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"108 receptions FOR 1716 yards" is that a typo? WOW!!

It's astonishing but that is the first media take I have seen that acknowledges how consequential this is regarding future OOC scheduling. There will not be any more big time OOC games if Texas is punished for losing to OSU on the road in their closest game of the year.

The only reason to include OU and not Texas is "Because they went 10-2 and Texas went 9-3". Because if you're basing it on who is the better team, well, I think that was settled fairly conclusively. So if the criteria is simply wins and losses regardless of anything else, the committee should admit to that.

I hope she's right. The committee should count conf championship game losses with even more weight than a non-conf loss in week 1 imo. It's a reflection of how the team is playing against top competition at end of season versus week 1. Also, 2 losses by Miami in October/November to 2 non-ranked opponents should count with much more weight negatively as bad losses than a single loss in early October by Texas to Florida combined with losses to 2 of the top 3 schools in the country. How many teams in the Top 15 would have beaten either Georgia (1 - Bama) or Ohio State (0)? It's interesting when you look at Strength of Schedule on ESPN, no-one in the Top 25 has anywhere near the same difficulty of schedule as UT. Four of the Top five teams in the AP chose to play all cupcakes for non-conf games. What exactly is the CFP committee trying to incentivize? If BYU and Bama both get beaten by 2+ scores, theoretically that should open up a possible path into the playoffs for the Horns. How can they keep Vanderbilt ahead of Texas after the way we handled them head to head and Vanderbilt played the following non-conf schedule: Charleston Southern, Virginia Tech, Utah State and Georgia State? Vanderbilt only played two teams currently in the Top 20 (Alabama and Texas). Vanderbilt got beat soundly by both. Ready to be disappointed but fun to hear the debates for the next week. I'll never forget how f'ng over the top excited I was 2 years ago with the who debate between Georgia, Bama, Florida State and Texas for the final 2 spots into the playoffs. It looked like we may be on the outside, looking in until Bama beat Georgia (the same year we beat Bama). Had Georgia won that game, would the committee have let Florida St (and their perfect record but without starting QB) into the final spot? We'll never know. All that to say that we had some dominoes fall our way 2 years ago on Conf Championship Weekend when UT won our final Big 12 Championship in a blowout game and Bama upset Georgia. It was a beautiful weekend. Let's see how next weekend shakes out. Praying for a lot more dominoes to fall our way again. Hook em!!

Leaving out the SEC runner-up because they lost in the championship game would be really dumb.

Defending Lane here is kind of funny. He handled it in literally the worst way possible. This wasn’t an “inevitable” situation. It’s like being hidden away in Oxford has made people forgot that he is the biggest a hole in collegiate sports. “But his dog has a twitter! He’s changed!” Ole Miss hid a lot of his shenanigans. LSU is a lot messier and that stuff is gonna get out.

This isn’t the first time an SEC school has hired away a coach of another SEC and I don’t recall any of em being this messy. Perhaps it was always going to be messy…but it do not have to be this messy. I’m just stunned you appear to be defending Kiffin.

And so it begins

I believe the term you are looking for is “higher ceiling”. Because ole miss was going to match salary and Lane could’ve coasted there with largely no heat even if performance was up and down. To some that’s a better job. At lsu, he might have one or two bad years and next thing you know the bayou trump wannabe is breathing down his neck.

The OC was also seen going to baton rouge on one of the PJs

Yes it was, and did. It was always going to be very messy. SEC is a bloodsport.

Great hire by LSU. Essentially setting back Ole Miss run this season and getting their main target.

You’ll have to remind me what threats the OM administration made to Kiffin. Are you referring to the timeline they gave him to make up his mind what he’s going to do so as to not hold their football program hostage? I have absolutely no problem with that. Do you have a problem with Kiffin threatening to poach coaches and players from Ole Miss if he isn’t allowed to coach the team in the playoffs? It did not have to end this messy.

Was thinking the exact same thing.

If any program hires Lane, they deserve to be burned to the ground.

Are you okay with the threats the Ole Miss administration made to him? If so What's truly the difference? It was always going to end messy. Tough situation for all parties IMO.

I really don't care about a twitter post, just being real. These things are always going to be messy when a coach leaves, especially to go to a rival or conference school. Lane wanted to coach that team (have his cake and eat it too, of course). We are also entering a different time in CFP when there are going to be more teams in playoffs and even more in the future - this will happen again, and likely more than once. Ole Miss AD decide they didn't want him to coach in the playoffs. Then they are all going to get after each other. Both will start trying to make each other look bad. All part of it.

I don’t think anyone has a problem with Kiffin wanting to coach the team in the playoffs. But surely you don’t a have a problem with the athletic director and administration’s response? Are you ok with the ultimatums or threats Kiffin gave to the Ole Miss administration? Are you ok with the ultimatums he allegedly gave his coaching staff to be on the plane or else?

They’ve always been a problem.

Even not being close enough to it we can't act like he didn't made it out to be a huge deal when it was clear as day he was gonna leave. We act like him tweeting from his dog's twitter account about going to the SEC championship isn't out of touch? He never thought stringing along an entire fanbase wasn't gonna backfire? Be straightforward about your decision and that's it, go out classy. In his tweet announcing his departure he's litterally throwing the AD under the bus.

I have no problem with him wanting to coach Ole Miss in the playoffs. The rest of the "reported" stuff. I'm not close enough to it. Do I believe all of it? Of course not.

Classy guy, it’s the AD’s fault he decided to have these conversations during the season and leave a school at the end of the regular season. Also, what guardrails did he want to have in place to protect this program while he was trying to build his staff and finish recruiting at LSU? I’m sure the players just loved him so much for doing this they were all just begging the AD to let good Ol’Lane to finish this historic season with his guys.

Cmon. Is this a tongue-in-cheek post? You can’t possibly be defending Kiffin’s method of exodus.

Jk Pat Fitzgerald from Northwestern next HC for Michigan State