What?
We wouldn’t play the week after the ccg. We’d play 13/14 days after a loss. Or 24/25 days after a win
miss the ccg and you have 20/21 days between games.
Other than bragging rights for winning the conference our first year, I’d be completely fine with missing the ccg. (especially if the only reason we weren’t there was because we lost the 4th or 5th tiebreaker after beating A&M.)
It’s a superfluous money grab in the day of a 12 team playoff with way more downside risk than upside potential for a team like Texas this year.
give me the 20 day break going from A&M to a home playoff game against an army-like 11 or 12 seed
Make the ccg game and win, you’re getting beat up one way or another by UGA probably. The odds of getting through that game without at least one significant starter being unavailable for the CFP is virtually zero. Good news is you have 25 days to recover. Bad news is you have 25 days off and have to come out sharp against a better playoff team (8/9 or 7/10 seed). I don’t like that idea with how shitty we’ve been in the first half most of this year.
Make the ccg game and lose. You get an off week before hosting a playoff game.
Pro: you get to host a CFP game.
con: see above re: injury odds and likely missing a key starter or two.
con: If you do manage to get through the ccg without significant injury, you get to play another game and try to get through injury-free.
Pro: we’re not governed by sec rules and maybe we can get a gd beer vendor or two walking the aisles.
give me a victory over A&M, losing a tiebreaker to make the ccg, 3 weeks off to get fully healthy, a 6 seed and home game in the playoff against a clearly inferior 11 seed allowing us to find our rhythm and then a quarterfinal matchup against Big12/ACC champ