If I told you that Vanderbilt it getting better hype before a game against Texass than Georgia did, would you believe me?
What a time to be alive. Also, if there was ever more proof that someone in the SEC offices favored Texas, aside from holding media days in Texas, overlooking the most egregious officiating slight in the history of college football, then there’s this gem:
For further proof that 2024 is just effing weird, look at the top of the SEC standings:
Six…SIX teams with 6-1 records, and please tell me how we can be seven games into a season with three of them only playing three conference games? And why has Georgia played in five already?
Side note: someone equally hates Oklahoma. That Texas oil money is really doing some brokering behind the scenes, is it not?
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they ain’t out to get you.
Someone needs to hire a PI to investigate the corruption/collusion in B’ham and Austin
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$…
It’s disappointing when Refs take away a whole season of sweat and blood and practice and effort and travel and sacrifice by a team..in the most important game of most of the players and coaches lives..by biased or cowardly or moronic calls or no-calls.
Tyler Simmons was not offsides. One flag took all of that away from our Dawgs a few years ago. Yeah..I know they weren’t SEC officials but it makes the point of how one bad call can take away all of that work in a few seconds.
The extent to which SEC refs have injected themselves into the games as virtual players has reached the point where they seem to be a third team on the field. Someone once said that the way to tell if a game is well officiated is by how invisible the refs were during the game…how they were barely noticeable. Today they are right in the mix of things. Those clowns in Austin should be fired..at least a couple of them…and should have been fired right after the game. Since they weren’t, Mr. Commissioner should be fired before the sun goes down today.
UGA 40, Texas 0 if that game was called honestly.
We ducked Vandy! Not ever defending the league office, but Georgia v Bama and Texas were TV ratings bonanzas. Clemson was on us. Keeping the cats, gators, cocks and Auburn were tradition. We got Ole Miss instead of OU, LSU or TAMU which looked like a deal over the summer. Bizzaro dogs were a gift. Hard to really see how the schedule could have been much different without knowing OU was no good. Benefit is we’ll truly be battle tested and a high SOS if we miss the SECCG and need to still make the playoffs.
I don’t agree. The schedules were made when they had a good idea which teams would be good. To make matters worse, Georgia had to play on the road against three of what were considered the best teams in the conference other than UGA. That is crap. I get Ole Miss ( who was predicted to be better than LSU, TAMU, & OU) being away since they played in Athens last year, but there is no reason Georgia should have had to play at both Bama and Texas. Especially, in Tuscaloosa. Georgia played in Tuscaloosa the last time they were matched up in the regular season. The SEC did a miserable job balancing the schedules and not just in Georgia’s case.
Agree with your sentiment.
The SEC seemed to be out to slow the UGA train but who knows?
Go Vandy! De-horn those Jersey milk cows!
We didn’t keep the Gamecocks as we don’t play them this year (First time since they joined the SEC that they were not on our schedule) which doesn’t bother me as I don’t consider them a traditional rivalry game (I don’t consider Kentucky one either as they don’t interest me at all). The traditional rivalry games (IMO) are Auburn & Florida only. These are the only 2 that we should always play every year due to (1) Auburn being the oldest and most played rivalry game in the deep south and (2) Florida because we hate them so much.
So of the top 8 in the conference rankings, only 2 are from the 8 teams with the toughest schedules. This is why the SECCG is going to be a joke. The schedules are completely unbalanced, and we do not play enough conference games to realistically identify the top 2 teams. That game is not about identifying the top team in the conference; it is a money grab to play for a bye in a tournament that is too big to begin with. I think I would just as well stay home in 3rd place and rest up for our home playoff game.
Totally agree! I hope we finish with 1 loss and get left out of the SECCG. That means you play one less game, are likely the 5 seed who gets to host a home playoff game, and Kirby gets to use the “no one respects us” card because we were left out of the SECCG as motivation to make a run to he National Title.
The selection for the SECCG is going to be a mess. What the hell are the tie breakers if UGA, Texas, and LSU or TAMU all finish with only one conference loss?
The whole process is poorly thought out.
Money ruins everything.
Speaking of money…shortening the game on the field did just what we all predicted it would do…give us more, more, more stupid ads to sit through.
Hoo boy! If we run the table, we’ll be no worse than #2 in the nation, maybe #1. Can you imagine if we don’t make it to the SECCG because the league has to go 7 layers deep in their tie breakers? Heads are gonna explode! The SEC and/or the playoff will be a laughingstock for having one of the top 2 teams in the nation as a 5-seed and playing the first round.
Personally, I hope it happens. I expect playing one extra game in the SECCG can only be a negative for a team locked into a playoff spot. Not only do you have a change of injuries, but with the horrid officiating there’s a good change of one or more players missing the 1st half of a playoff game due to non-targeting targeting penalties.
My understanding is that the 2025 SEC schedule will play the same teams but rotate based on 2024 home/away…which means we get bama and texas at home which will be good for the Lake Rabun boy!
First of all, JP, you have to qualify every post that uses FPI with a caution that FPI is trash. Second, UT, A&M and Mizzou definitely had objectively easy schedules coming in and that’s been proven out. Lastly, it’s normal for teams to stack up their OOC games early, unless they have a local OOC rivalry game at the end of the year. Most of the November cupcake games have been banned by the conference now.