College football week 14 thread: ATLiens

First win of the day.

ABC. Big 12.

No Tessitore.

I’ll take the nasal indifference of McDonough.

 

Any objective link to this? Or are we basing it on a week of craptastic November games?

Six SEC teams rank in the top 25 in strength of schedule. Two Big Ten teams do. ONE ACC team does. Big 12 and Pac-12 played the toughest schedules.

Bama did play Texas. UF did play FSU and Utah. LSU played FSU. Kentucky played Louisville. South Carolina played Clemson and North Carolina. Ole Miss played Tulane and Georgia Tech. Texas A&M played Miami. Missouri played Kansas State. Mississippi State played Arizona.

 

and Gus is on a game no one is watching

 

Alabama can not make the playoffs over Texas if both win today.

And Georgia cannot make the playoffs over Alabama if it loses to the Tide.

Therefore Georgia cannot make it over Texas if it loses and the Longhorns win.

These teams really need FSU to lose.

 

Gotta have a 10-team conference to have a championship game.

There are plenty of bowls who take a team from a conglomeration of G6 conferences. I expect OSU and WSU will be in that field.

 

Georgia and Alabama have played a grand total of six regular-season games since 2000. If they were in the same division and played every year, like Michigan and Ohio State do, their playoff appearances would be halved. Which is exactly why they don't play very often.

 

There is an EPIC FCS playoff game today between Montana State and North Dakota State. The Bison are a little down this year, but it's still a rematch of the 2022 FCS final and a rare time these two teams will meet in an early round.

 

That math only works out because Michigan and Ohio State have never BOTH made the playoffs. [/bluefont]

 

If Texas and FSU lose, the world opens up.

 

Undefeated Florida State is absolutely on the committee’s wishlist.

 

Kittens will get smoked.

Go Griz.

 

I'm amused by the whole "SEC doesn't play anybody" scenario because it sounds just like the same sorry excuses people made when UCLA was tearing off all those basketball titles under John Wooden. (Or Connecticut in women's basketball, UNC in women's soccer or any stretch of dominance.)

"Well, West Coast basketball isn't that good so UCLA is guaranteed a Final Four appearance every year." Except the Bruins beat all those other supposedly great teams from the better conferences, year after year. John Wooden's teams were great, whether they played in Los Angeles or Timbuktu. They won 88 games in a row. Nobody's come close to that. Great players. Great coaching. They were prepared to win every time they laced 'em up.

SEC football is really, really good right now, particularly Georgia and Alabama. The SEC has won 13 of the past 17 national championships, not because of their eight-game schedule or their Week 11 patsies or whatever other conspiracies people want to believe. "They should play in the snow! All the bowl games are like home games! The committee gives them favorable draws!"

They're better than everybody else when they play. And by a significant margin, in most cases.

Georgia 65, TCU 7
Georgia 33, Alabama 18 (Georgia 34, Michigan 11; Alabama 27, Cincinnati 6)
Alabama 52, Ohio State 24
LSU 42, Clemson 25

Seems like a trend to me. And I really don't care for Georgia or Alabama. But you can't piss on me and tell me it's raining when it's obvious.

If Michigan and Ohio State were really worthy, no matter if they played every year or never, we wouldn't be having this conversation every single season. They show up, get their asses handed to them, and whine their way back up north.