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Josh Brooks, SEC want âimmediateâ results from 9-game league slate
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Josh Brooks, SEC want âimmediateâ results from 9-game league slate
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. â Josh Brooks wants to see immediate results from the SEC adding a ninth conference game in the College Football Playoff Committee rankings this season.
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It just means more.
SEC 2025-26 Bowl season record (including playoffs): 4-10
Hey Josh, does it really mean more any longer in the SEC???
I'm starting to wonder…we may have a tougher conference, but we're certainly not proving it on the field and when it counts, in the playoffs. Let's start changing the narrative.
i dont think the committee cares at all about 9 games. they will punish the sec as a way to brow beat them into compliance to the 24 team expansion. the sec wont walk away, and after sticking it to several deserving teams this year (watch and see), they will all revolt and demand it go to 24 to cure the injustice.
A 10-2 team will beat a 9-3 team in the CFP room almost every time, regardless of schedule strength. The problem is that 9-3 gives the committee enough discretion to justify selecting whichever team it already prefers. History suggests that discretion has not always worked in the SEC's favor.
Committee members are human. They live in communities, have regional ties, and inevitably hear opinions from family, friends, media, and fans. We've seen similar regional influences debated for decades in the old AP Poll era. Notre Dame, in particular, has often benefited from the perception and prestige that come with its unique national profile.
Until the CFP changes its selection structure, the SEC will continue to face what many fans view as a built-in disadvantage. In my view, the conference has already been on the wrong side of multiple CFP decisions.
The solution is a two-tier system. Create an anonymous selection committee that evaluates and ranks teams behind closed doors, then place it under the oversight of a separate executive committee. Think of it like the federal court system: district courts make the initial rulings, while the Supreme Court provides oversight and final authority.
The executive committee would announce the final selections, but the identities of the selectors themselves would remain confidential. If voters cannot be lobbied, pressured, criticized, or rewarded, the process has a much better chance of producing decisions based solely on the merits of the teams on the field.
i think they should make measurable benchmarks to earn a spot. non p4 wins shouldnt count as a data point. so youve got 10 games of data points. if you play an 11th is should count as like a mulligan— eliminate your worst loss or worst win.
go 7-3 in sec/b10 - automatically qualify
8-2 for b12/acc/ND - they arent as good- automatically qualify
some years that will fill up the bracket. other years it will leave room open for debate over which 4 loss sec/b10 or 3 loss acc/b12/nd gets in vs a non p4 etc.
non p4— sorry you dont qualify automatically. they play nobodies. go undefeated and a beat a ranked p4 team, then maybe you get a spot.
no committees. results on the field. id be hard pressed to find a 4 loss team that deserves a shot
A 3 loss team did not earn a spot in the playoffs. You can't say you're an elite team with 3 losses, no matter who they are to.
Now, 3 losses in your own conference? GTFOOH.
So, theoretically say UGA loses to 3 top 12 teams by say a differential of 12 points total. And then you give a playoff spot to another conference team with only 2 losses who didn't play anybody? RIght!
Non-CFP games no longer matter - many NFL prospects opt out so toss out sec bowl record as valuable metric
Josh Brooks overplaying his SEC hand. “We are by far the most competitive, the strongest in football,” JB. Played well a few years ago but is not the consensus opinion of most of the CFB talking heads and fans around the country these days. In the last 3 seasons we have seen 3 different champions all from the BIG10.
"During the '25-'26 college football postseason, the SEC posted a dismal overall record against non-SEC teams. Depending on how you track intra-conference matchups, the specific non-conference numbers were:
SEC was pressured into adding a 9th SEC game by the BIG10 and the temporary limbo 8 game scheduling hodgepodge of the last 2 years. The SEC was forced to act with no playoff selection pattern or guarantees/recognition that SEC records would be considered any differently than any other conference. The SEC was pretty much forced to act now before it had any proof that Strength of Schedule would out weigh W-L record when playoff teams are selected. We have seen that W-L record still continues to trump SoS.
More and more it seems like Josh Brooks is in over his head in the new landscape of CFB. As Michael Corleone said, "You're not a wartime consigliere, Tom. Things may get rough with the move we're trying". Brooks is not a wartime consigliere.
@MikeGriffith "Non-CFP games no longer matter - many NFL prospects opt out so toss out sec bowl record as valuable metric"
That makes it sound like the SEC has the only teams with players opting out. If anything it is indicative of the dilution of depth in the SEC brought about by proliferation of NIL. Further proving the current SEC is not "by far the most competitive, the strongest in football" as proclaimed by Josh Brooks above. Maybe a few years ago.
Maybe a better barometer would be 2025 regular season matchups.
SEC vs non-conference: 35-3 (.921)
SEC vs non-conf Power 4: 13-13 (.500)
Clearly the CFP Committee made up of mostly people who know less about college football than the average college football poster are not a great barometer. Not a single SEC ex coach or admin etc. Made up of mostly BIG10 people.
The problem is the selection committee itself and what is the perogative of the playoff. If it is to find out who the best football team is then we should go back to 4, 6 or 8 teams total and use the championship games as the quarterfinals.
12 is already too much and 7 of the 8 teams with byes have lost their first game. Momentum is a real thing. No more than 2 weeks between games for anyone.
16 or 24 becomes almost a tournament style and is too much. If 9-3 and even 8-4 teams can get into a 24 team playoff then it makes the regular season almost irrelevant. If you only play 2 or 3 tough games a year in the B1G then every one of their top teams gets in (so who cares…) Of course the B1G loves the 24 team playoff because they only play 2 or 3 games that are hard each year (because their are only 4 good to great teams in their league). Basically, they can lose every tough game and still get in off beating 3 no nothing teams and 5 of the 12 bad teams in their league.
24 is just ridiculous and it will ruin the sport. Having to go undefeated or only lose 1 game is what made the regular season so important. This is all the B1Gs fault. They were not winning championships and pushed for this. 4 was fine, 12 is too much and 24 is terrible.
SEC should go raid the ACC and BIG 12 and go from 16 to 32 teams, go to 4 divisions, grab the DC and Charlotte tv market and the rest of Texas and Oklahoma and grab Kansas also. With the additions of the other teams they can break away, negotiate for the most money, secure all the budget for the other sports and flip the bird to the Ohio, Michigan, Indiana conference.
The 24-team playoff idea is a bridge too far.
At some point, college football has to admit what it is doing to the players. A national champion could end up playing an 18-game season. That is not college football anymore. That is an NFL workload without NFL protections, NFL contracts, or NFL roster depth.
And every extra game adds injury risk—3 injuries per game per team. That is not theory. That is statistical. More snaps. More collisions. More knees, shoulders, ankles, concussions, and careers put at risk so television can squeeze another weekend out of the bracket.
Then comes the obvious consequence: top NFL prospects will opt out in greater numbers. Why would a first-round candidate risk millions of dollars to play two or three extra games in an over-expanded playoff built more for inventory than excellence?
A 24-team playoff is not about finding the best team in America. It is a revenue play dressed up as fairness. It opens the door for lesser teams, creates more television windows, and waters down what should be the hardest championship in sports to win.
Sometimes more is not better.
The SEC should stop reacting and start dictating terms. Hell, give the NCAA the bird. Pull Oregon, Notre Dame, and Ohio State into the league and build the most valuable football conference in the history of the sport. That ESPN contract would be audacious.
And think about the NIL pool it would create. The SEC could establish a standardized, elite NIL pay scale tied to star ratings and performance tiers. That would bring order to the chaos, level the money side of recruiting, and take back control from the back-channel bidding wars. Or have an SEC draft.
Quit trying to play nice. A full break from the past. Go for full global domination.
At that point, recruits would not have to wonder where the future of college football lives.
They would know.
They would choose the SEC first.
The path to the NFL is through the SEC.