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Georgia football winners and losers after Bulldogs beat Alabama, earn College Football Playoff bye
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Georgia football winners and losers after Bulldogs beat Alabama, earn College Football Playoff bye
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1st - Notre Dame refusing to be part of a conference cost them a chance to play in the playoffs. They sat home while the big boys played. I can't stand them, and I'm happy they are miserable. Time to grow up crybabies. Find a conference even if it's the one with Tulane.
2nd - Conference championships need to be the first playoff level. Bama shouldn't be in the 12. The lost, they should be going to the aloe vera bowl. ACC needs to fix whatever they did to get Duke in. How is it that Miami got in and Duke is the ACC champ - How ****. Does the NCAA have any say about anything anymore?
3rd - Proud of the dawgs. But it's should be obvious how to beat Deboer's team - just blitz, because he doesn't have the ability to run the ball. Saban is long gone, and the lack of (dare I say) physicality was obvious.
IMO Notre Dame should be in and the inbreds out if for nothing else losing so badly to that sorry FSU team. The Irish would whip Bama on the field today if they played.
The SEC going to a 9-game schedule is the gift that the B1G has been asking the SEC to give them for many years. Ohio State with their ultra weak B1G schedule is essentially never going to get challenged beyond two loses, and that schedule is so weak that whichever team comes in second place in the B1G will almost never have more than two losses.
Playing 9-SEC games will strengthen the schedule and produce one more competitive game. But despite the 'Committee' telling us they will honor strength of schedule, history has proven that when it comes to comparing and picking 'who's in' between the SEC and the B1G, they will not. That extra SEC game is a big win for the B1G and for the committee's bias against the SEC.
"After it was announced, they weren’t selected to the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame followed it up with an announcement it would be skipping bowl season altogether."
I am so glad the 2023 UGA team had the class to accept their bowl invitation, and seemed genuinely excited about playing in it. I seriously doubt CKS even considered skipping it, and if I remember correctly there was at least one player who encouraged all the other players to not opt out, but to make the trip and play (which turned out to be bad news for Florida State). This is typical of Notre Dame who thinks they are doing CFB a big favor by playing their soft schedule every year.
I can't stand Notre Dame either but the facts are facts, Bama should NOT be in the playoffs. I'm hoping OU beats them worse this time. I am ready to see the wheels come off of the Bama program, and they are on their way. That yankee boy coach they hired is not the ticket.
Notre Dame lost to the two best teams on their schedule. The only thing they proved in 2025 is that they can beat lesser opponents.
Connor, shouldn't Kirby speak his 'peace' instead of 'piece'?
ND is a bunch of spoiled brats that's used to getting their way, and when they don't, they cry, sulk, throw a temper tantrum, then they pick up their ball and run home, crying all the way! ND should be made to do one of two things: 1. Join a conference, or 2. Play a five game SEC or Big 10 schedule in stead of the five game All Cupcake Conference schedule they play now. They need to earn their way into the playoffs, not have it handed to them like a spoiled little brat, which they usually seem to always do.
many years ago I really disliked nd. Then came the glorious years under Gerry Faust and they lost four in a row to Air Force, while I was there, and I started feeling sorry for them. Enter Holtz and they returned to significance and I started the dislike again. Loved seeing them get destroyed by bama in ‘13 natty. This decision reeks of elitism and I feel bad for the kids, but not the institution.
Got to agree, just one more chance to exclude SEC teams because they play the toughest schedule in college football!
I have no real sympathy for Notre Dame, but I do understand their frustration.
The rules of who gets in the playoffs are clear, but does anyone in their right mind think JMU or Tulane is better than the Irish?
The wasted playoff games that few will watch involving those (2) Group of 5 teams are a joke and a mockery of this 12-team format. If you want to have the (12) BEST teams in this playoffs, then you'd better change the rules that don't involve playing politics or treating all conferences equally. Because frankly, they are not equal. Put the (12) best teams in the playoffs with no rules on which conferences they come from.
If you want to expand the playoffs to 24 teams then maybe one or two Gof5 teams makes sense. But they are certainly not in any way, shape, or form deserving of being in a 12-team playoff.
Loser: CFP Rankings
Back when UGA lost to BAMA by 3 points in the regular season Georgia fell 7 spots in the CFP Rankings while the Tide gained 7. Fast forward to this past weekend where UGA blows out Bama by three touchdowns while Ohio State loses by 3 points. Ohio State drops one spot. Georgia gains nothing and Bama remains where they were. But I bet you money if UGA somehow had of lost to Bama they would have fallen in the rankings. Makes no sense.
Winner: Georgia's defense
As @UGA66 put it, "It was defensive dominance but still very good complimentary football! GO DAWGS!!!"