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I think this speaks to a bigger problem with college football today. We’ve created a world where anything short of competing for a national championship is considered failure.
It wasn’t that long ago that you could have a great season without winning it all. Beat your rival. Compete for a conference championship. Win 10 or 11 games. Go win the Outback, Citrus, Sugar or Cotton Bowl and head into the offseason feeling pretty damn good about your program.
Now an 11-3 season gets dissected based on why you didn’t make the playoff or why your coach “can’t win the big one.”
That’s what we’ve lost. The national championship used to be the ultimate goal, but it wasn’t the only thing that gave a season meaning.
And the irony is we’ve sacrificed so much of what made college football unique for an expanded playoff system that still won’t eliminate arguments about who belongs. We’ll just argue about team No. 24 instead of team No. 4.
Conference championships should matter. Rivalries should matter. Bowl games should matter. A really good season should be allowed to simply be a really good season.
College football has a failure addiction. And it's sucking the joy from the sport.
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2-7 in our last 9 with the wins coming against Boston College and Mercer.
We are bad. Key will get next year for sure, but I’m not so sure he makes it to 28 if we are awful again.
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Faulkner leaving wasn’t good for Tech, but the guy was only going to be at Tech one more year max anyways.
The much bigger issue is the Godsey hire, but there’s no point in comparing the two OC’s as if Tech fired Faulkner to get Godsey.
This place is not going to be fun to be if George Godsey and Georgia Tech don’t have a strong offensive showing tonight against Stanford after what Florida did to Ole Miss today
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Can someone give me a few examples where the playoff committee only considered W-L record and ignored SOS?
Last year they ranked 10-3 Bama above 11-2 BYU and a 9-3 Texas over 10-2 Utah.
In 2024 they ranked 10-2 Tennessee over 11-1 Indiana and a 9-3 Bama over 10-2 Miami.
The playoff committee already does this. Why do people act like they don’t?
Alabama got in last year at 10-3 with a loss to FSU, while BYU was 11-2 and got left out.
Couldn’t agree more. The sport is so much better off when you play these games. What needs to change in selection process is the idea that a team with a better record trumps a team with one more loss that was willing to play these games. Reward those teams if records are similar.
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245 variations of run up the middle and a handful of passing plays.
QB coach/Co-OC Chris Weinke on George Godsey’s offense, “most college teams have 80 plays, we have 250.”
He said they have 12-15 personnel groups opposed to 6-8 for most college teams and 20-25 formations with motions and shifts on each of those.
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This is going to get overlooked because Colorado didn’t score to end the half. But what was Key possibly thinking using a timeout here to stop the clock on a 3rd and 15? We almost handed Colorado 3 points due to clock mismanagement
Just an insane stretch right here. 1st and 10 from the 13. A TD pretty much seals the game. Back to back runs up the middle when you’re averaging ~3 yards a carry is embarrassing.
Key was way too excited to give Colorado the ball with 1:40 left down one score.
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Newt Clark retweeted
If we win tonight, midweeks matter. If we lose, midweeks don’t matter.
No further questions!
"Must-see midweek games don’t come around all that often, but this matchup between two top-five teams certainly is one."
Can @AuburnBaseball's pitching staff slow down @GTBaseball's red-hot bats?
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Going to start a thread with every absurd thing I see come across my feed. I’ll start with this.
Mississippi House passes no tax on NIL money bill, helping Ole Miss and Miss. State clarionledger.com/story/news…
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Why do we allow someone who has been arrested 30 times to be on the streets? Who does that benefit except criminals?
Mother stabbed to death at Virginia bus stop by illegal immigrant with over 30 prior arrests trib.al/df7SRkV
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