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I almost forgot to write this blog today.
Nearly forgot it was Sunday.
So once break hits days become meaningless for the next week and a half.
Yesterday I made the 8-hour drive home in a rental car with 4 pets and 1 woman.
I thought I had made a terrible mistake driving home during the first round of the college football playoff.
Turns out it was brilliant.
They hated every minute of it.
Would have rather been dead.
I know this isn’t a science experiment.
But you have to gather more data than that before you might “prove” anything.
I would have used the word “implied” or perhaps, “suggests”.
It’s insane how much weight individual games hold in college football.
Tennessee comes out with one terrible performance and people take it to mean so much.
We don’t do that in any other sport.
There’s no, “Well they just had a bad night” in college football.
If you fuck up once, that’s what you are.
It’s also what your entire conference is, along with every team you played that season.
At least with Indiana people have multiple games to point at.
I don’t know if any team is going to fit that mold again.
But they had all those blowouts so their hands were tied.
If they wanna get rid of automatic byes for next season, that makes sense.
I like it strictly for selfish “I’m annoyed by the SEC” reasons.
On a macro-level that seems so broken to me.
But I guess that’s just college sports.
You’ll never have an objectively correct way to determine which teams are most deserving of the playoffs.
Which is what neutral fans want more than anything.
It’s kinda how we got the playoffs in the first place.
