If no SEC team makes the CFP Finals

#51
#51
midnight orange said:
IMO….Penn st, Osu, Oregon would beat any sec team. Illinois would have an even shot at beating any sec team. A lousy USC beats LSU and A$M. The big 10 just means more.
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Wrong the only one I see beating most is OSU…… who has Penn St, Oregon, or Illinois beat also can’t forget the teams entering the playoffs are not the same as the regular season. SEC teams lose the most talent to the portal and it is showing during the playoffs
 
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99gator said:
No.

This is the weakest the league has been at the top since 2000.

2005 Georgia, 2001 LSU, and 2000 Florida are potentially the only weakest SEC Champions since and I'm not sure about 2000 Florida. I also think 2001 Florida and 2001 Tennessee whip the snot out of 2024 Georgia.
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2k UF and 2001 UT beat the ever loving piss out of this year's squads. The SEC is the weakest it's been in years. Texas is going to get obliterated in Dallas by OSU.
 
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The_topis_Rocky89 said:
Wrong the only one I see beating most is OSU…… who has Penn St, Oregon, or Illinois beat also can’t forget the teams entering the playoffs are not the same as the regular season. SEC teams lose the most talent to the portal and it is showing during the playoffs
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Penn St …beat Illinois (beat USCe), USC ( beat LSU & Texas a$m),SMU (playoff team), Boise State ( playoff team)

Oregon….beat Boise State (playoff team), Ohio State

Illinois…..beat Michigan (beat Alabama who supposedly should have been in the playoffs), USCe ( supposedly should be in the playoffs and “the most dangerous team in the nation”)

Opinion is great. I go by results.
 
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VolCalls said:
Is it a fluke?
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fluke as in a mistake? no.
fluke as in a one off? Probably.

no team was elite this year. OSU is playing elite right now, but certainly didn't during the season. Oregon never lost a game, but never looked elite. Georgia looked elite for a half of every game, but never a full game. ND lost to NIU and struggled with G Tech and Louisville for a bit. Penn State still hasn't beat a great team. Texas was up and down too, always seem to start hot and then fall off, and even with two attempts couldn't get over the Georgia hump.

This isn't a year like most of the others where everyone went into the season with a good idea of who was going to win it. the assumption was an SEC team just because no one in particular looked national title worthy during the season.
 
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#55
I've heard this song before.

sports.yahoo.com

How the SEC lost its edge on the rest of college football

The conference that won seven straight titles from 2006-12 looks vastly different these days. What happened? It stopped hiring top-level coaches.
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Does this season feel different? Yeah, sure, the SEC is not quite as strong in years past in the upper tiers and lost a number of games (Alabama vs. Michigan, South Carolina vs. Illinois, Oklahoma vs. Army, TAMU vs. USC) that it would have at worst split in 2022. But, is there still an SEC school alive in the playoffs? Yes. Would I put money on an SEC team reaching the national title next year, sight-unseen? Absolutely.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
OSU at their best are head and shoulders above every other team in either conference, as they’ve shown over the last two games. Oregon and Penn State are about on par with us, Ole Miss, and UGA.
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Maybe but the difference is we, Ole Miss, and UGA were so damn inconsistent. You'd have worldbeaters show up for a half and then disappear until the 2nd quarter of the next game.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
OSU manhandled us. ND is lining up and running it down UGA's throat now. USC lost to ILL. Bama lost to Michigan.

The only reason TX is still in the playoffs is the refs and replay officials took one for the committee and overlooked a blatant targeting call....
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That would be nilly willy if they had called assiting the runner on the ASU TD.
 
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#60
Before NIL, playing in the SEC was incentive enough for a great athlete to choose a top tier SEC team over one of the top ever'-body-else teams, all other factors being equal.

NIL became more than an equalizer for the teams with grads in the top 10% of income. (At some point soon, we're gonna need investigations into NIL being used for otherwise illegal financial schemes---much as the Harvards and Yales have a financial existence unrelated to and independent of their side business of education, but dependent on it for tax purposes.)

Heupel (and UTAD over all sports) has parlayed family and offering high character teammates into an effective recruiting intangible. But like the Miami basketball coach said recently, players will now leave programs they love for guaranteed money---and being high character guys, I'll bet their incentive is not bling and a flashy car, but to provide for their existing or future families.

In an era when most college students begin their adult life with thousand$ in college debt, any graduate who starts out with $20-60K in the bank holds an incredible advantage toward achieving a secure level of middle class success and more. Leaving college with cash instead of debt allows one to investigate so many more doors of opportunity. And deservedly so.
 
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The portal and NIL means that the talent that once belonged to 2-3 teams is spread across 8, which means no team is loaded as in the past. OSU was willing to spend 20 million to fill the holes in their roster.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
Penn St has played SMU and Boise
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Penn State is the Texas of the B1G. Before the playoffs they had:

Relatively soft schedule.
Lost to every good team they played.
Best win was Illinois.

I’m not saying they didn’t deserve to be in the playoffs. But they definitely didn’t deserve a home playoff game.

The seeding needs to be looked at because no one that loses their conference title should be seeded over a team they lost to during the regular season. And teams shouldn’t necessarily get an automatic bye for winning their conference title either.

If we got a home playoff game vs SMU things would’ve been very different. I hate to be cheering for OSU but I don’t want Texas to win and I definitely don’t want PSU to win either. Hoping Notre Dame knocks them out and it doesn’t matter but I’d also love to see Penn State get absolutely shredded by Ohio State as well.
 
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djohnnyg said:
Ohio State is the best college team I've seen in awhile. I don't know how the hell they lost to Michigan. I'm guessing they were overconfident....overlooking them etc etc..
But still.
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Best WR corp in a good while. Qb is no Burrow but they just pummel teams offensively. Somewhat reminiscent of that historic LSU offense.
 
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LordBolton said:
I stopped watching football as soon as Tennessee lost. I couldn't care less who wins. I only now found out that UGA lost from reading this. Although I'm glad they lost, it saddens me that Notre Dame won.
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The question is which Bolton are you?
 
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DaddyChad said:
Best WR corp in a good while. Qb is no Burrow but they just pummel teams offensively. Somewhat reminiscent of that historic LSU offense.
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No way Michigan could have stopped them like they did if OSU coaches weren't calling the game tight and not to lose
 
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#72
The SEC was top heavy, and the top teams were deep, but the last 2 years top players have moved around to find a starting position and NIL money. The league is much tougher overall now but weaker at the top. This makes the big 10 looks better, but that is temporary. The SEC teams continue to recruit the top players and in two more years the football top 20 will resemble the basketball top 20, for the same reasons. I can't prove that just a general feeling.
 
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The most obvious indication so far is that “ Conference Champion “
has no relevance, and should never be taken into consideration again.
 
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midnight orange said:
Maybe but the difference is we, Ole Miss, and UGA were so damn inconsistent. You'd have worldbeaters show up for a half and then disappear until the 2nd quarter of the next game.
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Or in our case, the opposite…the only consistency during the season was we tended to look lost in the first quarter then got it together 😂 it was weird.. the playoff game, who knows
 
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