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nwhoopfan said:
Maybe not serious, but what does it really matter to Georgia if they lose today? They're in either way, I guess it could change who they play.
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Let’s see SEC title, undefeated historic season, beating nemesis Alabama, getting an easier matchup in the semis.
 
WestHartHusk said:
Nobody said our football team was too good for it. The league was a terrible fit for UConn overall. The AAC is trash taken as a whole.
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WestHartHusk said:
One can hold multiple thoughts at once.
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When the AAC formed, I was excited because I thought there would be good football and I thought we could compete. I also liked having my undergrad school in the same conference with my grad school (SMU).

Many (maybe most) of the comments here were about how crappy the conference would be, and how we would be stuck with some lowly private schools (SMU, Tulane) and some third rate directional schools.

We weren’t “too good” for the AAC.
 
Redding Husky said:
When the AAC formed, I was excited because I thought there would be good football and I thought we could compete. I also liked having my undergrad school in the same conference with my grad school (SMU).

Many (maybe most) of the comments here were about how crappy the conference would be, and how we would be stuck with some lowly private schools (SMU, Tulane) and some third rate directional schools.

We weren’t “too good” for the AAC.
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You’re making a bit of a straw man argument man. Again, no one sane was saying our football team was “too good” for the AAC (we suck). UConn overall was a poor cultural fit. SMU and Tulane can be fine academic institutions and yet be irrelevant to the Connecticut fan base. Both of those things can be true.

You seem to be taking it personal because one of those schools is your alma mater.
 
Redding Husky said:
When the AAC formed, I was excited because I thought there would be good football and I thought we could compete. I also liked having my undergrad school in the same conference with my grad school (SMU).

Many (maybe most) of the comments here were about how crappy the conference would be, and how we would be stuck with some lowly private schools (SMU, Tulane) and some third rate directional schools.

We weren’t “too good” for the AAC.
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AAC was formed for one thing and everything else came for the ride and that was football. Temple and UConn were stuck on an island in a very southern based conference. It worked for Temple and didn't for UConn. AAC was pre-raid by far and away the best of the rest. Now they're just basically the old CUSA
 
Vowelguy said:
Let’s see SEC title, undefeated historic season, beating nemesis Alabama, getting an easier matchup in the semis.
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With all of that, one might think they might've showed up and played a little better today?
 
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Bongo Fury said:
The AAC is a great football conference but nobody cares.
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The AAC is relatively a brand new league.

You're right. In under 10 years, going to a CFB Final 4 and 7 NY6 bowls (winning their share) and going to 2 CBB Final Fours (winning the Final game in 2014) is beyond what any reasonable fan would've thought probable.

Now with the CFP expanding soon, the calculus works even more in the new AAC's favor... even with the new teams.
 
BapeKidd88 said:
The AAC is relatively a brand new league.

You're right. In under 10 years, going to a CFB Final 4 and 7 NY6 bowls (winning their share) and going to 2 CBB Final Fours (winning the Final game in 2014) is beyond what any reasonable fan would've thought probable.

Now with the CFP expanding soon, the calculus works even more in the new AAC's favor... even with the new teams.
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“The AAC won the 2014 championship”…get out of her man. Trash is to complementary a description to that basketball league…I think they are like the 12th ranked league, and that is before they replace Houston and Cinci with D2 level basketball.
 
BapeKidd88 said:
The AAC is relatively a brand new league.

You're right. In under 10 years, going to a CFB Final 4 and 7 NY6 bowls (winning their share) and going to 2 CBB Final Fours (winning the Final game in 2014) is beyond what any reasonable fan would've thought probable.

Now with the CFP expanding soon, the calculus works even more in the new AAC's favor... even with the new teams.
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Oh sure and don’t forget UCF’s 2017 Football National Championship.
 
Michigan isn't screwing around, putting a beating on Iowa.
 
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Well Bearcats...you gotta beat "The Man" to be "The Man"....

Get ready to rumble !
 
I'll be pulling for Cincy. Unfortunately, if they were to win a game or even just the fact that they made it, people will look back and say that they were a program that was almost in the Big 12. The G5 won't get as much credit as they should. It's similar to how some of you look at our 2014 NC when we were in the AAC. Acting like it doesn't really count as an AAC National Championship even though we were in the conference when it happened.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Michigan isn't screwing around, putting a beating on Iowa.
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Andrew Steuber of Darien HS playing great for Michigan, don’t know if he’s the best in college football but he’s definitely up there. He was opening up some huge holes on the right side.
 
billybud said:
Well Bearcats...you gotta beat "The Man" to be "The Man"....

Get ready to rumble !
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It's impressive for any team to put back to back perfect regular seasons together at any level. That ND win up there ended up being a playoff game in and of itself. Their only loss in two seasons is on a 50+ yd fg at the buzzer on Georgia's home field. I'd love to see them get in to the final game. That would be a victory in and of itself for all the folks other than Bama, Clemson, Osu and Georgia.
 
don356 said:
It's impressive for any team to put back to back perfect regular seasons together at any level. That ND win up there ended up being a playoff game in and of itself. Their only loss in two seasons is on a 50+ yd fg at the buzzer on Georgia's home field. I'd love to see them get in to the final game. That would be a victory in and of itself for all the folks other than Bama, Clemson, Osu and Georgia.
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I think Cincy will be CFP #4....and Bama #1.

I don't think that folks want a Bama-Georgia game back to back.

Sooo...Georgia-Michigan
 
billybud said:
I think Cincy will be CFP #4....and Bama #1.

I don't think that folks want a Bama-Georgia game back to back.

Sooo...Georgia-Michigan
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I was thinking the same thing...but do they really want a final with two SEC teams? I believe when that happened in the past, the ratings were bad.
 
Alabama-Georgia in the 2018 CFP Final....

Monday’s Alabama-Georgia College Football Playoff National Championship delivered a 15.6 rating and 28.4 million viewers on the ESPN family of networks, up 10% in ratings and 9% in viewership from last year (Clemson-Alabama: 14.2, 26.0M) and up 4% and 6% respectively from 2015 (Alabama-Clemson: 15.0, 26.7M). Figures include TV and streaming.


ESPN alone generated 27.4 million and ESPN2 1.0 million (+26%).

Alabama’s overtime win, which peaked with 30.8 million viewers late in the first half (9:30-10 PM ET), was the highest rated and most-watched college football game since the 2015 title game (Ohio State-Oregon: 18.6, 34.1M).
It earned the seventh-largest college football audience in the 20 seasons since the formation of the Bowl Championship Series, the CFP predecessor that began the modern era of postseason play.
Among cable programs only, it ranks third all-time behind two 2015 playoff games — the aforementioned Ohio State-Oregon national championship and the Alabama-Ohio State Sugar Bowl (28.5M). Monday’s numbers include streaming viewership on television only, while 2015 Sugar Bowl figures includes streaming across all devices. It may be the case that once all the streaming numbers comes in, this year’s game will rank second.
Alabama-Georgia easily outpaced the previous all-SEC national championship, beating Alabama-LSU in 2012 by 11% in ratings (vs. 14.0) and 17% in viewership (vs. 24.2M).

College Football National Championship Ratings, BCS/CFP Era​


College Football National Championship Ratings, Viewership, in BCS/CFP Era
[Mon. numbers from ESPN; additional info from ShowBuzz Daily 1.9]
 
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WestHartHusk said:
Literally EVERYTHING had to break for Cinci to force their hand. As only one example, if Okie gets 1/8th more of a yard we are having a different discussion right now.
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Blah blah blah

A G5 team made it
 
WestHartHusk said:
Literally EVERYTHING had to break for Cinci to force their hand. As only one example, if Okie gets 1/8th more of a yard we are having a different discussion right now.
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Disagree. OSU didn't play well enough to overtake Cincy as long as they beat Houston. Cincy's still got that ND win on the road, and also Houston at 15. They would not have hopped them. There would be to much pressure on the existing system to drop out a team that hasn't lost a regular season game in two years to make it worth their while. Boone PIckens is dead. OSU needed to whip Baylor to hop Cincy.
 
Notre Dame was taken to overtime by a mediocre FSU and didn't end up with a win against a single CFP 25 team....and were idle during Championship Weekend...they needed help to break into the CFP.

OK State losing, I think, did solidify Cincinnati's case.
 
billybud said:
Alabama-Georgia in the 2018 CFP Final....

Monday’s Alabama-Georgia College Football Playoff National Championship delivered a 15.6 rating and 28.4 million viewers on the ESPN family of networks, up 10% in ratings and 9% in viewership from last year (Clemson-Alabama: 14.2, 26.0M) and up 4% and 6% respectively from 2015 (Alabama-Clemson: 15.0, 26.7M). Figures include TV and streaming.


ESPN alone generated 27.4 million and ESPN2 1.0 million (+26%).

Alabama’s overtime win, which peaked with 30.8 million viewers late in the first half (9:30-10 PM ET), was the highest rated and most-watched college football game since the 2015 title game (Ohio State-Oregon: 18.6, 34.1M).
It earned the seventh-largest college football audience in the 20 seasons since the formation of the Bowl Championship Series, the CFP predecessor that began the modern era of postseason play.
Among cable programs only, it ranks third all-time behind two 2015 playoff games — the aforementioned Ohio State-Oregon national championship and the Alabama-Ohio State Sugar Bowl (28.5M). Monday’s numbers include streaming viewership on television only, while 2015 Sugar Bowl figures includes streaming across all devices. It may be the case that once all the streaming numbers comes in, this year’s game will rank second.
Alabama-Georgia easily outpaced the previous all-SEC national championship, beating Alabama-LSU in 2012 by 11% in ratings (vs. 14.0) and 17% in viewership (vs. 24.2M).

College Football National Championship Ratings, BCS/CFP Era​


College Football National Championship Ratings, Viewership, in BCS/CFP Era
[Mon. numbers from ESPN; additional info from ShowBuzz Daily 1.9]
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It was also Alabama LSU that I remembered doing poorly in the ratings.
 
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