Georgia wins the National Championship
January 11th, 2022 at 12:06 AM ^
I'm sure there will be a ton of Bama fans who will be saying Saban has lost his touch, etc.
"But pawl, we er Bam-aa, wez supozed to win et everi 'ear. Saban doing to meny Acklack commershuls."
January 11th, 2022 at 7:25 AM ^
Careful, your elitist is showing.
January 11th, 2022 at 11:02 AM ^
The noun is "elitism," and you clearly lack it.
January 11th, 2022 at 10:24 AM ^
That UGA QB was truly impressive, but he reminds me of someone........
January 11th, 2022 at 11:59 AM ^
RIP Screech.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:06 AM ^
Take away the fluke fumble/TD and the missed 2-pt conversion by Georgia, and the score would be 34-11... Juss sayin.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:17 AM ^
Well not exactly. It would've been 34 - 12. But Bama did score as many TDs as we did. We actually got into the endzone twice vs Georgia while Bama missed their 2 pt conversion. Also, instead of going for it on all those 4th downs, Bama kicked FGs.
January 11th, 2022 at 8:20 AM ^
yeah - but.............I think we'd have had tough sledding against Alabama.
January 11th, 2022 at 11:33 AM ^
I don't it would be an uphill battle. More like a 50/50 game. I think Alabama had the perfect storm in the SEC game and won the one time out of 10 they would have beat Georgia this year.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:07 AM ^
The playoffs should be for conference winners only. That said, happy to see Bama lose.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:34 AM ^
My main desire is to have teams earn their way into the playoff. Obviously, conference championships is the obvious way to go about it. If they expand the playoffs and include the equivalent of wild card bids, they need to find a way to have teams or conferences earn them. Having uniform conference challenges, similar to the B1G-ACC challenge, for a few non-conference games a year would be one way to allow a conference to earn additional bids by winning the challenges. Win a challenge, win a bid.
January 11th, 2022 at 5:57 AM ^
Oof, I would hate for UM to be left out of a playoff (if OSU wins B1G) because Rutgers lost to Vanderbilt or something stupid like that.
January 11th, 2022 at 8:05 AM ^
I guess I’m not considering it from a “How could this benefit/hurt Michigan?” perspective. I’m pretty much always going to be okay with a runner-up being excluded, even if it is my favorite team.
January 11th, 2022 at 5:54 AM ^
While I understand this logic this goal of the playoffs has always been to get the four best teams in. Of course it’s not a perfect science but what other conference champion even comes within four TDs of Georgia? The committee got it right, mostly. I think Cinci is still questionable.
January 11th, 2022 at 9:20 AM ^
The goal is to get the best teams into the playoff, it isn’t to be an sec invitational.
Winning your conference either means something or it doesn’t, including the sec. Imo this needs to be addressed as the 4 highest ranked conference champs get an automatic bid and then find a way on the next 4. If it’s a 12 team or 16 team eventuality which I think it is then lets do away with conference title games and put 5 conf champs in, highest rated group of 5 champ in, 2 highest if both are in the top 20. Go from there. Limit the number of teams from any conference, no more than a 3rd team at 12 and 4 at 16.
Yeah that could hurt the big ten in a couple years, it would hurt the sec more years most likely. However, it’s a waste of time to say one conference has 5 of the top 12 or 16 teams if they all have one or two losses, cause none of them play each other from the cross divisions… So the next thing to do is force uniform scheduling for all conferences, ie conf games and fcs opponents out.
January 11th, 2022 at 9:43 AM ^
The goal is to get the best teams into the playoff, it isn’t to be an sec invitational.
But from what we saw, aren't those clearly the two best teams in the country? I get it, I'm sick of it too. By all rights, Michigan could/should have been a 13-0 champion of a power-5 conference and Georgia made us look like a September cupcake for them. And Alabama *beat* that Georgia team once.
I don't get the argument here. Alabama won the conference. Who, then, is/are the team(s) that are better than Georgia that should have been in over them?
January 11th, 2022 at 11:02 AM ^
The NFL implemented a wild card system in 1969 so that a 2nd place team from a good division isn't overlooked for a champion in a poor division (as well as obviously increase revenue). Using that as a surrogate, 10 wild cards have advanced to the Super Bowl and 6 have won with the most recent being the 2010 Green Bay Packers who beat the Bears for the NFC Championship (despite ending the season in 2nd place to them) and then Steelers for the NFL Championship.
I think this same approach applies to the CFP even more so due to the even larger disparity in various conferences. Although we need more than 4 teams for this to properly apply, of course.
Would love to see a CFP with at least 8 where Power 5 conference champions are automatically in plus 3 at large.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:07 AM ^
I hate moral victories, but at least we lost to the team that was on a mission.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:30 AM ^
Time to get some immoral victories
January 11th, 2022 at 2:06 AM ^
Fine. Just no pyrrhic victories, thank you very much.
January 11th, 2022 at 2:56 AM ^
What about a futile and stupid gesture?
January 11th, 2022 at 5:59 AM ^
I thought that you'd prefer amoral victories for certain.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:39 AM ^
maybe they were on a mission, who knows. but they certainly had the strongest, most athletic roster
January 11th, 2022 at 12:09 AM ^
The series is tied at 1 to 1. I'll take Bama in the rubber match.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:10 AM ^
Both teams brought tons of pressure late in this one
QBs ability to handle and make plays late was great. Bryce Young made big throws but his WRs dropped them imo
UGA schemed nice stuff. Great coaching and execution by UGA QB late
January 11th, 2022 at 7:35 AM ^
To be fair, Alabama was without their two best receivers for most of the game. Of course their backup guys can start for most other teams. And no one including me is going to feel sorry for them.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:10 AM ^
Clearly there is no shame in losing to Georgia this year.
I wish our game had been closer, but this team was not an accident. The accident was that first Alabama game.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:30 AM ^
You sure their loss to Bama was an accident?
January 11th, 2022 at 10:56 AM ^
At least partially. I mean, Georgia wasn’t themselves in the first Bama matchup. It wasn’t fluky that Bama won or anything, but I don’t think it should have been a blowout.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:10 AM ^
Gotta love a sport where coaches with names like Kirby, Dabo and Urban win titles.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:20 AM ^
Urban is named after a pope. Dabo and Kirby are just straight up Southern bumpkin names.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:23 AM ^
Kirby is a round dickless floating pink head. Then there's also the video game character.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:32 AM ^
^the exact content I'm here 4
January 11th, 2022 at 1:41 AM ^
I got you
January 11th, 2022 at 12:39 AM ^
And that Kirby was named after John Kirby, whose work helped form the basis of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, who also helped defend Nintendo’s right to use the name “Kong” in Donkey Kong.
January 11th, 2022 at 1:24 AM ^
Wow, didn't know that. Thanks for the factoid.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:38 AM ^
Kirby sucks! That’s an old school vacuum cleaner brand.
January 11th, 2022 at 5:41 AM ^
Door-to-door salesmen. Gone with the Fuller Brush man.
January 11th, 2022 at 10:56 AM ^
I had a buddy at UM who sold both Kirby vacuums and Cutco knives. First sales call ever for his Kirby gig, he got lost and never made the appointment. Oops. Of course, this was back in 1996 when we relied on actual maps and road atlases. He was... not so good with the maps.
January 12th, 2022 at 3:19 AM ^
You are definitely forgetting Pope Dabo II, and Ecumenical Patriarch Kirby.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:10 AM ^
Michigan is going to win one..it's going to happen..c'mon...ONE TIME!!
January 11th, 2022 at 12:11 AM ^
I will go to my grave believing that Alabama would not have been in the playoff, and Michigan would have played Cincinnati, if Georgia had anything to play for in the first meeting.
That said, Georgia was the best team in college football this year, and Michigan wouldn't have been any more competitive against them in Indy than they were in Miami.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:14 AM ^
Would have been more fun to lose in the natty tho
January 11th, 2022 at 12:50 AM ^
Those hurt.
We know from Basketball. From Hockey. From Baseball. From Softball. From Field Hockey.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:19 AM ^
The only bit of optimism would have been if they had played Bama in the first round instead of the second. Getting over Bama might have triggered an emotional letdown and an assumption that the Michigan game would be easy. In a parallel universe, that's the straw I'm grasping at.
January 11th, 2022 at 12:45 AM ^
I'm more pissed that Baylor stopped Oklahoma State on the 1 inch line because if they score, It's Bama, Michigan, Oklahoma State, and Cincy in the Playoff. No way they put in Georgia after losing their conference title game. That being said, Georgia was clearly the best team all year and that loss in their title game refocused them.
January 11th, 2022 at 7:18 AM ^
if you think that there is "no way" that GA would have been in the playoff had Ok St won, you are ... wrong.
January 11th, 2022 at 8:11 AM ^
Correct. Michigan, Bama, and Georgia were locks at that point. If OK St won, then toss a coin between OSU and UC...
January 11th, 2022 at 12:13 AM ^
Playing with house money in the SEC championship with Alabama’s back against the wall. Would have seen a more competitive team then if that weren’t the case. I think Michigan should finish #2 in the standings imo