Bill Connelly posted his five-year S&P+ rankings here. From a selfish standpoint, all you really need to know is his conclusion.
As always, this list reminds us that college football’s top tier is pretty defined.
Your last three national championship programs — Alabama (2015, 2017), Ohio State (2014), and Clemson (2016, 2018) — lead, followed by a team that’s made three of the last four CFPs (Oklahoma) and a team that made the national title game just 13 months ago (Georgia).
Bitch about falling short, if that’s what blows your skirt up. But there are about 125 programs that would be more than happy to trade places with where Kirby has Georgia at today.
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No they wouldn’t. Those 125 schools would be just as upset about falling short as UGA fans. You can’t just get there, you have to win the big one. Bama fans have won plenty of bigs ones and they are very upset when they lose one.
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You can’t win the big one if you never get there.
But you be you, man.
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Damn, and all this time I thought I enjoyed winning the Rose Bowl.
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My mistake, too.
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I believe your comment yesterday was “If you ain’t first…”
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I didn’t want to overuse it.
But, yeah…what Ricky Bobby said.
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Most Bama fans are delusional Gumps with a 4th grade reading level and a sub-500 credit score.
If you don’t think everyone outside of Clemson, Bama, OU, and OSU would trade places with UGA in a nanosecond, then I can’t help you.
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I’m sure you would complain about winning $1,000,000 because it didn’t come with an Augusta National membership to go with it.
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Well, $1,000,000 doesn’t go as far as it used to.
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To each his own. You’re welcome to just keep on frowning through every win till we get that natty if that’s what makes you happy.
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2015 and 2016 frankly sucked. 2017 was incredible. 2018 was really, really close (who cares about the Texas game now) to being another incredible run.
I’m enjoying where we are … right in the middle of the championship conversation.
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I care about the Texas game. It still pisses me off. Opportunity to put a Kirb stomp on a traditional blueblood and we didn’t even show up.
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I cared about it that night and in the week after for exactly the same reason you mention. I’m not going to draw some conclusion that things are off the rails due to that night.
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It’s still making cameos in my dreams — and not good ones either. Consider what you’ve written here, then imagine you’re from Texas with a lot of friends who went to or support UT.
The real issue is Kirby’s (sometime) inability to motivate (in certain circumstances) the team. We’ve simply been MIA every time we go on the road vs the SEC west and, now, the Sugar Bowl is right on top of that. Happily, that Ole Miss game doesn’t matter and we were able to overcome the initial loss on The Plains in ’17. But the LSU game may have cost us a spot in the CFP (note here I said “may have” — losing to Bama (again) most definitely did). He’s got to figure that shit out yesterday. I am not interested in making the drive to Auburn this fall and finding out he couldn’t get them up to beat a 5-4 team or some nonsense — bye week notwithstanding.
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