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In 2030, UGA is scheduled to play Clemson, Ohio State, and Georgia Tech.  It'll be interesting to see if that survives.

they'll all be in the same conference by then, wouldn't worry too much about it.

I suspect we'd all agree that TODAY we have two major conferences, and two more that are below them, and then some others.  We have a P2 and a M2 and then Ghowevermany.  M stands for "medium".  I don't know what will happen beyond looking at what the $$$ will dictate.  I suspect I won't like it.  I probably will still watch.

If early losses don't matter that much, you might as well schedule a heavy hitter OOC.  If you win, it's very good.  UGA had four wins over playoff teams this year.

That probably  helped offset their two Ls.

The teams complaining about being left out of the Show lost only conference games, so their OOC slate was largely irrelevant to this discussion.  Maybe if they had played better OOC competition and won it would have helped.

It also helps not to lose to Vandy or Kentucky.  I have some agreement about South Carolina as they lost to three fairly competent teams close except Ole Miss.  But the OOC games didn't hurt any of these teams.

It helped South Carolina's argument.

E.g., the OOC losses simply didn't exist.

hmmm....


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The only problem with this statement is that neither the A&M team of the USC team that played last night were the same ones that played a month ago.  We lost a good amount of our starters to opt out, many choosing to go to the draft next year, and some deciding to leave the program.  Same with USC. 

It's more like, some of the starters and a lot of the backups of USC beat some of the starters and a lot of the backups at A&M, that made 4th place in the conference this year.  

It still sucked to lose, especially when you were up by 17 late, but until something gets done about the portal, NIL, and players opting out it's just what it is.  Personally, I wish that bowl season would just die out, and let's just straight up do the playoff, however many teams they decide to include.  

Purely entertainment.  This Iowa State/Miami game has 56 points already and still less than halfway through 2nd quarter.    Twelving.  

I bet at least half of HCs would accept the practices and have no bowl.  The bowl isn't germane to their mission.  

I'm not convinced teams won't schedule OOC games of note these days.  I think they help, and this season is all we have to go on.  Why is UGA ranked 2 and Indiana ranked lower?  That's a 2 loss team higher than a 1 loss.  For all the complaining by Bama, as I note, their OOC slate was irrelevant, some with Ole Miss.

If those latter two had played another P5 kind of team and won, they might have made it in with 3 losses in conference play.  maybe.