Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#95,927
Jackcrevol said:
sanders is a win. but we lost kid to oregon. every pundit has said same thing about OL recruiting since day 1. Gotta widen the net.
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In the last two recruiting cycles we have signed nine studs on OL, including Heard. I don’t know what people expect? I mean, I do know what people expect, for us to sign the top 5 OL in the country every year……
 
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UTProf said:
This is significant. UT vs UGA early allows both teams to recover from a loss and gain a higher seed. Playing later doesn’t benefit either n a 12 team playoff.
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agreed, but both teams have huge games in November too. Texas comes to AThens in Nov, we go to Gainesville in Nov... so the conf made a concerted effort to space things out....and have meaningful games all year long.

UGA's schedule isn't soft. they come to Neyland, bye, Bama comes to Athens. that's about as big as it can get in the first month of the season.

that kicks of a 4 game stretch of Bama, UK, Auburn, Ole miss....3 of those at home. bye week, then UF, MSU, Texas. i have no doubt UGA will be great again next year, but between TN, Bama, Ole miss, probably a better, but not great, Auburn team on the road, the annual trip to a probably much better FL team, and Texas....

i don't know what Ole Miss will be next year, i feel like they're going to look different, roster wise, next year....but that's a tough schedule, with one major break....they only have 2 legit road games...@tn and @auburn. all the other big games are neutral or in Sanford. i think the floor for them is a solid 10 wins....

for us, there's some roster dependent factors to consider, but i think our floor is 9 again. i don't think there's anything unusual about our schedule, outside of the placement of the UGA and FL games...but @ bama and @ UF always stand out as tough outs. i think Syracuse could be a little tricky, not a bad team, but i have no idea what they will have returning etc..but coming off a 9 win season, beating Miami, i'm sure they'll view this game much like NCSU did this year.

no idea what OU will look like, you'd have to think they'll be better, but they're losing some big time dudes if memory serves. MSU replaces Arkansas as the road game to keep an eye on, but not as difficult as going to Fayetteville. im not scared of UK at all, except that it falls in between two big games, and is on the tail end of b2b road trips....so not scared of it....but aware of the situation.

then it's at Florida. in what i expect will be a very large game for both teams. UF's schedule is brutal again, so i don't know if they're going to be in position for a playoff berth, but if they are, then i would tell you Florida would be VERY good and probably a top 5 team at that point....and we're probably right next to them in the standings....either way, we're probably playing another nationally relevant game in November with Conf and national title implications. which is all one can hope for year in and year out.

December 2024 prediction on Fall 2025 schedule...i think we're 4-1 headed to October. i think we're 3-1 in October, and it comes down to the UF game to get to 10 and probably in the mix for the playoffs again. if we somehow beat UGA or Bama....then we're in the mix for ATL and top 4 seed and potential home game. but i'm not ready to go there, i'll need to see us beat UGA first, and it's been a minute since we've beaten Bama in Tuscaloosa. so those 2 games, for argument's sake, are L's.

last thing...for sos purposes, it would be nice if teams that i think we will beat, go on to have good/decent seasons...so Syaracuse, MSU, Arkansas...even UK...just don't suck out loud like NCSU and OU did for much of the year after we beat you, thanks.
 
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butchna said:
Conferences (especially the SEC) will never give up their championship games, but they’re superfluous and unnecessary. Only serve to be counterproductive.
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Expand the field and get checks for 4 or more first round games and CC games might lose some glamour. Especially if losses do matter gets folded in moving forward.
 
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DD4ME said:
These OSU guys are so dismissive of us. It is actually annoying. Picking all our flaws apart in UGA game. Doing like most pundits and under crediting the impact our defense has on other teams. They act like they are already better than UGA and Bama and us.

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No way you can actually take these guys serious.
 
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I am starting to think that this whole 12 team playoff was botched on purpose to sell the idea of a 16 team playoff. The public "consensus" now is the committee is terrible, byes are bad and seeding process sucks. The outcome will be a 16 team play off (no byes) with conference champs(not automatically top seeds) in and teams placed according to their position at the end of the season (tie the committees hands).
I believe that it will be a process similar to the one basketball uses.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
anyone not winning 10 games in acc should be sacked
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rikberry31 said:
I am starting to think that this whole 12 team playoff was botched on purpose to sell the idea of a 16 team playoff. The public "consensus" now is the committee is terrible, byes are bad and seeding process is sucks. The outcome will be a 16 team play off (no byes) with conference champs(not automatically top seeds) in and teams place according to their position at the end of the season (tie the committees hands).
I believe that it will be a process similar to the one basketball uses.
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16-team playoff will happen once CFB inevitably splits into two super conferences.

Super SEC will be 36 teams
Super Big Ten will be 36 teams

4 divisions of 9 teams based on geographic proximity and maintaining rivalries (as much as possible) in each conference, so 8 divisions total

12-game schedule, you play 8 your divisional games, 2 conference non-divisional games, and 2 OOC games

No conference championship games. Winner of each division punches a playoff ticket, 8 wild card teams also advance (highest rated teams that didn't win their divisions)

Seeding occurs after all teams are in based on W/L record and SoS.
 
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