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Its clear after the games tonight that the top teams in the SEC are not only head and shoulders better than the rest of college football but their recruiting advantages have turned this sport into arms race that everyone has lost except for the SEC. They will only get stronger with the new teams being added to the conference.

The only way imo to save college football going forward is to cut the SEC off and stop its ability to continue to dominate college football. The only way to do so at this point is for a total isolation of the conference beginning with the P4 and G5 pulling away from the SEC going forward.
College football and it's ability to stay relevant is on the brink of self destruction. Outside the box thinking is needed to save it. The SEC should be isolated and lose its ability to maintain status quo. Only by forming a new league and excluding the SEC can college football be saved imo. It's time to collectively divorce the SEC on grounds of irreconcilable differences...

I think the SEC and B1G should separate. Add some blue blood PAC and ACC teams and break away. Two 24 team leagues, or 32 team leagues and a Final 4 between them.

Or… cut out the B1G completely to avoid the baggage and make an SEC super league by adding:

Clemson, FSU, UNC, VaTech, OKie State, Nebraska, KU, Baylor.

This would be a super league in BBall as well. Just split West-East and roll.

Just declare the SEC CCG winner the NC and send everyone else to bowl games.

TN, KY, Georgia and South Carolina, Alabama and Auburn to the ACC

The ACC is at 20

Texas, OK, LSU, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Ole Miss and Miss St. all to the Big 12

Vandy, Missouri and Florida to the Big 10 (along with Kansas)

The Big 10 is at 18. The Big 12 is at 18.

No more SEC. But the ACC now has Clemson, Georgia and Alabama in football and UNC, Duke, and KY in basketball and we are starting a thread about how to isolate the ACC.

Better yet, just declare Alabama the national championship every year and have everyone else play for second place. If Georgia is the best chance to beat Alabama, we're all screwed. If UGa couldn't beat this year's Alabama team that barely beat a sub .500 Florida team and a sub .500 Auburn team, they never will.

Dominance is cyclical. A bit more than a decade ago, people said it was unfair that Urban Meyer and Pete Carroll constructed 5-star super teams at USC and Florida.

This will pass as well.

USC and Miami will be back and able to challenge any SEC school soon. I would agree it’s very unhealthy for college football to have the SEC dominant so much.

(01-01-2022 10:02 AM)bluesox Wrote: [ -> ]USC and Miami will be back and able to challenge any SEC soon.

I agree. Teams loaded with talent have always existed in CFB. That's how the sport has traditionally been run, with elites at the top dominating.

I recall in the 90s when FSU and Florida had NFL players at every position. People said that was unfair too.

USC & Miami? Miami might be able to break thru in a Clemson way, but right now the best option in taking down the SEC is the Big 10 champ.

As an Eagles fan I love this stat,

Well the off-season has sure started quickly...

...and it's going to be a long off-season.

the gap between the top SEC schools and rest of college football has never been as big as it now. Last night for example, it was clear to me that Alabama ran a very basic offensive scheme against Cincy and did not even come close to opening up their play book. IMO they were holding back for the Championship game.

Cincy is a great team and I believe could have beaten Michigan had they played them. But when Bama runs a base offense against them and wins and Georgia treats Michigan like they are Boys Club team, there is a major problem within College football.

(01-01-2022 10:01 AM)quo vadis Wrote: [ -> ]Dominance is cyclical. A bit more than a decade ago, people said it was unfair that Urban Meyer and Pete Carroll constructed 5-star super teams at USC and Florida.

This will pass as well.

The dominance of the Southeast and Southwest has extended now for over a quarter of a century Quo. It's not cyclical any longer because the culture of the Southeast and Southwest is preserving a sport which at the Pee Wee, Jr High, and High School level is dying on the Coasts and in areas too thinly populated to sustain its popularity at high levels where past accolades sustained it, think Nebraska.

For it to be a cyclical matter grass roots structures have to be maintained at similar levels. They are not.

Instead, we are witnessing the slow death of a once popular sport as the bottom of its supply chain dies. It will take a few more decades for the Southeast and Southwest to reach levels of gentrification sufficient to suppress combat sports. Boxing is now niche. Rugby is club level. Wrestling is niche. Football is now regional and on its way to niche. And hockey, once a staple of the North, is also slowly retreating. "Video killed the Radio Star!" and it's working like hell to kill organized team sports in general. And the ones people cite as being on the rise will never be national.

This doesn’t appear to be one of Alabama’s most talented teams…but their players still looked far superior. It’s amazing how Saban and Smart excel in recruiting…they are at a different level.

With the NIL I believe things are about to change. It may take a year or two, but schools with deep pocket alums are about to try and buy their schools a title.

I sympathize with the sentiments of the OP. Regional dominance in college football is killing interest in the sport.

Instead of cursing the darkness, appreciate the accomplishment: this is college football's version of the New York Yankees of the 1950's or the Montreal Canadiens of the 1970's.

What if the Big Ten, PAC 12, ACC, and Big 12 just agreed to send their champs to the Rose and Orange Bowls, with the winners advancing to the alliance national championship—boom, problem solved.

(01-01-2022 03:20 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: [ -> ]What if the Big Ten, PAC 12, ACC, and Big 12 just agreed to send their champs to the Rose and Orange Bowls, with the winners advancing to the alliance national championship—boom, problem solved.

Smart!

(01-01-2022 03:47 PM)baruna falls Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-01-2022 03:20 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: [ -> ]What if the Big Ten, PAC 12, ACC, and Big 12 just agreed to send their champs to the Rose and Orange Bowls, with the winners advancing to the alliance national championship—boom, problem solved.

Smart!

Everyone would see it for what it is and it would simply be a second class league. If you want to be considered the best you have to first beat the best. Tucking tail and running is not a good look.