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Georgia football 2024 title hopes benefit with Texas, Oklahoma early-Big 12 exit talks stalling
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Georgia football 2024 title hopes benefit with Texas, Oklahoma early-Big 12 exit talks stalling
MOBILE, Ala. — The SEC won’t expand with Texas and Oklahoma until 2025, per an ESPN report, which would leave Georgia’s schedule intact.
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So they canceled our highlight match up for nothing? Thanks a lot. Now we're gonna get dragged all year for our schedule and it's not our fault.
I'm old school. I'd rather not expand the SEC any further. With the playoffs expanding, this will allow more conferences to get their teams in, including the Big 12. Other than a little more money being generated, someone give me another good reason for allowing Oklahoma and Texas into the SEC? Is it REALLY worth it? This only seems to be a big win for those two schools. We were doing just fine without them.
GO DAWGS!
I'm with you, @Silver_Britches. My problem with the conference expansions is that it'll mess up the 12-team playoff seedings.
With three top programs, plus UCLA, joining the two best conferences, the playoffs would need to have five or six SEC teams and three or four Big 10 teams to accurately reflect the 12 best teams in the country.
I doubt that'll happen, because there will be too many not-so-good teams with great records from the other eight conferences. So, for example, a 11-1 Troy will always beat out a 10-2 Penn State or a 9-3 Tennessee even if the latter two teams lost only to the likes of Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State.
I guess we're stuck with these changes, though, because the rich conferences are so much stronger than the NCAA. Oh, well. It's not like the old bowl setup made more sense!
Oklahoma was to play in Athens in 2025 as part of a home/home series. That wouldn't have worked with OK joining the SEC in 2025, so both games were canceled.
Wow, so we get ripped off for the Oklahoma game again. So how about a zero-week USC marquee matchup? 😎
I don't know what is funnier.
Didn't think of that. Good point, I just like beating Oklahoma and well... everybody else. 😎
@thadec
“It will work for UGA in 2022.”
I think UGA did just fine without it in 2022.
Got to admit, I'm with on this one @thadec. I'm probably the rare Georgia fan who would LOVE a full schedule loaded with patsies if it means we get to play in the NCG every year. All people will remember 5, 10, 50 years from now, is who won the championship, not how strong or weak their schedule was. Let everyone else play the "marquee matchups." I'll gladly watch. Why make it hard on ourselves? And if by some miracle, a fickle finger of fate comes along and somehow OU and Texas decide to STAY in the Big 12, I'd be perfectly OK with that, too. I just want to win it all again, baby. And the easier that road is for UGA, the better. Go Dawgs!
Agreed. With OK joining the SEC, EVENTUALLY OK and UGA will be scheduled. Play the game in '23 at OK as scheduled and then play the next scheduled OK/UGA SEC game at UGA. It was a no brainer.
Expansion is an arms race. Grow and add TV markets means bigger TV contracts means more tv money per team. It was about money. It is always about money.
Gotta feel sorry for those season ticket holders in 2023...what a weak slate of home games.
I agree with most of what you’re getting at here. The only catch to number five is that all of that development you mention is going to come against - from what we can guess right now - sub-par teams. While in-game reps MAY provide a different experience from practice, the whole “iron sharpens iron” idea sort of goes out the window when so much of the season is given over to sharpening our iron with lead. Healthy is good, yes, but healthy and not actually conditioned isn’t. Remember the SECCG from ‘21, after that chunk of late-season cupcakes?
Yeah, we’ll still be there, but I don’t expect it to get quite as lit as November 5 was this past year.
That's the explanation we keep getting, but I have yet to see anyone actually explain why two teams that will be in the same conference couldn't play a game that was scheduled. At face value, it makes absolutely no sense.
Both Texas and OK are breathing a huge sigh of RELIEF that they have until 2025 before they face meaningful competition in the SEC. At present neither team is up to the standard off competing against The Dawgs, The Tide, much less LSU, Tenn., et. al.
In the end the home-and-home would have ended up messing up the intra-conference scheduling. Or rather, honoring the second home game would have affected (read: favored the interests of UGA and OK) how the conference schedule was worked out, thereby affecting every teams slate. Put like that, it sounds simple enough: since we're incorporating two new teams, just start things out honoring that deal, and there's no issue. The problem, I think, is that they were scheduled as out-of-conference games - and major deal ones at that - and the follow-up games would have been standard intra-conference fare. What I'm pretty sure all of that really means is that the money gets uneven somewhere along the line, and someone would lose out.