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It's like the NCAA tournament in basketball. You have 68 teams, or whatever the number is now. Yet on selection Sunday, you have people moaning and complaining. The playoff could go to 24, 36, or 64 in football, and you'd still get complaining. There would be complaints about who got home games, who got the hardest path, or why you had too many rematches. It's true that you could give a person a hundred million dollars, and they'd complain about it being taxed.

To copy the esteemed AD of Notre Dame.''I've strained the future relationship of my fellow SEC fan bases.''

I'd just take the bowls, and use them to determine a G6 champion. That champion could get elevated for a season to a P4 conference, if they win the conference, promote them. It would never work in reality, but it'd be fun to see.

I voted for Notre Dame, but if I was being honest, I should've voted SEC. I just can't, that would include me by affiliation😂.

I'm just over the excuse making of what is meant to be the toughest league in football. Alabama didn't get punished for a third loss. We all know that there will be about ten SEC ranked teams to start the year. Losing one to them won't hurt, winning will help. You get praised for the wins, and excuses for losing to a now much higher ranked opponent.

•Notre Dame opted out of a bowl, they took their ball and went home. Join a conference, or try not to lose to the only good opponents you play. •SEC. You got five teams in, heck you got a three loss , non conference champion that got dominated in Atlanta. Yet you want Georgia to be number two, and you are crying because Texas, and Vanderbilt got left out. You got almost half the field!! On top of that, the winning coach of the SEC title game used his press çonference to complain about nine conference games, and how it's going to destroy the league . Again, you always get the benefit of the doubt!!! Why does my team have to be associated with this loser mentality? It makes us look soft. •USC can't handle the fact that Oregon is a better program right now. Despite the on field results. You need to realize Oregon isn't going anywhere. You tried to leave them behind, you tried to block their move to the B1G. Why? It helps save you some travel every year. • Oregon State/ Washington State, you have no relevancy. You are still crying about Oregon, and Washington leaving you behind. Facts are, you got left behind years ago. You just didn't care , because you could always say you were a Pac Ten/Twelve member. Meanwhile, programs with less , did more. Programs like TCU, UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, Utah, and BYU. How come they were able to become attractive to join the Big Twelve, but you weren't?

Is admission requirements still something? I've always heard that the head coach at Notre Dame has a tough job, because he needs to find five star players with five star study habits. A rule that some......um... Miami....umm... probably don't follow. That place is a private institution, one that has people named Reginald, Archibald, Thelonias, and last names that have words like the third, attached to them. I imagine it's likely the same at USC. Also a private place of higher education, but I might be wrong. After all, I went to a public University with a terrible football team, and even worse academic admissions record for said football team. ( Said football team may have some history that I'm biased against. My comments may not be entirely true, as I grew up disliking said team. My comments are not to be taken too seriously, you can't sue me or anyone around me for my emotional takes. Plus your law program is second rate to the program I support. Remember I am an alumnus 🥸. That is all)

That SEC game was non competitive. The B1G wasn't, it was hard hitting, and it went down to the wire. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but didn't Ohio State play their tenth B1G game last night? How about Indiana? Didn't Ohio State have to play "The Game" last week? Didn't they beat The Texas on opening week? Didn't both squads have injuries, yet didn't rest 13 of their players like Alabama did? I don't recall hearing Curt Cignetti complaining. Al I heard was celebrating. I didn't hear Ryan Day making excuses about playing Michigan, and Indiana back to back weeks. Ole Miss is going to go a full month plus before their last competitive game. After playing Citadel, getting a bye, and beating the mighty five win Mississippi State, a team Billy Napier could beat while already knowing he was going to be canned the next day. The SEC have been smelling it's own farts for too long, they've convinced themselves that whatever comes out of them isn't crap. It's unfiltered genius. It isn't.

Florida State , and Ohio State thought about doing that two years ago. They might as well, most of the starters opted out, and they were playing in the Orange and Cotton Bowl respectively .Michigan had several opt outs last year against Alabama, and eventual number one pick Cam Ward sat out the second half of a bowl game, right after he set a personal record. The team blew the lead, and the game in the second half. Bowl games are meaningless to brand names, even as they are sponsored by brand names. Dukes Mayo, Cheezit, and Pop Tart ,are now actual bowl games. It isn't the Rose Bowl presented by____, it's just____ Bowl.

I was hoping BYU would've gotten in. Their best win was against Utah. They lost twice, both to Tech. If it wasn't by blowout on Saturday, I think they would've gotten more consideration. I'm still confused as to if the committee punished BYU for something they said they wouldn't punish them for. Alabama kept thirteen guys out for rest, so they must've had an inkling that they were safe regardless. The only thing I can think of is that Alabama beat Georgia on the road already. BYU never beat Tech, and their Utah win wasn't as good as Alabama beating Georgia, and Vanderbilt. It's not about who you lost to. It's about who you beat. As long as you don't have three losses heading in CCG Saturday.

•Well, Oregon is hosting James Madison in a playoff game. Indiana is the one seed, after beating Ohio State for the first time in my lifetime, and Vanderbilt has a legitimate gripe about being left out of the CFP. All things we predicted eh? •Okay, we have two rematches in round one, and a potential rematch most of my OBD friends would relish. Ole Miss trounced Tulane in September, and is hosting them again. Oklahoma handled Alabama for the second straight year, and is now hosting them again. If Oregon and Indiana keep winning, we'll get a rematch that I know most Duck fans crave. • SEC fan bases, and coaches, most notably Kirby Smart last night, have criticized Greg Sankey for going to a nine game conference slate. Causing most to think a sixteen team format is going to be pressed this off-season. • Notre Dame got passed up by Miami for the last CFP at large slate. Most aren't mad about the Hurricanes passing them up, considering the week one game result, in which Miami beat Notre Dame. But there is confusion as to how the teams swapped positions without either playing. Some say the committee didn't want the ACC to have zero teams after five loss Duke beat Virginia in the ACC title game. But that shouldn't happen, if Miami was better than Notre Dame, they should've been ahead of them. Their ranking shouldn't be dependent on a game that their merit has no effect on. It's dumb. Notre Dame would've been better if Virginia won, but Miami is better because Duke won? After all, past the required five conference champions. The field should be filled with the best seven at large teams. • There is going to be an expansion imo. BYU, and Notre Dame are going to demand it. They both have a lot of money. We all know what matters to college football. Texas and Vanderbilt are going to cry to Sankey. Sankey is going to cry to the committee, and despite getting five teams in, the SEC is going to yell about James Madison getting in over Texas, and Vanderbilt. Especially with all the crying about a nine game conference slate. I think Greg should go with the Petiti play in model.

Two G6 champions!!! It's time to show Chesney a preview of what's waiting for him. Add a score, just in case Billy boy is watching his future team please. Indiana earned the one seed. Ohio State rightfully got the two seed. Georgia and Tech , both dominated their opponents. Not shocked that Georgia got more credit for their win. Notre Dame got left out, and Alabama got left in. But Miami jumped in over Notre Dame and BYU. I guess opening week games matter after all. Projecting ahead, Danny Kanell just forecasted that Oregon will win it all. For what that's worth.