The SEC Forum at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

Well my preseason pick is still in it and already beat their opponent.  

A&M vs Texas is why I don't bet on 20 year-olds playing football.

Arch impressed me...with his speed.  Funny how he is fast as shit and has a janky throwing motion, but no one is suggesting a position change.  No WR-playing-QB talk.  I guess it's his last name.

No team with 3 losses can complain about being left out.  Don't lose 3 times.  Duh.

Last year Alabama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina were 3-loss teams who were left out behind 2-loss SMU.

Who's complaining?

I see UGA is a 1.5 point favorite, which basically is pick'em.  They do have the Bama monkey at play.

Which is the better team?  No idea, probably neither.

I was rooting for either an A&M win, or UGA/Bama losses, or basically anything that would avoid UGA/Bama in the CG.

Ugh.  

I might actually skip it for the first time ever.  I'm tired of both of them, and Ohio State too.  

I saw an ESPN guy on the ESPN CFB page arguing that CCGs are worse than worthless. And I think he's right. When making the CFP becomes the primary goal, as it has become, the CCG is more of a road-block than a help. Before we had CCGs, we never had a problem determining the champs, or accepting that there were co-champs at times.

But . . . $$$.

We also didn't have 16 team conferences back then, which is a problem when determining a champ.

It drives me insane because every single SEC team at the top has 1 conference loss.  So you end up with all these tie-breakers.  And then you go to some formula to break the tie-breaker, and of course it splits for UGA-Bama.  Honestly, with the advent of the CFP and 12 teams able to get in, it no longer makes sense to do it this way.  It made sense under the old BCS to have the best team play in the CCG to give them a chance for a BCS game.  There was only one game, two teams.  

I don't see what it would hurt to include the teams that have went the longest without a title.  It should have been A&M-Ole Miss.  It would probably draw more ratings (given that Kiffin was still the coach and what not).  And  yes I'm totally a homer about this but I would feel the same way if it was Miss State or OM or Kentucky or anybody except Fla-Bama.  I think I may not watch just in protest.  If we did it this way, both Bama and UGA would still get into the CFP, the winner of the SEC CCG would get in, and quite possibly the loser would get in as well, depending on how the rest of the chips fall.