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Yes, Alabama and Georgia both belong in the College Football Playoff
Yahoo ^ | December 1, 2018 | Pat Forde

Posted on 12/02/2018 3:38:52 AM PST by C19fan

Put them both in the playoff. Alabama is in. But Georgia should be in as well. Yes, with two losses. Yes, as a non-conference champion. Yes, despite the résumés of Oklahoma and Ohio State. Georgia is good enough to overcome all that. The howls of outrage will echo across the Midwest, the Southwest and everywhere else where fans hate the thought of the Southeastern Conference gobbling up half the playoff for the second straight year. The political pressure against it would be immense — and let’s face it, college athletic administrators are political animals. The College Football Playoff selection committee would be shutting out 60 percent of the Power Five from the four-team playoff, which would cause enough backlash that it could actually alter the sport.

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To: Blueflag; tomkat

Looks like he got the zot.


121 posted on 12/02/2018 9:15:14 AM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Mr.Unique

UCF deserves a place at #4 this year. That will settle the hierarchy squabbles once and for all.


122 posted on 12/02/2018 9:24:02 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Notre Dame beat four ranked teams, three by more than 20 points. Georgia was 3-2 against ranked teams.


123 posted on 12/02/2018 9:27:45 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Kazan

It’s on espn right now...


124 posted on 12/02/2018 9:30:35 AM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT ( Amos5: Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the (gate) Court.)
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To: C19fan

Ha ha Georgia, fake news!


125 posted on 12/02/2018 9:39:05 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Will88

Not really. The more teams in a playoff, they more teams that will be able make a case they should have been included.

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But they cant make a claim they are potentially the best team in the nation, but going with 8 guarantees that the best teams are in the playoffs.


126 posted on 12/02/2018 9:53:17 AM PST by QuigleyDU
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To: C19fan

Would have liked to see a Pete Carroll USC semipro team vs a Saban football clone Alabama team. I liked it when Utah kicked the garbanzos outta Alabama a few years ago. And I loved it when Alabama startled Miami in that game more than a few years back. I love to see very good, disciplined, sound but unrespected teams bowl over the consensus “great” teams...


127 posted on 12/02/2018 10:03:26 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Mr.Unique

Good


128 posted on 12/02/2018 10:26:19 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Mr.Unique

I’m sure no puritan, but that one was a tad over the top.


129 posted on 12/02/2018 10:30:25 AM PST by tomkat
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To: QuigleyDU
But they cant make a claim they are potentially the best team in the nation, but going with 8 guarantees that the best teams are in the playoffs.

That makes no sense. If you have four team playoff, you want the best four teams. If you have an eight team playoff, you want the best eight teams. The more teams included, the more teams that would could make a case for being included. No number of teams could guarantee the best team was picked for every slot in the playoff.

130 posted on 12/02/2018 10:30:40 AM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Getready
I liked it when Utah kicked the garbanzos outta Alabama a few years ago.

That game meant very little. Alabama was one quarter away from the BCS national championship game that year, Saban's second year at Bama. They lost to Florida in the fourth quarter of the SEC championship game.

Bama teams aren't going to be very motivated or sharp when they fall short of the playoffs. The same for Auburn last year when they were one game away from the playoffs, and then lost to Georgia in the SEC championship, and later lost to UCF in a bowl game.

Teams that have been highly ranked often and who have won national championships will not perform too well in ordinary bowl games after coming close to making the playoffs.

131 posted on 12/02/2018 10:43:43 AM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Fiji Hill

PAC-12 hasn’t been so hot in basketball, either.


132 posted on 12/02/2018 3:00:41 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: DariusBane

“A tribe of morans who can’t believe football is played or understood beyond the old CSA.”

Is that how northern schools teach you to spell?

It’s “morons”, not “morans”. You’re welcome.

The Civil War ended in 1865, so get over it. This may shock you but it’s almost 2019.

I’m a Bama fan but I don’t give a d##n about the SEC. I felt that I had to respond to your tired, ignorant, bigoted Anti-Southern rant.


133 posted on 12/02/2018 11:18:27 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (George Washington cautioned against foreign entanglements. We should heed his words.)
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To: Jumper

You neglected to mention that Georgia held Bama all night long.


134 posted on 12/02/2018 11:19:58 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (George Washington cautioned against foreign entanglements. We should heed his words.)
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To: DariusBane

That’s hilarious! Carry on...


135 posted on 12/03/2018 8:28:34 PM PST by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

Oh. I mi9 your response. You missed mine. We shall have to clean that up... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brain-morans


136 posted on 12/04/2018 5:59:18 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: RightFighter

I can be so very vicious at times. I do feel bad about that. I would like to apologize. But I just can’t. But I want to. Lol.


137 posted on 12/04/2018 6:03:00 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: DariusBane

I’m familiar with that meme and it always gives me a chuckle.


138 posted on 12/04/2018 9:35:19 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (George Washington cautioned against foreign entanglements. We should heed his words.)
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