{"id":435240,"date":"2024-11-12T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435240"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:29:37","slug":"georgia-facing-elimination-game-espn-analyst-disputes-a-3-loss-bulldog-team-is-automatically-out-of-cfp","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/georgia-football\/georgia-facing-elimination-game-espn-analyst-disputes-a-3-loss-bulldog-team-is-automatically-out-of-cfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia facing elimination game? ESPN analyst disputes a 3-loss Bulldog team is automatically out of CFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia has won 2 of the past 3 national championships, so the Bulldogs have earned some leeway when they slip up.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday in Oxford, Georgia slipped up &#8212; again. The Bulldogs were thoroughly outplayed by Lane Kiffin&#8217;s Ole Miss team, falling 28-10 and suffering their 2nd loss of the season. Georgia also lost at Alabama in late September, and this Saturday night the Bulldogs will host Tennessee in another showdown game.<\/p>\n<p>If Georgia loses again, which is entirely possible, surely having 3 losses would be the death of the Bulldogs when it comes to making the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, not necessarily, said ESPN college football analyst Heather Dinich during an appearance Tuesday on <em>The Pat McAfee Show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As much as people keep throwing out elimination games each week, I would really hesitate to eliminate a 3-loss SEC team,&#8221; said Dinich. &#8220;All 3-loss SEC teams are not created equal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I would really hesitate to eliminate a three-loss SEC team.&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFBHeather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CFBHeather<\/a> gives us a history lesson on why some three-loss teams wouldn&#39;t be totally out of the CFP race. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FVVpOD6SjI\">pic.twitter.com\/FVVpOD6SjI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNCFB\/status\/1856400948152688918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dinich backed up her bold words by giving everyone a slightly surprising Playoff history lesson. According to Dinich, in the first 10 years of the CFP, there have been 13 3-loss teams ranked in the Playoff committee&#8217;s top 10 on selection day.<\/p>\n<p>Dinich&#8217;s point: don&#8217;t just dismiss Georgia if the Bulldogs happen to lose again on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> Be sure to check out the best Daily Fantasy Sports offers down the stretch, and check out SDS&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/dfs\/underdog-fantasy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underdog promo code<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s FPI matchup predictor believes Georgia has a good chance of winning, giving the Bulldogs a 61.8% chance to beat the 8-1 Volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia isn&#8217;t necessarily out of the Playoff picture if it loses to Tennessee on Saturday night, says an ESPN college football analyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269106,"featured_media":435242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435240","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-georgia-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}