Damn, it's embarrassing to have so many people going on and on and on about being penalized for playing - and losing - a big-time OOC game. If anything, we in fact get plus marks for playing tOSU closer than their other 11 games.
No, get the fuck outta here with that "OOC big-game loss keeping us out of the champeenships" bullshit.
What keeps us out is the other two losses. Most of all, Florida. That was pathetic... actually, it was asswater, am I right? Yes, I fucking am. How the fuck do you come off a bye, with a full extra week to prepare, and lose to Florida? What the fuck was the coaching staff, from the top down, doing for those two weeks? It damn sure wasn't preparing for Florida. Fuck me.
After Florida, we knew, absofuckinglutely knew, we had to win out... at least to the point of being in the CCG, with a pretty-much guaranteed CFP berth there, win or lose.
Beating UGa was a requirement. Again, we came off a bye, and again we were unready, outplayed, and outcoached. Coffin, meet nail.
One last time: losing to tOSU didn't put us out of the CFP. Losing to UGa didn't put us out of the CFP, even though it was the proverbial Last Straw. Nope. What put us out of the CFP was being humiliated by a team that was ready to - and did - fire their HC.
Asswater.