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Very valid point.

Bingo. One team with nothing left to prove and another team eager to salvage their honor. Weirdly, I’ve seen some uga fans, as well as SEC supporters, act like uga just won the Super Bowl and completely ignoring that their team played a scrub team. SMH.

They did decline.

Apparently not from what I’ve read. And the game meant the world to them anyway, a chance to end their season with a win not a loss. FSU had already ended their season with a win and an extra exhibition or consolation game meant nothing. Perhaps you are old enough to remember when bowl...

I get it. I’ve been wondering this morning if all the internet frenzy and media arguments about this game is exactly what ESPN wants. The old “no such thing as bad publicity” approach. If FSU had played at full strength, regardless of outcome, the conversation would have been over an hour...

Who is “they?” I’m sure scrubs on the team wanted to play and I’m sure coaches wanted the extra practices to evaluate future players and potential roster changes. It was just the 29 players with everything to lose financially who didn’t want to play. It’s a messed up system for sure and...

Actually FSU was down 9 starters on defense and one key backup. But, yeah, we are on the same page. FSU had zero to gain with that game whereas Georgia was trying to redeem itself after blowing its only real test of the season. Also, might be why Kirby left his starters in for so long even...

From what I heard Kirby had little to do with it. At least according to the players. The situations, apparently, were completely different for the two teams. You had a lot of uga players who were wanting to play their last game together and their last chance to play football. Georgia was one...

Kirby Smart postgame laments that uga didn’t get to play against FSU’s best and suggests that in the future people will have to decide what bowl games are about that aren’t part of playoff. He wonders if people will want to see “glorified scrimmages.” On defense FSU was missing 3 top...

Basically lamenting the decline of college football. And, as one of our members pointed out, it is a decline that ESPN helped precipitate. But they feel bad about it. 🤣

Really. We started the year dominating the SEC and it barely got ACC teams into the top 20. And it never got any better. The narrative is a perpetual self fulfilling prophecy. The FSU players who decided not to play did the smart thing even if we didn’t like it. The current system is rigged...

The irony.

The ACC is SO screwed. We win head to head with the SEC but lose the perception war. We are one of the conferences with an undefeated champion but can’t get into the playoffs. Three of our best teams decide to play without their regular starters in bowl games, including some leading QBs...

Most of these players are seeing the field for the first time so I guess it’s bitter sweet to finally be starters but also get embarrassed.

Yeah, I had no doubt FSU would get hammered. I just was curious to start a conversation before the game about how the narrative would get played. I wanted to have give and take with people because my prediction was that people would say the playoff committee was proven justified rather than...

You might want to rethink your statement. I doubt uga is missing 9 starters on defense for instance.

Seems this thread didn’t capture anyone’s attention. Still curious what others think about how the announcers are handling this game. Is it legitimate to hype uga’s performance against a practice squad? Should they be talking more about NIL and the new landscape for college football? Should...

I’m going over to the thread I started on the FSU game to see if anyone commented but I’m through watching. I just wanted to see if the announcers would deal with the elephants in the room and they basically have tried to ignore them other than a few references to FSU missing their starters.

You’re kidding, right? They are starting freshmen on defense and have basically their second and third string playing against Georgia’s starters.

You’re a funny guy. But, yes, that was a magnificent game for the ages.