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Unfortunately unlike the NFL there are no rails in terms of the money behind the College landscape.
I think this discussion leads more to a need to separate the P4 from the rest of FBS. Get to 64 teams that can be broken into 8 divisions.
This though would require the TV deals to all be scrapped to put a TV deal in place similar to the NFL.
This is a three way race to the title. Indiana, Ohio State and Georgia!
Its particularly nauseating because seeds #10-12 have no chance to win the CFP.
If last year showed us anything, there aren't really more than three teams in given year to have a chance to actually win.
It will be even more nauseating when we inevitably expand this thing again and we're fighting over teams 16 and 17... who both have four losses.
Just operate like the NFL...
Like every other sport (including college football) operates
I'm not a Bama hater, but the "toughest schedule" argument is a tired one IMO.
When the entire SEC is judged differently than any other conference, including the conference that is about to win it's 3rd consecutive National Title, it skews the strength of schedule argument IMO. Alabama was "leaking oil" over the last half of the season, as Herbie stated. Do I think Alabama is a playoff team? Ehhh... I guess.
How? Ratings.
Point of order: Miami cannot win the ACC
All this discussion about how to select teams is nauseating. Just operate like the NFL...
Split things up into divisions... Division winners are in automatically, then we can lean in on some other metrics, as record in college football can be all over the place for various reasons, for the selection of the "wild card/at large teams."
Get some of this subjectivity out of it.
This is just blind SEC hate man. This is not defensible at all.
I am thrilled they are having it this year because they are hammering on the ACC tiebreaker scenario.
The not starting practices on time has been verified...
How frequent this was is unclear because many sessions were closed to the media.
But let's put it this way, if you know media is going to be at your practice and you don't have the intelligence to start the goddamn thing on time...what does that say?
Also, letting Woodson play with a DUI the week of the game...
Nah Bama and OU had no business in. The actual correct solution is
8. Miami
9. BYU
10. Notre Dame
I really hope Tulane beats Ole Miss. Not sure I could stand JMU advancing. They will be annoying enough just getting in.
Pry and theoretical SEC school have no incentive pay him more than we owe him, so theoretically expect them to sign him some nominal non-embarrassing amount money.
This all highly theoretical because the mouse is now saying it's a done deal that he's back.
^ Bingo
Do we know this is true? I know there's been plenty of rumors and the play on the field certainly didnt have discipline has a core attribute.
Franklin brought his top 25 class in to VT after 3 weeks.
Im going to give him at least once season to see how this works out.
Bama in out of the three bubble teams was really obvious if you get past the "bama bad, hate bama" logic. They had the best SOR of the three, by far the toughest schedule (like 6th vs the others in the 40's), and best collection of wins. The resume was simply much better.
It sucks for Notre Dame, but it is what it is. They didn't have much in the way of wins. They lost the two games that could have given them a great win.
When PSU fired Franklin, I figured that he would hire Pry back as his DC at his next place. Wasn't expecting it to be here....
They really need to get rid of the selection show. They should do these rankings exactly once. The day after conference champ games.
Theres not debate if they didnt have a ranking the previous week which had Notre lame over miami.
For all the talk about the team quitting on Pry (and they did), I think that happened because of his awful clock management and inability to win close games. Once we found ourselves in a battle with Vandy, we threw in the towel. But quitting was not a characteristic of Pry's teams before 2025. His teams actually had a lot of fight after routinely digging huge holes to start games. But over time, players realized that given the opportunity in a close game, he would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and eventually they stopped fighting. I don't have that concern about Pry the DC.
Exactly how it went except flip Miami and Bama
Yeah, if I were a player I might also like a coach who lets me show up late to meetings and exerts minimal discipline.
In a situation such as that I might also consistently miss my assignments....
Discipline on the football field starts off the field, nothing about Pry's tenure here suggests that is going to be better
Conferences with too many teams that don't play each other and no divisional structure to help regulate that.
It's how uva managed to coast their way to an ACCCG loss last night.
This is true.
At the end of the day, there are only 3-4 teams with a realistic chance of winning. All the other games are essentially the old NY6 bowl games.