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jakez4ut said:
UGA isn't falling out of the playoff, even with a bad loss. Their ticket is punched. So the sugar bowl scenarios are as follows:
LSU by winning today
Bama by UGA winning today
Tennessee by Bama getting in the playoff
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Tennessee if the committee suddenly decides to rank us ahead of Bama.

All that said, I'm good with the orange bowl. There's just something really wrong with the sugar bowl kicking off before noon local time, before NYD. What is this a Jefferson pilot game?
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Wait what? The sugar shouldnt kick off that early. WTF
 
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BearCat204 said:
I do find it funny that any of us really think we have a clue what this committee will do. They dont follow their own criteria, it wouldnt surprise me if they put Florida A&M in the 4th playoff spot after seeing what they did last week.
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It's like watching FIFA vote on who gets to host a World Cup.
 
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matt_mccoy19 said:
Hey on the bright side, if bama does get in we will be in the sugar bowl
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volinexile17 said:
Saw UT there in I think 2001. It was really cold.
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Yes it was. Frozen stadium. Casey Clausen played like a freshman for the first time all season and the Vols were blasted by Kansas State. Was a miserable all around experience.
Big ice storm two days before the game. Stadium was covered in ice. Never been so cold at a game. Didn’t leave until clock read 00:00. Worst Vols game experience ever.

Have been to 3 Cotton Bowl games with Tennessee playing. Win Against Arkansas. Win against Texas A&M. Blizzard loss against K State. First 2 times, the weather was sunny and 60-70s at game time. Perfect football weather.

Cotton Bowl used to be a prestigious bowl game as well. Sucks that it is delegated to a lesser status now.
 
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Vols4us said:
Thanks for posting. Love Voltello, tells it like it is.

I want to add perspective as briefly as possible from an old guy. I played D-1 for a minute in the old Southland Conference 50 years ago (telling, I know). Back then there were 13 scholarships IIRC. Less now. There was no revenue from the sport for the school - it was all an expense. If you had any spectators at a game you were shocked. There was a paid HC and low paid assistant, usually a pitching coach, who also held a regular job. The assistant drug the infield and limed the foul lines. You provided your own gear, the school provided the uni. That's it.

You had fall practice and games for 5-6 weeks. You started early with practice in the spring semester with games extending past the end of the semester in late May. I got into the school and on the team via an academic/athletic general scholarship that was later banned by the NCAA that paid for tuition and books that did not require me to play the sport as long as I maintained a 3.0 GPA or greater. It was used to larget high school student athletes with good academics and athletic upside to fill rosters in all sports.

There were guys on the team from all over the country that were passed up in the draft or just desired to go to college. The later would be me. Baseball was a second sport for me. I had upside, but was not sure that I saw a longer term future with it. However, the scholarship made college happen for me so I jumped on it. I worked in the summers to have enough to pay for food, gas and miscellaneous needs during the school year.

The time commitment was brutal if you wanted to do well with academics along with having zero money to do anything or provide for even basic human needs unless you took out a loan or had parents who could foot it, which I did not. There were no S&C programs, training rooms, special dorms with food for athletes, etc. So I gave it up, I had run out of energy and cash. I needed a part time job to just live and go to school.

So I hear Tony loudly and see that not much has changed in 50 years for the student athletes in lower revenue sports until NIL came along. The schools and MLB have done very well during the period as revenues increased and coaching improved. I'm past ready seeing it work much better for the players that the rest of them have been using to make money.
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Ran track and cross country through college and I can tell you my are very similar. I can also confidently say it’s probably the only reason I got a degree because I didn’t love being in school and competition was my motivation.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
TCU loses and a 1-loss OSU goes in.

Where are you people getting a 2-loss Alabama playoff? It's crazy.
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ohio is already in with the USC loss. It’s TCU losing by 28+ somehow that worries all of us because Bammer’s two losses were apparently a thing of beauty, will be hung in the louvre one day. Just amazing losses.
 
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