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I don't know that it's possible to oversell the importance of the Miami-Florida game in every imaginable way, in whatever direction the game pans out. As you already covered the impact internally for these teams is as big as it gets, and that's a pretty good storyline. Take it nationally though. Either Florida or Miami winning this games validates the process as you said, and impacts recruiting in the state of Florida. But you can even see the impact on the national landscape, and conference perceptions. Only two other games this season have the potential to have a similar impact, and really only one of those comes as close to this one. First the less impactful one. Clemson-Georgia. Less impactful because I think the outcome of this game is less in doubt than the other 2. There's nothing gained if Georgia wins. They're the best of the SEC, they're supposed to win. If Clemson wins, there are two important things to consider. One, they've done it before, and that's important, but more important is two they're looking for a way out of the ACC. The other game that I think can potentially have even bigger national implications is Michigan-Texas. It's a week 2 game, neither team will really be battle tested (although I think there's more to find out about Michigan against a Fresno State than there is to find out from Texas beating the snot out of Colorado St who I believe are 36 point underdogs). There's no way to mince words, the SEC is the top conference right now. For all the money the B1G was able to get themselves to push out the ACC, on field results said that despite what people wanted to believe it was SEC and everyone else, and the only competition the SEC had was Clemson (I'd say ACC, but really it was just Clemson). If Texas wins this game, that solidifies that even the new guys in town can keep up the SEC brand name. But if Michigan wins? Oh boy there's all sorts of pattern shifting in how the two top conferences are viewed. It's a down year for Michigan, lost all their players, their coach? If they pull off the upset against newly minted SEC Texas? You could put Alabama-Wisconsin, or LSU-USC, I just think that this Michigan-Texas matchup is more likely to be competitive than Alabama-Wisconsin, and LSU-USC both starting with fresh QBs and new talent makes that game less of a known quantity than a Texas team looking to build on last year's playoff run, against the decidedly down National Title winner out of the B1G. All the ND games are intriguing and by definition out of conference, but they're less impactful nationally, and more impactful to perceptions of ND. Finally before Miami-Florida, the Tenn-NC State game has similar potential, I just think that Miami is far more likely to be viewed as a failure for losing their matchup than NC State would be for losing theirs. So national impact, perception of a conference. SEC is the best conference, Florida is decidedly not at the top of it, and also faces the most brutal schedule of the season. 6-7 wins are being viewed as job saving numbers for Napier at a school that otherwise would expect excellence (10+ wins). If Florida wins, that's a final double locked nail in the coffin of the ACC, and likely of the Big 12 or any sort of mega conference they're thinking of forming. The Big 12 themselves have two games against quality OOC opponents, and only one of them is even reasonably winnable (Utah vs Oklahoma week 2), the other would be a massive upset (WVU vs Penn St week 1). If UNC, FSU, and Clemson do all find ways out of the ACC, and Miami loses week 1 to UF and subsequently has the normal Miami Hurricane's hype season of the last 20 years...what else is there between the two conferences? Big 12 has some good ranked teams, but what incentives do B1G or SEC have to schedule games against them? At least Clemson, FSU, and Miami present big brands to take down (whatever you say about Miami, the recruiting hot bed that is south florida is worth scheduling against them on the chance you beat a team that's more talented than you and should have won). Push the needle in the opposite direction if Miami wins. Whatever happens in the Clemson-Georgia game again doesn't impact perception of the league. Georgia beats the crap out of SEC teams (not coached by Nick Saban), and I think that game's going to be closer than even the two score spread Vegas has, but even losing by 14 to Georgia isn't the worst smear in the world. Ranked SEC teams not coached by Nick Saban lost to Georgia by an average of 27.5 points last season. Georgia Tech put up more of a fight than most of the SEC did. And again it's unlikely that FSU and Clemson spent all the money they did to pay more money to get out of the ACC only to come crawling back now. So their wins or near losses don't really matter much for conference perceptions on a national level. Miami is likely looking for a new home, but they're not being public about it yet. Obviously all the other games matter, but if Miami goes 11-1 and that loss is to Florida, and the gators flop (oof that hurt writing) against their SEC schedule, that's a different looking Hurricanes team at the end of the season. Yeah it's a rivalry game, week 1 of the season, in the swamp, but on paper that's a top 3 ACC team against at best a bottom half SEC team. If Miami wins, and positions themselves to get to the ACC title game and a possible playoff berth? That's a springboard to better recruiting in the hottest recruiting hot bed in the country. The cash flow is better in other conference, but clearly Miami has had other avenues of finding money for the progrum. I think they know that if they win big this year, they're writing their resume. But if they're choosing to not go to the SEC or B1G, they're also writing the resume of whatever possible third conference appears after the dust has settled from Clemson/FSU/UNC leaving the ACC. What's left in the Big 12 and ACC is definitely enough to be an intriguing super conference. NC State and Louisville have proven they want to invest in their football teams. It's never quite enough to produce consistent 10 win seasons, but it's been good enough for a combined 14 8+ wins seasons since 2014, that includes only 3 losing seasons, and both teams finished ranked in the top 25 last year. The Big 12 has a consensus 5 pre-season top 25 teams, and most pre-season polls have 2 (and a few have a 3rd with Virginia Tech which seems a bit of a stretch) ranked teams not including FSU, Clemson, or Miami. If Miami can beat UF, can figure it out this year, that's huge for the potential of a third super conference to throw it's name in the hat. A combined 8 ranked preseason teams, markets in tobacco road, south florida, texas, and more. a reasonable split of east and west teams that would prevent teams like cal and stanford from having to travel to the east coast, and other ACC teams the same trip several times a year. That's wiggle room to renegotiate with Fox and ESPN, especially if the ACC is dissolved. That puts more pressure on ESPN to come up with more cash because Fox is sitting in on that Big 12 deal, ESPN's got the ACC all to themselves. It's not that ACC teams don't produce television bucks, it's that the ACC teams aren't seeing the fruits of that because of a bad deal signed too dang long ago. Fact is a bad Miami team has carried enough clout that people want to watch them fail. A good Miami team carries even more weight. That one game, beating UF, could start the process of a third super conference forming. I haven't even touched on up and coming teams like SMU and Colorado that can affect tv ratings in all markets, and I barely touched on how the map of a combined ACC/Big 12 makes a hell of a lot more logistical sense than what the B1G has going on (nothing beats the talent and geographical make up of the SEC, they just won out. Who cares about the cream of the pac 12 crop when you can have the two biggest brands of the Big 12 and they're not much further away than A&M who has largely been a bust for your league's perception). You smash in the best of the big 12 and the ACC in whatever direction, though, and add in a good Miami team, that's a conference. There's no good Miami team without a win against UF, and that's how Finebaum is right. For both conferences it's just a proof of legitimacy, but this time, with FSU and Clemson leaving, it's an even greater proof.

Concerning Alabama, I couldn't disagree more with the idea that The Staff needs to be saved by Milroe of all people, he is the third best passer on the team & he's just not efficient enough through the air to carry ANY team with title hopes

Way to barely mention Oregon🤨😒

can you say pro-GRAM instead of pro-GRUM thanks