The 12-team format for the School Soccer Playoff was successful in its first yr however not for the SEC.
Of the ultimate 4 groups, two had been within the Large Ten whereas just one (Texas) was within the SEC. The brand new format noticed the SEC Champion, Georgia, get eradicated by Notre Dame within the quarterfinals.
It is also the second straight yr that the SEC has been shutout within the Nationwide Championship Sport and Paul Finebaum thinks it has been a giant blow to the convention.
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“When you do not win the title, when you do not go to the championship, when the champion finally ends up beating two of your faculties, and your champion loses within the quarterfinals, it is a huge blow to the ego of a league that has thrived for greater than 20 years on how huge and dangerous and brawny and profitable the SEC has been,” Finebaum mentioned on “McElroy & Cubleic Within the Morning,” (first transcribed by On3).
The SEC hasn’t been featured within the final two CFP Nationwide Championship Video games whereas the Large Ten has featured the final two nationwide champions. Michigan received all of it final season whereas Ohio State received this yr’s nationwide title.
It is one thing that the SEC desires to alter heading into the 2025 season. The convention will nonetheless be nice with groups like Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Texas, Tenessee, and Texas A&M making an attempt to compete for an SEC title and spots within the CFP.
In the meantime, Ohio State will try to go for a repeat after successful its first nationwide title in a decade. Ohio State got here into the CFP because the eighth seed however crushed everybody it performed, together with top-seeded Oregon within the Rose Bowl, 41-21
Subsequent season goes to be a variety of enjoyable to comply with as soon as it begins in late August.
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