NCAA Football 2020-21 Season

Those SEC Shorts are brilliant.

I think it's weird to see Herbstreit doing ads for it -- I mean, the vids make fun of seriouz biznezz that is college football -- but then I remembered that CBS gets all the marquee SEC games so I guess it's OK?

Enix wrote:

Those SEC Shorts are brilliant.

I think it's weird to see Herbstreit doing ads for it -- I mean, the vids make fun of seriouz biznezz that is college football -- but then I remembered that CBS gets all the marquee SEC games so I guess it's OK?

CBS has the 3:30 SEC game and first choice of games each week. ESPN and the SEC Network (partnership between ESPN and the conference) get the rest of the games. So it's a split relationship, but ESPN has a lot of financial interest in the SEC.

I think I remember seeing where ESPN/ABC will take over all the games at some point after recent negotiations.

SEC Shorts sometimes shows up on ESPN's website, though. Not sure what the relationship is.

Yes, the SEC and ESPN just signed a deal this fall where ESPN gets all the games once the CBS contract expires.

I just hope that ESPN keeps the CBS music for the SEC games.

It could happen. Fox brought back the NBA on NBC music ("Roundball Rock") from the 90s just a year or two ago for their college hoops.

Stele wrote:

It could happen. Fox brought back the NBA on NBC music ("Roundball Rock") from the 90s just a year or two ago for their college hoops.

Did they? I think NBC still has the rights to that locked up, because I remember it being a thing when they broke it back out for Olympic basketball coverage a few years back.

At least for the 2021 season (assuming there is one) Cal has an away game at TCU which means we can once again open the season with BBQ talk.

Expand the playoffs to sixteen teams, every other division in football does it.

Just checking - and I'm not gonna bash you for your answer - but were you for this BEFORE this year's playoff team selection? I can't recall and don't want to visit any previous year's threads.

karmajay wrote:
Expand the playoffs to sixteen teams, every other division in football does it.

Just checking - and I'm not gonna bash you for your answer - but were you for this BEFORE this year's playoff team selection? I can't recall and don't want to visit any previous year's threads.

Was anyone on GWJ, or in the entirety of CFB fandom (apart from establishment types) not for expanding the playoffs?

Yes, I have been for expanding them. I'm sure one could find several such statements in my past posts. The only differences I can recall are the number you go to and whether you include automatic bids. I'm pretty sure Legion was for 16 and automatic bids for every D1 conference.

And even if I wasn't previously for expansion (I was!), it's good that you wouldn't bash me for it - if you bash people who've just come over to your side, you're gonna have a whole lot less people doing it.

Yeah, I think the GWJ CFB crowd has been pretty pro-expansion.

Has always made sense to me that if 1-AA (or whatever they call that level) can do it, so can the big boys and make ton of money to boot.

How much more fun would Georgia/Cincinnati have been if it was a 8/9 seeded game with the winner getting Bama?

Not sure how expanding the playoffs to 16 changes anything. Still only allows for 2 non-SEC teams to participate.

Carlbear95 wrote:

Not sure how expanding the playoffs to 16 changes anything. Still only allows for 2 non-SEC teams to participate.

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Fedaykin98 wrote:

I'm pretty sure Legion was for 16 and automatic bids for every D1 conference.

Yup. 10 conference winners plus 6 at-large selections. I don't care if every at-large selection goes to SEC teams every year. Everyone has a direct path in by winning their conference, period.

I only ever post here for about 2 topics: Fresno State's underappreciated excellence (regardless what the standings say), and expanding the postseason.

But, if we allow non Power Five teams to play, they could win. Do you realize how much that would break college football if a team that the voters didn’t deem worthy actually could win at football?

Huh so the CFP doesn't give preferential treatment to some teams like the B1G conference does?

Good.

Conversely, we could just award the trophy to the team with fewer people sick from the global pandemic that’s affecting everyone, and is getting real bad where I live in Ohio.

Stele wrote:

Huh so the CFP doesn't give preferential treatment to some teams like the B1G conference does?

Good.

Give me one argument Indiana should have been in the B1G title game that doesn't involve one stupid rule that the B1G threw in at the beginning of this pandemic season? It wasn't anything OSU (or frankly any of the other teams did) that caused those games to get cancelled, it was the pandemic.

You either want safety, or you want competition. The rule was put in place to prevent a team that went 2-0 from getting into the championship game, not to punish a 5-0 team and reward a team that was 4-2 and lost to the first team.

Stele wrote:

Huh so the CFP doesn't give preferential treatment to some teams like the B1G conference does?

Good.

When you're on, Stele, you're really on.

Teams play with depleted rosters all the time - that's football. Notre Dame wouldn't have been in the playoffs if Clemson hadn't played without Trevor Lawrence and several other starters. Bama lost Waddle to an injury. Everyone was talking about the Tarheel opt outs, but A&M was missing three injured defensive starters. Hell, the guy who was supposed to be our best TE missed the entire season.

Granted, if OSU hadn't had every rule altered and goalpost moved so that they could have an express lane to the playoffs, maybe people would feel differently. But at this point, just show up with your healthy guys and play.

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3 more hours and this godforsaken season is over

The Ship!!!

My wife’s Buckeyes going to try to make her happier than her Browns did yesterday. And that’s going to be a task

Yep, it's looking like a task at the moment.

DeVonta Smith is playing on Rookie.

35-17. It's in danger of slipping away. They need 7 before half for sure.

So Saban's getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom that Belichick just turned down, right?

Rat Boy wrote:

So Saban's getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom that Belichick just turned down, right?

Absolutely.

Presented by Tommy Tuberville one can only hope.

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Just in case anyone cares. I'm sure by now many of you know last night's game featured the exact same score as the Bama - A&M game, which was played at Bama, with a healthy Jalen Waddle, Devonta Smith, and Landon Dickerson.

...and that's all I have to say about that.

And you beat Florida who only lost to Bama 8!

Clearly 14 SEC teams + 2 at large bids is the 16-team playoff will pit the best teams against each other.