What an interesting 48 hours it’s been. First, it was announced that the CFP Committee will begin using a computer formula that rewards strength of schedule into their selection criteria.

CFP committee adding weight to games against strong opponents, limit reward for beating weak foes https://t.co/RMCK845gLI

— Owen Kearns (@1oldtrucker) August 21, 2025

The committee said in a statement that the schedule strength metric has been adjusted to apply greater weight to games against strong opponents. An additional metric, record strength, has been added to go beyond a team’s schedule strength to assess how a team performed against that schedule.

“This metric rewards teams defeating high-quality opponents while minimizing the penalty for losing to such a team,” the committee said. “Conversely, these changes will provide minimal reward for defeating a lower-quality opponent while imposing a greater penalty for losing to such a team.”

Thank you, Cignetti. Shane Beamer is especially excited to get news like this, to be sure, although I’m not sure Alabama’s loss to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma would’ve been enough to ignore over their wins against ranked Georgia, Missouri, and LSU, but it’s a damn sight more than what was accomplished in Bloomington. Or in State College.

Anyway, the SEC has been wrestling with expanding to nine conference games, clearly seeing that playing a tough schedule yielded no grace for three loss teams, so they remained – by a single vote – at 8 after the summer meetings.

Well, with the CFP’s new change, you should be less than shocked that this happened.

So what does this mean for the future of Georgia opponents? Someone (sigh) will decide Georgia’s three standing conference opponents, and they’ll play every team in the SEC in a two year period.

I’m assuming our three will include Florida and Auburn, with some hypothesizing South Carolina or Tennessee as the third. I’d like to raise my hand and argue that Vanderbilt or Kentucky have been the rivalry of the last century for Georgia, Mr. Sankey (I keed).

Note that each SEC team will have to play a P4 team in addition to the 9, which again feels like traditional Tech. But as a reminder, Georgia has upcoming series with Ohio State, Florida State, Louisville, and Clemson. In 2027 Georgia plays both FAU and Louisville and in 2030 both Ohio State and Clemson.

We might not see Tennessee yearly now, but are we going to dump Tech or play a 12 game schedule against all P4 teams?

Only two teams, moving forward, have 11 P4 games scheduled from 2026 to 2034 under the new format – Georgia and Alabama.

Meanwhile, Indiana is cancelling games against Virginia. But SEC scheduling, huh, Curt?

In other news, I’ll likely never be able to afford a home game ever again.

Progress, for the loss, amirite?