What a fucking joke these people are.
All that Alliance posturing was total bullshit.
That being said, it won’t hurt my feelings if they can’t move up the change from 2026.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Fuck.
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…..the assholes that voted for money over all else.
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Every day including Sunday.
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The alliance was the B1G f***king the PAC12 and ACC to get their 7B fox/nbc/cbs deal and make sure ESPN didn’t get exclusive rights to expanded playoff
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Let’s not forget ND and their contribution.
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ND was fully in support of the original expansion plan.
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Damn seems to me the regular season has been diminished.
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Ya think? It will mean pretty much nothing. Looking forward to our first 5 loss “champion”.
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At least Georgia won it before it went FUBAR. Be nice to squeeze in another this season. Then they can commence castrating the sport.
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We all knew it was coming. Doesn’t suck any less, but it was inevitable. As soon as some of the big players got left out of the playoffs because they were not good enough, the rules were bound to be changed to “dumb it down”.
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Will be some funny shit when a similar “2011 seven loss NYGiants” gets hot at the right time and wins a national title over a 18-0 Bama.
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And that seven loss team, is none other than your UGA football Bulldogs, #1 in your heart and on the screen of every fucking tv in America…GO DAWGS!
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Oh, I was in Omaha to watch a 4-seed Fresno State that got hot starting in their conference tournament beat us for a national title. I’m still scarred from that.
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I remember that weekend Fish Dawg…hurt me real bad as well! If I remember correctly, we beat them in the first game and they came back and won two straight. Did not get to watch as I was off grid on the SC coast gigging flounder and catching Red & Black Drum in the surf!
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Not only did we win the first game, I’m pretty sure we were leading big in game 2. There was an extremely annoying slugger on their team who had a broken finger or something they’d mention every at-bat
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Detwiler
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Baseball ain’t football.
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Nice headline, but an appropriate smoke graphic would have been a killer.
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I’m fighting like hell to keep my passion for CFB burning, this news definitely doesn’t help. The fact that we won it last year scratched the itch that’s been burning since I was in elementary school. Not saying that I won’t watch games in the future because I’m know I will. I’ll enjoy the good times that Kirby has brought us, but definitely see the day soon coming where it becomes more of a casual Fall viewing from Section HD rather than a year-round way of life.
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Bring on the suck!
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Embrace the Suck!
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Welcome to the NFL lite. Tradition means nothing if you can make a buck pissing on it. Glad we won one in my lifetime while college football was still recognizable.
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I’m definitely not an expansion advocate, but it could have been worse. An 8-team playoff with 6 AQs or a 16-team playoff is worse than the 12-team we’re getting.
Is it just me or does this feel like a way to stop the destabilizing force of realignment? I think realignment is the greater evil to college sports overall but football in particular.
This solution likely keeps both the Pac 12 and Big 12 from raiding one another, and the ACC will be able to make sure their champion is in every year.
If expansion was going to happen, I would have rather seen an 8-team playoff with no AQs.
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We’ll go to 16 quickly. Towns like Athens, Tuscaloosa, and Clemson are not going to be happy when they earn a bye and lose that extra revenue.
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Kirby may throw a game to be a #5 seed to host recruits in Athens at a playoff game.
I’m kidding … I think.
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Kirby just wants to know the recruiting rules for those games.
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The real sad part is that the CFB playoff committee can’t boost ESPN ratings for the weekly reveal. Who is really going to care about 12, 13 and 14?
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The sports journalists will make out every year that the ranking a team 13th is the greatest injustice in history.
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Good point. At least if this were the top 8 with no AQs, there would be a reason to watch that drivel. Heather Dinich is one of the dumbest talking heads on TV.
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I guess none of the Pac 12, Big 12, or ACC will consider merging now. Would take away a guaranteed playoff spot. But hey, if they do merge, maybe like Georgia State will get in one year.
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“Ah! It’s a profit deal!”
-Navin Johnson
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And that’s all I need ……………and this…………..and this too
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If you’re going to do 12, that’s the format. 6/6
Trouble is, the SEC will be the most competitive conference with the lowest stakes in big games. 1 champ plus any number of those 6 at larges? That’s AT LEAST two every year, and I’d say the average will be around 3, if. It 3.5 or so.
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*If not 3.5.
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“We lost because we didn’t get a bye like our opponent did”
will be the BIG conference’s version of “Metchie and Williams’.
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Only benefit of this, if you call it that, is that we’ll be in this playoff most years at our current level
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What bothers me is that if we game out this current season under the new format, if we clinch the East before the KY game it’s likely that we run the 2nd and 3rd teams for that game and kind of feel out what the West team does for the SECCG whether we field the 1’s. Taking an L in both games likely doesn’t change anything, which means the SECC is a hollow version of itself.
This kind of thing isn’t a concern for a dominant team in the ACC, PAC, B12, the team on top of those conferences will be in a class of their own. The SEC and maybe the B1G? It will be cutthroat sandbagging the first opportunity during the reg season. Sounds like the no fun league to me.
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The SECCG will be about seeding. That first round bye is potentially a really big deal.
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No doubt.
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Just by my 2 beers in after a long week math we would have made it every year since 2017 and would have been in the finals another time or two.
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This is exactly right. Even 2020 we were ranked 9 in CFP rankings prior to Cincy game
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Nothing wrong with that, IMO.
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Not sure of your age, but I remember when making a bowl was a real accomplishment because there were only a dozen or so. Then the bowl number exploded so now you have exemptions for 6 and 7 loss teams to be invited to a bowl.
The playoffs will soon be like that.
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How are they going to find days to play all these games against the nfl schedule?
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They apply a liberal amount of Gorilla Glue to our seats so we never turn away from the tube. NFL Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday to add to Sunday, Monday & Thursday already on the schedule. CFB Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Oh goodie.
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Get ready for some THURSDAY AFTERNOON ACTION!!!! ON ESPN8 or your various streaming services!
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12 teams, bitchez!
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Buying tickets now for the 2028 “play-in” game between Western Michigan and SDSU.
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These people are like the Underpants Gnomes, except instead of one “???” step between “steal underpants” and “profit,” they’ve got 47.
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I got shouted and and kicked out of a twitter space for this take, but I’m afraid it’s an inevitability. If not when. https://twitter.com/craig_lawson/status/1565919043252527104?s=21&t=nrep7uPA2s5wnqOIq9JUyA
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Conference Champ bye will be big..
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College football had a good run.
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