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Is the playoff sustainable?

If you’re the CFP, you have active conference commissioners, ADs, and head coaches of major institutions essentially calling BS on the whole ranking system. You also have sitting head coaches essentially saying that they have no idea what the committee looks at and how they make their rankings (Kirby a few weeks ago as an example).

The committee’s deliberation should be made public in my opinion, especially with active ADs sitting on this committee making decisions. Furthermore, with active ADs, how can there not be some form of bias? Whether that bias is intentional or not, that compromises your product.

I know a lot goes on behind the scenes in terms of money and decision making with the conferences, but I’d like to get y’all’s thoughts on it

Parasitic Texas

Texas has been a cancer upon the health of every athletic association with which it has been affiliated in the modern era of collegiate sports. Not one athletic director of any school having the misfortune of sharing a conference affiliation with Texas during the entire pendency of their membership in the SWC or the Big 12 has ever had a good thing to say about them.

I don't know if its true, but Commisioner Sankey arouses the suspicion that he was all too willing, when Texas came calling, to be rode hard and hung up wet. He even has the bearing of a man who likely enjoyed it. I consider Kirby's visible contempt of the man last night as confirmation of that suspicion.

And make no mistake about it. The malignancy of Texas has the potential to be greater than ever with NIL.

I saw in another thread their fanbase isn't fond of us. Good. I'd be disappointed in us if they were.

This is the most beaten up Georgia football team I can remember. Kirby left me with the clear impression that he blames Sankey for setting our team up as a sacrificial lamb for the greater glory of a Texas team which, in turn, received a laughably soft draw. And I think he is absolutely ****ing livid about it.

So am I.

Texas deserves the visceral contempt of every other SEC school.

Moving the Auburn game actually benefited Georgia and hurt them

When they announced they were moving the Auburn game out of November, I was pissed. 100+ years of history down the drain. However, looking back on it, and especially after beating Tennessee once again, it has benefited us a ton and has only hurt them.

For us:
- we basically swapped the game with Tennessee, which meant we have now played them later in the season after we found our footing (think 2022 Mizzou and 2023 Auburn)
- we get a lot more games worth of film on Tennessee, something that can only benefit us with that gimmicky offense. That’s partly why Heupel can’t score on UGA
- we get a bigger November matchup, which the committee values over September games, had we beat Auburn by 18 last weekend, I doubt we jump up in the committee’s rankings. In fact, I would believe Tennessee would be ranked ahead of us after Ole Miss because of the Alabama win had we beat them in September

For Auburn:
- their schedule didn’t get really easier. They would’ve played LSU before Bama in 2020, ended 2021 0-4 in November (losses to A&M, Miss State, and South Carolina before the Iron Bowl), split A&M and Miss State in 2022, infamously lost to NMSU in 2023, and have A&M again this weekend. Nothing has been gained from them getting a Georgia-less November.
- even if Auburn was good, they have one less big November game to help perception in the committee’s eyes.

Anyways, just my two cents. To hell with Auburn, they got what they deserved.

Easiest path to CFP possible. Wow

1 Oregon
2 Georgia
3 Boise State
4 Clemson
5 Texas
6 Penn State
7 Notre Dame
8 OSU
9 Tennessee
10 Indiana
11 SMU
12 Arizona State

That’s the bracket seeding

Will avoid Oregon, Texas, OSU, and Tennessee until the Championship. Have to feel fortunate about that

Will play winner of Notre Dame/Indiana. And then if they win that will play winner of Boise vs. Penn State/SMU.

None of those teams scare me if we get our QB back.

All is up in the air if not.

See you all in Atlanta
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