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Will the Texas Longhorn's be the best team in the SEC this 2024-2025 season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Now, this was also interesting to me, Jake CFB Hourglass. You've got
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  projected right now only one undefeated team and these are just regular season records that
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  we're throwing out here. This isn't postseason. You only one undefeated SEC team,
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  and it's not the one I think most would assume it's not Georgia,
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  it is Texas. You've got Texas twelve and oh, Georgia eleven and one,
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  and I'm gonna make an assumption, but you know you let me know,
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  is that because Georgia has to go to Texas to Alabama and too oh
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  miss, or the schedule after last season that you know, it was kind
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  of joked all off season, what a pathetic schedule this is? They have
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  done a one eighty on the Bulldogs. They got a very very difficult slate
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  here. It was that kind of the difference of why you why your model's
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  got Georgia eleven and one and Texas twelve and zero. Yes, and you
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  know you look at the just what you just said, you kind of framed
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  it up. I mean you look at Georgia's schedule versus Texas's schedule, and
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  look, schedules are we know this? They matter? I mean, and
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  look at Texas. They open up with Colorado State, and we're talking about
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  a team that is one of the top recruiters in the country. And you
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  know when I kind of moll through this and let me just go over here
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  and tell you this too, this is the way I have it. Not
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  everybody's going to agree. The top talented teams in the country, I mean
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  are still Alabama and Georgia throwing in Oregon, Texas and even the Miami Hurricanes
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  and Michael there's not a whole lot of difference between those teams as far as
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  talent. When you start, you know, bringing in the transfer portal rankings,
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  you start bringing in everything that's going on with roster turned and attrition.
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  Go back to Texas, one of the best rosters in the country. Steve
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  Sarkasan gets a bumping of you know, bonus today, a new contract that's
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  out there, those details. I'm sure you've entered her out there. One
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  of the quarterbacks in the country and Queen Yours. They have the best wide
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  receiver room where you could argue one of the best in the not just the
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  conference of the country. Got a schedule that is very manageable. Colorado State
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  now they but to Michigan in Weak two. But you look at Texas,
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  I mean, this is not your same Michigan team. No Jim Harbaugh,
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  no no quarterback, no running back that you know, no Jj McCarthy,
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  no beligue for them, a new coaching staff. So I feel comfortable that
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  they will go in there and get that one. And then they go Utsa,
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  Louisiana, Monroe, Mississippi State and a bye week before they get Oklahoma
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  on the third weekend or second weekend in October. Then they get Georgia at
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  home, Vanderbilt on the road, a bye weekend, the finished with Florida,
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  at Arkansas, Kentucky and at Texas, A and M. I do
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  think Georgia probably gets them in the championship game of the Southeastern Conference, which
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  will make that very interesting as far as seating is concerned for the national playoff.
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  But I think Texas and Georgia are the two best teams in the conference,
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  and I give the NOD just because of the schedule, and they play
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  the Dogs in Austin for the Longhorns. Could you see a scenario. I
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  know I'm kind of jumping ahead a little bit here, but again, you
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  said that you would favor Georgia in an SEC championship game if it was Texas
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  and Georgia. Could you see a scenario where these two they're so good next
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  year that they play three times regular season SEC Championship and then the third time
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  would obviously obviously being in a college football playoff scenario, I think it's possible.
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  And that's one of the things I've been talking about on my show is
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  I'll be more intrigued to see than anything is how this new playoff committee ranks
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  and puts teams in a bracket. Right is Texas and Georgia. And if
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  you want to throw Alabama or on this, only one team can represent the
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  SEC with an automatic bit right the first round? By what does the committee
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  do with the second team? So let's just buy the scenario. Let's say
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  Georgia wins the SEC, Texas is number two. Are they on the same
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  side of the bracket as Georgia or will they be placed on the other side
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  of the bracket as Georgia. A lot of that, of course, is
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  going to be where they're seated in this thing, because I still believe,
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  obviously Notre Dame if they get to ten wins, they're going to get into
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  this tournament. You'll have at least one group of five team in. And
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  I'm not so sure that the committee in year one if we have a two
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  lane or a Liberty or a Boise State or a Memphis. If you have
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  two of those teams that have one loss or undefeated, let me get two
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  of them. So where will the committee put the other big SEC school to
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  be on the same side of the opposite side. If they break them up,
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  absolutely you can see, you know, a championship scenario. Forts if
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  you put them on the same side, you may see them as well.
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  It will be fascinating to see how the bracket is set up.