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What do the early preseason college football polls tell us about college football (CFB) and the CFB Playoff in 2026-27? Are we CFB fans going to see more nonsense after all the changes that have occurred in our favorite sport? Our own Mr. FishDuck had to take a pause from his gaming fun at Pinco to share his apprehension about ...

Unbelievable...Same SEC Stuff, Different Day

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Two Sites: FishDuck and the Our Beloved Ducks forum, The only "Forum with Decorum!" And All-Volunteer? What a wonderful community of Duck fans!

  • Moderator
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Thanks Jon, the jury is in, the verdict: Pollsters are prejudiced by favoring the SEC. Another win for the prosecutor Mr. Joseph!

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Thank you, Mr. Smith. And another tip of the hat to my much-needed and much-appreciated editor, Mr. Fischer.

Preseason rankings are profitable. They are superfluous, but they make money. Thus, in today's world of college football ...

Greg Sankey pulled the automatic qualifier 16-team playoff format out from under B1G commish Tony Petitti.

However, Greg and the SEC went to nine conference games, certain that the B1G would support a 16-team field with five automatic and eleven at-large bids, the format favored by the SEC, ACC, B12, G6, the Domers, and every journalist without a lick of business sense (100 per-cent.)

Tony - 👍👌😁😍 Greg - 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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SEC trying desperately to maintain the illusion that, on an even playing field, they actually were that much more dominate than any other conference.

When in reality they have ran a successful "ad campaign" (anchored by Paul Fawnbaum) in addition with "creative" (cheating) roster building; and the actuality of competing on an even playing field is shattering that illusion of dominance top to bottom.

May not be "noble", but I am so here for it all?

GO DUCKS! & The B1G!

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Great article Jon, and more proof that regardless of performance on the field...that the National Champion is from the Big-10 for the third year in a row, and B1G teams beat SEC teams, and showed our new depth-- yet none of it matters when the polls come out.

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Mr. FishDuck

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This round is another victory for the B1G imo.

The SEC (and ACC) just injected a whole bunch of losses into the mix by going to 9 game conference schedules in 2026 without an ironclad SOS formula being part of the mix. Everything else is pretty much status quo.

To date, I see little evidence that SOS is directly impactful in an objective way. It seems like the SOS logic remains the same…SEC teams will be on the bubble at 9 wins, all others at 10 wins. Number of losses will directly impact the weekly polls, which in turn seems to ultimately influence the playoff committee imo.

Number of wins is still king.

Edited by JabbaNoBargain

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"Mr. Fischer"? I see what you did there.

  • Administrator
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53 minutes ago, jrw said:

"Mr. Fischer"? I see what you did there.

"Heavy on the Mister."

Yes, Jon and other guest writers submit the articles in an email, and then I take it from there. I load it into WordPress, add the formatting, and sometimes tweak a few sentences for clarity and then go search for pictures. So yeah...I serve as a copy editor-light.

As I recall...you are a writer/editor, and anytime you or ANYONE has something to say...write it up and email it to me. I'll publish it!

Mr. FishDuck

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SEC is 2-7 in the playoffs the last three years against other P4 opponents. Both wins from Texas in the '24-'25 playoff against Clemson and ASU.

The SEC hasn't beaten a BIG opponent in that stretch.

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