re: Bye bye bama

+600 on my book

FSU was a lock last year, until they weren’t

Fanduel line down to +350 for bama

SMU has 0 ranked wins — I think they played like 1 team in the top half of the ACC before losing to Clemson. There is no guarantee that they are in, nor should there be. When you lose to the only decent teams that you play, you should be out. It doesn’t matter how ‘close’ the game is. Uga lost by 3 last year to Bama in the SECCG and dropped out — so I don’t want to hear about how teams ‘shouldn’t be penalized for losing’ those games. SMU would be penalized not simply for losing their CCG, but for not beating either of the ranked teams that they played in the season. You have to look at the SOS at some point.

From +600 to +320 on DK in 15 minutes

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You guys underestimate the corruption.

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It's so easy to pay the Committee (they're not sequestered jurors).....it's so easy for the Network to pick who they think draws the most eyeballs....when you manufacture a made for TV event.... As Buddy Holly said, "it's so easy, it's so easy, it's so easy."

+280 now

Then fans need to unite, boycott, and show them we don't give a crap about their ratings. Only fair competition.

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When you lose to the only decent teams that you play, you should be out. I

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So, losing to “decent teams” is verboten, but it’s perfectly fine to lose to 6-6 Vanderbilt and 6-6 Oklahoma (by THREE TOUCHDOWNS IN WEEK 14).

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It's like people haven't been watching what the human committees do when Bama is around, even with losses. Bama = TV ratings Bama is IN. Somebody else is out; probably SMU. People want to watch Bama at ND or Bama at Ohio State. SMU is an entity that many people have never heard of.

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I think this “people want to see Bama at Ohio State” line of thinking is probably exactly right for the old college football and makes sense to maximize viewership this year.

I’m not sure it’s right for NIL era CFB and the long-term business model of the sport.

What I mean is, Bama fans aren’t on the fence about college football as a sport. They’re going to keep attending games and watching.

What the powers that be want is to keep average fans watching and bring on new fans. To me that means they’ll want less championships for the old guard of the SEC. They’ll want the likes of SMU in the playoffs. “See, we have parity. Anybody can make it. Don’t stop watching our bullshite sport.”

They’re putting bama in