As it stands, outside of the four playoff teams, most teams lose their top jrs and srs who are deciding to opt out of their meaningless bowl games. Clearly the two best teams in the nation by far are playing for the natty this year. In this sense, there was no need for the CFP, this year at least. What a joke in hindsight that Michigan was ranked 2 ahead of Georgia at 3.
Georgia and Bama are so good they should occupy all the top ranked spots through 20 because none of the Top 20 ranked teams can compete with them. That being said, the SEC in the post season this year, thus far, is a tale of two cities so to speak.
So, you want to judge the conference based on what 5 teams do in bowls? What about the PAC12 that only had 6 teams with a winning record, their top 2 teams have at least 3 losses and 1 has 4 with the other yet to play, and at this point the PAC12 is in bowls. With 13 teams in bowls, there was no chance of going undefeated. If you want to cast stones, cast them at a system that allows teams to go to bowls that have not earned it and are not very good.
Best teams absolutely, by far? Not as far as years past. Bama certainly looked vulnerable in a number of games this year. Definitely not as good as last year. However, they were good enough to get to the game that matters.
Cincy should have never been in that game The level of competition in their league is just not there and the players were clearly smaller. Cincy played better than Georgia did and better than Georgia will do again. Bama really is much better in every aspect of the game than everybody else. Bama with their QB are going to be a nightmare for the next three years.
We are screwed. How did Cincy play better than Georgia? Cincy lost by 21 while Georgia lost by 17 and one score was a late pick 6. Cincy held Bama to 27 while Georgia let them score Though UC did not hold Bama to 27 points.
Bama held Bama to 27 points. There was no need to score more. To me, when Bama established the run immediately, and Cincinatti could not stop it, the game was simply over. Bama just kept running and cruised to the win. They never needed to put the metal to the petal. Cincy D is respectably good and not shocked Bama played much the same scheme they did against Auburn and comfortably won.
On the day Michigan looked the worst. McNamara looked.. This is a true take. Cade can sling it and is accurate with the ball. They can beat you up both ways. Also, very close on D and imo, the line advantage favors Michigan. How well you think UGA will do again Michigan, probably depends on who you think the better team is between Bama and Michigan. I think UGA is about to get another post season reality check by a team that just might be better than Bama, or at the very least, as good.
An air raid is needed to beat Michigan or at least get in a shootout with the potential to win. The below was a post from gwhite a day ago?!? You sir, are a clown. As are the vols. Happy New Year! Go Dawgs!! This is an excellent observation.
Bama yesterday afternoon looked like the Bama teams of yore with a strong running game and an offense that dominated time of possession with long, multi-play drives eating up the clock. Bama proved they can be adaptive and reflexive and they can do whatever is necessary to win.
This has to be intimidating to any opponent. At no time did they need to throw 40 yard bombs when 8 yards could have won the game. Still did better than a couple other playoff teams. Also Clemson. And it probably would have been similar with whoever was next in line. I think there have been only 3 semis that ended in a one score game. The rest have pretty much been blowouts.
BYU, played well enough to not hurt the look of their Big 12 move. Now how did Oklahoma look coming to the SEC? Well look who they played and how many points they allowed. You do realize that Houston had to score in the last minutes of the game to beat a team that finished dead last in their division, and 10thth in their conference, who have already been beaten by 6 other teams, and who was seriously depleted at DB and O-line due to optouts and injuries?
All this and Houston was the second best team in the AAC and finished the season ranked. Copy and paste headline.. You know if you could find a girlfriend it would probably help cut back on posting dumb stuff on the internet. Kirby as actually blasting Stetson for doing something wrong, not right. By your logic, Michigan threw this game to prove they were legit to be let in also..
By the second half they tried prayer passes and yet still tried to run on UGA. Even if UGA did take a dive.. Even TN passed for nearly in this scheme and Michigan has their better passer only coming in for a few good passes. Which he would complete, than right back to the McNamara mess. Should be a great game but not sold Stetson threw wild balls on purpose. You take out the best team when you can because you just may have to play them twice.
Now UGA does. Look it up. Do you hear how that sounds??? You think Kirby is that sure he can beat Bama in a rematch after years of frustration of losing to Bama? How much money would the SEC lose if Kirby one day just took another job somewhere else?
Who in the east? Be years before that could happen. If Mark Richt can be let go for years of averaging in wins what Kirby is, than Kirby can go that way at some point. I do expect UGA to play better in the natty game though. You seriously think Kirby would rather play Alabama in the championship over Notre Dame?
Yea, two SEC teams in the CFP is better than 1, but no coach in their right mind would pass up the opportunity to beat Bama and keep them out, sealing their own chances of winning the whole thing. Your whole conspiracy rests on Kirby having escaped an insane asylum to become the head coach at UGA and destroying their championship hopes just for the heck of it.
Just think about it. Or were you his roommate in that asylum and helped him escape? Football the way it was meant to be played. The NFL profits exploded after the decision to go the Parity route and the College Presidents are not going to turn down money. The facts are obvious. The people who argued about loss of tradition were right.
This is money 1st,2nd and last. If they expand to 8, 12, 32 — Whatever…. I work with TV Ad People. Back away from the Crack Pipe!! I recall in the Pre-Game comments that Todd Blackledge said the margin of victory in these first Playoff games was 21 points. Check the scores and he was spot on.
Didnt live up to that ranking, but yes…Georgia beat a top 10 team during hte regular season. You got a good coach. Love it when you think a season is some sort of great season. Neyland just rolled over in his grave. Kirkm you are a moron so stop posting. Literally you are a moron. The AU turnaround from to would have a good argument as better than the current Arky turnaround. Good point.
The only thing I would say to contrast it is that Ark. They had not won an SEC game in years. AU just tanked for 1 year. If you are talking about a one season turnaround then yes. Arkansas was in a deep pit for years before being competitive. Arky was worse than Vandy three years ago. Everyone saw the gaping disparity in player talent resulting in one-sided beatdowns in both games. What else is there more to say? People are just now wanting to complain cause they saw 2 teams get waxed in semi finals by the two best teams.
Georgia and Bama are far better than any other team in the country. Just shows the SEC is top heavy with two teams and everybody else including Vandy rides the coattails. I will say a major part in making it an all-SEC final is because the powers that be, decided that Alabama should be 1 and Georgia should be 3.
Without that seeding, it would have not been an all-SEC final. Even Conner should be able to figure that out. On another note, Michigan was nothing more than a speed bump for Georgia. Congrats to Alabama and Georgia. But if Alabama played Georgia in the semis, the winner would make the championship a snoozefest. What fun is that? If done the other way i. Done the way it was, the SEC had no guarantee of getting a team in the championship game; they both had to earn their spots by beating out of conference teams in the semis.
They winner of a P-5 conference seeded lower than the winner of a G-5 conference with 1 significant win. Though it would not have made any difference in the participants in the championship game. Good Point, unless your a UM fan. TomM: the only true discussion was between Bama vs Michigan for the 1 seed.
Bama was better than Michigan in every metric they used. You are correct that the seeding made it possible since they could have put them in a semifinal rematch. I would counter that the major part is because they are the 2 best teams.
Dude the whole nation just saw two non-SEC pretenders get destroyed for 60 min. You lost and it was not close. Deal with it. You had two games yesterday to prove your point. You failed miserably. So move on. Georgia is going to find out the same thing Cincy found out. Because Georgia had an undefeated regular season in the best P5 conference.
The refs could call holding against any team on any play. Sorry SEC haters…. After some years of the Big Ten there came to be twelve, duh. Too bad about this season. Only the SEC region cares for the championship. Georgia and Bama are all that and they are not the argument. My guess is it will be 16 teams next season. Would USC care if they had the run Bama has had? I will bet you that it will not be 16 teams.
If they do that, they will probably have to drop a regular season game to keep the kids from playing a 17 game season. They are students too you know. Then complain to your school about getting better coaches and recruiters so you can be competitive with Bama and Georgia. Purdue had more opt outs then UT so on paper Tennessee was more talented. The refs did not call plays for UT.
UT played poorly and their coach made very poor decision. Losers blame the refs. Was it the refs job to tackle? Maybe it was their job to cover wide open 3rd string receivers. Should they have told Heupel that he only needed 8 yards instead of throwing unnecessary bombs. Fools like the Cincy fan holding the sign claiming that Cincy had a better record at Folks crowing about the SEC bowl record.
They never take into account the disparity in the matchups. And Auburn still could have won. SEC teams usually play teams which are higher in their conferences. It is not apples to apples — just like a good record against weaker competition does not indicate that your school would have a similar record if it played in the SEC.
The true gauntlet is not one game but playing in a conference with teams that know you better and play better because they know you. I think this ends the whole Big 5 into the playoffs. I hope. They were smaller, slower, and their schemes were on par with. I would say the SEC is better top to bottom than anyone else. No other conference had all but one of their teams make a bowl. The problem is that the teams are not always evenly matched, optouts, and coaching changes.
The pretenders would get weeded out in the first round matchups and therefore you would have better matchups in the semis. If you had a top 8 assuming the CFC would prevent rematches you would have. Baylor vs 1. Alabama spread the ball around without Williams, with eight different players catching passes.
The Tide also used running back Brian Robinson Jr. The Crimson Tide lost top receiver Jameson Williams with what appeared to be an injured left knee early in the second quarter. He has not returned. The Crimson Tide All-American clutched his left knee lying on the ground after a yard catch in the second quarter against Georgia. Williams was helped off the field, putting minimal weight on his left leg.
He walked toward the locker room minutes later. Alabama was already without 1,yard receiver John Metchie III, lost to a knee injury in the Southeastern Conference championship game. Freshman Agiye Hall was pressed into action. He had four catches for 65 yards at the time of the injury. Williams had seven catches for yards and two touchdowns in the SEC title game against the Bulldogs.
Organizers were following the county health department's guidelines — strongly encouraging masks be worn but not requiring it. Unlike last year's title game in Miami, fans were not socially distanced. Luck was one of 21 former players or coaches named as part of this year's Hall of Fame class earlier in the day.
The two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up looked much thinner than he did when playing for the Colts from He was the No. When word leaked of Luck's retirement near the end of a preseason game, Indy fans began booing. After the game, Luck made made his official retirement announcement — a little sooner than he had planned. The blue Colts attire that local fans usually wear was replaced with red hats, shirts, jackets and jerseys of the two Southeastern Conference teams, playing for a title in the Midwest.
Fans waited in long lines inside and outside restaurants despite temperatures hovering in the mids, while others flocked to Monument Circle for afternoon concerts with Breland and Sam Hunt underneath the sun-drenched skies. This is the first rematch for the championship in the playoff era.
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