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  1. This is some really stupid shit slorch. Are you trying to argue that a couple years ago SEC schedulers deliberately designed a schedule with the foreknowledge that 3 teams ranked in the 2025 top 15 preseason would completely fall out by the end of the year and four teams ranked 18 or below would finish with 2 or fewer losses and move up?
  2. My brain is breaking a bit here because a team by definition can’t go 7-5 against the top 12 and also be inside said top 12. It can’t play itself. You have 13 teams here in this scenario and one of them has to be 13. (So this has in a contained way shown why you can’t design a perfectly satisfactory playoff cutoff at any given point).
  3. Also, I like it that the Mormons are coming to play in the mire. Big American Primeval vibes, back to the swashbuckling, gunslinging roots. Only in the USA baby.
  4. It’s the American Catholics that keep the Vatican afloat and coffers full and not the other way around.
  5. Literally any school can be independent if it chooses to be.
  6. BYU ain’t out of it by a longshot and having a literal prophet of the Almighty in the back pocket as a persuader carries significant heft so long as the coach believes it.
  7. Firing Franklin to get BYU corch is really funny. In the interim Franklin is dismantling PSU’s class. I admire what he’s doing. No bullshit, no whining. Left with dignity and went to work.
  8. No, see, you claimed that SEC won’t schedule the Big XII and that was laughable and stupid because the Big XII is all over current and future SEC slates. “Not scheduling Texas Tech” is a very different proposition. Why would the SEC top tier book a H2H involving a trip to Lubbock when they can line up marquee OOC opponents with big audiences and national interest anywhere they want? SLC and Tempe at least offer nice trips, Kansas offers a historical rivalry. What is Tech offering to an LSU or Georgia who can schedule teams like ND, Clemson, Michigan for their premiere OOC H2H series? And until a hot minute ago Tech wasn’t even a particularly GOOD Big XII team. Guess what, Cincinnati isn’t getting those games either.
  9. I don’t count coach podium chatter as an actual attempt to schedule. In any event, LSU currently has Utah and ASU on future schedules. “Won’t schedule Big XII” is a laughable point. 2026 currently has WVa, ASU, Utah, Kansas, Baylor on the SEC OOC slate.
  10. Hell of a thing to dismiss a team that played OSU closer than Texas did in the NC game as no one.
  11. What sort of gibberish is this? The SEC won’t schedule the Big XII or ACC? Off the top of my head SEC teams have played the following teams this year OOC: Baylor, ASU, Clemson, Miami, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, FSU, Syracuse, Kansas, Louisville. That’s in addition to multiple B1G and ND OOC games. And the Big XII and ACC got their cheeks clapped on the whole. What SEC games has Tech reached out to try and schedule?
  12. He went 7-5 at Tennessee, then got fired in an embarrassing way at USC. He’s since had two good seasons at FAU and four 10+ win seasons at Ole Miss. He isn’t yet smelling someone like Spurrier’s jock let alone actual GOAT candidates.
  13. The problem is not the playoff format (although I don’t like the concept at all). The problem is these mega-conferences which create scheduling imbalances inherently. It’s a problem colleges made for themselves. In a pre-2024 world: - The SEC West has sorted out Ole Miss, ‘Bama, and A&M with one team going to CCG and maybe one an outside shot at an at-large. - The PAC-12 is looking to send one of likely Oregon and USC. - The ACC’s best team in Miami is heading to a CCG and not at home due to scheduling weirdness. Or is just out and two teams that won divisions are in. - The Big XII has whittled down OU, Texas, Tech, and BYU to two or max three. But as I’ve said, the playoff was a solution to a problem that only existed in the hot takes of sports talking heads. And at this point we spend all our energy trying to fix the playoff at the expense of all the stuff that made CFB great like regional rivalries, fun OOC games, battles for conference bragging rights, mid-major interest and engagement, etc. Bass-ackwards.
  14. Never forget….Colonel Reb is cryin’ again.
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