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Before the 2006-07 season concluded, this SEC narrative didn't exist. Ohio State, and Michigan were slotted for a rematch, and it took Urban Meyer campaigning to get Florida on a field that they were told they didn't belong. Remember, we were coming off the USC dynasty, and the U part 2. Auburn was undefeated in 2004, but got left out of the BCS National Championship. Auburn won their bowl game, but didn't receive the same favor USC got the year prior. USC was the undisputed champion, after pasting Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. The SEC was looked at as pretty good, but not capable of consistently having a program that could compete with USC, Miami, Ohio State, or Oklahoma. All of that changed in January 2007, in Glendale Arizona. Florida was meant to be the final stepping stone to the crowning of Troy Smith, and Ohio State. Well, it started off well for them with the Ted Ginn kickoff return. But it quickly became apparent over the next 59:34 that there was a mismatch. The following year, LSU beat Ohio State in New Orleans. The year after that, Florida beat Oklahoma in Miami. Alabama beat Texas in Pasadena, Auburn beat Oregon in Glendale. Alabama beat LSU in New Orleans. Alabama beat Notre Dame in Miami. Then the streak stopped, as Florida State beat Auburn in Pasadena. Ohio State beat Alabama in New Orleans en route to winning the first ever playoff era national championship. There was talk of the Alabama dynasty dying that night in New Orleans. But then Alabama would go on, and beat Clemson to win another title. Clemson would get their revenge the next year. Alabama would beat Georgia the year after. Clemson would destroy Alabama the year after that, and we were apparently seeing the kryptonite to Alabama. Clemson was the new dynasty. LSU dispatched that the next year, and then disappeared. Alabama came back, and destroyed Ohio State. Before Georgia had their revenge by beating Alabama, and then a second piece of cake the next year, in that blowout vs TCU. The new era began, and Michigan won the next year. You could say Michigan officially ended the Alabama dynasty in the Rose Bowl that year. Ohio State ran through Tennessee, and beat Texas in essentially a road game en route to winning the first ever 12 team CFP title. Notre Dame dispatched Georgia, and that was it. Michigan, Ohio State, and Notre Dame had proven the gap was closed. Michigan bullied Alabama. Ohio State made Tennessee, and Texas look slow, and Notre Dame proved that Brian Kelly was a fool. This year, Indiana officially closed the book in a way that made Finebaum sick. It isn't just Ohio State, or Michigan. Indiana just did to Alabama, what Alabama used to do to Michigan State, or Washington. Totally outclassed, physically, and coaching wise. Indiana, Oregon, and Ohio State would've cruised through the SEC. Look at the line play, look at the teams still alive. Ole Miss is the last hope, but they haven't faced a line like they are going to see on Thursday. Five years ago, that statement would've seen as insane. An SEC team hasn't seen the physicality in the postseason like the one they'll see vs Indiana, or an ACC team? Yeah, that's the proof. I wouldn't say the NIL era has killed the SEC, it's just proven that those programs were playing with an extra ace, it's why they are crying about going to nine conference games. Kirby Smart crying about depth after the SEC Title Game is the result of NIL. He can't go three deep anymore, and it's affected him. Everything settled in time. Twenty years ago, the SEC was seen as good, not great. I think that statement is still true. There will be your usual suspects winning titles, but they aren't going to be doing it year after year. That era is gone, there won't be anymore all SEC National Title games. We had three, and that was enough. Nobody wants to see Alabama vs Georgia for a national title. There's parity my friends, and that's a good thing. Oregon, Ole Miss, or Indiana is going to be playing for the first ever national title. If it's Indiana, or Ole Miss, it will be the first time in their history that they will even be playing for one. This is great for the sport. The only thing that needs to be fixed is this transfer portal nonsense. If a guy signs a contract, head coach, or player. Hold them to it, it's absolutely ridiculous that you have players leaving while their team is playing for a championship. It's even more ridiculous how the whole Lane Kiffin saga played out. In the NFL, you can't enter free agency, and you can't take another job while your team is still playing.

Charles is like Neo......

I think the term "blueblood" is just a warm blanket for a program like Nebraska. The B1G has two teams left in the CFP. It isn't Ohio State, Michigan, or Penn State. It's the second to worst program in winning percentage, and a former Pac Twelve school, in it's second ever season in the league. The SEC has one program remaining, and it's not Georgia, Alabama, Florida, LSU, or Tennessee. It's a program with the second smallest stadium in the league, located in a city you associate with a more prominent university in the UK. Hotty totty, it's the program you relate with the movie "The Blind Side", it's Ole Miss. This is the first year in the CFP era, that you won't have at least one of Alabama, Georgia, or Ohio State in the F4. We're eleven years into it.

Who could've predicted the State of college football , just six years ago?. If I told you that Indiana, and Ole Miss, were two wins away from winning a national championship. The head coaches of these teams would be a guy who didn't get a head coaching gig in the FBS, until he was in his sixties. The other would be a guy who was only two games into being a head coach. Would anybody believe that? Crazy times.

Remember the clown that Charles pointed out earlier this week? Well, he evidently hasn't learned his lesson, or he's proven he is truly missing the r in his last name. Indiana proved that the bye doesn't matter, as long as you are heads & shoulders ahead of your opponent. Which this guy was saying Texas Tech was. But Texas Tech got blanked, they were the worst team in the quarters. Alabama won a road playoff game, and had top ten wins. Tech beat nobody, outside of Utah, or BYU. But this guy says Tech only lost because of the layoff. I was hoping he'd show a grain of sense, but I lost brain cells checking up on this guy again. I had forgotten about his nonsense until I saw the Tech thread.

Will he get a ring if they win the whole thing?

Who had Indiana, Miami, Ole Miss, and Oregon, as the F4 to start the season? Gotta give that Rebel squad a hand. Georgia had a nine point lead at halftime, and they normally just squeeze you till you are paste, in the second half.

Ole Miss 34 Georgia 24. Just over nine minutes left.

Ole Miss is leading 27 to 24. Just over ten minutes left.

Two down ....Two to go!!!!!! Go get it Ducks!!!!!!!

Oregon has a great fanbase, but I imagine last week's home playoff ticket wasn't cheap. Flying to Miami, getting a hotel room, and buying a ticket are a bundle. The travel alone will price out a lot of people. These people who write these stories don't list traveling, lodging, and food prices. Especially on New Years Day, Miami isn't cheap on a random day in September. Texas Tech doesn't really have a large traveling fanbase like Notre Dame, Penn State, or Ohio State, to offset the Oregon travel dilemma either.

But 0-1 in playoff games, and hopefully 0-2 after Thursday .

Hey now, Willie Nelson was before Snoop Dogg now. Bob Marley, and Dean Martin should get some consideration as well.

That dude posts clickbait all the time. He CAPITALIZES EVERYTHING!!! HIS TITLES ALWAYS SAY THINGS LIKE " NOTRE DAME LEAVING ACC, JOINING BIG 12!!!!!" OR " MIAMI BEGGING TO JOIN BIG 12 RIGHT NOW!!!" I can't take anything he says seriously. It's like those tabloid magazines that said Bill Clinton had a baby with an alien, or Barney the Dinosaur outed as CIA informant.

I always used to watch the Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve. That, and the Holiday Bowl were always around. I still like watching these games, I wish they could be used as something like a G6 playoff going forward though.

It should be in Compton though, like an old high school stadium. The old Snoop Dogg wouldn't have it any other way. This version of Snoop Dogg, does commercials with Martha Stewart.

Last night we had life sized pop tarts, coming out of a huge toaster. Following what was an actually great game between BYU, and Georgia Tech. BYU is now the Pop Tarts Bowl champions. For what that's worth. Coming up, we'll have a winning coach, get doused in mayonnaise. In the Dukes Mayo Bowl. We also have a bowl game, where life sized Cheeze-Its will be in the stands, and on the sidelines. In, you guessed it, the Cheeze-It Bowl. Not to mention the Snoop Dog Bowl, that was also played yesterday. I'm guessing with player opt outs, transfers, and teams opting out like Notre Dame, Kansas State, Iowa State, and a a non bowl eligible Florida State(for some reason). These are the gimmicks, you need to make people watch these bowl games. If old Beano Cook was still alive, I wonder what he'd be saying about the state of today's game. How would Bear Bryant, Joe Paterno, Woody Hayes, or Bo Schembechler react? Imagine Joe Paterno on a stage with a giant Cheeze-It, or Bear Bryant celebrating ,while a giant pop tart is jumping on the stage. How would Woody Hayes react to getting Mayo dumped on him? Would Bo Schembechler know one Snoop Dogg song?

Well Kyle is taking the offensive coordinator from Utah, and the defensive coordinator from BYU. He's not going to coach the bowl game, as originally planned. He's flying to Orlando tonight, to meet with his new team. No transition, no goodbyes. He's now 100 percent invested in Michigan. I heard that Kyle might have been pushed into retirement, mainly because Utah wanted to hand the reigns over to their new head coach, somebody who they feared would take another job, if not promoted this off-season. Not known, but speculated by a few Ute insiders, whatever that means. I will say that this is about as good as Michigan could've hoped for. This late into the game, and with the crap storm of drama. Get away from the toxic Michigan man thing, we see what Michigan men have done the last decade. Heck your most revered coach, Bo Schembechler was a Buckeye😲.

Well Urban went to Ohio State, and his successor went to Michigan. Who knew that Utah bred future coaches for 'The Game'.

Merry Christmas!!! I hope all of you are enjoying this day however you want to. Be it around a large family, or be it with whomever you choose. Be it, a furry family member, or even just solitary. Know that no matter what, you have love on this day. Today we celebrate the greatest gift given to us all. Now with that said, I hope Santa gifted you with some great Duck mementos. Perhaps the first ever National Title, as a late delivery.

Bora Bora, Barbados, Baltimore....😅

Two things I want to be rectified before next year's playoff. Put the best 12, 16, or whatever number in. Seed them correctly, and don't give the higher seeded team a road game against a lower seeded opponent. Like Ohio State would've gotten, if Texas A&M would've won. Don't give any guaranteed spots to P6/ or Notre Dame. If they don't merit a ranking, based off their wins, and loss record. Don't put them in because of arbitrary language. That means Notre Dame has to play at least ten teams from a P4 league. They have to have good wins, and have them ranked in the top twelve range. (I don't like a three loss team from the SEC or B1G either, but tbh those teams are still going to be more deserving than a two loss AAC, or one loss Sun Belt program, with zero P4 wins.) If the P6 doesn't have an undefeated program, with at least two P4 wins, they don't qualify. You have to do what Cincy did in 2021, or UCF did in 2017. You have to do what Boise State did in 2000's-2010's. Notre Dame doesn't have to join a league, but they have to pay a competitive tag for not being in one. They get all the playoff shares to themselves, and all the television revenue from their NBC deal. That's great, but USC, Michigan, Ohio State, and every other 'Blueblood' that you want to play, won't play you on your terms anymore. You have to budge, you have to move. Those programs don't control nine out of twelve games. Those programs have big in conference rivalries in November, while you've been feasting on turkey legs. USC isn't going to play Oregon, and Notre Dame in back to back weeks.

He's going to Barbados for a weekend. He'll be back..... Always look at the wording, and......

If I was a gambler, the one game I would've picked the favorite to cover a three score game in a playoff, would've been this one. It seems like Oregon just lost focus after going up 48-13. James Madison didn't have the speed on the outside to challenge Oregon. The Dukes averaged less than two yards a rush in the first half. In the second, they were averaging over five. That's more than Indiana, USC, Penn State, Iowa, or Washington. I like to give credit to the opponent, but Oregon just lost gap integrity imo. It's a good thing I'm not a gambler, because my first bet would've been on Oregon covering. I think Oregon is a 1.5 favorite right now over Texas Tech. It's still early, so we'll see how the line moves.