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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 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
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
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Posted on 11/22/22 at 3:01 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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
See, I can do it too Joel
Posted on 11/22/22 at 3:26 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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 on 11/22/22 at 3:36 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
South Carolina is a cupcake.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 4:01 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
shite, if LSU would have swapped UAB with the Florida State game, we’d be 10-1 right now.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 4:12 am to Cjscore
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South Carolina is a cupcake.
They were supposed to be.
Absolutely no one expected South Carolina to stay on the field with Tennessee and I'm sure that line of thinking extended to Joel Klatt. And why should they have? This was the same South Carolina team who, just a week earlier, failed to score a touchdown in a blowout loss to Florida.
I fail to see the relevance of when we play our cupcake games. Alabama traditionally opens with an AP Top 25 team within the first two weeks of the season while these other schools Klatt talks about typically open with the likes of Toledo, Akron, San Jose State, and Miami (OH).
This post was edited on 11/22/22 at 4:15 am
Posted on 11/22/22 at 4:21 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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.
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 on 11/22/22 at 4:51 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
The entire Big 10 West is a cupcake, what’s his point?
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:11 am to IT_Dawg
He makes no mention of the fairness of playing the actual difficult teams at the end of the year so your record is inflated.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:18 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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.
BTW if he is worried about fairness, then the 12 team playoff will help.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:20 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Joel Klatt
Should have put this at the top of the post so we didn’t have to read anything after.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:53 am to catholictigerfan
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usually I agree with Joel Klatt
That’s your first mistake. He played at Colorado and works for Fox, which is invested in promoting the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12. The SEC is a business competitor to those conferences. It’s no coincidence Klatt is constantly banging on the SEC and why his butt buddy, Gus Johnson, criticized LSU playing UAB.
Why aren’t those two losers criticizing Michigan for their tissue-soft non-conference schedule and hammering Ohio State and Michigan for a steady diet of Indiana, Rutgers and Michigan State in their own division?
Both of those guys are clowns. The flip side is that ESPN has its own college football clowns (ahem, Rece Davis( to go along with its everyday clowns (ahem, Stephen A. Smith).
This post was edited on 11/22/22 at 6:22 am
Posted on 11/22/22 at 5:56 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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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 on 11/22/22 at 6:16 am to FairhopeTider
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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.
Amen.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 7:21 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
We lost Croyle playing Western Kentucky or somebody like that. In a non-contact injury.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 7:39 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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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 on 11/22/22 at 7:41 am to FairhopeTider
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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.
Nailed it
Posted on 11/22/22 at 7:44 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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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 on 11/22/22 at 7:50 am to WG_Dawg
Y'all going to a 9 game conference schedule soon? That happening will eliminate this criticism. The extra OOC game helps every team but Texas A&M to become bowl eligible.
Posted on 11/22/22 at 7:53 am to VABuckeye
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Y'all going to a 9 game conference schedule soon?
they keep mentioning it but nothing has been made officially official, but it seems like we are going to 9 conference games wiht teh expectation being 3 of them being permanent opponents.
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That happening will eliminate this criticism.
maybe, but teams like bama and AU are still going to schedule cupcakes the week before the iron bowl. It's just how they set their schedule. And I have no issue with it.
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