Sugar Bowl is a disgrace no

[bamajoe]

Has the Sugar Bowl ever had a four loss team in it before? I am not arbitrarily beating on Texas, but with four losses they should be in the Liberty Bowl or Gator Bowl. Doubly bad they take one of our two best teams and deny us a competitive game against a Michigan or Penn State. It's a shame. 

[Gigem]

Thoughts like that will get you a L. 

Remember, there are two extra slots for elite teams with the CFP. 

[rolltidefan]

we sent a 3 loss (eventual 4 loss) au team last year. EDIT: they were a 4 loss (eventual 5 loss) au team, and it was 2016, not last year.

nature of the beast when you have tie ins and they can't select best available.

[bamajoe]

Was a two loss Michigan team not available? How about a three loss Penn State team? What about Washington State? Maybe Texas was the best we could get.

[Thumper]

The Sugar is contractually obligated to take SEC & Big 12 teams.  Texas & Georgia were the top teams from those conferences not in the playoffs.  No other options.

[bamajoe]

Thanks, I did not know that. Thanks. That explains it.

[Cincydawg]

Yup, the contract was a bit weird this year, and really no one available looks to be that much better on the surface, maybe Michigan.

[longhorn320]

Has the Sugar Bowl ever had a four loss team in it before? I am not arbitrarily beating on Texas, but with four losses they should be in the Liberty Bowl or Gator Bowl. Doubly bad they take one of our two best teams and deny us a competitive game against a Michigan or Penn State. It's a shame.

I couldnt agree more
While I like the honor I dont like the coming humiliation 
I just hope we dont get shutout 

[OrangeAfroMan]

Texas is really good.  The Horns' defense might be relieved to face a straight-up "normal" offense for once, too.  

[longhorn320]

Tom Herman does a very good job at preparing his team for bowls but the dogs just have too many horses

In short I think their bench is much better then the Horns and this game at best will be lost in the 2nd half

[Cincydawg]

UGA does run a pretty vanilla offense, or at least one that looks like it, balance and all that.  The key is stopping the run, duh, though Bama pretty much did that in the CG, they just couldn't stop Fromm, especially on 3rd down.

Fromm is generally accurate and the WRs are pretty decent.  Swift and Holyfield are the two primary running backs, and both can be effective.  Oddly enough, Swift is faster and can plant and turn adeptly.

[OrangeAfroMan]

And I think when the Sugar had Hawai'i or Cincinnati, teams like that, even with sterling records, it was way lamer than a 4-loss Texas team.

[bamajoe]

So you think Texas with four losses would be better than Central Florida? Central Florida is what Hawaii was ten years ago or Boise 7-8 years ago. I disagree. Because Texas has a helmet name to me doesn't mean a thing. They are not very good.

FWIW I hate it that Florida drew an opponent that they have no chance against. Again it's a four loss team against a two loss Michigan. To me it would have made infinitely more sense to match Georgia and Michigan and then Florida and Texas. We would have had two much more competitive games. I do understand why we can't.

[Cincydawg]

The NY6 "contracts" basically prevent us from having better match ups, obviously.  When UGA played Hawaii in the SB, a very good USC team was available and played, and crushed, a mediocre Illinois squad.  Cincinnati I believe played in the Orange, not Sugar, back when.

I think UCF is a very dangerous team, like an Oklahoma but with faster play.  They could well beat LSU.