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[Doc Hogaday]

#2 took 8 overtimes and SEC refs to beat GT!

The SEC before the last weekend had ONE nonconference win against a ranked opponent: UGAG over Clemson.  Then in the last weekend SC beat Clemson.  That was it.

I think Vandy, Auburn, us, Florida, and Kentucky all beat one of the bigtimers who are on the outside.  None of them beat anybody worth anything outside the conference either, but they are SEC so it just means more!

If the internal SEC circle jerk is going to determine who is in maybe they need to break off and create another level and compete amongst themselves.  I am kind of tired of dickriding the good teams in the conference like we are accomplishing something by existing.  We have no contribution to the conference being good.

Maybe Sankey needs his members to play somebody decent nonconference.

1. We actually beat a team on the inside.

2. We exist/contribute by helping the those good teams pump their W numbers up. We're in the people-heppin' business!

[vegashog]

oof, bama playes 5 loss michigan in the reliaquest bowl.

[animal]

This entire system is fucked. The TV execs only want to see high win teams and don't care that half of them would get their shit pushed in by some of the meh SEC teams if motivated properly. I'm not saying Arkansas of course.

The SEC is so god damn big now that the teams that somehow manage to not play anybody can do so and benefit (TEXAS)...but somehow Arkansas will never have that schedule and if they did we'd still piss it away. Texas's two losses were both to Georgia who looked pretty boring and beatable most of the season. Georgia almost lost to GT and probably should have but thank god for the KC Chiefs refs.

Arkansas gets a home slate of TOP 10 teams to eat dicks all season long...we manage to beat a Tenn team that featured a very young QB. In fact Arkansas' wins mostly came against teams with really young undevelped QBs. Retardo OK LITE beat us because their QB was 38 years old.

[DrMongoose]

This entire system is fucked. The TV execs only want to see high win teams and don't care that half of them would get their shit pushed in by some of the meh SEC teams if motivated properly. I'm not saying Arkansas of course.

The SEC is so god damn big now that the teams that somehow manage to not play anybody can do so and benefit (TEXAS)...but somehow Arkansas will never have that schedule and if they did we'd still piss it away. Texas's two losses were both to Georgia who looked pretty boring and beatable most of the season. Georgia almost lost to GT and probably should have but thank god for the KC Chiefs refs.

Arkansas gets a home slate of TOP 10 teams to eat dicks all season long...we manage to beat a Tenn team that featured a very young QB. In fact Arkansas' wins mostly came against teams with really young undevelped QBs. Retardo OK LITE beat us because their QB was 38 years old.

The head coach/QB combo did Arkansas no favors either.
Singleton beat Tennessee not green and now he is leaving.

[The Whyte Boar]

This year was our schedule and we fumble fucked it away. 

[Thin Red Swine]

This year was our schedule and we fumble fucked it away. 

??

Who else played 6 of the top 9 teams in the conference with a combined record of 54-18?

We undoubtedly should have fared better overall, but the schedule was far from easy.

[The Whyte Boar]

??

Who else played 6 of the top 9 teams in the conference with a combined record of 54-18?

We undoubtedly should have fared better overall, but the schedule was far from easy.

It's about as favorable a schedule as Arkansas gets.  All of the good teams were at home. No Bama.  No Georgia. Of course, with Sam that's no advantage since home is where we are at our worst.

[Hizog]

Indiana and SMU also didn't lose to 2 6-6 teams.

There are plenty of holes in the Bama argument, but they at least proved they're capable of beating good teams. More than just about any other team in the playoff.

Indiana and SMU haven't proven that. Every time they faced a ranked team, they lost.

[TC]

It's about as favorable a schedule as Arkansas gets.  All of the good teams were at home. No Bama.  No Georgia. Of course, with Sam that's no advantage since home is where we are at our worst.

CEO!!

[Thin Red Swine]

It's about as favorable a schedule as Arkansas gets.  All of the good teams were at home. No Bama.  No Georgia. Of course, with Sam that's no advantage since home is where we are at our worst.

Take a look at 2022. THAT was set up for success, coming off an actually encouraging season. We had an elite Alabama instead of an (maybe) elite Texas, but Ole Miss, Missouri and Texas A&M were not nearly as good.
 

[egregious]

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[vegashog]

they are taking this really hard. hate to see it.

[SwahiliSteve]

So will colleges now not play cupcake teams and be willing to play harder teams for non conference games so it elevates them for playoffs?

[DrMongoose]

There are plenty of holes in the Bama argument, but they at least proved they're capable of beating good teams. More than just about any other team in the playoff.

Indiana and SMU haven't proven that. Every time they faced a ranked team, they lost.

how was SMU's schedule worse than Notre Dame or Penn State or Texas? who are their top 25 wins?

there were a lot of shitty schedules = Notre Dame plays ACC teams as does SMU but SMU is the questionable one ?? They had the worst loss of any playoff contender this year and it was AT HOME !!!!

Notre Dame's best win was at Aggie who proved to be a fraud as always.

If Bama doesn't lose to Vanderbilt for the first time since color TV or the worst Oklahoma team in 100 years they would have been in but they lost BOTH. it's glorious.

everyone is forgetting what else saban said today

https://sports.yahoo.com/nick-saban-reacts-selection-committee-194150902.html

"I do think that the best teams are in the playoff, which I think is most important. And no coach should have any complaint about what his circumstances are relative to getting into the playoffs or out of the playoffs because they all controlled their own destiny.

"They all had opportunities and they had some flaws and bad losses that contributed to their circumstance. So, this could be a learning lesson for each and every team and every individual on those teams."

mic drop on the tide

[vegashog]

So will colleges now not play cupcake teams and be willing to play harder teams for non conference games so it elevates them for playoffs?

the sec dictates at least one p4 opponent a season, so unless they change the rule, that ain't happening.

maybe they deserved to get in, maybe they didn't. thems the breaks. i bet they'll find a way to claim another national championship anyway.

[SwahiliSteve]

SMU certainly doesn't deserve it and will be beat merciless. They are in a shit conference

[egregious]

the sec dictates at least one p4 opponent a season, so unless they change the rule, that ain't happening.

maybe they deserved to get in, maybe they didn't. thems the breaks. i bet they'll find a way to claim another national championship anyway.

Sankey needs to make that rule go away

[Hizog]

how was SMU's schedule worse than Notre Dame or Penn State or Texas? who are their top 25 wins?

there were a lot of shitty schedules = Notre Dame plays ACC teams as does SMU but SMU is the questionable one ?? They had the worst loss of any playoff contender this year and it was AT HOME !!!!

Notre Dame's best win was at Aggie who proved to be a fraud as always.

If Bama doesn't lose to Vanderbilt for the first time since color TV or the worst Oklahoma team in 100 years they would have been in but they lost BOTH. it's glorious.

everyone is forgetting what else saban said today

https://sports.yahoo.com/nick-saban-reacts-selection-committee-194150902.html

"I do think that the best teams are in the playoff, which I think is most important. And no coach should have any complaint about what his circumstances are relative to getting into the playoffs or out of the playoffs because they all controlled their own destiny.

"They all had opportunities and they had some flaws and bad losses that contributed to their circumstance. So, this could be a learning lesson for each and every team and every individual on those teams."

mic drop on the tide

I'm only singling SMU out because it was between them and Alabama for the final spot. Feel free to poke holes in Notre Dame. Their SOS was similar to SMU.

Texas and Penn State SOS is a lot better than SMU and Notre Dame.

My primary motivation for arguing in favor of Alabama is because IF Arkansas ever has a shot at the playoff it will probably be with 2 or 3 losses in the SEC.

And you know damn well that if Arkansas had beaten Georgia, LSU, South Carolina, and Missouri, and didn't get in over a team that went 0'fer against the only two ranked opponents on their schedule that we'd be losing our minds right now.

[animal]

This system has created these artificial kings of football, inheritors of once great leagues. 

You've got a super soft ACC that's been fairly lifeless aside from a few programs in recent years that now features fucking SMU. 

A super soft Big 12 that now features Arizona fucking state. (who incidentally does look tough). 

The Big 14 or 16 or whatever it is now has some quacks running shit now...the Oregon Ducks. 

Oh and the SEC is not immune...we let in some fucking Longtards and nearly let them win the league. It's upside down world. 

Meanwhile if all those PAC12 schools were just sitting back in the PAC12 just chilling nobody would even pay attention to them. Weird.

It's pretty genius of them to drop the PAC12 and go play teams from back east because that's all anyone cares about. 

[SwahiliSteve]

After Arizona state and smu get Buck fucked and pounded you think the playoff people will rethink things?