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  1. 5 hours ago, Js1 said:

    There will be “in-depth discussions” about not guaranteeing conference champs the top 4

    seeds in 2025, sources said. Top 5 conference champs still would get in playoff but rankings would determine seeds, sources said. This would require unanimous approval by all stake holders to change in 2025 but conference commissioners “open to getting (the seeding) right,” source said

    There are two separate issues:

    1) who gets the byes; and 

    2) what seeds do they get.

  2. On 12/29/2024 at 3:23 PM, Handcruser said:

    Great post. I hate the mega conferences. I was actually wanting smaller conferences, but that doesn’t matter now.

    One hope is that the Big 10 and SEC decide they are 1) too big; and 2) make more money together.  They add 8 schools and split into 3 14 team conferences.

    Twelve is ideal, but fourteen is still manageable.  16 and 18 are just too big.

  3. 4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    What difference does it make? Allowing live mascots presents an extra logistical issue for gameday operations to deal with. Just disallow them all. Obviously home mascots have a location and are part of standard operations at every school. So home teams have their mascots, makes perfect sense. 

    Unless for some reason now we think it's a big deal for a team not to be able to bring their live mascot. 

    The stands are really close to the field at Mercedes Benz.  There really isn't much room.

  4. On 12/23/2024 at 4:24 PM, Thatguy said:

    I apologize for the video. I couldn't find a full game copy anywhere so had to rip a few plays.

     

    @Dahobbswas explaining a little bit of this to a fellow poster. ZSo thanks to him for getting the ball rolling. Let's get this out of the way right now. For those of you that didn't think Dabo was a good coach we just all fucked around and found out on Sat-ur-dee. Ole ball coach played us like a fiddle. They had a lovely opening script capped off with a double pick that we actually helped with but we will get to that in a minute. They got on the board first and then Sark and PK proceeded to drag their balls on Clemson's facemask by going on a 31-3 run. The offense did it's thing but PK's defense settled in and stymied the Clemson offense. However Dabo, as championship coaches do, found something. He sped up their offense when he got the right defensive personnel on the other side. Two things that did. We lost our pass rush because the guys caught in the game aren't the type that gets pressure. Second, when a defense is sped up they scrap the exotics and stick to simplistic defensive schemes like man v man or basic zone schemes. So by doing that they could slow our pass rush and manipulate our secondary. To do that your coaches have to be pretty savvy and have a QB with full command of the passing offense. So we shouldn't see that too often so we can all relax. If we do then PK is a dumb ass for falling for the same trick twice.

    So let's get into it shall we?

    I mean what the hell were the refs looking at here. First thing first I am wondering if this was a mistake by our secondary here to start. I know we are in man but instead of letting the routes tell us which man we are taking Barron and Guilbeau cross streams and allow the TE/Barron route to pick Guilbeau. The TE is literally blocking Barron well past the five yard mark for a pass that is being thrown past the line of scrimmage. Guilbeau is already out of position only to be physically blocked a second time, again for a pass thrown past the line. To miss an illegal pick once is bad but two times on the same play? Come on refs.

     

     

     

    Two pretty flagrant blocks downfield.  Probably neither made a difference, but those weren't even subtle.

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  5. 16 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    I'm willing to admit it's reasonable to point out Texas had a light schedule.

    What I've never understood is why Tennessee got a pass on having an essentially identical conference schedule - 7/8 common opponents against which they put together an inferior body of work to Texas, and a 7 point home win against a bipolar Bama team in their big rivalry vs Texas winning by 10 on the road at aggy in a game that had been circled for years. Both teams dog walked inferior power conference opponents out of conference and lost to Georgia by multiple scores in offensive meltdowns.

    They straight up coasted reputationally on that Bama win when in reality they were the overrated team people have accused Texas of being.

    We didn't get the strongest teams in the conference, but our schedule was plenty good.  Here is the Massey composite opponent's ranking of teams in the CFP (note Tennessee-their ooc was awful)

    Georgia                     46.7
    Texas                     50.9
    Ohio St.                     55.3
    Penn St.                     55.6
    Oregon                     57.0
    Clemson                     60.8
    Arizona St.                     61.3
    Notre Dame                     61.5
    SMU                     61.8
    Tennessee                     67.0
    Indiana                     75.2
    Boise St.                     82.9
  6. Watching the Memphis-WVU game.  Memphis player intercepts with WVU in Memphis territory down 5 in the final 15 seconds, but the ball gets knocked out as he starts his slide.  Replay rules that he was down so there was no fumble since he started his slide.

    Same situation, they called a fumble on Texas.  Ewers had started his slide.

    Sark should have challenged that play.

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  7. On 12/11/2024 at 2:58 PM, NBHorn7 said:

    Why wouldn't ABC want this? They put their best game in prime time all season and usually send Game Day there. The SEC Championship Game would have crushed The Big Ten Championship Game in the ratings and allowed the ACC Championship Game to have gone against a lesser game and improved its ratings.

    If it "Just Means More" then prove it. I thought this was the big bad SEC that fears nothing.

    Why go against competition when you can have be exclusive or be against the ACC?  Its a win/win.

  8. 1 hour ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    It's more money, at least for now.  I do wonder whether the MAC will let them keep all of their other sports in the MAC if they take football out?  I do not see why they would.

    The speculation is that they would move to the Horizon for other sports.

  9. 4 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    I’ve been to more OU games than I can count and none were worse than last weekend. 

    I didn't see anything and I was sitting on the Georgia side, only a handful of us in Burnt Orange.  Didn't even see the normal barking.  Rode MARTA which was overwhelmingly UGA.  Crowd was really a lot more subdued than normal.  All I saw at Austin this year was the barking and that only by a handful of 20 somethings.  I was north side upper deck and most of the Georgia people were only a section or two over..

    My wife's a Bulldawg and so I've been to more Georgia games than I can count and even with Florida, Auburn and Georgia Tech, they aren't particularly obnoxious (they hate those 3 as much as we hate OU).  Bitching about every call, yes.  Drunk, yes!  But its usually falling down drunk, not angry drunk.  As one Georgia fan told me at a Georgia-Florida game, "we may not always win the game, but we ALWAYS win the party.  Georgia fans of all ages DO like to drink.

     

  10. 4 hours ago, utee94 said:

    They're gonna be even more pissed when their league finally removes the fix and Texas starts beating their ass every meeting.

    Oh, and as for the injuries resulting from completely clean hits-- I've been told for decades that's all part of the SeC gRInD.  You'd think they'd be used to it by now.

    Perfectly good hits.  Plenty of UGA players have gotten hurt by dirty hits.  Nick Chubb had a really nasty leg injury his sophomore year when Tennessee hit him 5 yards out of bounds.  No flag.

    QB Aaron Murray had a season ended by Kentucky when he got hit low.

  11. 4 hours ago, Crapinon said:

    Maybe, but there's a lot of this, courtesy of SECrant: 

    They throw trash when calls don’t go well for them.

    They get off on possibly injuring Georgia players.

    They seem to take more pride in that than winning. Lol. Losers.

    And

    They're entitled primadonnas who lItErAlLy cAn'T eVeN when they don't get their way.

    They had their own network FFS. It's unreasonable to expect them to be capable of playing well with others.
     

     

    Duh.  That's probably just a bunch of aggys.

    And hey, at least we didn't waste any mustard or golf balls.  (for those of you with short memories-Tennessee targeting Kiffin and Ole Miss)

  12. Dellenger was the first to break UC-Davis to MWC in all but football.  McMurphy followed up crediting Dellenger, saying his sources had confirmed it.  It wasn't long before the official announcement came out.

     

    Well since its Tuesday, McMurphy is saying Northern Illinois will imminently make a decision (either way) on fb only to MWC.

  13. On 12/9/2024 at 4:15 PM, Crapinon said:

    And the whiniest too. Their message boards are full of people whining about Texas. They act like they lost the game. They're all a direct reflection of their whiney-ass coach. 

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    They're whining because Sankey didn't congratulate them.  Of course, he mentioned Texas and OU and congratulated Texas on getting to the game their first year and then the stadium was a chorus of boos.  He gave up the mic at that point.  But the whole ceremony was kind of a mess.  The ESPN lady running it seemed ADHD and disorganized.

  14. On 12/9/2024 at 12:52 PM, CTC2 said:

    Pretty common with sec fans.


    I remember being drunk and obnoxious as a young person. They don’t bother me so much because it’s fun to be young. When I see those fans I laugh because, well, been there  

    But, sec brings out full fledged adults who are red necked snaggle toothed assholes.  It was intolerable.  I won’t go back to the championship game.  They have this conference pride thing that I just don’t understand  


    Horns down doesn’t bother me but I must have seen 50,000 different people doing it with this grin of euphoria like it was some big insult.  It was kind of funny how big an insult they thought it was. Walking out of the stadium we had stuff thrown at us, people getting in our face doing their dog bark.  Being in the elevator at the hotel a couple of hours after the game they were still at it.  It’s all just eye rolling type stuff but they are a different breed  


    I know that we probably didn’t have much choice but to join but I sure wish we didn’t have to. 

    I've never seen Georgia people throw stuff at the other team.  The bark, yeah.

    And it seems none of you have ever been to an OU game!

    The whole SEC seems to have gone full aggy with the Horns down bit.  They all did the gator chomp back at Florida, so they have adopted the Horns down.  

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  15. 16 hours ago, sushihorn said:

    Clemson did the same thing in a much weaker conference with SUB-.500 teams. And they had 3 regular season losses against that weaker schedule vs 1 loss for Texas. 

    Texas has weaknesses. Clemson is a severely flawed team whose offense was good enough to cover those flaws most of the time against bad competition. 

    And based on the Massey composite, UT had the second toughest schedule (after UGA) of the 12 playoff teams.

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