College Football Playoff - The SEC is our overlords


tigertrail said:
Valid point. But........at least Bama went out and took care of business against #1. Unlike last year when Ohio State didn't win their conference.....cried to get in and then got their a$$es embarrassed 31-0. If you gon cry, politic or beg to get in( a la Saban), at least handle your business.

yep that’s right. I thought they started in 2015. The Ewok won the first one with OSU.
Click to expand...

Dude, even the one before that, Florida State won... LOL

You SEC people are really delusional!
 
JayRob said:
Are you kidding me??!! Clemson beat seven ranked teams from the power five conferences. UCF beat one ranked team from a power five conference. Hahahahahaha!!!
Click to expand...

I was mostly being sarcastic about Clemson but there were some signs during the season that they weren’t the number 1 teams in the country.

They had a mediocre QB who’s TD/INT ration was less than impressive. Then there some games that I watched that made me scratch my head...the Clemson/Boston College game until the 4th quarter, the Syracuse game, and the FSU game(which FSU should’ve won if not for Jimbo making a boneheaded playcall down the stretch)...there were signs of Clemson being very beatable.
 



JayRob said:
An SEC team has been in the finals the last 10 years and with different teams.
The Big Ten is only Ohio State and the ACC right now is only Clemson. Come on man.
Click to expand...

And the SEC has only been Alabama in recent years.

And when you look at overall bowl records...you realize how on par with the rest of the country that the SEC is
 
Since 2000 SEC National Football Titles:

1) Alabama 5
2T) LSU 2
2T) Florida 2
3) Auburn 1

Edited to reflect Alabama's new championship (Damn you Georgia)...lol
 
Last edited:
JROCK said:
Since 2000 SEC National Football Titles:

1) Alabama 4
2T) LSU 2
2T) Florida 2
3) Auburn 1
Click to expand...
Nice stats and that's not counting the other SEC teams that made it to the championship game.
All the Big Ten has is Ohio State. All the ACC has is Clemson.
 
Olde Hornet said:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...lemson-in-rubber-match-returns-to-title-game/

NEW ORLEANS -- No. 4 Alabama proved it belonged in the College Football Playoff after all with a 24-6 win over No. 1 Clemson in a Sugar Bowl that signaled the supposed demise of Crimson Tide football has been greatly exaggerated. Bama suffocated the high-octane Tigers offense, holding them to just 188 yards on the evening with nine tackles for loss. The Tide also owned both lines of scrimmage against a Clemson team that made a living up front en route to its third straight ACC title.

The highlight of the night was a stunning interception by defensive tackle Da'Ron Payne, which set up a touchdown from Hurts to Payne in a sequence that will go down in Crimson Tide history.

Here's what we learned in this Sugar Bowl.

1. Alabama's defensive line is really good, too. There was so much talk about Clemson's defensive line in the month leading up to this game, and deservedly so, because it's ridiculously talented. It's just, at times, it felt like Alabama's defensive line was overlooked in the process, and it seems they noticed that. While the entire Alabama defense dominated the Sugar Bowl, it was the defensive line that put on a real show.
Click to expand...
tigertrail said:
I wasn't surprised by the Auburn loss. You can use all the this team beat that team and that team beat this team so that means this team can beat that team BS all you want brotha. UCF is not on that level on. Hell using your logic, Appalachian State belongs in the BIg 10 after beating Michigan a few years ago. Any decent team can get up and beat somebody every now and then. What did Georgia do to Auburn in the title game? Yeah that's what I thought. keep trying, SEC hater. LOL
Click to expand...
Didn't Troy beat LSU this season and nearly beat Clemson the previous season? Little schools just can't compete... y'all are right.
 
tigertrail said:
I agree, we will never know from year to year. No, it's your opinion that UCF is better than Auburn. It's my opinion that if you play that game again this weekend, you'll see a different outcome. That's the beauty of sports though, we can debate and have our opinions.

Maybe they should have been given a shot. I got no problem with that. Using honesty though......how would they fare in your opinion in a 6 team playoff adding them and Ohio State? My opinion, a big first round exit no matter which team they would have played.
Click to expand...
UCF and that one handed linebacker would beat auburn again.
 
CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd quotes multiple TV consultants, including former CBS president Neal Pilson, as projecting low ratings for the Alabama-Georgia title game on ESPN, relative to past matchups.

“I think, from a television point of view, any sports executive would tell you he would prefer a team from the different part of the country,” said Pilson, now a longtime sports media consultant.

“The best would be a Big Ten team in terms of the size of market.”

One consultant told Dodd he thinks the game could be the lowest-rated College Football Playoff championship yet. The last time two SEC teams faced off in a college football title game, LSU and Alabama drew the third lowest rating of the BCS era, a result that, per CBS Sports, helped inspire the new College Football Playoff paradigm.

Poor viewership for this year’s championship game would surely embolden calls for an expanded playoff that would afford more teams from more regions a shot at reaching the season’s biggest game.
 
number1 said:
Auburn is only good at home, they somehow found a way to lose to LSU after being up 20-0.
Click to expand...
“Auburn is only good at home.”
“The game meant more to UCF.”
“Y’all know other teams always get up to play SEC schools.”
“They didn’t care as much or even want to be there.”

Y’all got more excuses than a deadbeat dad when the SEC loses a bowl game. Lol
 
Rated R Superstar said:
“Auburn is only good at home.”
“The game meant more to UCF.”
“Y’all know other teams always get up to play SEC schools.”
“They didn’t care as much or even want to be there.”

Y’all got more excuses than a deadbeat dad when the SEC loses a bowl game. Lol
Click to expand...
Facts are facts whether you want to accept it or not. Look at Auburn's home and away record. It's not rocket science.
UCF's strength of schedule is something like number 81. Let them consistently schedule quality teams, and then they'll get the credit they deserve.
The same with the likes of Wisconsin.
 



Rated R Superstar said:
“Auburn is only good at home.”
“The game meant more to UCF.”
“Y’all know other teams always get up to play SEC schools.”
“They didn’t care as much or even want to be there.”

Y’all got more excuses than a deadbeat dad when the SEC loses a bowl game. Lol
Click to expand...
When UCF schedules decent teams during the season and regularly beats them, then they can have a seat at the table, until then they can enjoy the Peach Bowl.
 
number1 said:
When UCF schedules decent teams during the season and regularly beats them, then they can have a seat at the table, until then they can enjoy the Peach Bowl.
Click to expand...

What ya'll don't understand is that UCF has a seat at the table by virtue of them being an FBS school. Their conference, along with all the others, did vote to have a playoff in the first place.

To go even further, ESPN, a college football partner, featured a commercial prior to the start of the season promoting the College Football Playoff as "all 130 teams have a chance."

Taking a look at the CFP website, you'll find it reads "every game counts" in reference to the regular season. The CFP site also highlights what they call "universal access" to the playoff, going as far as saying every team has "equal access" to the CFP based on performance.

They've established a level playing field in regards to teams being evaluated as a result of what transpires during the season.

If all 130 teams have a chance to play for a national championship, regardless if it's Alabama or North Texas as the CFP is promoted, why was UCF -- an unbeaten team in the final poll -- ranked behind 1, 2 and 3-loss teams?

And if every game counts, why was Alabama, a school that did not win it's division or even play for a conference title after losing the last game of the regular season, chosen for playoff and not the only unbeaten squad in the country?

Going by the CFP own words of inclusiveness and advocacy for access to all, then UCF should have been playing in Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl.

So, what happens on Monday -- regardless of the outcome -- is just as meaningless as a lot of people saying UCF declaring themselves national champions is.
 
JayRob said:
Facts are facts whether you want to accept it or not. Look at Auburn's home and away record. It's not rocket science.
UCF's strength of schedule is something like number 81. Let them consistently schedule quality teams, and then they'll get the credit they deserve.
The same with the likes of Wisconsin.
Click to expand...

If Auburn's home and away record mattered so much, why were they a 10-point favorite going into the Peach Bowl?

And if Auburn was this underachieving team ripe for the picking, why were they ranked No. 7 in the country and UCF No. 12?

Because the perception is that Auburn is from a conference that has all the best athletes, NFL prospects and wins national championships going against a UCF team from a mid-major conference that only won all those games because it didn't play anybody.

You can talk about UCF's schedule, but there will be inequity in all schedules, especially with 130 teams in play here who don't compete against each other. You can't go back after the fact and say UCF should have scheduled "quality teams" (whatever that means) after they won all the games in a system that promotes if you win all the games you will be rewarded with a championship opportunity.

It's all inherit bias. And classism. Simple as that. It ain't rocket science.
 
Rated R Superstar said:
What ya'll don't understand is that UCF has a seat at the table by virtue of them being an FBS school. Their conference, along with all the others, did vote to have a playoff in the first place.

To go even further, ESPN, a college football partner, featured a commercial prior to the start of the season promoting the College Football Playoff as "all 130 teams have a chance."

Taking a look at the CFP website, you'll find it reads "every game counts" in reference to the regular season. The CFP site also highlights what they call "universal access" to the playoff, going as far as saying every team has "equal access" to the CFP based on performance.

They've established a level playing field in regards to teams being evaluated as a result of what transpires during the season.

If all 130 teams have a chance to play for a national championship, regardless if it's Alabama or North Texas as the CFP is promoted, why was UCF -- an unbeaten team in the final poll -- ranked behind 1, 2 and 3-loss teams?

And if every game counts, why was Alabama, a school that did not win it's division or even play for a conference title after losing the last game of the regular season, chosen for playoff and not the only unbeaten squad in the country?

Going by the CFP own words of inclusiveness and advocacy for access to all, then UCF should have been playing in Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl.

So, what happens on Monday -- regardless of the outcome -- is just as meaningless as a lot of people saying UCF declaring themselves national champions is.
Click to expand...

That's something that a lot of people don't know which is why eventually it will expand to 8 or possibly 16. The G5 schools also voted for this playoff so at some point they are gonna get tired of getting slighted and hearing the excuses and expand it to 8 (although we know it will probably expand to 8 because P5 conference champs are gonna get tired of getting left out for non-champs like they have the last two years)

Expanding to 8 teams will eliminate ESPN shaping the narrative of non-conference champs deserving a playoff spot more than a conference champ
 
In_The_662 said:
That's something that a lot of people don't know which is why eventually it will expand to 8 or possibly 16. The G5 schools also voted for this playoff so at some point they are gonna get tired of getting slighted and hearing the excuses and expand it to 8 (although we know it will probably expand to 8 because P5 conference champs are gonna get tired of getting left out for non-champs like they have the last two years)

Expanding to 8 teams will eliminate ESPN shaping the narrative of non-conference champs deserving a playoff spot more than a conference champ
Click to expand...

I agree with that. 8 teams would be good. That way a UCF could get in and see if they could make a run. But either way, there will always be people that will not be satisfied. #9 and #10 will argue they should be in, instead.
 
The Alabama freshman quarterback is something else but just made a freshman mistake. Unless he gets injured in the game, Hurts is done for the night.
 
These players jumping on coaches or trying have to cease. Dude punched another player but wants to get mad because the coaches are getting in to his ass.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top