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I think on-campus games will make a difference

One thing they did make clear dropping Georgia by 9 spots is they value game results. If Ohio State beats Indiana by 2 or 3 touchdowns they will drop out of the Top 12. Another opportunity for Georgia would be if ND loses to Army or USC. You might laugh at that but Riley just changed QBs to a more mobile QB which tends to fit his offense more then Miller Moss did so i wouldn’t be shocked if they win out

I think we should go back to a BCS format to pick the playoff teams. It factored in SOS more than the CFB playoff committee does. If you look back at BCS rankings after they tweaked the formula after the 2004 season the top 12 teams were pretty spot on

Yeah at minimum his teams would have probably lost to those 2017-2019 michigan teams. It was a somewhat harder schedule if you remember. On top of that USC was really down during those years and most of the time Kelly was at notre Dame

Kelly is somewhat of a fraud because he really didn't have consistent success until Notre Dame agreed to mainly play ACC teams which happened after 2017. If you look at his record before that he would have up and down seasons. That should have been a red flag

The guy is missing the potential lag effect that you wont see for maybe another 3 years. What i mean is we are so used to the regular season mattering and one loss being such a big deal in college football because thats what we are all used too lol. I think it will take maybe 2 or 3 seasons for everyone's mindset to change

I will say this i think if the choice is a 2 loss SEC team and a one loss Penn State team for the 11th spot you go with the SEC team. I think Notre Dame will lose another game so that might be how they get in

Yeah that is a good point! TN does have some advantages over Ky, one it has bigger cities and a larger population so it has given it a larger pool to recruit from and i am assuming high school football is more popular than basketball?. In comparison to rest of the “old” sec…lets just tell it like it is just like Kentucky, TN has a whiter population so that doesn't/didn’t help lol

And too add i am not sure UGa is that much better then OSU and oregon..good thing about the playoffs as opposed to the old system now the best teams dont have an easy path to the playoffs by just playing one or two Games that they have weeks to prepare fo(which benefited the more talented teams) At minimum you have to win 3 or 4 games to win a championship

I think Penn State, USC and even Indiana would at best beat those teams or at least stay competitive. Maybe not texas but alabama, UT and Texas A&M

Thats a sorry excuse considering the same team competed with ND. A week or 2 before that?

I dont know what to mKe of indiana..its a team filled with transfers so i do agree there schedule hasnt challenged them but one game to keep in mind is their UCLA game. They beat them by a larger margin than LSU did and it was an away game for Indiana. To me they have enough talent to compete against some of the best teams this year

Then whats the SEC this season? Outside of the Alabama first half loss the only dominant team looks to be Georgia

@roskie that would sound convincing but BG almost best Texas A&M . Sort of like a lot of teams BG has some transfers including a QB who used to start at a power 4 school

The problem with Kentucky and why it’s a tough job in the SEC is the lack of instate talent. Even though it doesn't matter as much with the transfer portal and it is easier to recruit across the nation but i think in Kentucky high school basketball is bigger than football

I am not sure if its down or just our middle of the pack teams have got better after loading up on transfers like Indiana, IL and Minnesota for example. All have starting QBs that transferred from other schools. The same goes for the SEC..the usual bottom dwellers or middle of the pack teams look better than they used too when they play the elite teams.

BYU did beat a currently ranked SMU team in a non-conference game so most liekly will have wins against 2 ranked teams at the end of the season. Anyways, with the new concept of super conferences one issue that i am seeing is teams that end up with an easy conference schedule and that is in all leagues. I wonder how the committee factors that in

@jay all good points that i have agreed with and been arguing for years why the transfer portal and NIL would benefit college football. I think it got too the point that the top programs were stacking all the talent back in the mid to late 2010s which impacted parity. That said, i don't think you can discount that playing a role in the back of players minds since they are all human. You can afford to lose a game or two when you couldn’t in previous seasons you couldn’t

That is definitely true when because of the transfer portal and NIL but what about compared to the last 2 seasons when you had all that? I personally don't see these types of losses happening last year. I am for the playoff system but it’s interesting to see how it is impacting the regular season and thats one of them. You will have better teams randomly losing to an average conference team more and more

So, do you guys think with the playoff format, are these elite teams playing as hard game to game now that they know the margin of error isn't what it used to be?

Thats a good point especially with how random the conference schedules are now that divisions are gone

Well the problem with that question is an 11-1 Penn State team isnt the team that a 9-3 UGA team would be battling with to get an 10 or 11 spot. That team is going to be in the Big Ten title game. Georgia definitely would have the harder strength of schedule. I think in that situation they might be able to sneak into a 11th spot because of their win against Clemson. I think because of that they would put them in over a 10 or 11 win ACC team or a 10 big 12 or Big 10 team. In this situation Georgia would still have some good wins to boost their case. The question is…does the playoff committee try and avoid regular season rematches? That could leave a lot of fringe SEC teams out

Like anything it case by case but one thing i don’t think would help college football in the long-run is devaluing the regular season. To quote Rece Davis on his podcast your best thing about your resume can’t be who you lost too…you have to have some good wins too. If you can’t beat playoff caliber teams in the regular season why should that team get a spot in the playoffs?

Not taking anything away from Alabama's impressive but unsurprising blowout but idk how decent this Wisconsin team is! It looks to me like this will be their first losing season in 22 or 23 years(the longest streak in the nation). They are going from a rough transition offensively going to a pro-style run-heavy offense to an air raid which i don't think will workout. Plus they don't have the benefit of playing in the easy Big Ten West anymore. This is a 4 or 5-win team

Watch out for NIU being considered for a 12th seed. They demolished an FCS team week 1 which is a green flag considering they didn't play them competitively. They play NC State and then the rest of the schedule is MAC opponents.

On top of that hes not playing half his games against the ACC. If you look at his record before ACC signed that agreement to play 6 games it was somewhat mediocre. He was always somewhat on the hot seat after the 2012 season until that deal(i think started in 2016 or 2017)

Here is why Kelly is somewhat of a fraud and i have rarely seen this pointed out, if you look at his record his best years were when Notre DAme committed to playing 6 games against the ACC which i believe was after 2016 or 2017. If you remember outside of their rivals, Notre Dames schedule used to consist of playing against 4 or 5 Big Ten teams(Michigan, MSU, and Purdue annually) and then they would play a mix of Big 12, Pac 12 and SEC teams. If you look at his record before 2017 he had a bunch of 8 or 9 win seasons

Good thing because you dont want to see college football become like a pro sports league where bigger markets have the advantage. It doesn't change their advantage in obtaining more lucrative sponsorships though. Lets be honest, if you are a college kid where would you rather live and have money? Miami, Florida or Auburn, Alabama

They did seem to win the star transfer portal players(Ward from WSU and Martinez from Oregon St) and there is definitely a reason behind that. Nowadays its not about just getting the top recruits, its almost as important to land the top transfer portal players

I think you are starting to see what they call the “lag effect”of NIL benefiting a school like Miami. Miami is a in big city where you have more opportunities for NIL and sponsorships. It gives them an advantage compared to schools in smaller populated states with less sponsorship opportunities