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Who (Other than Michigan and Washington) Makes the CFP (max two choices)?

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LordSunhawk

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I think it will be a very good game. Tennessee has a strong offense, but they haven't faced a high-consistency defense like Georgia's, and Tennessee's defense has definite weaknesses that Georgia should be able to exploit. That being said it should be a great game with two excellent teams. Neither of which are Alabama.
 
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Here's an interesting idea for making CFB more competitive and watchable:


TL;DW:
  • College football has become more boring due to conference consolidation, the transfer portal, and the college football playoff system.
  • Conferences getting bigger makes going to lesser schools pointless in the transfer portal era, since the smart move is to enroll at a top tier team, use their resources to get really good, then go somewhere that needs a talented player to get good fast.
  • Realign CFB into 9 conferences with 9 teams each.
  • All conferences play 8 conference, 3 non-conference games.
  • Top 2 teams from each conference proceed to conference championship.
  • 12 team playoff - all 9 conference champs + 3 at large teams.
Honestly, I think this is super fun, but man, I fucking hate the name "Sunpeach Conference" for the Florida+Georgia regional conference. I know why it's that way (Sunshine State + Peach State), but it's fucking lame regardless.
 
bullethead

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Goddamn, even Slate is covering the Jimbo Fischer shitshow:
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College Football Has Never Seen a Debacle Like This Year’s Texas A&M

The school’s badness has entered uncharted waters.
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That level of grace doesn’t feel quite right for Fisher, though. For one thing, mega-elite recruiting should be a buffer against significant roster chaos, even granting that what A&M; has dealt with this year has been unusual. (Alabama, for example, was playing a backup QB instead of an injured Heisman Trophy winner the night it beat A&M.; That game ended when Fisher called a difficult timing route in the Alabama end zone and it didn’t work out.) For another, Fisher hired one of the most despicable figures in the sport’s recent history, ex-Maryland head coach DJ Durkin, to be his defensive coordinator. Hiring Durkin amounts to a plea to be judged only on your wins and losses, because apparently, nothing else matters.

A&M; is also a famously blustery school whose boosters and administrators talk and spend a big game, and both coach and school did plenty to raise expectations before this season. When Saban accused A&M; of buying its recruiting class in the spring, Fisher responded not just with a denial but by calling a press conference straight out of pro wrestling. Fisher’s athletic director compared Saban to “an emperor who loses their dynasty” and said that Alabama’s coach had felt “threatened” by A&M;’s emergence. It was quite a chesty retort given that Saban is the best coach of all time and Fisher had never beaten him until last year.
 
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