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CaneLife93 said:
https://www.on3.com/news/greg-mcelr...factor-postseason-struggles-big-ten-title-run

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“The war of attrition you experience in this league, and the injuries and the violence that you get week-in and week-out playing against teams with this much quality on their roster, takes its toll,” McElroy said Tuesday night on SEC Now. “So by the time you get to the Playoff, you’re beat up, you’re banged up and frankly, it’s not like, ‘Oh, you’re calloused. You’re ready to roll.’ No, you’re exhausted. So I think that’s part of the reason why the SEC hasn’t been as good in the postseason. Because they, at that point, are out of gas.

“They’ve got to figure out a way to reinvent themselves between the last game of the regular season or the SEC championship game and the playoffs so that they can go [upward] as opposed to [downward], which is exactly what we’ve seen the last few years in the league.”
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I wrote in another post that Texas A&M's wins in the SEC were against teams that finished 12-44 in conference play. They were as fresh as any team possible and they s*** the bed at home against a team that went 6-2 in ACC play.

Clemson, Louisville, Miami, and UVA went 6-1 against the SEC. FSU beat Alabama at the start of the season.

I absolutely hate this SEC bulls***.
 
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423Hurricane said:
He was a fan and played several concerts in Gainesville.
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He was not a fan. He hated UF.

Yes, he played several concerts in Hogtown. It was where he grew up.

That doesn't make him "a Gator".


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And for the record, Mudcrutch played in Gainesville a bunch of time in the early '70s.

But in all the time Tom Petty was famous and touring with the Heartbreakers (43 years, from 1974 to 2017), here are all the times he played Hogtown...

1981 (Hard Promises)
1983 (Long After Dark)
1990
1991 (Into the Great Wide Open)
1993
2006 (Highway Companion)

Bruce Springsteen plays more shows in New Jersey in the span of one month than Tom Petty played in Hogtown in 43 years.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
2025 SEC teams in the CFP

3. UGa
6. Ole Miss
7. aTm
8. Oklahoma
9. Alabama

Four of those five teams lost the VERY FIRST GAME they played against a non-SEC team.

The ONLY team that beat any non-SEC teams was Ole Miss. You know, the school that "should have" been out of gas, what with its head coach leaving, and the constant uncertainty as to who would be on the sidelines coaching each week.

Two of those five teams played non-SEC teams in the final regular-season weekend. Another one played Auburn in the final weekend, and another played Mississippi State. Auburn and MSU were 2 of the 4 worst teams in the SEC, each having only ONE win in the SEC on the year.

Four of those five teams had THREE WEEKS to recover from that brutal SEC season before playing their first CFP games.

I would challenge anyone to list the significant injuries for any of those five teams which led to "CFP-time" SEC teams being weaker than "regular-season" SEC teams.

And yet over and over and over and over and over again, we are led to believe that the SEC, somehow, has it HURDER than any other conference, at least when it comes to translating their inherent greatness into, you know, ACTUAL CFP WINS.

Look, I have an ideal solution for all of this. If F$U, when they lost their QB in 2023, was sooooooo much worse as a CFP team than they had been during the regular season, then why can't we apply the same logic to the SEC?

Since the big, bad SEC is soooooo beat up after suuuuuuuch a challenging regular season that they "just aren't themselves any longer", then we should all try to reflect that reality by lowering the CFP rankings of all the poor, poor bruised SEC teams.

So let's re-rank 2025 for CFP purposes.

3. UGa - hey, they won the SEC championship.
6. Miami - hey, we pretty much proved that we were ranked too low, correct?
7. Notre Dame - they only lost to the #6 team
8. BYU - 11 wins and no "hurd schedule" whining
9. Utah - 10 wins and also no whining
10. UVa - I thought we weren't punishing teams that lost the conference championship, right?
11. Tulane - them's the rules
12. James Madison - ditto

This act of kindness will allow four SEC-SEC-SEC teams to slooooowly recover from their brutal 2025 conference schedule in time for their brutal 2026 conference schedule. And after all, they are being richly compensated by ESPN for all of that amazing regular-season content that is just soooooo much better than anyone else's content.

Honestly, would the CFP have turned out any differently with those teams above? I mean, I guess we would have lost a couple of weeks of hand-wringing about whether Ole **** could survive without Lane Train, but other than that, would anyone else have noticed a near-complete-absence of SEC schools?

I think not.

Be kind. Let the SEC heal. Keep them out of the CFP.
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Straight facts end to end.

The bottom line as I and many have said before is everybody can pay(legally) and now the SEC wants to cry foul. Everyone with a grain of a brain knows this as well as ESPN but they pretend not to to push their SEC campaign.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
He was not a fan. He hated UF.

Yes, he played several concerts in Hogtown. It was where he grew up.

That doesn't make him "a Gator".


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And for the record, Mudcrutch played in Gainesville a bunch of time in the early '70s.

But in all the time Tom Petty was famous and touring with the Heartbreakers (43 years, from 1974 to 2017), here are all the times he played Hogtown...

1981 (Hard Promises)
1983 (Long After Dark)
1990
1991 (Into the Great Wide Open)
1993
2006 (Highway Companion)

Bruce Springsteen plays more shows in New Jersey in the span of one month than Tom Petty played in Hogtown in 43 years.
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Here’s how many ***** I give about Tom Petty and/or the gator
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Is there any subject your NOT an expert? You should have been a defense attorney instead of a tax attorney.
 
423Hurricane said:
Here’s how many ***** I give about Tom Petty and/or the gator

Is there any subject your NOT an expert? You should have been a defense attorney instead of a tax attorney.
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Grew up north of Orlando. Tom Petty was huge, he was on the radio all the time. I remember buying "**** The Torpedoes" at a record store, and then I went back to buy the first 2 albums.

And, yes, when I am interested in a subject, I do heavy research.
 
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