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If Georgia deserves a BCS bowl with the 41st ranked schedule, what about South Carolina with the 36th toughest schedule? Texas A&M with the 27th toughest schedule? LSU with the 28th toughest schedule? All of these teams have 2 losses. Just wondering your thought process.

The loser of the SECCG shouldn't automatically go to the Sugar Bowl, but in this case you have a team that won their division over a team that they also beat that will be going. UGA should go if teams were picked logically and teams weren't punished for playing an extra game, but that's not how they do things.

I would bet that Florida would have gladly traded places though and been able to say they were the East champs.

Didn't say you didn't deserve it. System sucks. UGA still beat Florida and was punished for playing in the SECCG. Unfortunately both teams can't play in the BCS while an unranked team will.

If you'd been 12-0, you would have beaten UGA so that would have changed things as well.

But Georgia was in the SEC championship.

Yep. People are forgetting they went 1-2 against top 12 teams while we went 3-1. We went on the road and beat the team that gave Bama its only lost. We ran for 400 yards against LSU while beating them and USC at home as dogs. Then murked FSU and their "number 1 ranked defense" in Tally. Georgia beat us. No excuse. They did that. But I'm sure they'll enjoy the Cap One Bowl.

I know that's right. Man, that would've sucked. And all the NFL talent is on its way out of Athens.

What's funny is Saban was saying that uga should go ahead of Wisconsin, not Florida. But he got bashed for it.

There are a few sec teams more deserving than Wisconsin.
Lsu
Usce
Texas a&m
Uga

He mentioned both scenarios as to why he didn't like the selection process. He didn't like a team being punished by playing in the SEC Championship over a team that didn't and he didn't like teams that get in with much lower rankings.

Whether or not the new system with a 4-team playoff is a great idea is left to be seen, but the new "Selection Bowls" that are basically what the other BCS bowls will provide much better matchups and will reward teams that should be a little better.

I could go either way on this.. its not like we haven't benefited from the system, ie last year.. it took 5 TO for UGA to scrape by UF. That was a good UGA team we played last night and if that team was the team that showed up against USCe then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

He made that point as well. It just wasn't the sound bite that was taken. The same thing would have held true if UF was 12-0 and UGA 11-1. If UF would have lost last night, they could have dropped to #4 and UGA could have been #3 and it could have been the other way around.

I think the bigger picture of his argument was that if we move forward to 16 team power conferences across the board and expand the playoff to 8 teams that teams that win their division will get left out over a team they beat that didn't have to play a conference game. UF and UGA are just the current example, IMO.

Difference is lsu played a scrub in championship game. It was clear that bama n lsu were top teams in conference.. ..and most likely top teams in nation.

That isn't so clear this year.

I won't argue against this. That is why I could go either way.. with the 4 team playoff is it going to come down to body of work or how they finish.. how do you decide 4 best teams?