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"Playing Cupcakes late in the year is cheating for a playoff spot"

Posted on 11/22/22 at 2:59 am
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35619 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 2:59 am
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What do you think?

"It gives them a massive advantage and is not good for the sport...that's gaming the system. You think Hendon Hooker would still be healthy if they were playing Austin Peay like Alabama did? Probably.

We should all be playing some semblance of a structure of a schedule."

TCU, Ohio State, USC are banged up. USC ends the year @ UCLA, Notre Dame and Oregon.

While some SEC teams schedule rent-a-wins at the end of the season to get an easy win and rest players and keep their record intact.

- Joel Klatt
This post was edited on 11/22/22 at 3:01 am
Posted by IT_Dawg
Georgia
Member since Oct 2012
21864 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 3:01 am to
Playing cupcakes early in the year is cheating because it allows you extra weeks to practice before you have to start playing real teams, so you don’t lose an early game as your team is ramping up.

See, I can do it too Joel
Posted by 1999
Where I be
Member since Oct 2009
29168 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 3:26 am to
Tennessee played ball state, UT Martin and Akron. What does it matter when they played them? They got to play UT martin the week after Alabama…isn’t it unfair they got a rest week after the biggest game of the year? LSU had to travel to Arkansas after they beat bama.
Posted by Cjscore
Prairieville
Member since Dec 2016
592 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 3:36 am to
South Carolina is a cupcake.
Posted by SlickRickerz
Member since Oct 2018
2290 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 4:01 am to
shite, if LSU would have swapped UAB with the Florida State game, we’d be 10-1 right now.
Posted by FairhopeTider
Fairhope, Alabama
Member since May 2012
20797 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 4:21 am to
This is such an extraordinarily dishonest and lazy take. Klatt repackages this same shitty take every year despite being unable to logically defend it. College football media is literally the worst amongst all sports.

No SEC Team should ever have to answer to criticism like this while teams like Clemson get to coast through the season on an annual basis.
This post was edited on 11/22/22 at 4:25 am
Posted by Downeast12
Member since Jun 2022
543 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 4:51 am to
The entire Big 10 West is a cupcake, what’s his point?
Posted by catholictigerfan
Member since Oct 2009
56103 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:18 am to
usually I agree with Joel Klatt but this time I don't. Who cares how the games are scheduled, every team in the SEC and other conferences have to play the same amount of Conference and non-conference games.

BTW if he is worried about fairness, then the 12 team playoff will help.
Posted by tigerpimpbot
Chairman of the Pool Board
Member since Nov 2011
67010 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:20 am to
quote:

Joel Klatt


Should have put this at the top of the post so we didn’t have to read anything after.
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
37582 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:56 am to
quote:

Playing Cupcakes late in the year is cheating for a playoff spot


We should just play them throughout the rest of the season like the e Big 10 and ACC do time and time and time again.
Posted by Jumpinjack
Member since Oct 2021
6485 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 7:21 am to
We lost Croyle playing Western Kentucky or somebody like that. In a non-contact injury.
Posted by cas4t
Member since Jan 2010
70933 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 7:39 am to
quote:

You think Hendon Hooker would still be healthy if they were playing Austin Peay like Alabama did? Probably.


Lol at this take considering it was a non contact injury

Fluke injuries happen and his had nothing to do with the opposing team being good or not
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86553 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 7:44 am to
quote:

What do you think?


I think it's a ridiculously stupid talking point, considering your resume is the 12 games you play regardless of when they're played.

And I bet you ANYTHING I have, that if teams just played cupcakes in the first 4 weeks of the season to get em all out of the way then finished out with nothing but conference games, people would complain and scream to the heavens about how "boring" college football is for an entire month since there aren't any actual good games until week 5.

The media just has to find SOMETHING to be contrarian about or they wouldn't exist.
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 8:01 am to
quote:

Joel Klatt


Has always been a clown with zero credibility and it's always amusing to see the BIG and Big XII fluffers who cling to his every word when
he goes on his unhinged rants about the
SEC.Its the only reason he has a audience.
Posted by MetroAtlantaGatorFan
Member since Jun 2017
15598 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 8:45 am to
I wonder if he knows that Michigan refused to play a single P5 OOC this year.
Posted by LNCHBOX
70448
Member since Jun 2009
84304 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 8:48 am to
Joel Klatt has terrible takes all the time, what else is new?
Posted by ColoradoAg03
Denver, CO
Member since Oct 2012
6219 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 10:09 am to
Ya, shame on preseason top 10 teams for playing the Appalachian States of the world early in the season to practice for the real schedule.
Posted by Frac the world
The Centennial State
Member since Oct 2014
16919 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 10:12 am to
quote:

Joel Klatt


Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
83561 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 10:18 am to
quote:

It gives them a massive advantage and is not good for the sport...that's gaming the system.
Does Michigan and Clemson’s schedule give them a massive advantage?
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
72671 posts
Posted on 11/22/22 at 10:19 am to
quote:

What do you think?


It's definitely an advantage, but not something anyone is being prevented from taking advantage of.
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