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Refs called 3 UGA TDs back and overruled a catch that would have lead to a 4th. There were a couple of replays that overturned really bad calls. Lead ref seemed really upset that those got overruled. Georgia had a starting OL and their top 3 receivers out. Kirby was just trying to stay healthy. Play calling was very vanilla. He wasn't going to show Alabama anything. It was still a 15 point lead until Tech scored with about 5 minutes left to make it 8.

If Michigan loses there are very few scenarios where they get in. Mandel is mostly fos these days.

Agree. I thought the committee would have been better, but it has been far worse. When Alvarez and Osborne were on it was the worst. Committee members said they deferred to the coaches. And it was two 3 yards and a cloud of dust coaches who didn't respect the new offenses. TCU should have been in 2014. Its group dynamics. Groups often get swayed by the most opinionated and they take over. At least with the polls, the people are responding independently. I'll be glad when all they do is pick 6 or 7 and the champs all get in. A #10/11/12 isn't getting badly screwed if they miss it.

Oregon played the bottom 6 in the Pac and beat up on them. You have to look at who they played, not which conference. And Sagarin, for one, shows the Big 12 as the 2nd strongest conference.

Agree.

But it would have been better if that guy rushed. You can't give Milroe all day.

Georgia usually lets the other team score first and then steamrolls them in the 2nd or 3rd quarter.

Agreed. The only way Ohio St. gets in the playoff is if FSU, Texas and Alabama all lose. They will be behind the Pac 12 champ, SEC champ and Michigan. They will be behind Georgia if Alabama wins the SEC. And Georgia, Michigan, Washington and FSU all get in with a win. They simply won't leave out an unbeaten P5 champ. Oregon, Texas and Alabama don't control their own destiny, but all have a chance.

Sagarin SOS: Washington 26 Michigan 55 Georgia 56 FSU 66 Texas 2 Alabama 15 Ohio St. 31 Oregon 52 ESPN's FPI is a total crock.

BS. We win and FSU loses and we are in. Ohio St. has almost no chance. They will be behind Michigan, the SEC champ and the Pac 12 champ, no matter what. Texas wins and they are out. FSU wins and they are out. They may be behind Georgia if UGA loses.

If we get left out behind 4 unbeaten teams I don't really have a problem with that, even if I think we are better than Washington or FSU. If we get left out behind Oregon who had a lot weaker SOS I would be very unhappy. If somehow we got left out behind a 1 loss Ohio St., Michigan or Alabama, then its time to throw out the committee.

Well 3 of those are against each other. WVU, Baylor, Tech and Okie St. have all managed to lose a game against one of them.

They didn't have any SEC teams on their schedule after losing 49-3 to UGA last year.

What the talking heads seem to forget is that if Alabama beats Georgia, we STILL have a better win than Alabama since they will be ranked ahead of Georgia.

And Leach.

Your #2 is merely possible. Its highly probable Texas gets in over a 1 loss Alabama. We've had a stronger schedule, same record and beat them in their house by 10. The way they evaluate teams in triads, Texas definitely beats out Alabama by their rules if its for the 4 or 5 slot. In any event, Georgia is going to beat Alabama worse than we did. We need to make sure we keep winning and FSU/UW and preferably OR have losses. The 2 Pac can make our path much clearer if WSU/OSU win this weekend.

That just shows that Bama fans are delusional. Washington, Oregon, FSU and Texas have a lot better odds of winning out than Bama does of beating Georgia. Odds makers don't pick who wins. They guess how people will bet. My Dad had a friend in Kentucky who said there was no more sure way to make money than to take the points and bet against Kentucky basketball, because there are a lot of UK fans and they will almost always bet on Kentucky beating the spread.

https://sports.yahoo.com/is-college-athletics-headed-for-the-great-split-we-need-to-recreate-or-relaunch-the-ncaa-160523061.html The divorce of the P4 and NCAA is on the horizon. Or at least the divorce of the major schools from most of Division I or from FBS or something else... "Last Friday, a day before his university hosted Michigan in a Big Ten football game in College Park, Maryland athletic director Damon Evans sat before a group of college athletic stakeholders inside a conference room at the Marriott Marquis giving a direct, at times blunt, and sometimes jarring assessment of college sports and its future. A sitting Big Ten AD vocalized publicly what’s been privately whispered for months: Within five years — and most say much sooner — the Power Five conference schools will operate from under a new governance structure that features an athlete revenue-sharing model, a shift often described by many within the industry as “The Great Split.” “I do believe five years from now that we will be at a point where we are sharing revenue with student-athletes,” Evans told leaders of the Knight Commission, a group of mostly former and current college athletic administrators promoting educational reforms in college sports. “To think we are not going to be sharing some of those revenues… we are going to be there. It would not surprise me to see some sort of different type of governance structure in place that separates the A5 out from the current structure.” The Great Split is no longer a far-fetched idea or a long-shot theory. It is instead a looming reality in light of legal challenges facing college athletics, most notably the costly House antitrust case against the NCAA and the power conferences. The case, seeking as much as $3 billion in retroactive name, image and likeness (NIL) and broadcasting revenue payments, is the latest lawsuit expected to chip away at the NCAA’s bedrock of amateurism. The case will, undoubtedly, force the organization to distribute more revenue to athletes like those legal losses before it (think: cost-of-attendance payments in 2015 and Alston academic-related stipends in 2021).... “There are a number of models being created,” he continued. “Some I’ve been sworn to secrecy on. I sat in a room and listened to a model. There is no end to the models, the next iteration and what it might look like.” After the meeting, White spoke more to Yahoo Sports about the models, some of which would have the power conference schools “leave and take their resources with them,” he said. That’s something he believes will negatively impact college athletics’ broad-based, Olympic sport system...."

We are WAY overdue. Very little in the last 3 weeks. Lets just hope we aren't directly involved.

Per Sagarin SOS among the top 10: Texas 2 Alabama 24 Washington 25 Missouri 26 Ohio St. 47 Oregon 57 Georgia 61 Michigan 63 Louisville 64 FSU 68

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/dolly-parton-joins-peyton-manning-at-tennessee-vs-georgia-sings-rocky-top/ar-AA1k9DLh Dolly Parton sang Rocky Top at the Tennessee-Georgia game Saturday, escorted in by Peyton Manning. After the horrible sound system where she couldn't hear or be heard and Georgia's 38-10 win, word is, Dolly is entering the transfer portal.

Milroe looks better, but the rest of Bama looks about the same. Very undisciplined for a Saban team. Still don't have the same quality receivers.

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/11/16/pac-12-legal-affairs-washingtons-highest-court-issues-stay-delaying-takeover-of-the-board-by-wsu-and-osu/ Higher court stays ruling for WSU/OSU.

The stupidity of 14-18 team conferences and no divisions.