SEC has itself to blame when its College Football Playoff-worthy teams sit home

It’s all unfolding now, week after week like some sick joke. And there’s not a thing the most powerful conference in college sports can do about it.

The SEC is eating itself on the road to the College Football Playoff, a self-destructive stretch that will no doubt finish with the worst possible scenario.

A tiebreaker deciding who plays in the SEC championship game, and the College Football Playoff selection committee deciding which deserving, two-loss SEC teams stay home from the sport’s postseason extravaganza.

“This was complementary football at its best,” Florida coach Billy Napier said late Saturday afternoon after the Gators officially knocked LSU from the playoff race. “Felt like an NFL game.”

You wanted this NFL Light model, you got it, SEC. And everything that goes with building the perfect beast of a conference.

Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava (8) walks off the field after his team’s game against Georgia at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024.

Florida hadn’t won a significant game in three seasons in Gainesville, but because the talent is there with the deep NIL budgets of every SEC school, odds are they’d eventually put it all together. And now LSU is out.

South Carolina, maybe the hottest team in the conference, officially eliminated Missouri from the SEC/CFP race with a last-minute victory. Hey, everyone, a last-minute victory in the SEC!

Shocking, I tell you.

Finally we give you Georgia, the biggest, baddest SEC boogeyman. You didn’t really think the Dawgs were down for good after losing by 18 last week at Ole Miss, did you?

Georgia quarterback Carson Beck threw 12 interceptions over the previous six games (tied for most in the nation), then played the best game of his career while the Dawgs gave Tennessee its second loss of the season.

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Publish date : 2024-11-17 05:37:30

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