 at 6:41 pm to TouchdownTony
So some say Miami won’t play anyone of substance until the playoffs and then when they blow thru those teams with substance they don’t get the credit. And then all these comments using polls as any measuring stick are just funny. The polls are nothing but opinion and gossip. Saying you beat 6 ranked teams and then getting your butt kicked in the playoffs pretty much invalidates those rankings.
So many posters believe in the tooth fairy, aka the polls, and then your brain short circuits when the rankings don’t hold water in the playoffs. It’s why no other serious sport uses rankings for anything.
Polls are a meaningless measure of anything. Just because SEC teams get ranked every week doesn’t mean a thing. The SEC is propped up by the media. When they actually have to play the games in December and January we’ve already see that the SEC has been shown to be a paper tiger. The SEC hasn’t won 1 playoff game in the past 3 years.
So many posters believe in the tooth fairy, aka the polls, and then your brain short circuits when the rankings don’t hold water in the playoffs. It’s why no other serious sport uses rankings for anything.
Polls are a meaningless measure of anything. Just because SEC teams get ranked every week doesn’t mean a thing. The SEC is propped up by the media. When they actually have to play the games in December and January we’ve already see that the SEC has been shown to be a paper tiger. The SEC hasn’t won 1 playoff game in the past 3 years.
re: 8 spots will go to SEC/Big Ten this year at minimum....
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/25/26 at 4:55 pm to Frac the world
It won’t matter how many teams you get in because all those teams will be injured and would have to play their 3rd stringers because of the gauntlet.
re: The collapse of The SEC since NIL only proves how much The SEC was cheating prior to NIL
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/25/26 at 1:05 pm to JohnnyU
One day you guys will understand how wimpish you sound with the latest SEC mantra about “beating each other up”. It’s like you’re a brainwashed cult. There was nothing about “beating up” that caused Stockton to fumble or for Tennessee to crap the bed. What happens if the final four end up being all SEC? Will you come back and say that your league was so easy that your teams were able to rest all year which is why they made it to the finals?
Sometimes it’s ok to simply say Indiana and Miami were better teams last year. Or Michigan that one year. And if UGA wins the tournament then I will give them or any team full props without accusing them of any brain washing talking point.
Sometimes it’s ok to simply say Indiana and Miami were better teams last year. Or Michigan that one year. And if UGA wins the tournament then I will give them or any team full props without accusing them of any brain washing talking point.
re: Maybe this year is exposing the absurdity of the college football polls
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/25/26 at 12:50 pm to Brisketeer
Why do polls even exist at this point? No other legit sport uses a poll because polls are just gossip/opinion. It’s just a stupid thing from the past that the media uses to manipulate the public and the public is too stupid to see it.
And why doesn’t anyone ever question the polls when they are proven wrong every freaking week. No one would accept anything else in their life to be proven wrong every week and still give it any legitimacy. The polls are the only that is shown to be wrong every 7 days and yet still exists. If your doctor, mailman, dentist, car, work was making wrong decisions every week you’d run.
And why doesn’t anyone ever question the polls when they are proven wrong every freaking week. No one would accept anything else in their life to be proven wrong every week and still give it any legitimacy. The polls are the only that is shown to be wrong every 7 days and yet still exists. If your doctor, mailman, dentist, car, work was making wrong decisions every week you’d run.
re: Conventional Wisdom wrong, Cupcake Schedule vs SEC Schedule
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/19/26 at 3:20 pm to stitchop
Maybe the SEC should just stop tackling so hard against each other or play flag football until the playoffs. Then you’d surely steam roll all these other teams.
Or they should just crown an SEC team the National Champ in August so those tough games you play can’t be used against you.
Or they should just crown an SEC team the National Champ in August so those tough games you play can’t be used against you.
re: The AP Poll is out. And it SUCKS
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/19/26 at 3:16 pm to Jauquismos
Maybe since you guys beat each other up so much you should just agree to run the clock until the 4th quarter and then play that to see who wins?
re: 8 of the AP top 10 not in the SEC. Thanks Sankey
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/18/26 at 9:20 pm to 3down10
What a melt. Is this the new SEC answer to every issue - a 9 game schedule is now the nightmare of the SEC?
That is pathetically weak. You guys can come up with better excuses than that. At least you use to.
The real answer is your teams just aren’t as good as they use to be and your coaches aren’t nearly as good as they were five years ago. Did a 9 game schedule cause Stockton to be a turnover machine last night? Did a 9 game schedule cause DeBour’s player to pack it in yesterday? Did a 9 game schedule cause Texas to suck yesterday and for Florida’s backup QB to play great?
That is pathetically weak. You guys can come up with better excuses than that. At least you use to.
The real answer is your teams just aren’t as good as they use to be and your coaches aren’t nearly as good as they were five years ago. Did a 9 game schedule cause Stockton to be a turnover machine last night? Did a 9 game schedule cause DeBour’s player to pack it in yesterday? Did a 9 game schedule cause Texas to suck yesterday and for Florida’s backup QB to play great?
re: I think it’s actually pretty easy to keep the college football regular season relevant
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/17/26 at 9:23 pm to cbree88
So none outside the top 4 could win a playoff yet we just saw an unranked team beat the #1 team, and a #3 team is tied with an unranked team, But, sure, #16 couldn’t compete with a #4. The country is laughing at your opinions. The 24 team playoff will be loved next December when nothing else is going on.
re: Is the ACC better than people give them credit for?
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/17/26 at 8:40 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
You guys are just funny. Can’t tic anyone credit for anything. And you wonder why the country wants a playoff where you can’t just be awarded Natties.
An ACC team beat 2 SEC teams in the playoffs and made the Natty game yet the ACC sucks and the SEC is the best.
No one cares about your opinions anymore because you guys are not fair or reasonable fans. The ACC has several teams capable of beating any SEC teams but no matter how many times they do it you guys act as if it never happened. The playoffs will be here soon enough and then we’ll see.
An ACC team beat 2 SEC teams in the playoffs and made the Natty game yet the ACC sucks and the SEC is the best.
No one cares about your opinions anymore because you guys are not fair or reasonable fans. The ACC has several teams capable of beating any SEC teams but no matter how many times they do it you guys act as if it never happened. The playoffs will be here soon enough and then we’ll see.
re: College football has basically become the NFL
Posted by RunningJacket on 10/17/26 at 8:18 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
Yeah, Inthiught there was no way anyone outside the top 4 could win a playoff. We are only in week 6 and and any team in the top 20 right now could win the Natty. That’s awesome for the sport. My money is Indiana as they will keep improving. I also can see Ole Miss with that QB making a run.
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