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Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin complains about Georgia game time, College Football Playoff system
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Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin complains about Georgia game time, College Football Playoff system
ATHENS —Georgia didn’t catch a break when the SEC schedule came out before the season, but the Bulldogs benefitted from the Ole Miss game time announcement.
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Sorry Lane, you are always complaining about something…the networks get to decide which games play at what time. Bama @ LSU is simply a classic matchup in the Bayou at night…playing that game over the Grove in Oxford at night is a no-brainer. Besides, you've got bigger worries with your team other than when they get to play.
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Like the 3:30 for the Dawgs.
Like the 3:30 GoDawgs!
Lane Kiffin is a crybaby; he acts like his team is the only one that doesn't get any night games, Georgia has had to play in three away night games this season, and no night games at home, right now the Dawgs have only one night game on their Schedule, Georgia Tech, Lane Kiffin's biggest problem is he runs his mouth, instead of coaching his team.
I find myself agreeing with Lane on this one.
Absolutely agree with Lane on the playoff take. Look at Clemson for example - they don't play Miami during the regular season and could easily win the ACC and get a bye while Georgia would stand a greater chance of missing out. If you compared the SOS, Dawgs would easily win that one. Notre Dame is a constant thorn due to their very weak schedule and the fact they got beat by Southern Ill at home mind you.
Love the DAWGS get the 3:30 instead of night. Truth be told, Ole Miss has low capacity and the odds of any students being sober enough to make it to the game at 7:30 seems mighty low - particularly in the Greek section in the end zone. Just kidding - they do like to have a good time and that much daylight is a recipe for over-indulgence.
Tough road ahead for the DAWGS - will need to play very well and hope for few if any injuries. Go DAWGS - hate Florida week.
@Henddawg…understand what you are saying about the level of competition in the ACC as compared to the other Power conferences. Miami is clearly the best and should be in the ACC Championship game. Clemson has a cake schedule overall and got hammered by the Dawgs. I will be really surprised if they actually survive and make it into the playoff field. Right now some playoffs predictions don't have them there and others have them as high as #10. I think Clemson would lose the ACC Championship and only Miami would make it in for the ACC. And Miami DOES deserve a top 4 spot IMO as it stands right now.
The playoff system isn't perfect obviously, but I'd be surprised if the SEC doesn't get at least 3 teams - maybe 4 - in the playoffs (vs just maybe 1 from the ACC). A lot of games left to play to see what happens.
Even though Kiffin is not one of my favorite people and even though he is a crybaby, he is right I think, right in what he said, perhaps not right to bítch and moan.
Your example - Clemson - is spot on.
The system was poorly thought out. Strength of schedule should take precedence over winning a meaningless and relatively easy conference-of-cupcakes title.
All that said, Ole Miss just has to win all the games, like everybody else, to win all the marbles. They're not a special case. They don't have the worst schedule. Etc.
Poor baby, that Lane.
Go, Dawgs!
The bigger injustice would have been making UGA play a 4th night game on the road. Lane is right about the playoff system, but this is just another example of why you can't take him seriously as an elite HC. He worries too much about things out of his control and comes across as more of a fan sometimes. Lane seems destined to join Dan Mullen as a TV analyst, and I have no doubt he would spice things up in that role.
Sorry Lane, but I was hoping it would be a noon game (11AM your time). That would have given your fans very little time to get juiced-up before kickoff. Go Dawgs and stomp the lizards 🦎
Cry me a river Lane..
@JimWallace @Henddawg @MontanaDawg @reddawg1 Nah, Lane Kiffin isn't right. Yes, Lane, the SEC is tougher than the ACC and Big 12. But no, Lane, your Ole Miss is not one of the reasons why. You are 6-2 but with wins over 4-3 South Carolina, 4-4 Oklahoma, 4-4 Wake Forest, Georgia Southern, Middle Tennessee and Furman. You know Georgia will be your third loss so you are trying to convince people that beating 5-3 Arkansas should get you a playoff spot "because SEC." Lane, victories over unranked middling teams aside, that would make you 0-2 against the best 5 teams in the SEC with a home loss to one of the worst teams in the SEC and a laughable nonconference schedule.
The third place ACC or Big 12 team making the playoff is an argument against having a 12 team playoff. Not an argument for an Ole Miss team that would have 4 losses already (Clemson neutral site, at Kentucky, at Texas, at Alabama) against UGA's schedule to pretend as if it is actually capable of winning a title by getting an invite. Let Kiffin and Ole Miss earn their playoff spot with their own accomplishments instead of backdooring their way in on the accomplishments of A&M, UGA, Tennessee, Bama, LSU and Texas.
Also, Lane, you could have had the Florida, Bama, FSU, UCLA or Auburn jobs, where getting the talent and exposure needed to make the playoff would have come a lot easier. But no, you decided to stay in Oxford where alternating between 10-2 and 8-4 for the next 20 years will allow you to avoid all that pressure and retire a hero. You also could have built Tennessee into a powerhouse by now had you stayed instead of jumping ship for a USC program that had been hammered for the NCAA for violations committed while you were on their staff. So please, just deal with the choices that you yourself made OK?