December 2nd, 2018 at 12:14 AM ^
He's good at buying recruits but his coaching is not as good. They are not even in the top 6 IMO. They got blown out by a bad LSU team.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:36 AM ^
Did he say I wish Shea Patterson was my QB. He would not have slid and stopped a key drive out fear from being a football player.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:42 AM ^
But the CFP committee has been propping up LSU for just this occasion... it's irrational to put Georgia ahead of Oklahoma, but could well happen, since they've been telegraphing it for weeks...
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:23 AM ^
But didn't they already have Oklahoma in last week? There's no way they could switch places after this weekend.
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:24 AM ^
It won't happen.
The media will talk about it happening, but it won't actually happen.
December 2nd, 2018 at 7:43 AM ^
It's more likely that non conference championship ND doesn't get in, than that 2 loss non conf champ Georgia gets in over Oklahoma and ohio
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:15 AM ^
Media will do anything for sensationalism and ratings.
Cant spell espn without sec...wait wut?
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:17 AM ^
....you mean can't spell penis without espn! FIFY!
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:17 AM ^
Texas will beat them in the Sugar
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:43 AM ^
No, Michigan will beat them in the peach.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:46 AM ^
Is it even possible for Georgia not to get in the sugar bowl? Seems very likely
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:18 AM ^
Surprised he can speak so easily after choking so badly.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:22 AM ^
He should be vomiting all over himself
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:02 AM ^
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:22 AM ^
Nice. +1
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:18 AM ^
He can grovel all he wants. He shouldn't have lost to a mediocre LSU.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:19 AM ^
Sad. Just sad...
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:21 AM ^
I know. I remember when I cared about 2018 College Football...
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:20 AM ^
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
But they won TOP over that stretch, that counts for something right?
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:47 AM ^
It does according to Harbaugh
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:20 AM ^
SVP actively said "if you want to come on the show and stump for your team, we give equal airtime to everyone."
Side note - when did Herbstreit become such an SEC slappie? He's on here saying Georgia should jump ND, AFTER A LOSS. I don't think ND is that great but in what crazy world can you lose and go up in ranking? That's a participation trophy of the highest order
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:36 AM ^
Espn writes his paycheck. He's a talking head. Better known as a puppet
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:22 AM ^
It was "win and you're in." He did not win, so he is not in.
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:02 AM ^
Exactly...thought the same thing!
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:23 AM ^
That’s 2 out of the last 3 years that Urban and OSU have kept us out of the playoffs. It’s sickening
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:27 AM ^
No guarantee we would have won the big ten title game this year or in 2016, would've been rematches of teams we had already beaten that year, and it's hard to beat a team twice
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:48 AM ^
No it's not. I hate that expression. If the Patriots play a JV High School team twice, it wouldn't be hard to beat them twice.
If you're the better team, you're likely to win again.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:24 AM ^
Fake punt at 4th and 11 with defense protecting against a fake will go down as one of the worst couching calls of recent memory. Killed his team’s chance of winning.
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:13 AM ^
Agreed, was shocked when he did that at the 50 yard line! Punt and probably go to overtime
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:18 AM ^
And if they'd gone to overtime, they'd have had a better argument for being picked.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:29 AM ^
There is zero argument for a 2-loss non conference champ getting in over two 1-loss conference champs. I detest OSU with all my being, and OK's 'defense' makes me puke - but they both deserve getting in over Georgia.
And there is no argument to be had, OT or not...
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:00 AM ^
Ummmm....Purdue?
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:26 AM ^
One blemish vs two. If OSU hadn't won the conference championship, I'd give it to UGA. But they did, so I won't. Georgia got blown out by LSU and choke hard against Bama - two losses.
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:19 AM ^
I agree but so was coming after the punter and roughing the punter that Nick Saban did when he would have been getting the ball around Midfield, I am starting to buy in to the mindset that they may not be the greatest coaches just the greatest recruiters. It is easier to win games when you have a team full of 5 stars and the SEC and the NCAA allows them to get away with what they're doing Saban was not a success in Michigan State nor in the NFL and Kirby Smart built the Georgia team that basically has been a Michigan State team over the years into a power immediately and has become a recruiting power immediately seems odd to me
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:10 AM ^
Georgia has been a recruiting power for a decade plus under Richt. He just never won any big games with them. So really, Geodgia is more Michigan than MSU.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:26 AM ^
What I have grown to dislike about college football: forget on-the field play, let's use lobbying and politics to decide the winners. Leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Who wants to tune in to watch a rematch of the SEC championship after Georgia lost? They get a re-do? Great. No.
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:41 AM ^
Who wants to see it you ask? everyone with a twang, everyone at ESPN and everyone in SEC Nation because in their mind all four teams should be from the SEC
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:28 AM ^
The whole "best 4 teams" thing is an SEC talking point. There's simply a belief the SEC is the best conference so they have the best teams even if you can't prove UGA is better than OU for example. It goes by some nefarious eye test. Nobody can predict who would win with any consistency between team 4 or team 5.
The committee themselves even uses this argument and the "best looking teams" as a criteria. It's a joke. No other sport at any other level determines their best teams that way. Were the Eagles really the best team in the NFL last year? No, but they earned it and deserved it by beating who was put in front of them when it mattered. That's what it needs to be about, what is earned.
This whole system and committee needs to be thrown out. We need an 8 team playoff with a BCS like poll determining the teams. And keep ESPN farrrrr away from setting up the new system.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:43 AM ^
At this point, the only thing that will work is an NFL playoff. Conference winners are in. The BCS type poll gave us the current playoff format. Either way, it's pollsters or a committee deciding who is good enough, which will always be subjective.
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:14 AM ^
That would be horrible. Used to be the whole season was a playoff and if you were the one undefeated team left at the end of the year you won. If you lost you rooted for every other team to lose so you might have a chance.
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:00 AM ^
And then the BCS gives you things like #4 in the AP poll Nebraska getting the #2 BCS standing because of some technicality like in 2001.
December 2nd, 2018 at 10:29 AM ^
Exactly, when the vaunted SEC starts playing some tough out of conference games... on the road... they can talk about the toughest conference. They are very good at scheduling to inflate their importance.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:47 AM ^
I'd rather see them have to go to 9 conference games. If that had been the case this year, half of the SEC would've had another loss.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:30 AM ^
The ideas of rematches in college football are so dumb in general. Hey you know that first game you played? Doesn't matter at all, this next one is REALLY the one that counts. The big 12 having a title game is so stupid when they already play a conference round robin. Texas beating Oklahoma in a great upset this year counted for absolutely nothing because they had to play again today and OU won
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:33 AM ^
Do you say that about every professional sport too where this happens regularly?
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
I think he's saying that's what makes college football unique and special. Thing is, if we would've handled business last week, we would've had a rematch ourselves.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:39 AM ^
It's going to be unavoidable if you want to determine a winner through a playoff head to head type system. It's better than the old days of just having a bunch of people vote for who wins. If things played out a certain way this year we could have rematched both NW and Notre Dame. Not sure how you'd avoid that.
December 2nd, 2018 at 4:44 AM ^
I’m not the OP, but tbh, I do. Take baseball for instance. The original World Series made sense. You had two Leagues that didn’t play each other, so you took the champions and let them duke it out 1 on 1. Great! That’s perfectly reasonable.
Nowadays though, the MLB playoffs are a statistical abomination. It’s like, “okay we have 162 games, which is a pretty huge sample size, but we’ll only use it to pick 8 teams and then get a 10x smaller sample of games to determine who is the best.” Don’t even get me started on the NHL, where a hot goalie can take the 16th best team in the league all the way to the cup.
People like playoffs because they’re dramatic. There’s a reason the Final Four and the Super Bowl are what they are. But if your goal is to find the best team, it’s moronic. From a statistical point of view it’s downright criminal.