Timothy Rapp published a Card
Dec 3, 2023
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Regardless of Georgia’s 27-24 loss versus Alabama in the SEC Championship Game, head coach Kirby Smart still thinks his Bulldogs are worthy of a berth in the College Football Playoff.
[College Football Playoff selection committee executive director] Costs Hancock stated, ‘It’s not the most deserving,’ He stated, just, ‘It’s the very best 4 groups,'” he informed press reporters. “So you’re gon na inform me someone being in that committee space and does not believe that this Georgia group is among the 4 finest groups, I do not understand if they’re in the best occupation.”
Kirby Smart makes his case to the playoff choice committee. << a href="https://t.co/fTZPflb9mi">> pic.twitter.com/fTZPflb9mi
“It’s an actually great football group,” he included of his Bulldogs. “A truly skilled football group. An actually well balanced football group. They need to make that choice, however it’s the *best *4 groups, which’s crucial.”
Smart’s not incorrect about what Hancock stated.
“It is best,” he informed press reporters on Tuesday when asked if the committee makes its choices based upon the most deserving groups or the very best groups. “Most deserving is nothing in the committee’s lexicon. They are to rank the very best groups in order, which’s what they do. Simply keep that word in mind: Best groups.”
Kirby’s take on why Georgia ought to remain in (he has no shot imo) << a href="https://t.co/Un7TXZsdSK">> pic.twitter.com/Un7TXZsdSK
How precisely, nevertheless, does the committee figured out best when groups play drastically various schedules and many do not have head-to-head matches versus each other?
Alabama beat Georgia head-to-head and won its conference at the same time. By that reasoning, undoubtedly Alabama would be thought about much better than Georgia.
Alabama lost head-to-head, at home, versus one-loss Texas, which itself won its conference. Texas ought to be in ahead of Alabama, and by proxy, ahead of Georgia too.
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If head to head matters in between Alabama over Georgia at a neutral website, then head to head needs to matter w Texas over Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
I do not understand how you do not have the SEC Champion in the playoff.<< br><>
You desire Texas in I got no problem with that. The champ of the FREAKING SEC had damn well much better be in. < < br><>
Honestly Georgia must remain in too.
Washington won the Pac-12 and went unbeaten at the same time. Certainly they’ll remain in. What occurs if Michigan and Florida State each go unbeaten and win their potential conferences? Are they automatically in too?
(Michigan would be, provided their quality wins in the Big Ten. Florida State, without star quarterback Jordan Travis, would actually put Hanock’s “finest groups” reasoning to the test, because its more difficult to declare a Travis-less Seminoles group is much better than any of the one-loss groups in the running.)
Is a one-loss Georgia group more superior at present than unbeaten FSU team that squeaks by without their QB tonight?»
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