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# | And so it begins - CFP to discuss eliminating the auto-bye for conference champions 
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Sounds exactly like the Snoop Dogg bowl in Tucson... concessions and merch were a shit show.
Apparently the concession booths ran out of food around halftime on top of everything else
Suffren is out for the season. Due to have surgery.
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# | And so it begins - CFP to discuss eliminating the auto-bye for conference champions Paterno telling Kevin Jones and his dad that the only black people at VT were on the football team is lying and cheating to try to benefit the program though. Franklin NIL ing before NIL is cheating to help the football program though.
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# | And so it begins - CFP to discuss eliminating the auto-bye for conference champions The fact that Baylor hoops had a player murder another player in the first degree. Stop there for fuck sake. AND the coach cover it up- again say that out loud- and that program is alive and signing 4 star recruits and winning national championships is the biggest fucking scam in sports history. They should not be allowed to have a hoops program. They covered up a fucking murder on the team. And yep to add to that, their head football coach knew of a rape ring among the team and did nothing about it. Fucking joy. Bill Dooley contacted high school kids in the dead period and they tried to fucking kill VT football for years.
Good. They can handle it. They literally sign ALL of the best HS players every year. Ohio State and Penn State get some bread crumbs but the vast majority of the best HS players sign with the SEC. Boo Hoo if they get dunked on. It's like Brady whining for roughing the passer calls in his 7 super bowl prime- fuck off. When SEC fan boi's proclaim - for 20 fucking years- that the league is just better, every team is better, every game is tougher, every schedule is better well non fan bois get sick of that shit. Why was UGA considered for the playoff this year when they lost their starting QB? Why not penalize them like they did FSU last year? Why does fucking South Carolina have any argument for the playoff???? Why was Missou ranked in the top 10 in every preseason poll? I've got snark for days- so do millions of people.
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# | And so it begins - CFP to discuss eliminating the auto-bye for conference champions Penn State covered up ... to benefit the football program.
I might offer a slight recharacterization, though, and say that the cover up was to prevent harm to the program. Maybe I'm splitting hairs too much though.
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# | And so it begins - CFP to discuss eliminating the auto-bye for conference champions Which journalist was this? I remember hearing about Ray Gricar but he disappeared without a trace.
MEH. 😕
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# | And so it begins - CFP to discuss eliminating the auto-bye for conference champions Not really. The teams who lost in the first round didn't beat teams with a bye. ;^)
Fully agree with this.
Four teams wasn't enough - though it did highly value the regular season. If you hadn't "earned it" in the regular season you weren't worth considering. But the subjectiveness of the polls means that determining who had 'earned it' the most (or top-four-most) was always going to be a guess. And with so much money and politics involved, I don't think we were ending up with the "earned it" evaluation really being all that fair anyway.
But 12 teams? Why jump straight into 12 teams? I can't recall a single season where I thought to myself... Hmm that ninth-ranked team REALLY looks like the dark horse to win it all. The regular season should be good enough for us to judge which teams earned it enough (though here I am falling back on the subjectivity of my own eye test).
Lol because they peacocked loud and proud to shit all over the likes of Indiana, SMU and Boise because they deemed Alabama, SCarolina and Ole Miss so much more worthy of bids.
Herbie even went on record to say people are focusing too much on the games that teams win when trying to determine someone's worth in an effort to prop up the SEC. OF FUCKING COURSE everyone is going to dunk on them after all that
This spots getting thinner. Coach Duffy did well to portal a team together after Kenny left with a handful of starters, not sure we can afford to lose anyone. I had already labeled this a rebuild/transition year and it's starting to look like it will be.
The vast majority of cfb discourse for the last month or so has been dunking on the SEC.
Pop should be pretty experienced by then.
My personal snark is that leading into next year- the SEC is the best, they just are, Bama has the most talent, Nobody can beat UGA, there should be 11 SEC teams in the top 25, USCe just beat a lower tier VT from the ACC, so crown them etc. My issue is that if all of that is true- why play the season? Just put 8 SEC teams in the playoff... they are the best right? and it can't be disputed. Why should VT play USCe? no contest right, just means more. It's nauseating and I have no idea why people are surprised when someone takes an opportunity to dunk on the mighty SEC.
8 is probably right. 4 teams would have left out Ohio St this year and they look like the best team in the playoff so far.
There are metrics we can use to compare these teams. The highest rated FPI team this season is a 26.8 (Ohio State), and 2019 alone had four teams over that 29.4 Bama, 30.3 LSU, 31.5 Clemson, 33.7 Ohio State. In addition to the numbers (and part of the reason FOR the numbers), those teams all had elite QB play as well, something none of this year's playoff teams have.
You have to go back to 2007 to find a season where there wasn't 1, sometimes quite a few more, teams rated higher than a 26.8.
I certainly can't "prove" 2019 LSU, for example, would comfortably beat every team in this playoff, but I don't think I am saying something that the vast majority of people don't agree with.
The eye test, the metrics, and the QB play all align to agree with what I am saying.
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# | And so it begins - CFP to discuss eliminating the auto-bye for conference champions Penn State covered up the assault and rape of children to benefit the football program.
You punish everyone by shutting it down and burning the program to the ground. Instead, they gave them a slap on the wrist because apparently it's ok to molest and assault some boys as long as it wins games.
Boise just had a 1st round bye in the playoffs and their 43 year DC just retired with a message that basically says "we can't afford to compete anymore" due to players on their roster getting offers of 2x to 10x to play elsewhere
Boise OC with a truth bomb pic.twitter.com/BGJoIvQEIw— Jake "JBOY" Crain (@JakeCrain_) January 3, 2025
Calipari had the Harrison twins, Karl Anthony Towns, Cauley Stine, Devin Booker and Trey Liles on ONE team and lost to Wisky. lol.
There isn't a team in this year's playoff close to the level of the champions of those seasons.
You would think that the playoffs this year would teach people that what they think doesn't mean anything, but alas I guess we are still going to ride with it.
Those teams were good, but not unbeatable. And this year the games are proving that there is no guarantee that the "best" teams are going to win. Even the vaunted SEC is capable of being thoroughly humbled and this is only 2 weeks after crying endlessly that we just KNOW for a fact they are heads and shoulders better than everyone else.
Either this or determine a good amount of time to get players on the field and if the offense subs with less than that time penalize them.
If the car we are talking about is the gold Trans Am that Dickerson had as a senior in HS, then the story is even more interesting. That car is referred to as Dickerson's Trans A&M because the story is that Texas A&M (recruiter(s) ?, booster(s) ?) gave him the car and then he went ahead and signed with SMU anyway. That always made me chuckle to think about how pissed off A&M would have had to be to go out of their way to cheat so blatantly and still not get the recruit.