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My stance has been a one (reg season) game improvement next year, MAYBE two. Take the three cupcakes (year 2 improvements and all), Vandy, Cal, Arky, and one of Kentucky or A&M. Sux that Missouri came out of nowhere.

Wade is a JR?

I’m just amazed they were able to be a powerhouse at all.

Not about us but super interesting...could this be the spark that finally brings the Corn People back to relevancy? You'd think Warren Buffett would give them a big advantage in the NIL era. https://247sports.com/article/nebraska-dylan-raiola-crystal-ball-wiltfong-rhule-222890095/

There is no way that UAT allows us to play Vandy the week before IB while they play @ Oklahoma. Which I get.

Unfortunately, Division I CFB is probably the most difficult sport for which to make a championship—fora myriad of reasons. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-12-team-playoff-wont-fix-college-football-but-this-will This at first sounds great but then when you consider how soft a couple of these conferences would be, certain teams (Penn State) would get almost an auto-bid to the playoffs each year while multiple other teams would get left out.

How's Idaho been treating ya?

For now, I'd just like to keep who we have. Thought UAT didn't want Perry anyways? 🙄

They’ll cobble together another schedule for 2025 in the same method as ‘24 before going to a permanent route (nine games) in 2026. I could be wrong but I think all 24 of the rumored permanent matchups from back in March are on the 2024 schedule (UAT, UGA and Vandy for us obviously are). (Edit: I WAS wrong—Florida doesn’t play either USCe OR Oklahoma, their two rumored permas alongside UGA.)

(I realize this is just opponents/locations but still. All dates are released a week from tonight.)

Florida and South Carolina get HOSED. A&M makes out like a bandit--aside from having a new coach it all sets up very well for them.

Man, I miss the days when the Florida bowls generated excitement. Nick and Kirby have truly broke people's brains. Anyhoo, this is a bowl we've played in TWICE and it's not Birmingham. Get a freaking grip.

Unpopular opinion: the bowl selection process for even the non-NY6 bowls is fun. It's just sad to see that nowadays people are despondent/apathetic to even non-playoff NY6 bowls (of course, that changes a bit next year).

Citrus = Iowa vs. Tennessee

Side note, I do feel like Citrus should be ahead of Cotton and Peach in the pecking order though I they do need six “big” games and I can understand not wanting more than one per state.

Just basic math. When Florida and USCe lost it basically guaranteed it, but even more so now with both OM and Missouri getting in the NY6. Five remaining >=6 win teams in the SEC, seven SEC games between NY6 and Bham.

No chance of B-Ham.

Ooooh, next year's Florida-FSU game is going to be nasty given that Rodemaker would've been playing if not for that hit.

Devil's advocate: I like it better than 16. Still makes the regular season important by breaking it up into three tiers. I do think that three of the first round games and two of the quarterfinals should be on campus, though. The NY6 games rotate as 8v9 first round game, quarterfinals which 3 and 4 earn automatic bids to, semifinals and the NC (the 24 and 25 NCs are at NY6 sites anyways).

Forget about the LSU and SECCG games. What would've happened if we had played an easier OOC opponent? While I do think UAT *deserves* it here, if the AP poll is accurate once more, this would be well-overdue karma for 2017.

Time has come to re-post:

Turds ranked #5 in AP poll. The AP poll, in regards to what four teams have gotten in, has yet to be different from the final CFP poll.

While I did pick UAT, with regards to teh whole "four BEST teams" debate, of course they're going to say four best teams. It's crazy how this is really only the second time it's been this uncertain in the ten years when it would've probably been the case almost every year in the BCS era. Just one instance, 2004...the same Texas vs. UAT vs. FSU debate would've applied to Texas, Cal and Utah (respectively).

In *all* fairness, he's probably referring to FSU.