All Our Goals Are Still In Front of Us – So is The CFP Committee

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They dropped the CFP rankings last night, and we took a predictable fall.

I know some of you are hearing Mora’s famous rant, “Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?”. But let’s assume here that Stella Gets Her Groove Back this weekend and Georgia of old reappears. Wins. Then what? Consider where we would be in the current playoff structure:

That’s right, we’re the first one out, giving way to a G5 team and now outside looking in. So much for skipping the SECCG, we’d be skipping the playoffs and heading to a non CFP bowl again. In other words, we gotta win, and we have to do so in a convincing way, because, you know, optics.

And as for us….

In other words, we’ve got to find a second gear, win, and win in a fancy way. Kirby has said he’s working on the line issues and our help is a off-season portal and recruiting class away, but we’ve gotta do this pretty and fashionable, or we’re hosting Indiana in a Citrus Bowl, perhaps.

Looks like SOS, quality wins, and so forth is having no sway on the committee. Two top 25 losses in enemy territory in front of hostile crowds doesn’t resonate with this group.

Win baby. More specifically, win convincingly.

15 thoughts on “All Our Goals Are Still In Front of Us – So is The CFP Committee”

  1. Those Sumbitches have got it in for us just like the SEC. I think it’s more of a desire to prove how brilliant they are and their ‘Georgia Fatigue’. FTMF’S

    • Agreed. What I can’t figure out is why there is “Georgia Fatigue” but there’s never any “Bama Fatigue”.

  2. I’ve been saying for 10 years now the committee sucks. They still do. ESPN wants Texas, Alabama, Notre Dame and Penn State in the playoff. If USC had a pulse, same for them. They want Junior in the playoff. If they can find a way to get Cinderella (Indiana) in, they will be doing cartwheels. If they can find an excuse to keep us out, they are going to do it. There’s no transparency and no consistency. The effect of a 3-point loss in Atlanta last year should tell you everything you need to know.

    We have no one to blame but ourselves for where we are. We farted around with teams like Kentucky, Mississippi State, Auburn and Florida. We played like dog crap against Ole Miss and the first half against Alabama. We played a great game on defense against both Clemson and Texas while the offense was constipated.

    Al Davis has the cure:

    https://youtu.be/8fy8t3HYZp4?si=y35c3eW-T16ZzsHT

    • Your second paragraph sums it up. In 2023 the SECCG was a de facto quarterfinal game and everyone knew it. Did anyone in the four team playoff want to face Georgia last year in a semifinal? Hell no. But Georgia had no one to blame but themselves. In 2024 Georgia has largely not looked like a very good or complete football team for long stretches. At times the defense is stifling. There have been blips where the offense has looked great. At other times the defense looks unable to generate pressure and is susceptible to chunk plays. And, frankly, the offense has looked more like the Ole Miss game more often than it has looked like the explosion in the second half against Clemson. If Georgia is in a mediocre bowl that no one cares about, it has no one to blame but itself.

  3. We’ve got three damn games to play. Kirby lives for this shit. No, we haven’t played well, but we still have blue-chip players. We will see how much Kirby learned from Saban. Seemed when Nick’s back was to the wall, his players responded. Time to right the ship.
    GO DAWGS!! Hunker Fking Down!

    • Win out DAWGS and see what happens. There is only one game to worry about and that
      is the Vols. Kick ass and then worry about the next game. You know deep down that you guys are man enough to take the Vols. so do it. Don’t think about giving up. Don’t let it enter your head or your teammates head. If anyone even mentions losing kick their ass.
      Be a leader, take us to the promised land.
      GO DAWGS

  4. The recency bias on display on a weekly basis is overwhelming. It is like nothing that happened more than two weeks ago matters. Strength of schedule apparently means nothing or very little. They seem to just want eyes on TVs rather than fairly constructed playoff field. I am not sure if we are deserving or not based on our play, but having a ND team that has played a pathetic schedule and lost at home to a MAC school at #9 is certainly a tell on what they are trying to do here. I hate what is happening to our sport.

  5. Losses are the only thing that matters (assuming you don’t lose your starting QB in week 12). The committee will always value an undefeated team playing a pillow soft schedule over a two-loss team that played a gauntlet. “Just win your games,” they’ll say in a sport where the difficulty disparity between two teams’ schedules in the same conference could be orders of magnitude.

    This will expedite the Big 10-SEC merger, and it will kill off playing any meaningful non-conference games. You get nothing for winning them, but you could lose everything for losing them. Play Ole Miss’s non-con schedule, get your one big game at home and win it, and then you are playoff bound. Penn State will go through an entire season without a meaningful win, but they only lost once since they only played one ranked team. But convincing the committee 11-1 Penn State is not better in any measurable way than two-loss Alabama, Ole Miss, Georgia, Texas A&M, etc. is impossible. The only number that computes is the loss column, so Penn State will get to host a playoff game. Meanwhile, I think South Carolina would beat Penn State on a neutral field.

  7. CFP committee puts us just outside at #13. Kirby should send them a case of whiskey for the motivation.

  8. Take out UT, beat down the Nats and we’ll have provided the committee what they need to put us top 10. FTMFs!

  9. Committee is a f*cking joke! They are mainly looking at the loss column. They might as well just use the AP poll. There is zero consideration for strength of schedule.

    Dust off the BCS computer!

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