While we’re on the subject, here’s what Hale had to say about what the selection committee did with (to?) Georgia:
Three points.
Three.
After 29 straight wins and two consecutive national championships, a three-point loss with two of its best players battling injuries and two freshmen playing linebacker is what knocked Georgia from No. 1 in the rankings last week to No. 6 this week.
Three. Stinking. Points.
You know where three points come from? A field goal. A kicker. We’re cutting the two-time defending champs out of the playoff because of a kicker? To paraphrase Allen Iverson: “We’re talking about field goals? Field goals? Not a touchdown! Not a touchdown! Field goals.”
Please, committee members. Go stand next to Brock Bowers. Look him in the eye and tell him a field goal is why he doesn’t belong in the College Football Playoff.
We hope your committee assignment comes with a good health insurance policy.
Again, I can’t get that worked up, as I never expected the committee to leave the Dawgs in the top four. In the end, I think they didn’t want to face any further media criticism related to Georgia’s non-conference schedule.
But while we’re on the subject of rationales, here’s a question: if the Florida State injury was so devastating to their standing in the rankings, why didn’t the committee look at the other side of the coin in Georgia’s case by noting that the four offensive starters who were banged up/missing for the SECCG would have enough time to heal and be ready to go in the CFP semis?
Get The Picture 
Call the timeout on the fourth down non conversion and all of this just goes away🤦♂️
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Don’t get sucked into playing Alabama’s game and this all goes away. Kirby is damn stubborn and means he’s going to beat Saban in whatever manner Saban feels like fighting.
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Exactly this! You just cannot beat Bama coaching not to lose.
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If I recall, UGA didn’t have any timeouts remaining. Not 100% sure, but I don’t think Kirby had any to use.
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Yes, we did have timeouts.
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Had at least two, neither of which had any strategic value at that point in the game….
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It’s that committee magic again.
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The regular season is the playoff. Georgia was in a playoff game and didn’t win, so I’m fine with it. I am 100 percent not fine with the way the game played out, I didn’t think the universe would ever find a way to top the Tyler Simmons play but then the world gave me a clearly dropped pass that wasn’t reviewed and then had the ballsack to actually go ahead and review one of ours. The game was bullshit. But, in the end we wear big boy pants and Georgia did not win so I’m fine with not being in the playoff. And if I had my way, we’d have a four team playoff next year, too, and risk having it happen again.
Florida State, though, won their games. They got screwed. Alabama failed to get through the regular season playoff without the damning loss. But because Texas also put itself in playoff position it wasn’t ‘Bama that got damned by ‘Bama’s loss, it was Florida State. That’s not right.
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If they’d put in Alabama over Texas for the fourth spot, I wouldn’t have agreed with it, but there’s a case to be made for it. Leaving FSU out after they won all of their games because you don’t think their QB is good enough is asinine. I don’t care what they did with Georgia. I knew they weren’t getting in with a loss to Alabama without some combination of losses by other teams.
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Who were they going to leave out to make a spot for us? The team that just beat us head to head to win our conference? Or the team that beat that team and won their conference? There was almost never a path for us with a loss to Alabama. Win the game and the problem is solved. As the senator said immediately after the game, Georgia beat Georgia. We simply did not play well
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Paul Finebaum said Alabama deserved to be in because they beat the best team in America. And also Georgia shouldn’t have been in the top-4. Don’t ask for logic or reasoning from these folks. If the “best” argument works against FSU but not for Texas or Alabama when compared to Georgia they’ll flop it to “deserve.” And flop it back and forth as it suits.
Its head I win, tails you lose.
It’s shameless charlatanism. If anyone is buying it that doesn’t work for disney or is a bammer or a longhorn, you’re a damn fool.
I would have accepted texas or bama getting in over us at 4 as the typical fucking that comes when you don’t control your destiny.
What they did to fsu is criminal and searching for logic is a waste of time. When they do that to them, a calm discussion of the merits of our team and whether they could have given uga fairer consideration obscures the problem.
These people are complete and total bastards.
Its like being sent to the death camps by Pol Pot and going:
“Is this because I’m too fat? You know its glandular, right?”
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You could fill the Grand Canyon with the fucks I don’t give about anything Pawwwlll says.
College football’s Jerry Springer is a clown.
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He is a clown but he is also a 24/7 shill for bama and fellator of saban. The sec network should be called the bama network.
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I hate to be a conspiracy enthusiast, but if they didn’t mutually agree to plot a course over dinner in Birmingham that would mutually suit their own professional interests, they might as well have.
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Of course. He’s a non hot, non thot influencer for the Gumps.
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I agree 100%. There is no argument, IMO, that can be made, and any argument other than the truth is a slap in the face to everyone. Especially Jordan Travis.
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I’ve got no problem with the committee leaving us out even though I believe we’re 1 of the 4 best teams. Given the way things broke starting on Friday night, I’m sure Kirby knew this was an elimination game for us (I certainly did). He answered the question posed by Andy Staples in the press conference honestly and stuck up for his team, but he didn’t (I don’t think) go on SportsCenter at midnight to plead his case unlike some other coach did the prior year who didn’t even have a chance to win a conference championship and had 2 losses.
I have a big problem with a Power 5 champion who did everything they could being left out. Pretty Boy Empty Suit Herbstreit said earlier in the season to the FSU people on social media, “Keep winning.” They did. Then he goes on yesterday and says the committee got it right … sorry, FSU, about your QB. The Herbstreit Doctrine strikes again.
I detest the committee. Get rid of it as part of the playoff expansion. Who am I kidding? What we think of as a flaw Mickey thinks is a feature.
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Kirby did not late night beg and got it right in his presser…the committee doesn’t know what they are doing.
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What kind of irks me is that the committee proved yet again that either they don’t know what they are doing or willfully manipulate things to suit their desires (and I lean towards the latter). Georgia was ranked #1 the entire season, was clearly one of the best four teams even after losing by 3 to Bama, and got dropped all the way to #6. Five spots. Oregon lost by 3 and dropped 3 spots. Oklahoma State got drilled by 28 points and dropped 2 spots. Louisville got beat by 10. Dropped one spot. Iowa got throttled by 26. Dropped one spot.
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Who the fuck do you people think would have been left out if they put us in??? We had one loss in our last game and no championship. And we should get in over…who? FSU? The school that just beat us? The school that beat the school that just beat us?
Play the games, people, play the games!!! And if you play guessing games instead, you get …guesses!!
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I don’t think anyone here thinks UGA should have been in after losing. They’re indignant about FSU getting fucked. It is ironic that UGA was so shitty they drop 5 spots but bama moves up 4 spots by beating a “shitty” UGA.
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I see a way. If Georgia lost to Missouri and beat Alabama they’re in. So a loss to lesser opponent is more valuable than a loss to a worse opponent? The conference championship has never been a requirement to get in before. Just my opinion not saying anybody is right or wrong.
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I haven’t seen anyone on here seriously advocate that we were one of the four “most deserving”.
I think the issue is if the committee says they want the four “best”, we are clearly one of the four best (Texas, Washington, Florida State and Ohio State can shiv each other for the fourth spot).
That they didn’t really pick the four “best” means they picked (at least some) deemed to be “most deserving” – which is how CFB has chosen a champion my entire life – while leaving out Florida State which checked off all the “most deserving” criteria….
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Precisely. The committee used deserving OR best with each choice. No consistency of logic or reasoning.
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Exactly, FPD, they used selected reasoning. That’s why this smells so bad.
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Seen lots of people want to have it all ways at the contradictory ways at once: the committee did FSU so wrong!! The committee screwed us too even though FSU likely would have been left out if we got in! We hate having a playoff!
We hate having people make interpretations but we don’t people to play head to head because playoff bad!
If you haven’t seen those sentiments around here, you’ve not been coming around.
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Obviously it makes me hit send too early! lol
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We’re out because we fucked away our play-in game with a false start and a fumble. We all knew the SECCG was the one game we couldn’t lose. We’ve been saying it since Jacksonville. In the end, that’s football.
The good news is we get to go to two of the four CFP team’s stadiums in ’24 with a huge chip on our shoulder. We are rolling on the recruiting trail. And we get to play Clemson again. And we get to stretch the streak vs tech to 7. And Florida still sucks.
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Sorry for this repost…they can solve the problem by admitting the truth going forward. With the lack of structure in CFB, stop claiming this is a playoff. Call it what it is first and foremost, an Invitational. Now you’ve eliminated any pretense of being purely objective for qualifying. Next, declare the invites BEFORE the conference championship games. They can stand on their own and remain somewhat meaningful rather than be potential play-in games. CCGs are only setup to determine byes as it is now.
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The argument shouldn’t have been FSU vs. Alabama. It should have been FSU vs. Michigan. Michigan played a one-game schedule, and won by six at home against the only good team they played all season. The B1G was awful once you get beyond Michigan and Ohio State. The entire B1G West is a collection of dumpster fires. Michigan’s second best win is against Penn State who was so inept on offense that Michigan ran out the entire second half without throwing a pass. If 5-7 Florida had played Michigan’s schedule, they would have won 10 games. That’s the difference. The ACC isn’t a tough gauntlet either, but FSU played LSU and Florida in non-conference, and won both away from home. They 100% should be in over Michigan.
Not only that… but Michigan are cheaters who got caught and tried to lie about it to cover it up and that should have weighed on the comparison.
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I hate the committee even more because now I have to pull for Michigan to beat Bama.
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Russ,
How can you pull for the cheating Michigan football team?
I can’t make myself do that.
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It’s easy enough for me.
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Y’all don’t have to root for Michigan. Just root against Alabama.
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This. It has nothing to do with Georgia, IMO. Why is nobody talking about Michigan’s schedule? I keep seeing “strength of record” for other teams justification (ie: bama vs FSU strength of record), but Michigan’s opponents had like 76+ combined losses. They’re gonna get destroyed, but they at least get to play.
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The best teams, in no particular order, are likely Georgia, Michigan, Alabama, Texas, and Washington. Unfortunately, that’s 5 teams, and 4 of those are conference champs. Do I think Georgia is better than Washington? Yes, but it’s not like it’s clear and obvious. Did the committee partly make their selections based on money and other biases? Of course. Is that new? Nope.
Georgia won the previous two NCs based on the exact same system. We can talk about how the CFP is flawed (ask FSU), but Hale’s indignation is weak spirited and a little nauseating.
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It’s either best four or most deserving four. Not a hybrid of the two. Committee fucked up. Full stop. Go Dawgs!
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Logic is NEVER used to make an argument that you want to be one sided
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In 2021 Bama claimed our 1st title had an asterisk because of Metchie & Williams being out. Of course, we all laughed at this clownish logic and said “a team is not just 1 or 2 players,” “we all have injuries,” etc.
Little did we realize the 4-D chess game being played by Saban.
Here we are a mere 2 years later and the loss of a single key player actually keeps an undefeated conference champ OUT of the CFP, AND lets Bama in. That’s some long-term strategy right there.
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Usually reserved for the Gators but I think the committee qualifies.
FTMF
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I really don’t recommend casting your pearls before Gumps, but if you choose too, here’s some ammo…
A few simple questions.
Which loss is worse?
Alabama’s loss at home by 10 to Texas,
or
Georgia’s loss on a neutral field to Alabama by 3 ?
Which is worse?
If you claim Georgia’s loss is worse, why? Why is losing to Bama worse than losing to Texas?
That’s saying you hold Bama in lower esteem than Texas.
If you say that it’s worse to lose to Texas, then Bama’s one loss is more damning (and it was bad and in Tuscaloosa) than UGA’s one loss (which was by 3 on a neutral field).
If you claim “Conference Champs” as a point..
Then why isn’t FSU (Conference Champs with a perfect season) in? They have the better record.
If you cling to, “But FSU has injuries”, then why ignore that UGA had even more injuries?
Yeah..I know. A colossal waste of time.
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Some of us are old enough to remember when college football was about the games, the schools, the players, the coaches, the rivalries, etc. Today’s game is all about the money. 100%. This was once a great sport but no longer. I suppose the older I get the more things I have to let go. It hurts but it happens.
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If the committee is supposed to be thinking “best” and they know what they are doing then why is Georgia at 6 and also a 13.5 favorite to beat #5’s ass?
Does “best” stop at 4 and then we switch to deserving? Hell I bet Ohio State would be favored to beat fsu. Maybe FSU should be 7th? Maybe they should be one spot ahead of 9-3 lsu at 12.
Are they better than any of those teams from 5-11?
Pissing on my back and calling it rain. Fuckers.
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4 Best – Dawgs, Bama, Michigan, Tx or Washington
4 Most Deserving – Washington, Michigan, FSU, Tx
4 Making most $ for 🐭- Michigan, Bama, Tx, Washington
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