Alabama beat Clemson by 18. SEC teams they beat by less than 18: TAMU, LSU, Miss St, and Auburn(L)
Georgia beat SC by 14 and lost to Auburn.

Posted by MikeT23 on 1/2/2018 3:36:00 PM (view original):
Alabama beat Clemson by 18. SEC teams they beat by less than 18: TAMU, LSU, Miss St, and Auburn(L)
Georgia beat SC by 14 and lost to Auburn.

Clemson beat Auburn by 8, who beat Bama by double digits.

Hence why head to head in 1 game doesn't tell you who's better. After the first UGA/Auburn matchup, everyone including myself thought Auburn was the better team.

Posted by moranis on 1/2/2018 3:45:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 1/2/2018 3:36:00 PM (view original):
Alabama beat Clemson by 18. SEC teams they beat by less than 18: TAMU, LSU, Miss St, and Auburn(L)
Georgia beat SC by 14 and lost to Auburn.

Clemson beat Auburn by 8, who beat Bama by double digits.

Also, I think you forget that Bama played Auburn and Miss State without 4 starting LB's.

Everybody had injuries.

Yes, but not to Bama's extent. We can see the impact that it had on there defense just from comparing how they played the last 2 games of the season to yesterday's game.

SC lost their offense in the 2nd/3rd game. Deebo Samuel.

FSU lost their QB in game 1. Went from contender to chump.

Touché

Most expensive tickets for NC on stub hub are $1M a piece. Insane!

So you can start next years thread
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21902794/alabama-crimson-tide-georgia-bulldogs-lead-way-too-early-2018-top-25
1. Bama
2. Clemson
3. Ohio St.
4. Oklahoma
5. Georgia
6. Wisconsin
7. Miami
8. Washington
9. Michigan St.
10. West Virginia
11. Penn State
12. Auburn
13. Michigan
14. Va Tech
15. USC
16-20. TCU, Boise, Stanford, Miss. St., ND
21-25. UCF, FSU, LSU, Texas, S. Carolina

Hell, truth be told, the list of who can win the NC might be the top 3, USC, FSU and a couple of others.

No Mayfield, Chubb, Michel probably removes OK/GA. Not feeling WI, Miami or WI. I'd have to do a little research on the rest, and OK-QB, GA-RB, but I'm sure the list is less than 10.

UGA is still going to be good in the backfield. What is going to potentially hold them back is how much they're losing on defense. Basically their whole starting defense is graduating/ declaring for draft.

Teams don't get a Chubb/Michel combo very often. I know they've got that 3rd kid but their RB situation will not be as good.

Last similar combo was McFadden/Jones at Arkansas. It just doesn't happen very often.

I never said that they are going to be as good. I said they are still going to be good. They return 3 RB's that would start at most P5 schools. Defense is taking as big, if not bigger of a hit than offense.