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Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP
I agree that it's a close toss-up. Which is why an additional at-large bid for his proposed 16-team conference is not warranted.
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Why are you getting so bent out of shape about a long shot hypothetical? You should know college football isn't about how any one group of teams is at any particular time. College Football is about politics and ratings and there is no way on God's Green Turf that Georgia and LSU have the same kind of political clout and national appeal that Notre Dame and USC do. If you had Notre Dame vs a military academy and Georgia vs a military academy, I will guarantee you the Notre Dame game will pull in a higher rating. Same thing for USC and LSU. To pretend its close is to ignore a national appeal versus a regional one. Florida and Alabama have it, LSU and Georgia don't. In fact, those two schools are dropping faster with each passing year as anyone who has mild interest in the SEC could tell you. They are fine football schools that bring a lot of respect to the SEC as a whole, but they are not national schools. The closest one not on a national scale in the hypothetical is OU, but even their appeal is broader the Georgia and LSU. I'm not talking about how good any one team is "right now". Networks don't think that way. They think over a long term, which schools will be bring me constantly good ratings. If the SEC went to 16 teams, I'm sure they would get an extra at large as well. But, under the hypothetical, I have little doubt the merits would even be seriously questioned.