College football season spans through an academic year & is approaching the last weeks of regular season and conference championships, and bowls and culminating in CFP( College Football Playoff). The looming matches are important especially because the resulting determine the probabilities of which one of the competing teams could be this year’s national champion.
Despite the fact this season has been anything but predictable, the SEC is still one of the most powerful leagues in football. There are less than a month left before the newly expanded College Football Playoff, and several teams from the conference still have a shot at the competition.
Looking to Week 12, there are several match-ups, which are on the run for the SEC that can be qualifiers for the playoff.
First, there’s the No. 7 Tennessee Volunteers against the No. 12 Georgia Bulldogs in Athens. Tennessee, the team ranked higher, has lost only one match while Georgia has done it twice. That will be within the top 10 next week while the loser will be out of that CFP schedule. The stakes are higher for Bulldogs, third defeat would leave them with slim chance of making the four, as it was the case with LSU Tigers who lost to Alabama Crimson Tide last week.
For the Vols, loss does not make them a hopeless team but it would just make things a lot worst, not only for the team but also the playoff committee. For now all Tennessee has to do is win and they are lockedy suffer a second loss in, even if it is in the SEC championship game.
The only other game that could shake things up in the College Football Playoff is in Fayetteville, Arkansas this Saturday. The team ranked 5-4 is Arkansas Razorbacks facing the ranked team which is the No 3, one loss team Texas Longhorns.
Over the course of this past week, many people have been talking about the No. 1 teams in the College Football Playoff rankings, the competition those teams faced, strength of schedule, and the question of whether or not some records should be inflated because the competition hasn’t been the stiffest. I digress.
Although the team has looked good for most of the season they have shown some vulnerability. The Longhorns have been the subject of the so-called “weak schedule” discussions in the week, meaning most fanbases outside of Austin city limits would want Sam Pittman and this Razorbacks team to expose Steve Sarkisian and this Texas team.
Outside those two to monitor, there aren’t too many to watch and analyze. Of course, if Mercer does that next year, it will shake things up in College Football Playoff picture, but I don’t believe more words need to be said about why.
