What is the general consensus?

No

No to SEC Championship or home game?

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Do we want to play in the SEC Championship

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I don't, and also frick the powers that be for making fans actively not want to play in the SECCG. That is so counterintuitive to what things should be about.

Anyways....with as banged up as we are all across the roster we need rest. Playing texas or bama again does absolutley nothing good for us. There's 4 possible outcomes for us resulting from playing in the game (not even talkin about injruies or fatigue or anything):

1) We win. Secures a top 4 seed and gives us a bye. After the tech game we wil play 1 game (the SECCG) before the next one on 12/31.

2) We lose and finish with a 5-8 seed. This is highly unlikely given that we'd have 3 losses.

3) We lose and finish wiht a 9-12 seed. This is certainly more likely than the option above and would see us go on the road to play someone in their place. We have not been a good road team at all this season. After the tech game we would play in 2 games (the SECCG then round 1 of playoffs) prior to the quarters on 12/31.

4) We lose and miss the playoffs entirely, which is probably the most likely sceaniro considering we would have 3 losses.


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We can miss the game and get a 5-8 seed and host a home playoff game. After the tech game we would only have 1 game before the quarters on 12/31, whihc is the same situation as option #1 above had we won the SECCG. So really the whole "oh you really want the bye week" thing is kind of a wash. We get extra time to rest, we get a home playoff game, and if we are lucky enough to get the #5 seed we get a hell of a nice path seed-wise. To me it's a no-brainer to desire the #5 seed instead of taking our chances in the SECCG agianst a top 5 opponent. I can't imagine a texas rematch going the same as it did in october and until proven otherwise I don't think we can stop milroe if our life depended on it.

Yeah. Her'es the biggest takeaway for me on it. To win the natty we're going to have to play 3 really good, top ~5ish ranked teams to end the season in the quarters/semis/title. That much is assured. so before we get to that point, we cna either play:

-An oustanding top 5 SEC team in a neutral site, or
-Some pretender like byu or boise in Athens

It's a no brainer for me at that point.

The Hoosiers are highly overrated this year. I would love to get them in Athens. It would look like the UGA vs TCU natty.

Why would you not want the team to have all 4 rings.

Or when end up playing at Penn State or Ohio State

The more I think about it, the less I know.

Whoever ends up winning the SECCG, I promise you that their fanbase will be chilling hard and feeling good watching all of the other teams play in the first round of the CFP and their team having a bye. What NFL team ever didn't think that a playoff bye wasn't a great thing?

Then again, if we lose the SECCG and end up getting left out of the CFP because we played in the game, that would be some complete bullshite and a serous buzzkill.

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3 weeks of rest, healing and preparation for a first round game in Athens?

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Yeah, seeing the fans really step up and lose their minds vs Tennessee in the way that they did almost makes a home game an automatic win,

UGA will be playing some other SEC team in the first round. There's no way that the committee will let us beat up a weak sister.