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JTF: "The best." Saban is entrenched in his enshrinement; with the "ponzi scheme" firmly established by contracts that will make it nearly impossible to topple, Saban's enshrinement is protected, we can be assured of that... what's interesting is how they have began to use the same "ponzi scheme" system to enshrine Smart... the only question that remains to be answered is... will Smart be able to use, and maintain, the "ponzi scheme" advantages as effectively as Saban did to rise to his own enshrinement. Not saying Saban didn't work for what he has earned, but, please, be honest when you call him the "best" and admit he has advantages that others coaches could only dream of having. Saban's greatness comes from the fact that he used, and maintained, those advantages in ways that helped many rise-up to be a better person; there are many who would have upended themselves by misusing those advantages; Saban didn't! Smart does seem to be of the same mold as Saban, time will tell if he can use, and maintain, the advantages the "ponzi scheme" gifts him with as effectively as Saban has; as of now, Smart has.

Something doesn't add up, doesn't make sense...

Day's loss didn't let Harbaugh in like Kirby's loss let Saban in! Harbaugh didn't have a loss like Saban did. Two totally different scenarios.

Matt Hayes: "When Nick Saban, the greatest coach in the history of college football, shows you..." Saban has been able to use, and manage, the advantages he has been "gifted" with very effectively. Didn't say he didn't work for what he has gotten, but there is always someone at the top of the "ponzi scheme" pyramid. That someone, for the last decade, has been Saban... Saban deserves high praise for not squandering away those advantages he was "gifted" with, there are many who wouldn't have been able to maintain them as Saban has. Stand on the outer edges of all the hoopla and listen... the conductors of the "scheme" are orchestrating the arrangement of replacing the already "enshrined" Saban with Kirby Smart. And to think, the grand plan would have been put on hold had Ohio State's field goal, the field goal that would have been heard around the world, gone through the uprights. Kirby got two National Titles before the rules changed, and he's lucky he did. Because of the expanded layoff, it will be a bit more difficult for the "orchestrators" of the "scheme" to conduct the outcome of their bias symphony as efficiently as they have for Saban's "enshrinement" years and the start of Kirby's. For those of you who are in the midst of the hoopla... have no fear, for the orchestrators of the "ponzi scheme" will continue the "arrangement" of the matchups in the "expanded playoff" between whom they want and where they want in their bias system; the "expanded playoff" will only create new challenges that will need to be overcome. The advantages will continue to be "gifted" to those who deserve them, and Saban and Kirby will forever deserve them.

I agree, humperrr… Georgia played perfect, it was a joy to watch them play as well as they did!

Congrats... to that Bennett kid; I believe they gave the Heisman Trophy to the wrong QB! Congrats to Kirby... the only loss he's had in two seasons is the one where he took a knee to kiss Saban's ring; the taste of that one loss has to taste like... sh!t! Act civil... how would that be possible with the UT Martin Skyhawks waiting to have their feathers ripped to shreds in Athens on Sept 2, 2023... that game is the opening act of one of the finest scheduling masterpieces any school could put together to ensure they will be in the playoffs after playing it. The only civility we will be able to recall, when it comes to this Georgia football team, was the moment everyone believed Georgia had lost to Ohio State. Just before what could have been the field goal that would have been heard around the world was missed, we were able to see this Georgia football team in a humbled state of mind, that was the only joyful moment there was to claim there was a chance for some civility... with the schedule that awaits Georgia next season, there is zero chance the Georgia fans have any reason whatsoever to be civil...

I preach this all season long... it isn't right that a team is able to lose it's way into the "ponzi scheme" Playoff system... when a coach of a team that wins their conference championship game gets a pat on his @$$ and get's told "Better luck next year, coach!" Have and will preach that here, there, anywhere, and everywhere!

Why wouldn't Tennessee be ranked higher than Alabama... Tennessee beating Clemson was a far more impressive win than Alabama beating KS; and then Tennessee had that head to head win over Alabama... drum roll... because the selection committee wanted Alabama to play KS, that's why!

bayou tiger: "... But they want W-L records and conference championships." They have two teams, Ohio State and TCU, who weren't conference champions and lost their way into the Playoff this year... Last year Georgia wasn't a conference champion and lost their way into the Playoff too... while coaches who win their conference championship get sent home with a pat on the @$$ and an encouraging "better luck next year." Then the quacks, who defend the bias selection committee "manipulation" of the Playoff scam, start aggressively quacking back at the ones who remind them that the NCAA Football "ponzi scheme" is alive, well, and striving for those whose benefit from the bias; then you get the usual there is no need to fix the bias system because the bias system works perfect for us!

The selection committee wanted Bamaa to play KS... not Clemson. And now we know why...

Gomer Pyle: “Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!!!”

Dominate... please! The only thing they dominated was the score, yeah, I know, that's all that matters, BUT Tennessee DIDN'T dominate the Clemson Tigers and Dabo Sweeney... they won... they DIDN'T dominate!

Whatever you want to believe... it was the selection committee's way of determining who would play whom PERIOD

I don't bet NCAA Football BECAUSE "things" like what happened in Texas Memorial Stadium on Sept 10, 2022 happen... "things" being what referees can do to help a team win a game. And what the referees did to help Alabama win the Texas game in '22 was a "thing!" It was a "big" thing!

I liked how the Oregon State beavers kicked Florida's @$$

I do find it hard to believe... that Steve Sarkisian will be Archie Manning's coach?

if you knew half the sh!t you think you know, you might know something...

And speaking of luck... how lucky was it for Saban when the selection committee was able to pencil-in/manipulate/select Alabama's opponent in the semi-finals of the '21 Playoff... "I'd rather be lucky than..."

And I do believe Alabama, even with their inferior OL, Alabama will beat KS... a team that is ranked 60th against the rush and 45th against the pass. How lucky was it for Saban that KS upset TCU to get the BIG12 honor of playing in the Sugar bowl; and then, with another stroke of good luck, Saban gets a higher final CFP ranking than Tennessee, a team that beat his team, to steal, from Tennessee, the SEC honor of going to the Sugar Bowl. Like Lefty Gomez said: "I'd rather be lucky than good!"

Andrew Olson: "There are obvious reasons this Alabama team is No. 5 and in the Sugar Bowl instead of..." Tennessee beat Alabama; why is Alabama ranked 5 and Tennessee 6? Because they wanted Alabama, and not Tennessee, to be in the Sugar Bowl... PERIOD

The committee manipulated who would go to the Sugar Bowl by ranking Alabama higher than Tennessee... the selection committee is a "manipulation" committee, and how they "manipulate" is by how they rank the teams... nobody in their right mind would say Alabama is a better team than Tennessee if they used the fact that Tennessee had beaten Alabama; therefore they used the rules of how the teams are selected to play in the Sugar Bowl to determine who would play in the Sugar Bowl by manipulating the ranking of the teams in the final CFP Poll. The selection committee does that! The selection committee ranks the teams, which then determines who will play who! In other words, the selection committee "manipulates" who plays who PERIOD

Alabama and Tennessee are both 10-2... Tennessee beat Alabama... and the selection committees ranks Alabama higher the Tennessee... the committee did that!

#1 Alabama, in week #2, left Texas with a win... and when it came time to select the Sugar Bowl participants, it didn't matter to the selection committee how Alabama won that game, it was a win. But would a two-loss Washington team have gone to the Sugar Bowl if Alabama was a three-loss team? Google Barstool Sports twitter post titled "This is the definition of pass interference, but the definition doesn't apply to Alabama, so no flag was thrown." After watching that play on Barstool Sports twitter post, let us all agree, Alabama won the Texas game because the referees helped them win that game. Washington didn't need the referee's help to beat Texas, Alabama did!

I would give Smart the honor he deserves... if he hadn't kissed Saban's ring in the '21 SECCG! Sankey, Smart, Saban, and all the others involved, used the "mulligan" Smart had in his back pocket to "finagle" the system. The "finagle" was so perfectly performed that an unmolested Bryant Young left Atlanta with the Heisman trophy in his suitcase. That "finagling" should go down as the greatest coaching feat of Saban's career, because he patched up an offensive line that had allowed seven sacks against Alabama's Iron Bowl opponent Auburn in the game prior. Saban so effectively patched up his OL in one week, seven days, that it didn't allow Smart's vaunted defense to touch his QB after Young had been sacked seven times in the game prior to the '21 SECCG. That, my friends, is one hell of a coaching job... or was it Smart kissing Saban's ring?

To'o To'o is one of Saban's unprincipled contemptible players that usually show up when the going gets tough for Alabama... there are others who fit the same bill on Saban's team. Saban condones what they do and that is the reason they exist on the Alabama's roster; how effective these players are is usually determined by how effective the referees regulate their thug activity. When the referees regulate it, that is when we see Saban's unprincipled contemptible character lash out at the referees. Saban must do this so he can give these players on his roster the support they need to get away with what they do.

says a member of the selection committee... who opted to choose three-loss KS, a team that is ranked 60th against the Rush and 45th against the Pass, as Alabama's opponent in the Sugar Bowl. Committee member: " We need a team that Alabama's suspect OL can dominate." Committee member C.Sullivan: "KS is that team!"

Nothing pertaining to the scheme in "Ponzi scheme" is related to foresight... the selection committee has been doing what they presently do for Saban long before 2014, it may have been a different subject or a different team, but the "scheme" is far older than 8!

Most teams don't have the referees playing for them like Alabama does!

Alabama needed the help of the referees to beat Texas... Washington didn't... that has to count for something, right? Who on the selection committee brought up the fact that Alabama would have been a three loss team if the referees wouldn't have helped them win the Texas game, because the common opponent outcome gets brought up all the time. And the funny thing about that, the win/loss is the only thing that matters. Not where the game was played, not who was injured, not who opted out, not if the referees helped them win, etc, etc, etc... And maybe a three-loss Alabama team doesn't go to the Sugar Bowl; but why not, they chose three-loss KS to go there... in Alabama's case, the win is all that mattered, it didn't matter that the referees got that win for them!

with Golding, Alabama would beat Ohio State