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If the point of the playoff was to include every team that had a legitimate claim to being #1 by season's end, 4 teams would be fine. Even with such a limited field, the semifinals routinely suck. I can think of two competitive games in the 8 years they've been played. The non-exhibition post season games should be geared towards crowning a champion, not serving as a reward in themselves for every team that managed a decent season.

However, the point is to make money. I imagine that a 59-3 playoff game between #16 Coastal Carolina and  #1 Alabama will pull in more ad revenue/ratings than the Gasparilla Bowl or whatever.  Since ESPN owns damn near every bowl and the playoff itself, that's what'll happen. 

It's honestly a shame that CFB finally got a playoff in an era when a handful of teams happen to have a vice grip on their respective conferences and their playoff bids. I'm interested to see what the next couple of years has in store for Clemson and Oklahoma in particular. Throw in a Saban retirement, and 75% of our playoff regulars may fade very quickly. In that scenario, 4 teams will continue to be just fine.

The most surprising thing I saw all night: the home team wore their white jersey, and the road team wore their standard away jersey. 
 

Are there any more job openings for Mark Jackson this offseason? Coming up on ten straight years of him and JVG adjudicating the rule book amidst his cringe, try-hard little sound bites. Please go away. 

keep trusting that process boys

4 minutes ago, heavybass said:

5 members of Georgia's awesome defense gets drafted... most in the history of the draft defense side.

Should’ve been six*. Nakobe Dean falling to round two is crazy.
 

* well, five was probably right, but I can’t believe Travon Walker got called up before any other UGA defender, let alone every other player. But get that bag, fella. Go Dawgs. 

@aawagner011 Do you know if they're keeping Bulldog Bold as the wordmark/typeface otherwise? When it came out, there was a huge emphasis on getting every sport to have a unified appearance. Hard to imagine UGA throwing that effort away, so is this limited to the football jerseys' numbers?

Ah, too bad. The custom font was well done. I was looking forward to the NIL deal this fall that would allow me to buy an authentic Kelee Ringo jersey and slap a CFP patch on it. They probably won’t bother selling the Bulldog Bold jerseys now. 
 

For the red jersey, I hope the number is outlined in black. For the black, I really liked that one-off 2020 one and wouldn’t mind if it was brought back with numbers on the sleeves instead of logos. 

The 2021 banner is up. 

1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

If Urban Meyer goes “muh mental health”, wouldn’t this be the 3rd job he’s departed due to “health”? He would totally pull a scummy move like that too instead of taking responsibility for his actions. 

Urban should have read the tea leaves and pulled that card a month ago. He seemed to despise everything about Jacksonville’s organization from the start. He’s got to be sick over wasting this year and completely trashing his reputation for a Jags job that has now cost him a shot at coaching Notre Dame, USC, Oklahoma, Miami, LSU, or even Florida again.

Oh well! Couldn’t have happened to a bigger :censored:.

9 hours ago, cajunaggie08 said:

With the black alternate having block numbers, does this mean the custom rounded number font for the primary home red and road white uni's is gone?

The custom font appears on the jerseys in the marketing for the 2020 season, so it’s seemingly here to stay. I think the block fonts were chosen as both the jerseys are meant to honor 1920 and 1980.

I wouldn’t hate it if the red pants stuck around for road games.

UGA has the most annoying attitude about alternates imaginable.

The plan is to wear the red pants one time only, and in a road game at that. That color combo is most famously associated with the 1980 game against Tennessee. UGA plays the highlight of Herschel barrelling over every defender in that game to this day. Tennessee plays in Athens this year, so lord knows why they're wasting the uniform on a road game. Maybe they were absolutely opposed to wearing white at home.

No date set for the black jerseys. The home opener against Auburn makes the most sense by far. Of course, that article quotes the equipment director as saying "There will be enough distractions that day" without the jerseys. I'd really love to know if there is another team that has its head so far up its own ass about uniforms as Georgia does.

It’s the 100th anniversary of being called the Bulldogs. 
 

These look incredible. UGA sent an email out with a link to buy these, but I figured they were just fashion jerseys. Thrilled to see they’re wearing them on field. Red, black, silver, and white looks good in about any combination, so it was always a shame that Georgia wouldn’t mix it up at all. 
 

Dawg collar is a nice touch. I was surprised that Nike didn’t do it in 2011 for the Pro Combat uniform, but glad to see it incorporated on something far less gaudy. 

A perfectly inane explanation of something that required no justification in the first place. Good looking ring, though. 

11 hours ago, dfwabel said:

It is the real Nielsen fast national.  More details will likely be out on Thursday.

 

Going into Sunday, ESPN's playoff ratings were up over 35% from last season.

It was probably too bold to try to counter program against the NFL. A random weeknight may have been wiser. Honestly, would have thought the move from ESPN to ABC would have at least ensured a better rating than last year. 

Been pretty lucky on the whole, but will never get over the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship.

By the time "2nd & 26" happened, I was beyond convinced Georgia was going to lose (and really already should have; Bama had missed a pretty short FG at the end of regulation), so it wasn't the gut punch you'd imagine. These two calls happened at the start of the 3rd quarter:

The "Tyler Simmons was onside" play which should have given Georgia the ball inside the 5 and a chance to go up 20-0 and then:

Three plays later, the defender pulls Swift's facemask a full 180 degrees and the entire crew pretends they don't see it. First and only time I've ever broken something during a game (RIP couch!). I don't know that I've ever enjoyed a sporting event less. We've had 3 postseason games with Alabama, and they're always so tense and miserable. Knowing the boys are going to have to play a damn near perfect game, have them actually do just that, and see it go up in flames is such a special experience.

4 hours ago, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:

Do the Heat still have banners for Michael Jordan and Dan Marino?  

They do. They hang off to the side of the arena, not with the actual Heat players. I truly wish they'd catch fire.

The Heat logo is unnecessary and throws the placement of the name and number off, but overall, it's nice. Always appreciate it when a retired jersey actually looks like a jersey.

2 minutes ago, dont care said:

What about electronic banners around the oculus or what ever they are calling it

They use that throughout the match the same way any other team uses jumbotrons. It shows live action, replays, and stats. It would be sort of a waste to use real estate there to note a 2018 title at all times.

Looking at the picture again, I think they should keep the banner where it is while the team is still defending the title. Afterwards, a permanent one should hang on the same beam as the American flag or on the beam on the opposite side of the "windows."

6 hours ago, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:

A banner should stay up regardless of who is playing.  I was watching that game and thought it was an odd place to put the banner as there's obviously only enough room for one.  

Agreed on the first point. I don't know if any other venues that do this, even if it's shared between different teams. All I can think of is Clips/Lakers and maybe Jets/Giants, but they're in the same league.

Secondly, I don't know where would be a good spot for a banner in MBS. As beautiful as it is, that's a glaring weakness. There's one concrete wall in a corner that's bare but out of plain view. Aside from the beam they use now, there's not an ideal place. And like you said, that beam is fitting for exactly one banner. Although given Atlanta's histoy, that's probably enough space for the next 50 years.

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For some foolish reason, the banner will only hang during United home games. Otherwise, it will be taken down.

The official sponsor of the Bill Simmons Podcast:

I could be counted on to listen to every episode until the accumulation of "Patriots week" + the presentation of Simmons as an expert in any field simply because he consumes its content + the recurrent segment in which his child talks about what she watched on Netflix solidified my transition from enjoyable "hate listening" to flat out hating. The whole enterprise is so self-indulgent that it's unbearable. I still follow him on Twitter to see, and never click, the links to Ringer posts that I'd assume were parodies if I didn't know better. 

I'm probably just overlooking it, but is there no longer a way to go straight to the first unread post in a thread?

This has been happening for a while. I've just deleted them to get rid of the notification badge.

Right, but atleast the Heat don´t retire numbers left and right