I honestly think if GT can prove they maintain on this level that UGa would protest them coming to the SEC. Thereās been a fight all season about GT moving their game with UGA next year out of the Dome and back onto the Flatts. The Yellow Jackets are feeling themselves.
From a conference standpoint, GT doesnāt bring anything to the SEC they donāt already have.
Now if there was an opportunity to jump ship theyād take it for the money and try to occupy the current lane that Vanderbilt is holding.
The wildcard would be the Big10 looking at a national footprint. Iāve never heard anything about it and honestly most down here would scoff at it at first take but could be talked into it most likely. I know overall the school felt burnt when Platt jumped ship this spring as AD after breathing life into the program again and there is an legit effort to bring GT athletics on the whole to national prominence
GT to the B1G has been mentioned in some places.. AAU school and geography gives them a shot. Hell theyāre still in Alabamaās fight song! Maybe the SEC should take them in.
Oh man this would be interesting. Iām not sure how theyād feel about adding a state where (no offense, GT) they have the clear second fiddle.
I also think from the B1G being at 18 already going past 20 would be pretty heavy. JMO but some combo of the UNC/uva fsu/clemson pairings makes more sense from them. And if they were to convince ND as the odd number I could maybe see GT then. That would get interesting as sports wise I think Louisville makes more sense but everything else for the B1G screams anyone but Louisville haha
100% thatās what I was getting at. PSU thinks they are OSU but they are a far cry from it. Franklin brought a lot more success to the school than he is given credit for. The majority of the 90s and early 2k PSU was lost and living off a past reputation. If they do not nail this hire they will be Nebraska a program than those of us in our 40s kinda remember as being great, but anyone under 30 has no respect for.
Michigan is a tricky one for me. They have history and a ton of money but honestly not a lot of success on the field. Harbargh put together a 2-3 yr run but before that it had been nearly 20 years of +/- 7.5 win ball.
Perhaps instead of ranking teams tier 1, 2, 3, we should to an establish, up and coming, cruising on reputation and on the decline.
PSU, FSU are 1 hire away from dropping off the board. Clemson Iād throw in there too if Dabo doesnāt straighten up soon.
USC, Miami, OU cruising on Rep that helps them rise higher than they probably should.
Thatās the thing GT actually fits a lot of needs for the B1G and getting a foothold in the south they could do a lot worst than having access to the Dome potentially.
I think generally the SEC would take them but UGa doesnāt want them could come down to a power play there.
Oregon has Nike money, but its location is harder to get to than some other top schools and thereās not a ton of HS talent in its geographical area, so you have to recruit more nationally. Plus the geographical disadvantage of being a west coast outpost of a midwestern league.
Maybe not top 10, but that wasnāt the main point of my post either.
I was honestly surprised Tennessee dropped below us after a loss at Alabama. Also surprised LSU fell so far. I didnāt think weād move up at all really.
But weād probably pass the loser of BYU-TTU. BYU also has a game at Cincinnati after that. Vandy, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee play each other a lot. At least 2 of those teams will lose 2 more games.
Thatās the AP poll, voters have a lot of lose and drop/ win and move above teams that lose energy there. It remains to be seen how the CFP committee ranks anyone.
If the B1G wanted, they could grab GT along with UNC and UVA to maintain contiguity, and make Miami the fourth to keep numbers even. All four are AAU schools, and it gives the B1G a hard stab into SEC territory.
So far Duke-Clemson at noon on ACCN, UL-VT at 3 on the CW, Pitt-Stanford at 330 on ACCN and Wake-FSU at 730 on ACCN. So UVA-Cal, GT-NC State, Miami-SMU and ND-BC TBD. SEC has USC-Ole Miss, OU-UTenn and Vandy-Texas TBD.
I donāt see any other games for the 1030 on ESPN timeslot. But we might have that timeslot completely to ourselves. No other Pacific time zone P4 teams are playing at home that day.
Getting back to the coaching carousel, the scourge of mid-season firings is becoming ridiculous. For those of you in the investments business, it reminds me of people who sell Merke to buy GameStop. I get the Hokesters firing Fry ā his audition clearly wasnāt working out.
But PSU firing Franklin was asinine. Honestly I think the Penn State AD did it just to stop all the angry social media vitriol. As with stocks and mutual funds, panic selling at the bottom of a market correction never works and ends costing a lot when the market rebounds. Weāre seeing the same thing in college football.
