The Old Days. Kinda miss it

[Tin Man]

A Sunday morning 2nd cup of coffee daydream, offseason thingy.

I know this'll bring some heat. There are those that want to keep adding teams to the SEC. NIL has changed the landscape and I get it. It'll never morph back to what it was.
It was kinda sweet to wake up on New years Day, suffer through the Rose Bowl parade and get the kickoff for the big bowl games, Cotton, Rose, Orange, Sugar and the others, and wake up on Jan 2 with the season over. Who remembers the 10 team SEC? I'm 68, so dang - seems like yesterday and a hundred years ago at the same time. Oh, and stay off my lawn - don't disturb me as I watch Ed Sullivan reruns.

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Whippersnapper…

 

[sami]

I didn't mind the South Carolina and Arkansas additions.

It should've stopped there

Agreed. It was the addition of the four Big 12 teams that ruined the league.

 

[adam.vol]

The NFL and their ever growing contracts ruined college football. Stop supporting that made for tv entertainment and college football just may come back down to earth.

 

[Go aeiou]

It was "The Good Ole Days".

 

[volfanbill]

Granted, it is better for figuring out a national championship, but still it has flaws. You just can't get past the committee aspect of it. Last season was a good example. There were teams that made it in that wouldn't have had a chance if they played the competition a typical SEC team plays. Expanding the field should take care of that, but as good as it is, it's not "pure". I've never doubted a superbowl winner didn't deserve it. I have in college football.

It’s always funny when people bring this up. No mention that the SEC only had one team win any playoff games

 

[ptcarter]

It’s always funny when people bring this up. No mention that the SEC only had one team win any playoff games

Not saying it's 100% committee, but Tennessee's pathway wasn't as easy as some. We got pretty much annihilated just like the weak teams that prompted this discussion. I would say however OSU, as much as it pains me to say it, was deserving.

 

[YankeeVol]

Cannot agree with this enough. No one gets this but the pinnacle of college football was actually before the BCS. No computers, no god forsaken committees, no expanded playoffs, no replay. The game was rife with AMBIGUITY, which is what made it so interesting. Perhaps even poetic. Every single regular game was a playoff game, and every single game on new years day mattered . . . sometimes you went to bed that night and you knew who the champion was, sometimes you didn't, and then you'd open the newspaper the following day and there the final polls would be. It was absolutely freaking nuts but it was also oddly amazing. It was so dramatic. The thing that younger folks cannot imagine today is how consequential like a september regular season game was. Those fla/ tn games in the 90's felt like the center of the universe. Like the world was standing still for them. We had these INSANE teams back then, and their shot at the title was effectively dashed in September. It was so painful when you lost but also sort of beautiful as a piece in the larger story of a team's season. . . . The overall CFB product was just way better back then. It's still good, viewership at all time highs, and I'm always gonna watch. But no doubt, it was better back then, and I'd say really because it was sort of flawed. And I think less regular season games was part of it too. But everyone is right . . . ain't ever goin back to that model.

Just great, Auburn read your post and claimed 4 more NCs