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Whether Georgia football benefits from a nine-game SEC slate is in question following 2024 season
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Whether Georgia football benefits from a nine-game SEC slate is in question following 2024 season
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Nine game conference schedule sounds great but first, add two quality teams to the conference to make 18…..IMHO, Clemson and either FSU or Miami…..at any rate, I'd like to see two teams from each of the current SEC member states…..that leaves additions coming from Missouri, Oklahoma, Georgia, SC, Florida or Kentucky……slim pickens in MO, Okie St, GA Tech, FSU or Miami, and Louisville???
I read an article that said that the playoff field is expected to expand to 16(?). It also said that the SEC and BIG10 want 4 guaranteed bids. When that happens the SEC was expected to go to a 4 team SEC playoff. Adding in the 9th SEC regular season game seems unlikely in that scenario. Imagine how beat up a team would be after playing an 11 game SEC schedule before going to the playoffs.
14-16 teams and automatic conference bids are coming to the playoffs, like it or not. Even though officials refuse to do away with the conference Championship games, those games will become truly irrelevant once we go to CFP Seeding based on final rankings.
Bring in a 9th SEC game to line up with B1G and other conferences. Get rid of the SEC Championship game. Texas and GA officials admitted their teams were exhausted and beat up by the end of it. A clear disadvantage to both teams going into the playoffs while Ohio State got an extra week off.
And forget the additional play-in game scenarios. Those are ridiculous.
I've been a Dawg fan for nearly 50 years, and a confessed SEC homer since Bama beat Miami for NC years ago. I also find the NFL boring and am very much a traditionalist and as such do not look favorably on all the money changes going into CFB. I will still plan to watch UGA games with great passion, but I just don't see myself getting excited about all the changes.
A ninth game benefits ESPN more than UGA. Every single one of the SEC teams that got into last year's playoff was battered and beaten by the time thy got into the tournament and thus did not perform up to standard. I don't believe that Ohio state was 25 points better than Tennessee, no way that it should have taken overtime for Texas to defeat Arizona State, and UGA just looked like a tired football team against Notre. Dawgs played hard, but when your beat up and tired it's hard to play well.