UGAJeff

As a Georgia fan, I want UGA to win this weekend and have FSU end up #4. I’d much rather play FSU in the first round than Oregon or Washington.

The NFL teams are looking at more than reception stats, you bringing up top 15 in receptions in the SEC is a lazy narrative. If you want to be stat driven, great! Use relevant stats and you’ll get some credibility around here.

There are more than enough LSU fans in Atlanta to purchase their allocation of tickets. The question is, will they?

I’m not normally one to complain about officiating but this has been very one sided for Tech.

You must live in Huntsville, an under appreciated city in general. You might want to qualify your bet to per capita, though, any large city had a lot of phds teaching in colleges and universities due to sheer volume.

So happy to get over the “hump.” I do think we are well positioned going forward to continue to complete regularly, although the SEC is just getting stronger. Looking at the 2020’s: In the west, Alabama will remain competitive while Saban is coaching. TAM is building a program and not a flash in the pan. LSU and AU will probably have peaks and valleys, that seems to be how those programs tend to cycle. ARK, Miss and MSU are also growing programs with new staffs. In the East, UGA looks like a consistent contender. UT is on the rise. UF is a question mark but it would be surprising if they don’t get consistently better and competitive. All but Vandy can get competitive. Vandy needs to figure out how to compete in the conference. Then OK and TX will join, probably earlier than ‘25, and the league just gets more competitive. Looking forward, I think the 4 pods make sense as long as the traditional rivalries can be maintained. If the playoffs expand the SEC will probably have 3-4 teams regularly this decade.

The UGA quarterback talk is noise. Everyone likes Stetson’s story and UGA fans appreciate him stepping in. We also know Stetson needs the running game to work to be effective as a passer while JT has won two games with abysmal rushing games. When defenses are able to load the box and stop the run, we’ll need JT distributing the ball in the short, medium and deep passing game vs relying on play action passes. Whether any defense can do that before Bama is up for debate but I don’t want to rely on the running game and play action passes to win the SEC Championship or make a playoff run, if we get that far.

If this plays out, and that is a giant if, I’d go with moving AU and UA to the east. Then I think we add two more teams before the playoff expansion happens and consider the east and west their own conference, won via round robin format and don’t have a SEC championship game. The conference gets more playoff teams in this scenario which offsets the loss of revenue from the SEC Championship game and eliminates a game from the top teams schedule. SEC champ will mean less than making the playoffs in a 12 team format. Why? It is about what the SEC schools want: Grow revenue Create paths to the playoff Don’t play unnecessary games Don’t play a game that removes a contender from the playoff Keep rivalries intact

You are right, All of those years are tough. But 2030, with LSU and Auburn as projected west opponents looks particularly tough with today’s squads. Obviously a lot can change in 10 years.

Our non-conference schedule in 2030 is OSU, Clemson and Tech. That is going to be an interesting season.