If they were going to play an extra game, it would have been a blast in Athens hosting a first rounder. Guess that's out the window win or lose the SEC champ now.
Yeah, give me all the things that still separate this dumb sport from the NFL. Multiple premature field stormings yesterday just added to the absurdity of my favorite college football Saturday so far this year.
o/u at 3.5 Texas + Georgia + Tennessee for sure then A&M winning out or Alabama over the ACCCG loser probably causes you to bet the over
Auburn, Vandy, and A&M wins this week would be incredible. Bring on the chaos. We’ll probably have some guys sit, lose to State and then the perfect sequence of events to get us in will play out.
Spending over 10 mil and losing to the worst State team in decades is too perfect for us not to do it
This sport and league in particular is like the best reality TV anyone could ever watch. Just get rid of the "Citadel in week 10" fucking nonsense moving forward please.
League isn’t going to cave and add an extra conference game unless ESPN/ABC up the payouts. So don’t hold your breath.
We wouldn’t need an extra conference game if teams stopped playing 3-4 scrubs in the non-conference. Everyone should have to play two P4 schools.
it’s the worst way to watch like i’d honestly be more at peace watching a shitty team play shitty than a solid b+ and feel like it’s a roll of the dice as to who’s gonna show up
I get this, but what’s the difference in playing that game week 3 vs week 10? It’s completely meaningless either way with the only good outcome being no one getting injured. For the most part I think OOC scheduling in the conference is strong to quite strong, you just can’t project how good those matchups will be however many years down the road. College football is now a big business and it needs to be treated as such. It sucks and it’s probably not fair, but major conference teams shouldn’t be financing other ADs with pay to play games any further. Go to 9 conference games, mandate 2 P5 OOC, and abolish FCS games. But that’s just pie in the sky musing.
I am starting to feel like the conference championship games are meaningless now with the new playoff format. Just declare the conference champ after the regular season conference win and loss record and move on. This format would resembles the NFL format. Spoiler or just let Owlsey pick the conference champ based on his SEC end of season power rankings
never have gotten an answer on this i seriously dont know how the parity of yesterday when all home teams won, that scheduling is what ppl want to talk about the next day? Dont even see the nexus.
ESPN paying too much money for that game. Will get over 17m viewers. Have to supplement it elsewhere. Easier solution is for committee to have more nuance. But most of cfb national media being not from where the sport's footprint is...makes that difficult.
if they would make the first two playoffs rounds on campus, which would be much better for fans anyway, it would easily solve the problem
Well for one its lame af to play fucking directional state tech where the only thing you're hoping to see is no injuries in November and for another Texas doesn't schedule FCS teams to begin with. There's enough in state FBS teams for every SEC school to schedule in September to get both the non con games taken care of and also throw the in state lower tier programs a bone in terms of money.
if you flip ULM and Kentucky on Texas' garbage schedule, it does nothing. They are still only playing 1 P4 non-conference game. Who cares where it falls on the calendar. The TV Inventory was fantastic yesterday; minus they should have buried Texas' game at night and put A&M at 3:30. imagine the look on Clemson's inept AD face if we asked him to play a neutral site game in Atlanta against Georgia a week prior to hosting South Carolina. "Look, we really just prefer playing Umass as the season opener. Come play us when you have nothing else going on"
South Carolina was the only school that had an FCS opponent yesterday, and it was in-state where there are only 3 instate FBS schools. South Carolina's SOS is 12th, Texas is 36th. Are you upset they played Wofford instead of Coastal, or wtf are you talking about.
It seems like even the best teams are like this this year. We're 9-2 but I haven't really enjoyed watching us play
The idea of 9 SEC games is particularly devastating for us. The only historic rival we have in this conference is Georgia. Our current schedule allows us to frequently schedule UNC and NCST, in addition to playing Clemson every year. A 9th conference game means we basically have to schedule only cupcakes or seriously limit our ability to make a bowl game with any regularity.
How is the soft conference schedule Texas's fault? We literally scheduled Bama x2, Michigan in the last 3 years LSU during the Burrow year, Ohio State next year then Notre Dame x2 the couple of years after that for OOC.
same as nearly every other team in here then? I’m not exactly sure the point you’re trying to make here. Teams like Bama and UGA and most all the teams in this conference play a marquee out of conference game each year
What? Mississippi has 3 FBS teams, and only one is not in the SEC. Arkansas has 2. Missouri has 1. South Carolina has 3. Kentucky has 3.
Just looked, we play one of VT, Miami, UNC, or NCST every year between now and 2033. If you think we're not scheduling quality ooc opponents, I'm not sure what to tell you.
The Texas comment read that way since Carolina was the only team with an FCS opponent yesterday. Doesn’t matter, got the W, TAMU in ruins, Clemson gonna have their best game in years, we fucked.
I'm enjoying the rest of the SEC getting to experience the uniqueness of Texas fans style of entitlement and stepping into a new space to tell everyone they know better.
Play the in state FBS team(s), play a P4 game and then another couple of G5 teams. That should be the standard for every P4 team
Nah...I like our games vs SC State. They have great fans, and an amazing band. Eat shit, respectfully.