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Originally Posted by RainMaker
What's the point of the season if the results don't matter?
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The results DO matter, but in the case where everyone doesn't play a representative schedule (thus the NFL piece you mentioned is inapplicable here,) and there's an absurdly small playoff field, the purpose of the season *has* to be "to validate the rankings." #7 loses to #1 by 2 points on the road, that's a result that matters--to validate that #7 deserves to be ranked higher than #7 or that #1 deserves to be ranked lower than #1. But the college football world has somehow long accepted that in that scenario #7 should drop. That's just dumb.
And yeah, Auburn was a classic example of a team that would be unmotivated.
Scheduling...yeah..it's done wayyy in advance. UGA's isn't completely fleshed out yet, but the competitive non-conference games are mostly set though 2030. (Georgia and Clemson are doing home-and-home in 2029 and 2030.) There's just one gap; it looks like the Dawgs could play UCF in 2027 if so desired by both programs.
Interestingly, Bama apparently doesn't schedule quite as far in advance as I'm used to seeing. They have *no* non-conference games on tap for 2024, and only three (Lousiana-Monroe in '25 and home/home with Notre Dame in '28-'29) from 2025 through 2030.