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College Football Playoff expert: Georgia not among top tier playoff contenders

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  • tommieleetommielee Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Everyone is an expert and all have an opinion, you can get mad at the messenger, but the message is correct. Until UGA wins at least the SEC 3 out of the next 6 years, don't expect ESPN to show much respect to the Dawgs. Kirby did win the SEC in just his second year, and came up 3 points shy in that years title game. Saban has outcoached his former assistants 23 out of 23 games. The odds of that happening is total dominance. It's happened to Kirby 3 times, One day when the stars align, a former assistant of Sabans will beat him in a head to head matchup. Kirby was hired to do what no head coach has done at Georgia since Vince Dooley. It's well past time to earn the respect that the Dawgs and fans want. The respect could come to the team starting next Saturday. It all depends on what the final score will be. Respect has to be earned, it's not freely given

  • PerroGrandePerroGrande Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    The picture says it all--the last time we were in the Natty, nobody gave us a chance of getting there at the start of the year. The moral of the story is that prognosticators are nearly always wrong. The hard part is picking who will win, not picking who won't win. That's why they write articles like that---saying mainly who won't win. 129 out of 130 guesses will be right.

  • tommieleetommielee Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    A few things to ponder: Teams that at least win their conference titles are going to be given more respect by the national sports writers. Teams like Ohio State, Oklahoma, Clemson and most years Alabama are the champs from their respective conferences. The one year that the Dawgs won the SEC, Bama still was named to the playoffs because their only loss was to Auburn that year. You can say all you want about OU, Ohio State and Clemson having an easier path to the playoffs because they have no one to worry about in their conferences, but year after year they are crowned their conference champs, and so are sent to the playoffs. For the Dawgs to get to the national playoffs they are going to have to win the SEC title, or at least have a 11-1 record to be considered for it. Making the playoffs 1 year out of 6 isn't showing you deserve much respect. To change the narrative, you just have to do what the late Al Davis said "Just Win Baby". The Dawgs will play Clemson next Saturday on a national stage. If they lose by a close score, say 21-20, you may say, the Dawgs almost won, but the national sports writers will probably think and write, the Dawgs and Kirby still isn't ready for Prime Time. Win or lose, I will stick by the Dawgs, but I'll be pulling for them to win. Go Dawgs!

  • ATDATD Posts: 266 ✭✭✭ Junior

    Breaking news from Heather Dimwit. Bama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, and Clemson early favorites to make CFB playoffs. Saved you a lot of reading.

  • deplorabledawgdeplorabledawg Posts: 363 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Wokewad journalists are wrong 99.9% of the time!!

  • stonestone Posts: 399 ✭✭✭ Junior

    23-0 is impressive. I think it ends this year. I give Old Miss and Kiffin the best chance. This game will probably be real shootout even though Bama will have an excellent defense. It will come down to can Bama keep up on the scoreboard.

    This unfortunately will be the game Saban will need to focus his team. It will sat the stage for Bama to play in the NC. It seems ever year Saban starts a first time quarterback that where they end up.

    I think Kirby can get to the playoffs too. It is a matter of taking care of business starting with Clemson. Facing Saban in the National championship game, the advantage could very easily be with Kirby as it is extremely difficult to beat the same team twice in the same season.

  • reddawg1reddawg1 Posts: 3,830 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Insightful reporters or so called experts are able to see what others can't. Give me the person who picked LSU to win it all the offseason heading into their NC run. I'll listen to them. GIve me the person who predicted the Chiefs would win the SB the offseason before they did it. I'll listen to them.

    THe only difference in Heather and any other BAMA, OSU, or Clemson fan is she get's paid to say what virtually everyone else does for free.

  • MarkGelbartMarkGelbart Posts: 53 ✭✭ Sophomore

    Well, she is not much of an expert.

  • stonestone Posts: 399 ✭✭✭ Junior

    @reddawg1 actually she is looking at more than just one team which makes her point of view different from the vast majority of posts. You are correct about both winning and Bama being a safe bet. To this point winning the East is nice and gets you a nice bowl game like the Peach or Sugar but not much else.

  • SmokeOnTheWaterSmokeOnTheWater Posts: 66 ✭✭ Sophomore

    Funny how Mike and Connor choose to highlight an "expert" such as Dinich who has the same credibility as they do instead of Schlabach or similar. I suppose highlighting Schlabach's take on this years UGA team does not fit their anti-UGA agenda.

  • MontanaDawgMontanaDawg Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Well, I'd say Oklahoma is no better than the DAWGS, so I'd put both teams in the same 2nd tier. OU has lost to the Dawgs and blown several games they should have won. Sound familiar?

    We will soon know after the Clemson game whether or not the DAWGS will rise to that 1st tier this season.

  • stonestone Posts: 399 ✭✭✭ Junior

    @MontanaDawg actually OU wins there conference and beats teams that beat the dawgs. I’d say that makes them a little different. It also probably explains why they have been in the playoffs 3 of the last 4 years.

    While some have disagreed with me about the importance of the Clemson game, I am under the impression that if you want to move from tier 2 to tier 1, then you need to start beating the tier 1 teams. BTW, I also think it takes more than one season to become a tier 1 team.

  • DawggyDawggy Posts: 346 ✭✭✭ Junior

    I thought ‘17 was a defining moment for UGA, but it wasn’t. We haven’t been that good since. The worst is, in every year but ‘17, Kirby inexplicably loses to an underdog, exactly like his predecessor. Just as head-scratching losses to bad UF, UT, and SC teams kept splendid Coach Richt teams out of the Big Game, Kirby is having bad losses to UF, SC, and LSU (‘18) keeping his Dawgs out of the CFPs. The Ole Miss loss in ‘16 and Texas in ‘18 were inconsequential, but embarrassing. Kirby is safe at UGA, but he is at a crossroads. If he can’t win it all with this talent of athletes and coaches, when will he?

    Go Dawgs! Go Kirby!

  • E_RocE_Roc Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited August 2021

    tommielee,

    I think it's just kind of a pointless article to have produced. By categorizing the groups as she has, Dinich pretty much acknowledges that certain teams do in fact have a much easier path to the playoff than others. Why, then, should the teams be tiered? Tiering implies superiority. So when one of the main criteria is, apparently, how easy your schedule is, the exercise stops making sense pretty quickly - as evidenced by a team like Oklahoma ending up a whole "tier" above a team like Georgia, which has accomplished more in the playoff than Oklahoma has.

  • E_RocE_Roc Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
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