Alabama 2025 SEC regular season champion

[sanjosecrimson]

any more than assigning a fat kid to guard the cookie jar!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! thx for the morning laugh!!!

 

[bamamc1]

We joke, but the SEC office is 100% going to push it for 12+ hours after the game if we lose, as in, "You can't leave out the regular season SEC champ"

As well they should.

 

[Frosty]

Could be that the Big10, 12 etc like seeing us canabalize each other and then the CFP finds excuses to leave a deserving team out. Either SOS matters or it doesn't. Does anyone think BYU would beat Texas on a neutral field? And honestly, as far as the Ntl Champ goes... had you rather be Bama, GA or Tex A&M right now? CFP wasn't right last year and it still isn't if we get left out. IMO, we need something more quantifiable to rank teams than a committee room full of biases, wrong-headed opinions, ever changing criteria etc. Might as well go back to "polls". Just come up with some solid rules and stick to it. Fair to all.

 

[AlistarWills]

I just had a friend ask me my thoughts on this whole thing. “What if we lose would they leave us out?”
I think wholeheartedly we’d get left out. The powers that be hate us. Be it because they Bear Bryant wouldn’t let their favorite childhood team have success, the idea that Alabama is a wholly racist state, disagreements politically, or the disdain for the run we’ve been on athletically in various sports for the past decade plus, Alabama is hated. I feel like I’d we win we’ll get a home game first round, and UGA will travel while if UGA wins they’ll get a first round bye. If we lose they will make up whatever talking points they need to in order to kick us to the curb.

 

[BamaBoySince89]

If Bama is left out, Sankey should immediately cancel the 9th conference game and then call out ND, OSU, IU and Texas Tech. It must be nice to avoid a tough schedule and, in ND case, not have to deal with a CCG while still being pretty much a lock for the CFP.

Quite frankly, the current AP top 12 should be our playoff teams. It is a joke that JMU and/or North Texas can even sniff the playoffs with their high school schedules. They could steal a spot from more deserving teams.

Shot, even Tulane sniffing the CFP i a joke in my book. Auto-bids are stupid. No team ranked around 20 should even be part of the thought process for this thing.

I’m still tripping off the fact that a 7-5 Duke made their conference championship game. The same conference that snuck 2 mediocre teams in last year.

I just wish somebody would have the guts to put their foot down and make ND join a conference, give the G5 their own playoffs, and scrap that 9-game conference schedule. The bar keeps moving every year so that we either kill each other in the playoffs and give these other teams easy paths as if going 11-1 in the Big 12/ACC/B10 is anywhere near the same as doing it in the SEC

 

[Elefantman]

Disney is running the show. If we lose, they will decide that there will be a more hype worthy team to put in the playoffs and direct the committee to make it happen.

 

[Bruce014]

Statistically, we were regular season SEC Champions in 1994 and 2008, as well.

I like trivia.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Disney is running the show. If we lose, they will decide that there will be a more hype worthy team to put in the playoffs and direct the committee to make it happen.

I'm not completely convinced that ESPN directs the committee on which teams to include, although it would not shock me.

I 100% believe that once the teams have been selected that ESPN is involved in the seeding to create better matchups or potential matchups in later rounds.

I also do not believe Chris Fowler at the beginning of every rankings/selection show when he says they have not seen the results. Please, they've been discussing them and coming up with their talking points for hours.

 

[Ledsteplin]

 

[TideEngineer08]

Just, no. I’m going to assume this was supposed to be in blue font.

No actually it’s not a joke. We don’t have divisions anymore. If this were 1991, we would be the SEC champions and would be headed to the Sugar Bowl.