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Thexoach
2024-12-08 01:01:07
Well, what can you say. The Tigers punched their ticket to the CFP 12 team playoffs and did it in dramatic fashion with a 56 yard field goal to beat SMU 34-31 tonight in Charlotte. Here are my thoughts on the season as a whole and where the Tigers go from here. Back in July at Media days, Dabo eluded to the 12 team playoffs and what it would mean for teams coming down the stretch, Would teams sit players out if they were already a lock for the playoffs? Would teams lose a game to get an extra week off and not play in their conference championship? Ohio State comes to mind. What about teams that have a season like SMU has but because of the perception courtesy of ESPN, loses a game like they did tonight against Clemson and get left out of the playoff. What is the justification? Here are my top 12. Oregon Indiana Ohio State Penn State Georgia Texas Tennessee Notre Dame Boise State SMU Clemson Arizona State This should absolutely be your 12 team playoffs. I know the controversy surrounding Alabama but in all honesty, Alabama doesn't belong over any team that played in its conference championship and ended the season with only 2 losses. We saw what happened last year with Florida State and the committee vowed that this 12 team playoffs would prevent that from happening again and yet here we are. We all know the committee is going to favor the SEC. We saw today Greg Sankey politicking for that elusive 4 the team to be put into the field. Sankey wants 4 teams automatically in the playoffs along with the Big 10 while everyone else has scraps. Sankey is a jerk in every sense of the word. Ever since the BCS was founded by Roy Slive who was ironically commissioner of the SEC at the time, it was designed to cater to the SEC. They did their best to get two teams from the same conference in the National Championship and accomplished it with the infamous BAMA/LSU rematch the year Boise State should have been crowned National Champions and Oklahoma State got the short end of the stick. The people spoke volumes when the ratings were the lowest ever for a National Championship. Fast forward to 2014 when ESPN decided to expand the playoffs to 4 teams and again as we saw it catered to the SEC and this time they had ESPN money to back it. The problem with that little plan, it was interrupted by Ohio State and Clemson. They did manage to accomplish it with Bama and Georgia and the 4th and 26 but remember Bama didn't play in their conference championship and backdoored their way into the playoffs even after Saban himself said if you don't play in your conference championship, you don't deserve to be in the 4-team playoffs. That plan didn't go according to script so the plan now is to expand to 12 teams with the SEC and Big 10 wanting a 4 spot guarantee which would take up 8 of the 12 spots. As we see, again it caters to certain conferences and the rest of college football has to get the scraps. It's a joke of a system and I don't care about conference affiliation, you shouldn't be guaranteed anything unless you earn it. That is where we are today.People are now complaining about 3-loss teams getting in the playoffs and I am not sure what the complaint is. After FSU was left out last year, the precedent was set with this 12 team playoff. Conference champions would get in so situations like last year will not happen again. Let's get back to what Dabo alluded to back at Media days. This playoff has all but devalued the regular season to an extent. The our of conference schedule doesn't matter now and we have seen that with Clemson. All you have to do is win your conference and that is exactly what Clemson did. This is what the college football idiots asked for and yet they are still not happy. Sometimes it best to leave things along. In other words if it isn't broke, then it doesn't need fixing. Yet, somehow it is now broken more than ever. The Greg Sankeys of the world along with ESPN have no one but to blame but themselves. I do have a solution, and I think 99.9 percent of college football fans may agree with me. The solution is to let the SEC have it own little invitational and the rest of college football go and do its own thing. I can assure you the rest of college football doesn't need the SEC as much as the SEC needs college football. Sankey has done everything but alienate the SEC into its own little world. Maybe that is his goal, I don't know. Here is what I do know. This is college football now and this is what the idiots wanted. Clemson along with everyone one not named a SEC school has earned their way into the college football playoff and to an extent Georgia, Tennessee and Texas have earned their spot as well, but Alabama does not belong. It will be interesting to see if the committee leaves out a legit SMU team. If they do, then nothing has changed and the ACC will get screwed over again. Then again, as Dabo eluded to it this past week it was designed to get a extra team from the SEC/Big 10 into the SEC/BIG10 invitational. The only fitting thing left to do is for Clemson, Boise State, Notre Dame or Arizona State to get hot and win the whole damn thing. Outside for that here is what to look for tomorrow on selection day. Look for the seedings to match up to where the SEC/Big10 will not have to face each other until the semifinals doing everything they can to get 4 teams from the same conference in the final 4. That is the ultimate plan. Here is what the rest of college football needs to hope for. That someone crashes the party just like Washington and Michigan did last year. After all we all saw college football survive with a SEC team in the National Championship and if someone outside the Big10/Sec crashes the party, I will assure you, college football will survive. Let the 12- team playoffs begin and before I call it a night, I have one last thing to say HOW BOUT THEM TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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CUTrevor
2024-12-08 01:14:05
It will be an absolute travesty if SMU is screwed like FSU last year, again for the benefit of Alabama and the SEC! There is no excuse whatsoever for putting Alabama in instead of that SMU team. None. In fact, Miami also deserves to be in before Alabama. The crappy thing is that the Tigers will probably not get a first-round bye, and they will have to play a road game in the first round in Columbus, Ohio or some place. The damn Gamecocks cost them a first round bye and screwed me over! |
