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Well, it appears the Chickens will still be one W for the Tigers this year.

12 at-large qualifiers, the only exception is one of the 12 annually goes to a G5 team. That makes the G5 happy that they get a seat at the table. And normally the G5 does have one in the top 12 CFP rankings. Everyone wins. If it’s 5-6 from the SEC so be it, I have no issues with that. The memo to everyone with this setup: be better.

There goes another “national championship.”

Mike Norvell is way in over his head, which makes two Memphis coaches in over their heads in the ACC. Really need FSU, Miami and Va Tech to return to contending form because right now the ACC is easily the worst P5 conference in the country and most of them couldn’t beat the the top half of the current AAC on their worst day. Not sold on Va Tech yet.

Steve Sarkisian is going to run another program into the ground. Wait, it’s already in the ground. They’re all yours SEC.

My educated guess is you’re probably closer to the truth here than anyone. The Big 12 doesn’t make these moves and the schools involved don’t make these moves without significant consultation with the fat cats of football and tv world who run things behind closed doors. The Big 12 had to be told, look, you add these particular four guys, you keep your status at the big boys table because there’ll be XX millions per school for all of you in 2024 and beyond with a new deal, which may not be even PAC 12 or little ole ACC money, but still WAY above anything the AAC or any G5 conference could get. So yes, I’d bet anything that the playoff barn door gets firmly shut on the G5 because there’ll be 70 schools total in the P5 with these four and they’re all good enough to be here, hell, Cincinnati gave Georgia a way better game than my Tigers just did and frankly should have beaten them. 70 schools? That’s enough.

*slop*. Slip, slop, all the same. Dang autocorrect!

This is what dumbasses reap by tweeting, especially in the first half. This is what dumbasses reap by writing up slip based on first-half tweets by dumbasses. Think before you hit send. On all counts.

Here come the excuses from Negan if Clemson pulls off a win. Y’all watch out for him if the Tigahs get the W. Seriously, for the rest of you many good Dawg fans here I hope it’s a great game and good luck to both teams, hope everyone shows up healthy and stays healthy.

This guy is going to take the ACC into the gutter.

I’m glad, like about 95 percent of the public, that I pay zero attention to the preening narcissistic schmoes who populate tweeter, farcebook, instafraud, etc.

If there’s one thing or person that can unite fans of every P5, G5, NFL, junior college, you name it, it’s this fact: Not one serious football watcher has any use for Cowherd.

The AAC top to bottom as of now is better than the Big 12 leftovers. The bottom feeders of the Big 12 leftovers would have trouble beating anyone in the AAC and I’m not sure they’d be competitive in the Mountain West either. The ACC would be better off inviting Liberty and Coastal Carolina than any of those guys.

Exactly. So why should Clemson, Ohio State and USC (and a few others) have to carry a bunch of crap-assed programs like Wake, Pitt, Boston College, Rutgers, Maryland, Illinois, Wazzu, Oregon State etc. in an alliance? Would they schedule marquee matchups regularly in the alliance or would it be random, like Clemson at Illinois or USC at Maryland? Not trying to pick on anyone but without about half a dozen programs the “alliance” is a bunch of Big 12 leftovers. Makes no sense. I hear this “grant in rights” stuff through 2035 but trust me, there’s plenty of money out there along with fair country lawyers that can bust a John Swofford deal.

I agree. Clemson playing, say, Minnesota and/or Washington State in the “alliance” and staying in the ACC beating Wake Forest and Georgia Tech 73-7 makes zero sense. Time to get the hell out.

Kevin Warren is an idiot, and if the B1G’s answer to the SEC is to pick up Kansas he’d become a certified idiot. Football is all that matters now whether hoops fans want to hear it or not. As bad as the ACC has become lately the last thing I’d want to see is another rodeo clown program like Kansas join. We’ve got enough clowns already.

Oh I believe fully Clemson and FSU are going to kick the SEC tires with mutual serious interest, perhaps Ohio State and Michigan as well. If all that really happens the B1G grabs NC, Virginia, Miami and Georgia Tech, maybe Cincinnati to keep an Ohio presence. The rest get together with the Big 12 leftovers. You’re right on it.

And thus begins the SEC’s dance with the devil. Bon appetit!

Baylor will make a fine AAC member, as will Kansas, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech, Kansas State and West Virginia. Sorry guys, no one else is going to ring your doorbell.

LOL, unless Mike Aresco hires him first as his personal driver.

Playoff expansion will be approved in less than a year because too many schools not named SEC, Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame now want their shot. This is all just posturing by certain self-important folks to try and make themselves look good.

Honestly the potentially revamped AAC is a better conference than the ACC and much better than the PAC 12. The AAC/Big 12 leftovers had as many the final 2020 CFP rankings (four) as the ACC and more than the PAC 12. Football at the bottom half of the ACC has become utter garbage, no better than average G5, and Clemson needs to do something about it, but that’s a whole nuther discussion for another day.

This is epic. The Big 12 flatly turned down a bunch of AAC schools five years ago in expansion talks, told them “you’re not worthy to join us” and now is going to get swallowed by the AAC with a little help from ESPN. What goes around, comes around. I’m sure Bob Bowlsby will get a nice severance check.

Cincy has a better chance of being in the SEC than the B1G. That said I’m not sure anyone will want any of the Big 12 remnants. Kansas brings nothing, Oklahoma State is in the middle of nowhere, and Iowa won’t want little brother to join them. They and the best of the AAC will form a new league with the help of ESPN, and if you look at it, top to bottom it’ll be as good if not a better football league than the ACC sans Clemson. They’ll play for one expanded CFP spot, get nothing else and like it.

I can flat out guarantee Bob Bowlsby and Mike Aresco are having discussions. And if they’re not they should be. It’s every man for himself and this is going to make a lot of strange bedfellows.

The Big 12 is toast. What’s left of them, and it’ll be a bunch—because most are not going to be welcomed by the PAC, B1G or ACC—will unite with the best of the AAC and that’s as good as it’s going to get for them in Lubbock and Manhattan. They’ll all hope to compete for that one expanded CFP spot. Do they get also get a spot at the autonomy table? That’s up to ESPN.

I don’t like it. If you’re writing off a lot of regions of the country, and eventually kicking another 20 schools out of power status because they’re no longer “worthy,” how’s that good for the game? And who’s to say if you have a bad run like FSU and Tennessee suddenly you’re no longer worthy and off you go with Cincinnati and Memphis? If hypothetically I’m an zealous Oklahoma State fan and suddenly I’m relegated to watching games with Fresno State at the same overpriced ticket prices, do you think I’m still as invested? Hell no.

Forgettable. Clearly has a heck of an agent.

AhhhhhhhhHahahahahaha, loving the comments here. You guys are so right. NOBODY wants Texas in their conference because they WILL DESTROY that conference. You can’t spell a#%hole without the ‘A’ in Austin. That’s a fact.

Clemson doesn’t pick its starting quarterback at media days.