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Topic: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas

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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #224 on: December 02, 2025, 11:41:58 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 02, 2025, 11:35:06 AM
Literally nobody is complaining.

Ok, I worded that incorrectly.  I will say that.....the talking heads on ESPN definitely do their hand wringing about stuff like this.  Last year's big time snub was a 9-3 Alabama team that ended up getting drubbed by a 7-5 Michigan team in a bowl game.
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #225 on: December 02, 2025, 11:42:13 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 02, 2025, 10:38:02 AM
He's not going to, at this point.  He claims he likes challenges.  He claimed he wanted to play in the CG.  That is contrary to wishing he didn't have to play an elite opponent that might drop his standing in the CFP.  Now, what he SAYS and really thinks, well...

I'd rather play Oregon or Notre Dame or Ohio State OOC than Tech.    I'd rather play either than Charleston S.  If a loss drops UGA out of the CFP, OK with me.
As others noted, this is probably an outlier position even among UGA fans but I'll add something else:

YOU, as a Georgia fan are also an outlier among helmets simply because UGA has been to the Playoff and won NCs so much lately:
  • 2025 safely in CFP
  • 2024 CFP 
  • 2023 just missed CFP - 12-1 would easily have made it with 12 teams
  • 2022 NC
  • 2021 NC
  • 2020 just missed CFP - 8-2 hard to say due to COVID but the losses were in-conference anyway
  • 2019 just missed CFP - 11-2 would easily have made it with 12 teams
  • 2018 just missed CFP - 10-3 probably in with 12 teams based on SECCG loss not hurting
  • 2017 lost NC game

I'm in a similar boat, recent for tOSU:
  • 2025 safely in CFP
  • 2024 NC
  • 2023 just missed CFP - 11-1 would easily have made it with 12 teams
  • 2022 CFP
  • 2021 just missed CFP - 10-2 would have made it with 12 teams
  • 2020 lost NC game 
  • 2019 CFP
  • 2018 just missed CFP - 12-1 would easily have made it with 12 teams
  • 2017 just missed CFP - 11-2 would have made it with 12 teams
  • 2016 CFP
  • 2015 just missed CFP - 12-1 would easily have made it with 12 teams
  • 2014 NC

It is a LOT easier for us to decide it is worth it to schedule quality OOC games than it is for fans that have never been to a CFP game.  
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #226 on: December 02, 2025, 11:46:33 AM »
Michigan fans are most certainly "complaining," which is what prompted me to initially pose the question. 
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #227 on: December 02, 2025, 11:50:34 AM »
It is true that part of my reasoning is that the Dawgs will make the CFP in most years anyway, probably.  So I'm bored with playing pastries like Tech.  

Well, maybe not Tech so much.

If my team had a one change in a decade of making it and got knocked out by playing OSU and losing, I'd probably feel different.
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #228 on: December 02, 2025, 12:00:03 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on December 02, 2025, 11:00:06 AM
I'd say among Georgia fans, the concept of losing a big OOC game dropping you out of the CFP being "OK" makes you an outlier. Nothing wrong with that, but I wouldn't say that attitude is representative of most helmet fans.

And it goes to my issue that the entire sport has now become "playoff or GTFO, who cares"... Back in the day, if UGA played a marquee OOC opponent and lost knocking them out of NC contention, they still had a path to the SEC championship, still had a path to a great bowl game, still had something to play for. All the helmets wanted to win the NC, but they also all knew it pretty much took perfection and maybe even a little luck. So I am not sure it was something that they viewed as "NC or bust".

Now, it's CFP or bust. You may not see it that way, but I'd say that most of your fellow helmet team fans do.

Even players see it that way.  They opt out like crazy these days if they're not in a CFP game.  

I really did like it much better in the BCS days when even if you missed the NC, shooting for the Sugar (in our case) was a good goal, a great accomplishment, and everybody was excited about it.  There was so much more room for multiple teams to have a great year and end it on a high note, with excitement.  The old polling system was probably even better in that regard.  

Now it's been NFL'd.  I'm not speaking from experience since I don't root for an NFL team, but it strikes me that for fans of 31 teams, the season ends in tears every year.  There's only one goal, and only one team can achieve it.  Everybody else fails.  That used to be what cfb cleverly avoided, but has fallen victim to now.  
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #229 on: December 02, 2025, 12:02:22 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 02, 2025, 11:46:33 AM
Michigan fans are most certainly "complaining," which is what prompted me to initially pose the question.
Huh?  Medinabuckeye started this thread to pose the question "what should the committee do?"

And as far as I can tell, there's only been one post from one Michigan fan on this thread.  It's on page 1 and it's SuperMario agreeing with MaximumSam that Michigan and Texas should not be included in the playoff.
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #230 on: December 02, 2025, 12:03:18 PM »
Yeah, last season for Dawg fans was a calamity.  All they did was win the SEC.  Fire the coach!!!!  Everybody else is.
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #231 on: December 02, 2025, 12:12:04 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 02, 2025, 12:02:22 PM
Huh?  Medinabuckeye started this thread to pose the question "what should the committee do?"

And as far as I can tell, there's only been one post from one Michigan fan on this thread.  It's on page 1 and it's SuperMario agreeing with MaximumSam that Michigan and Texas should not be included in the playoff.

and here we are, 16 pages later, discussing all sorts of college football stuff

it's glorious
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #232 on: December 02, 2025, 12:18:36 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 02, 2025, 12:02:22 PM
Huh?  Medinabuckeye started this thread to pose the question "what should the committee do?"

And as far as I can tell, there's only been one post from one Michigan fan on this thread.  It's on page 1 and it's SuperMario agreeing with MaximumSam that Michigan and Texas should not be included in the playoff.

I was listening to the Michigan podcasts after they lost to OSU, and they said that they don't want to play those games anymore because they'd be in the playoffs without the Oklahoma loss. One of them pointed out that Oklahoma really didn't gain anything by beating Michigan either, since they'd be a 2-loss SEC team either way. So I posed the question in this here thread that Medina started as to whether or not OSU and Oklahoma gained anything by beating these teams instead of North Texas and Central Michigan.
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #233 on: December 02, 2025, 12:21:23 PM »
Imagine the NFL had some runner up bowls for teams that didn’t make the SB.
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #234 on: December 02, 2025, 12:22:12 PM »
Personally I'm with Cincydawg. OSU has had a marquis non-con game just about every year since I've been watching them, and they are great. Even though they've cost OSU a few NC opportunities, like 2008 vs USC. 
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #235 on: December 02, 2025, 12:28:34 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 02, 2025, 12:18:36 PM
I was listening to the Michigan podcasts after they lost to OSU, and they said that they don't want to play those games anymore because they'd be in the playoffs without the Oklahoma loss. One of them pointed out that Oklahoma really didn't gain anything by beating Michigan either, since they'd be a 2-loss SEC team either way. So I posed the question in this here thread that Medina started as to whether or not OSU and Oklahoma gained anything by beating these teams instead of North Texas and Central Michigan.
Does that constitute complaining?  Seems like just pointing out something factual to me.  Which is precisely why Medina started this thread.

Regardless it didn't happen on this thread, there's been no complaining about any of it on this message board, that I've seen.  I don't listen to Michigan podcasts. 


But I do like your point about there also being a question as to whether or not it's good for OU and OSU.
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #236 on: December 02, 2025, 12:43:13 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 02, 2025, 11:40:43 AM
The issue here is about scheduling OOC, not whether Texas should be a CFP team.
I never wanted expansion, maybe 6 going in though,more teams = more questions/problems/complaints but no real answers.94 made a valid point Horns beat two of teams in the P.O. and took the defending NCs to the final snap on the road. So now SoS has to factored in rather than H2H because the Horns scheduled Big where the others MAYBE not so much
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Re: What should the committee do with Michigan and Texas
« Reply #237 on: December 02, 2025, 12:46:45 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 02, 2025, 12:28:34 PM
I don't listen to Michigan podcasts.
You're to be commended  :67:
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