Yep Now where are the naysayers that bama is still not a hard team to handle....


Now Louisville take care of Fla st. .....



Now let's hear why other teams should be in playoffs instead of Bama. But one thing NO TEAM has done Bama has is BEAT the number one team in the nation. That same team that had a 29 game winning streak...

Michigan will roll them around like a dried out coyote turd.

Take away the 4th down conversion that wasn’t a catch or even looked at until halftime and GA wins by 4, lol. Still a great game. I don’t know why GA changed up their defense, but it didn’t work like they thought.
I know there’s probably less than a 1% chance of GA staying in the Top 4 and if not, it was a heck of a ride! If they don’t, Alabama definitely should be in there.

Must be sad living like that.

Good game with good teams. I still dislike Sagan.

I'll play...just to give you the attention you crave. Texas beat Alabama....at Alabama. Let me guess.....it was early...it doesn't count. Lolololol Bama needed a miracle play last week.....Maybe Georgia shouldn't have been #1.

Of course they shouldn't but as undefeated reigning champ what you gonna do until they take a loss?

Strength of schedule is rarely taken into consideration for regular season ranking.

Michigan, Washington, Florida State and Texas in the playoff if all finishes as expected. SEC who?

It's anyone's guess .
Alabama just proved these teams in the upper 10 ranking , are very good teams.
I'm for Michigan , but just one play can make or break a game.
Just like that run back by Michigan just now.

"Of course they shouldn't but as undefeated reigning champ what you gonna do until they take a loss?

Strength of schedule is rarely taken into consideration for regular season ranking."


But Georgia wasn't #1 every week of the season. Why? They hadn't lost. Next year will be a much more realistic Natty.

That's how it should be....but you know it won't. They can't leave the SEC out because , well, it just means more. Lololol

You big 10 boys have a shorter memory than your list of champions in last 25 years. Ohio st got gut stomped AT home the LAST game of the season last year . Still got in . How many number one teams you guys beat this year ? Take out penn st that can’t score if they had 1000 dollars in hand and was in a cat house . How many ranked teams have they beat ?

NO ONE I MEAN NO ONE. Should ever use the term strength of schedule when talking about big 10 football
Georgia was 3-0 against top 15 teams this year bama was 3-1 No one else in the top 6 had beaten more than 2
There stats not mine

Last season for one of the northern high school teams to win anything so won't be a SEC team in this year. Next year will take care of it and we'll be back to two SEC teams playing for it, they just have to practice several weeks on those weak yankee teams first.

Bama or Georgia would throttle the top 3 off the field right now, doubt Hard Boil has had time to steal any of their signs yet.

You are kidding right !? The Michigan team that hasn’t scored a touchdown against IOWA on offense in the first half ? Bama Georgia heck any of the top 8 would gut stomped Michigan ! Other cup cake oh st excluded

LMAO !

So, who's in and who's out?

This is worse than before there were playoffs! lol.


My guess......
Michigan for sure in first.
Texas second.
Washington? Third.
Forth???? Florida st., Georgia, Ohio st., Alabama.

1. Mich. 2. Washington 3. Texas 4. Florida st. is my prediction. Actual best 4 in the country right now is Michigan, Alabama, Washington and Georgia but this puny committee isn't going to give you the best 4 just the most popular 4.

Should just skip the play off's and national game and give the trophy to Michigan! Texas is the only one of the top teams on the committee's final 4 list that might could beat them.

My guess is

Michigan
Washington
Florida State
Alabama


Alabama will stomp Michigan in the playoffs. Then will it be FL St. or WA? Not really sure but I'd like to see a FL St/ Bama game.

Now this is Funny! Gotta Love This no matter who you root for!

^ Lol, that is pretty darn good.

Roll tide. At least most of the committee didn't have it out for Saban


Big lay off might make teams rusty . But can you imagine if Bama gut stomps Michigan? They better play better than they did yesterday . All i'm saying.

I have zero doubts that Bama will beat Michigan. I've seen MI play a few times this year.

You're a clown fanboy so you at least have that going for you. Watching you juggle and dance is worth the price of admission. Lolololol btw fanboy....I never mentioned strength of schedule....that was a poster from Georgia. Lolololo now....can you juggle while on a unicycle?

Well, we're gonna find out in a month. Michigan is now known as NEXT in Tuscaloosa.

I'm sure they said that about Texas too.

Rent free



I hope it keeps you up at night.

mouthy nut from Iowa, how did ya'll do again this season? lol.

Guess it will be a repeat now, Texas vs Alabama for the championship. I don't see those transgendered schools doing much against actual defense's.

I'm guessing Texas v Mich.

Maybe. Sorry if I gave you credit you didn’t deserve. I got to put my glasses on when I read this
Looks like clown boy was right on who should be in !!!
Boom mic drop !!!

Everyone one of these I hate Nick Saban types would gladly give their left nut if he were at their school and would back him to the hilt.

Problem is there ain't but a handful of schools in the entire country that have the credentials, and not just money either, to pull in a Saban or Bryant or Paterno or Rockne. And Bama sits atop that list with the SEC sharing in that prestige, see Georgia/Tennesee/LSU/Florida.

We may now have achieved some sort of on field parity now but there's only so many top tier coaches to go around.

Mich. gonna spank sabans little behind. He'll probably retire after the embarrassment.

I know ISU right now is probably not on anybody radar, I’m a strong ISU fan, but I do believe coach Campbell is building something here and I do believe that they can defeat most anyone when they are together, the gambling problem of some of the players showed that, I don’t want a Nick Saban I think we have a coach here now that is growing our program and I do believe we will be a national contender at some point.

I hope you are right! I'm glad Campbell seems committed to ISU, and looking forward to seeing what he can do.

Just as we’ll mail the trophy right now to the Husky Dogs. You herd it first here.

Nother edit....

Just as we’ll mail the trophy right now to the Husky Dogs.

They choke up everytime they get anywhere. Never play SEC defense's so never seen anything like that in their life.

I copied and pasted this article from PennLive.com's sports writer David Jones.

The 13-member College Football Playoff committee was unquestionably faced with the most challenging task in the decade-long history of the event. But I don’t think they had the collective stomach for snubbing the SEC, a solution suggested by many on Sunday morning.

That’s the first of my five takeaways from Sunday’s College Football Playoff reveal:

1. The SEC remains the most powerful bloc in the game.


By any measure, this was the least impressive season on the field in recent memory for the nation’s most successful conference. The SEC won only 7 times against P5 competition, and none was what you’d call a wow result.

The SEC’s best win was arguably from among these

• Mississippi’s 37-20 victory over Tulane.

• Kentucky’s 38-31 win at Louisville.

• Mississippi State’s 31-24 overtime win over Arizona.

• Missouri’s 30-27 win over Kansas State.

Further, the SEC dropped a lot of marquee matchups:

• Alabama lost 34-24 at home to Texas.


• Louisiana State lost 45-24 to Florida State.

• Texas A&M lost 48-33 at Miami.

• Florida lost 24-11 at Utah.

• Arkansas lost 38-31 to Brigham Young.

• South Carolina lost 31-17 to North Carolina.

• South Carolina also lost 16-7 to Clemson.

Then, there were some unsightly narrow wins and ugly losses:

• Auburn won 14-10 at California.

• Alabama won 17-3 at South Florida (led 10-3 late).

• Georgia won 31-23 at Georgia Tech.


• Auburn lost 31-10 to New Mexico State (the week before it took Alabama to the last play).

• Vanderbilt lost 36-20 at Wake Forest.

• Vanderbilt also lost 40-37 at UNLV.

Even the staunchest SEC fans would quietly admit since about midseason this was by no means a vintage year for the league.


And yet, somehow the national media narrative perpetuated that the SEC’s strength was unmatched, that its results could stack up against anyone.

That apparently extended to the 13-person CFP committee which easily could have used Florida State’s rout of LSU as a linchpin of its case to be in the field, yet turned a blind eye.

Instead, CFP committee chair Boo Corrigan trotted out the excuse that FSU wasn’t the same since its starting QB Jordan Travis broke his left leg two weeks ago against North Alabama. Yes, FSU’s offense struggled in wins at in-state rival Florida and in the ACC championship game against Louisville. But the Seminoles won the games.

The only conclusion I can reach is that committee members feared repercussions had they snubbed both Georgia and Alabama and left the SEC entirely outside the rope for the first time in the Playoff’s 10-year history.


You cannot tell me that if you swapped out FSU’s garnet and gold for Bama’s crimson and white that the wins away from home over Florida and Louisville wouldn’t be suddenly considered the gutty, gritty overcoming of adversity. That Nick Saban wouldn’t be hailed as a resourceful leader of men who found a way to get his team across the finish line unblemished.

(This word is unacceptable on Trapperman), if it had been Bama playing with its 3rd-string QB and the other team was LSU, suddenly that 16-6 slogfest would be considered one of the great old-school defensive struggles of the modern era, the way football ought to be played.

It’s this simple: the committee members were terrified of crossing the SEC. And Saban. And Greg Sankey. And Paul Feinbaum. And Laura Rutledge’s makeup. And the whole lot of Disney’s SEC-aligned cabal. They were never, ever doing that.


And that sucks.

2. Thank heavens no more of the 4-team bracket.

It should have and could have been a 12-team tournament this year instead of next. The fact that the 4-team model existed only when 5 power conferences existed and now vanishes the moment the Pac-12 dissolves is ironic enough. As soon as they don’t desperately need more than four slots with the Pac-12′s demise and now only four major conferences, then they expand the Playoff threefold.

Sure, the arguments over #12 and #13 will be lively in the future. But they’ll be much more muted, in the same way pundits momentarily consider who’s snubbed from the NCAA basketball bracket and then quickly move on.


It’ll be a different sort of obsequiousness from the committee next year when some 9-3 SEC team gets in over a more deserving lesser-conference outfit. But at least it can’t be this egregious again.

3. Florida State’s exclusion is also a shot over the ACC’s bow.

This wasn’t merely a snubbing of the unbeaten Seminoles in favor of once-beaten Alabama. This was a repudiation of the Atlantic Coast Conference as a whole in a way that cannot be mistaken. It’s as if the bulk of the committee members rejected the idea of the ACC as a power conference altogether.

And that is akin to telling its strongest members: Look, you’re in a rinky-dink league. As soon as your lawyers manage to locate a legal loophole in the ACC’s grant of rights – that is, a manageable buyout – better evacuate for the SEC or B1G as soon as you can.


Florida State and Clemson both reportedly examined jumping from the ACC last year, but couldn’t get it done. FSU’s spurning by the CFP after a 13-0 season must send the message: Your conference schedule isn’t good enough.

The ACC has always been a second tier conference of SEC cast offs and wannabes.

I knew Alabama would squeak in somehow after Auburn gifted them that victory. I was so mad when I saw how they won…..I haven’t watched much of any in college football this year, but I know Bama was eekin one out seemingly every week. Maybe they got better as the year went on, but was sure hoping we could’ve had some more fresh meat, but I’ll take TX and WA over GA and the rest of the usuals. I do t have any kinda dog in the fight, but I’m pulling hard for Washington/Michigan championship and WA to win it all! Happy trapping! ScottW

That would be GLORIOUS!

So what are you going to say when an SEC team still goes to the championship next year? Because undoubtedly either Bama or Georgia will. Maybe both.

Wonder why they are all complaining about Alabama and not Texas. Why didn't they take a no loss champion from a crappy conference over a one loss champion from a crappy conference?

If Texas had been left out and bama in there would have been reason to say that got it wrong. No different than both bama and Georgia got in . One had to of lost to the other one because they met in SEC. champion game

There will be 2 brackets in 12 team format. ALL SEC teams will be in same one. Only way to guarantee that it’s not an SEC only championship. You know like before

Don't like seeing an SEC win it all every year, build your program up! Dabbo did that for a few years at Clemson, being in the ACC with their weak puny teams he had a free ride every year to the play off's. Now's he's fell off the cliff with all this NIL and tranfer portal crap going on.

But yea, more games next year but your going to end up with the usual's all over again plus Texas will be an SEC team as well, maybe puny little SEC won't be so weak next season with them and OK. in, lol.

College football is a racket. The decision-making of who is best is shady. There are virtually no student-athletes on these teams. They are groomed since a young age and can barely read at a 6th grade level for the most part. The best schools are football vocational schools and they should just start a minor league for the NFL.

You SEC fans shouldn't be so humble, lol.

If they would of left the SEC out of the playoff their tears would have turned that southern drought into a catastrophic flood.

With a 12 team playoff, are they giving the top 4 teams a bye to make the math work?

Yes.

Only three pages debating a make believe championship? I'm disappointed in you guys.

▶️ Watch this reel
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/WC9SKhyCxXcFq3xG/?mibextid=YNcHmz

My buddies and I have been to Tuscaloosa twice to watch the Tide play. That little clip is spot on! I swear as soon as we cross the state line from TN to AL and stop somewhere, that's all we hear! I love it! Some of the nicest, most hospitable fans and tailgaters for sure. We went to Wisconsin one year to watch the Badgers and the Wisconsin experience was outstanding. Super friendly people who are truly "professional" drinkers!

Long and short of it. If you look at Bama stats or Saban's stats on paper they are the best ever. Then look at the SEC. Yes someone will bring up stats from 1920-1975 .But those days of playing 5 games and the local politicians handing out chips are gone. Most important stats are ones that have been made in our lifetime. IMO. Of course if your conference hasn't had much success lately I guess all you have is to grasp onto are wins that happened 50- 100 years ago

You're awful mouthy now that they're in it, but were quiet all season when they were squeaking by, lol.

FSU should be in, Alabama out. Record was better, and bumping them because one player was injured screws the entire team.
Too much money involved for fairness and right anymore.

Osky

Having 5 of the 13 members of the selection committee doesn’t hurt either if you are in the SEC…. 40% is a lot of pull when you get to the end…. Subjective perception is tough to overcome when it comes down to it. Every conference should be allotted 1 member, and rotate yearly.

WRONG !!!! 5 of them have ties to the A C C Mitch Barnhart UK AD is only SEC guy on the committee. I'll post the link that shows name and backgrounds. SOOOO even the ACC members recognize that FSU shouldn't get in LOL LOL LOL

https://collegefootballplayoff.com/sports/selectioncommittee/roster

What was there to talk about . It only counts when the season is ending. I tell you what unless asked a question or called out I'll let Bama do the talking.

Yeah, right.

Bama won't be talking after the Wolverines kick their butt.

Not sure what meds your docs have you on Nitty but you might wanna ask them to tone 'em down a bit.... they seem to be causing you to have delusions.

LOL We'll see in do time!

Not sure what meds your docs have you on Nitty but you might wanna ask them to tone 'em down a bit.... they seem to be causing you to have delusions. [/quote]
[quote=yotetrapper30][quote=Nittany Lion]Bama won't be talking after the Wolverines kick their butt.[/quote

Nitty might be on meds, but at least he's not on welfare like the Tide.

But Bama doesn't deserve to be in the playoffs....

Is everybody from Kentucky south a Alabama fan?

Nah, we got our little step brother on the other side of the state, Auburn.

MI. doesn't play defense's like they are going to see very soon, none of the yankee teams do, why they look great all year then go up in flames in a play off game leaving everyone wondering why they were even there to start with, can we say TCU? lol.

Yea you bet, Auburn sure thur up that defense on 4th and 31.

I never knew TCU was a Yankee team.

Pretty much, SEC fans are pretty consolidated as a bunch unless we're playing each other, then they suck. Lol.

And wasn’t a northern team the 5th best defense in the nation this year? I agree with Osky on this just because one player goes down doesn’t mean everything is lost the best example of this was Drew Bledsoe going down and Tom Brady stepping up to fill the role, at every level of sports there are times when’s players are needed to step up and take control.

Check this out,

https://www.foxsports.com/articles/...efense-rankings-team-pass-and-rush-stats

Congrats on being #1 at something for a change, LOL.

I believe jbyrd said the Big 10 can't play defense..

Not what I said . In fact this proved my point . Playing defense against high school talent offense is how the stats are what they are . You guys brag you play 9 conference games a year . Why wouldn’t you ? Look at the teams under those three. It’s pretty clear if 9 out if 12 games are against your conference and your defensive stats are good then the offense sucks . Plus the other 3 games at least 2 of those are community colleges! University of oh is on that list. Do you think their defense is as good as Georgia? Bama? No and if you do you don’t know football. If the teams on that list had common opponents then it would be more accurate. Only thing common is top 4 of 5 played big 10 schools

Look at this stat.

Nittany it is worst than I thought! Big 10 had zero yes ZERO teams in the top 30 offenseive teams ! Oh St is 35th
https://www.espn.com/college-football/stats/team

Before you say “ It’s because the defense is so tough” No when you have teams like Iowa winning 10-7 13-10 There is no offense throughout the conference.

Just goes to show there is no defense in the SEC, the teams are playing against high school defenses, lol. Defense wins games. Tell me what SEC team beat a good outside the conference team this year.

Big 10 defense thrives off each other because they can’t score!
SEC FEEDS on each other because they are better teams period.
Don’t try to dispute that with how the big 10 plays in the playoffs. It was so bad one year no wait 3 years in a row the committee let the big 10 out because they went 3 years without scoring a single point!!!!
Chew on them stats !
If that doesn’t choke you to death here’s a couple more .
Big ten has 1 championship in 25 YES 25 years
SEC has 9 in last 14 !!!
That is one your conference will never do in a playoff format

Who ever said defense wins championships must not have watched the big 10 play!
Lol lol lol lol

Well Ky did beat a 9th ranked Louisville team . So I guess that might count !!
Where’s the big 10 win ?
Before you say any win over an Sec team remember your stats say Sec is no good
Please don’t say ND they are ranked on name alone. ND had zero wins against a ranked opponent but still ranked 15th
Heck big 10 is even worse. They didn’t even play a good non conference team other than ND !!!!

Scroll over to SEC. versus big 10 Sorry ruin your morning lol
https://topdan.com/college-football-conference-records/big-ten.html

Of all your “ great team “
Northwestern and Minnesota are the only teams with a winning record against the SEC


This would be what they call a MIC DROP MOMENT!!!
Boom

Going to be interesting next year, Bama has Georgia early plus Oklahoma at Oklahoma, Wisconsin, etc. etc. Going to be a strange football season next year. Least then you can lose a game or two and get in so Nitty's rugged yankee teams can show us what they really are cause they will be in the play off's and probably facing a SEC opponent.

Nittany this is all in fun you know. Top 3 big ten can beat others on a good day. Top 5 SEC could lose on a bad day . Why they play the games.

You are absolutely right Jbyrd63, but when you win on a bad day thats the real measure of a team Iowa did it 10 times this year. GO HAWKS.

https://www.foxsports.com/articles/...efense-rankings-team-pass-and-rush-stats

As I've stated before, I bleed Michigan blue and love the Wolverines. I grew up in Michigan and love the Big 10, always have. Always thought it was THE toughest conference out there until I started going to different venues and watching SEC football. In a nutshell, year in and year out, the SEC is tougher top to bottom in football without question. Of course there are exceptions, but just look at the past 10 years of National Champions. I've been to over twenty NCAA football games, the size and quickness of SEC defenses is just different.

This is the CFP playoffs, stats and rankings are out the window. Saban will have Bama ready to play but I feel like its Michigan's year. Time will tell.

Michigan vs. Washington in the championship, Wolverines raise the trophy.

Bama and Texas repeat is what your going to get. Not sure Bama can beat Texas the second go round either but hey, Texas is now cay you say it? A SEC TEAM!

Should of let Washington and Michigan play, least then one of them would of thought they were getting somewhere, lol.