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With all the talk of NIL etc., I was wondering if anyone else caught what Chris Fowler said during the ceremony. Something to the effect of they were basically professionals. I could have misunderstood what he said, but that was my takeaway.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on #2. No doubt in my mind that this year’s team beats last year’s team.

I’ve thought along these lines. Doesn’t the legacy of being in a school’s hall of fame, etc. mean anything? I think the days of retired numbers, rings of honor, and hall of fame inductions are over in football and probably basketball. Additionally, couldn’t a lot of these guys parlay that into money in the future? If you truly earn your NIL money, you should be able to continue making money after the football career is over. UNT is small scale, but it’s got to mean something to, for example, Brelan Chancellor to come back to UNT and know he was one of the best to ever put on the green and white (and black).

SEC Shorts is better than SEC football.

I don’t mean this to diminish anything they accomplished, but most of their wins were against TERRIBLE teams. Edit: I’ll give you Ga. Southern and S. Alabama as not terrible teams.

I thought he was pre-injury, but not sure about post-injury. Loved watching him play.

If I entered the portal, I’d expect to lose the scholarship from my current school. “Hey honey, I’m leaving you for another woman, but I’m gonna go ahead and keep living here until she’s ready for me to move in.”

I think a lot of it has to do with high school kids entering college as a sophomore or sometimes even a junior. Lots of dual credit classes etc. My friends daughter had her associates degree before she graduated high school.

Most of them. I had to have a degree before I could get a job in my profession.

The quality of football is sure to suffer because of the portal for a variety of reasons. You just listed one I hadn’t thought about.

This. Oklahoma and Ohio St. lost their starting QB’s to the portal. That’s two of the premier positions in all of college football. Sadly, it’s just the way it is now.

I don’t think there’s any doubt that’s true. As long as there is an SEC team, the games can be played.

Well said. The ACC is being treated as G5 even though they had a winning record vs the SEC this year. It wouldn't surprise me to see that trend continue in bowl season. Here's an opinion that most may not agree with: Alabama winning and/or FSU losing doesn't justify the decision to leave FSU out. I feel like Ohio St., Georgia, and Oregon could possibly win the playoff if they were in it. My point being that on any given day, there are about 8-10 teams that could each beat one another.

Seems like the portal will devalue coaches, not from an X's and O's standpoint, but from an intangibles standpoint. It would seem impossible to establish any type of culture when you have so many new players every year.

I think the issue is more so that FSU was ranked #4 prior to the conference championship games and, despite winning, they were bypassed by the teams ranked #7 and #8. Plus, and I’ve already addressed this, Liberty is not the normal undefeated G5. Honestly, they may be overranked at #18. Nobody is a bigger proponent of G5’s being given an opportunity to prove themselves more than me, but Liberty just doesn’t have the resume to be able to defend them. You know as well as I do that they were lucky to get the NY6 invite.

Hahaha. I didn’t catch that. @wardly You’re gonna end up like Kramer: waking up in the Hudson River…in a sack🤣🤣. I’m sure those New Yorkers wouldn’t be happy with you saying Fenway was in NY.

The mighty SEC vs the other P5’s during the regular season. Big 12: 1-2 Pac 12: 2-1 ACC: 4-6 Big 10: no games The biggest eye opener to me is that the SEC plays very few non-conference games against other P5’s. Each team plays about 1 P5, the rest are G5 and below.

Liberty is no where near the top G5’s of years past (Boise, UCF, Cincy, Tulane). Oregon may beat them by 50 and the conspiracy theorist in me says this is an intentional matchup to show that the G5’s don’t belong. SMU wouldn’t beat Oregon, but I think they could keep it reasonable.

Love it!!!

SMU needs to be replaced with aTm because they lost their starting QB last week and, well, aTm is in the SEC.😜

I completely agree about UCF getting screwed in 2018. I thought it was bad then and I still think it’s bad. The difference is that Oklahoma, Clemson and Alabama all had a loss, and Georgia had two losses. Undefeated UCF was still left out. That’s much, much different than what happened this year. I get the point you’re making about Liberty, but their schedule was worse than weak and they don’t have a single quality win. In this case, that’s like comparing 3A ball to 6A. By the way, I dislike FSU more than I dislike Alabama.

Anything that is not a fact is an opinion regardless of what it’s based on. Not sure what’s weird about stating that FSU did everything they could on the field to earn a spot in the playoff. I know the real reason they aren’t in the playoff is politics, but my discussion is based on the premise that they didn’t get in because people “think” Alabama is better. As I said in an earlier post, just scrap the playoffs and go back to the AP voters choosing the National Champion. I mean, they would have all of this “observable evidence” to make to be certain they got it right.

I can see that you and the committee use it form the OPINION that Alabama is better than FSU instead of using results on the field. Look, I’m sorry the mighty SEC shouldn’t have a team in the playoff, but that’s just the way it worked out this year. Hypothetical (and I know how you’re going to answer this) what if Jordan Travis hadn’t gotten hurt and the FSU offense performed similarly the final two games? Thank you. I can’t believe I’m defending FSU. They are bottom 10, maybe even bottom 5 on my least favorite team list.

You use FSU barely winning a rivalry game against them, but you excuse Alabama having to win with a Hail Mary on 4th and 30 because it’s a rivalry game. You must be on the playoff committee 🤣😉

What can you tell me about that Auburn juggernaut that Alabama beat in miraculous fashion last week. All I know about them is that they beat Cal (yes, the Cal that most on this board say is terrible) by 4 points. And that was with Cal getting absolutely screwed on a scoop and score TD.