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Following our final home game of the season, I think it’s important to note that nearly everything about the Gameday experience has been grade A this year. They dropped the one thing I thought was really annoying, that UGA race to Chic Fil A. It just took too long and was paced so poorly. I thought the pregame videos were spot on all year. I loved the top 10 plays of the year feature they did this year. I loved the use of music to get the crowd (and team) going but I think I loved even more the restraint they showed in using said music. They even dropped Journey from the halftime band performance.

It looks like Tim Tebow pretty much locked up the Heisman with the injury to Oregon’s Dennis Dixon. I can’t say that the kid doesn’t deserve it. He’s done some pretty amazing things this year. If he played anywhere else besides UF…OK, make that anywhere outside the SEC…and GT, I think I’d really enjoy watching him play. Of course I’d still get absolutely sick of the media fascination with him but my guess is it would take longer. The only way he loses it now is if he struggles against a pretty athletic FSU defense.

After the game on Saturday I spent some time with a few UK fans near our “tailgate” at the Holiday Inn. Turns out they don’t like UT…at all. After many reassurances that they would take care of UT, one of the gentlemen put down his corn-cob pipe (no kidding) and showed me his UK tattoo as proof that they would win. I can only trust him I suppose. I’ll be pulling for you from afar Mr. Corn-cob. It was pretty fun listening to them assess UGA though. A lot of “and he’s only a sophomore (or freshman)…they’re going to be good for a while”…we’ve been trying to tell folks that but for some reason it’s only started sinking in since that UF game.

I still have mixed feelings about going through this exercise as it might be misinterpreted, but here’s the 5-step plan to play for the national title (I promise I’m only doing this for fun and not that I expect it to happen). I put the probability of this series of events happening at well below 1%.

• Beat GT – absolutely imperative
• UK beats UT – need this for us to make the SECCG
• Beat a 1-loss LSU – assumes LSU handles bipolar, lame duck Arkansas
• OU or Tex win the Big XII – this removes the winner of the Kansas-Missouri game
• West Virginia lose to either ranked UConn or major rival Pitt

  If you want to add a 6th step it would be USC beating Arizona State to remove them from contention but I honestly think beating concensus #1 LSU as roughly a #4 would get us to #2.

  This scenario would have us playing Ohio State for all the marbles. Something tells me Ohio State doesn’t want to play another SEC school.

Rant time: A lot of folks complain about the lack of a NCAA playoff. You want to get one BIG step closer, make all the BCS conferences play a title game. Why on earth this hasn’t been done is beyond me. Les Miles ranted about the Pac 10 prior to this season but I don’t have too much of a problem with them as they each play every other conference foe. The Big 10 is a complete joke when it comes to this though. Yes, I know the NCAA inexplicably has a regulation that requires conferences to have 12 teams before developing a championship game, but to me, it’s just another major hurdle for schools from the ACC, SEC and Big XII. Should LSU lose in the SECCG and get it’s slot filled by Ohio State simply because OSU didn’t have to play an equivalent championship game that would be a complete travesty…unless of course they lost to UGA, in which case I would be completely fine with it.

Have a safe weekend,
Jody