Ohio State has announced the hiring of Arthur Smith as offensive coordinator. “His track record in the NFL, experience as coordinator, player caller and a head coach checked every box during the search.” -- Ryan Day
@On3@PeteNakos We lost to the first and second team last year, imo, due to play calling. This is going to be better! Better run game and better in the red zone.
BREAKING: Ohio State is expected to hire Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith as its new OC, @PeteNakos reports🌰
https://t.co/JW4bcwrGXd
The SEC is 17-21 in bowl games the last 3 years.
But undefeated in hypothetical games
The Big Ten is 28-15 in bowl games the last 3 years.
With 3 National Championships
The biggest reason the committee put in an Alabama team, that limped into the end of the season, was the four-game "gauntlet" of ranked opponents they beat.
UGA
Mizzou
Vandy
Tennessee
Those teams went 0-4 this bowl season.
Alabama lost 38-3.
Take a bow committee, you did it
Wake Forest fans are derisively chanting “S-E-C! S-E-C!” to Mississippi State at the Duke’s Mayo Bowl.
Don’t these uncouth ACC fans know it just means more?
Love to hear it. Well done, Wake fans.
People dismissed this when I brought it up a month ago, but once again I need to point out that it was ridiculous UGA won the SEC title by 21 points and avenged it’s only loss and didn’t receive the 2 seed
Instead, the committee sent UGA to play a game 200 miles closer to its opponent’s campus and matched them up against a team they had already beaten when the game one loser is 17-7 in bowl game/playoff game rematches since 1944
Ohio State’s best win was by 7 against Texas in a game where they put up just over 200 total yards. Georgia beat Texas 35-10, and had a better strength of schedule and way more quality wins
There was zero reason they shouldn’t have grabbed the 2 seed
2025 Bowl Standings through 1/2/26
9-4 (.692) Big Ten
8-4 (.667) ACC
4-4 (.500) Big 12
4-9 (.308) SEC
SEC is 2-7 (.222) excluding games against own league
So far in their 9 out of conf Bowl and CFP games, the mighty SEC, the “best conference- it’s just a fact” per Kirk Herbstreit, was favored in 7 games but went 2-7 in those games.
If you don’t see that stat and understand how well media manipulation works, you can’t be helped.