College Football Conference Championship Week Thread

College Football Conference Championship Week Thread Dec 1, 2018 19:23:26 GMT coldenhaulfield likes this

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Post by poelzig on Dec 1, 2018 19:23:26 GMT

Dec 1, 2018 18:56:10 GMT coldenhaulfield said:

Dec 1, 2018 18:24:50 GMT TheGoodMan19 said:

I respectfully disagree. Why, you might ask? Well, it isn't because of my undying love for OSU. I hate urban Meyer, Brutus Buckeye (their mascot os a fucking nut, FFS), the "Big Horseshoe", Woody Hayes, the whole nine yards. And the "one loss conference champ over a two loss runner up" isn't my biggest argument. My biggest knock against Georgia is their non-conference schedule

Austin Peay
Middle Tennessee State
UMass
Georgia Tech

The instate rivalry game is fine. But Austin Fucking Pee? And UMass? They aren't the only SEC team to play a joke of a non-conferece schedule. But the NCAA has to send a message for the big conference to stop this pitiful scheduling. And taking Georgia out of the playoff would be a message. Really want to send a message, take out Alabama if they lose to UGA. Two Sun Belt teams and The Citadel? I guess North Dakota State School for the Insane and Malnourished (North Dakota I&M for those who don't know) was busy.

I agree that SEC teams should generally schedule better out of conference, but in this case scheduling didn't make much of a difference.

Here's Ohio State's three nonconference games (they play a 9-game conference slate):

-- Oregon State (one of the worst P5 teams in the country)
-- TCU (credit for scheduling a big game, but TCU went 6-6)
-- Tulane (G5 team)

Now here's Oklahoma's; they also play a 9-game stretch in the Big 12:

-- FAU (G5)
-- UCLA (went 3-9)
-- Army (credit where credit's due to the 9-2 Black Knights. I've got them at #10 in my Super Sixteen, BUT: this was clearly meant to be a squash for Oklahoma -- and they needed overtime to win!)

So throwing out UGA's FCS win over Austin Peay altogether, I don't see how the other three FBS games (Tech, UMass, and MidTenn State) are any worse than what Georgia's "peers" at this point played out of conference. There's the separate issue of scheduling the FCS game where both the Buckeyes and the Sooners played in conference. But honestly: is there any team in the SEC, even Arkansas, as bad as Rutgers (whom OSU beat in week two) or KU (whom Oklahoma beat two weeks ago)? That's debatable. Innit?

I've made my feelings known earlier in the thread, but I thought this was worth some discussion. Cheers.

ETA: what say you, poelzig ?

I agree 100% my friend. I am getting stuff together to go watch game with former college roommates or I would have replied to goodman already. I was just going to point out most strength of schedule sites have Georgia in top 10 despite a few weak opponents so you did a much more thorough job.