There would look like greater fish to fry for the Georgia Bulldogs. The truth is, there’s greater fish to fry for a lot of the groups within the Faculty Soccer Playoff race.
There can be 12 groups vying for the CFP championship, and that trophy means greater than the rest on this sport. It is much more necessary than successful a convention, even when that convention is the SEC.
As an illustration, each the Bulldogs and Texas Longhorns needs to be CFP groups even with a loss within the SEC Championship sport on Saturday. For UGA, a loss could be the Bulldogs’ third, however the entire losses would come towards highly-ranked opponents. For Texas, a loss could be solely the Longhorns’ second, which suggests they’d nonetheless probably be a CFP lock.
For some, that takes away the stakes of the SEC title sport, as a result of even a loss would not be disqualifying.
That is not how Georgia head coach Kirby Sensible sees it, although, even with the last word objective being the CFP.
Successful a convention just like the SEC nonetheless means one thing, however he did admit that it depends upon who you ask.
“Once you ask a man that’s been within the SEC for about 30 years, has solely been part of 5 or 6 of ’em, 5 or 6 nationwide championships, it’s equal to that to me ’trigger it’s simply as arduous, it’s simply as elusive. It has been for us,” Sensible lately stated, according to On3.
“It’s an excessive honor to, No. 1, make this sport with the schedule that you need to undergo. Then with a possibility to win it, I imply, we put the years of SEC Championship on a wall and it’s there ceaselessly. There’s not that many extra of these than there are nationwide championships,” Sensible stated. “It’s arduous to achieve. So I nonetheless discover worth in it.”
Alongside the satisfaction of successful the SEC is the potential added good thing about getting a bye within the CFP. In keeping with the brand new format, the top-four ranked convention champions will get a first-round bye.
That is useful — extraordinarily useful — however consider there can be CFP groups that make the 12-team discipline with out the chance of getting to play in a convention championship sport.
That is what makes this complete factor so convoluted, for now. These are kinks that can probably be ironed out over the following few seasons, however within the right here and now, there ought to nonetheless be loads of satisfaction related to successful your convention.
Have a look at it this manner, it is not as if Georgia, or Texas, will ship again the trophy. It is simply finally the one which issues most.