ATHENS — Kirby Smart was asked after the game about what has to happen for his team to get into the SEC championship game.
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The short answer is no. Our head-to-head over TX would put us above them if they lose next week, and so would aTm’s.
Yes. Man, yall remember two weeks ago when it was going to be chaos? It’s actually shaken out pretty simply with OM and the Bummers wetting the bed this week.
If we lost the SEC championship against Texas (and didn't play absolutely horribly), I think we'd be in. It wouldn't make sense to penalize a team for making the conference championship game.
Big caveat: I'm not confident that the committee is capable of making sense!
Yeah, the problem is that history is not on our side on this one. Last year: undefeated regular season; close-ish seccg loss; bye bye UGA. 12 teams should brighten that scenario, but I’m not holding my breath.
The history is that leaving Georgia out last year was fair — given the argument for the four teams that made it. The only thing that was unfair last year was that people actually took Mike Norvell's whining seriously. FSU at 13-0 was not too different from 13-0 Liberty.
Leaving UGA out this year after a close-ish SECCG loss would definitely be unfair.
