This game reinforced one thing

[War Machine Dawg]

The disparity between the P5 and G5 is bigger than most CFB fans and media types want to admit. We're a bad SEC team that was fairly lucky to finish 3-7. And we were incredibly sloppy again today on offense. But we still beat a ranked G5 team despite playing with a bunch of freshmen and having zero depth with all the "opt outs." Anyone arguing that the G5 deserves a playoff spot, even in an expanded 8 team format, is crazy. Bama/Clemson would murder whoever the 8 seed G5 team is.

 

[LittleBigDog]

Great assessment

 

[Seinfeld]

Well said. In short, a pretty ****** effort from a pretty ****** SEC team was still enough to beat one of the best teams that the G5 has to offer

 

[Apoplectic_Objurgator]

Don mullin’s MSU team would have lost this game

 

[MSUDC11]

I said the same thing after the 2013 Liberty Bowl. That was a 10 win conference champion Rice team and we were incredibly fortunate to be 6-6 that year, and we rolled into Memphis and beat them like they were a SWAC school.

Today is even more of an indictment on the state of things. If Georgia blows out Cincinnati tomorrow after Coastal already lost and Tulsa lost to a below average SEC team, won’t be a good look for the G5 at all.

 

[patdog]

No it wouldn’t have.

 

[tatedog]

Highlights the hilarity of the Power Six argument.

 

[Bill Shankly]

Don mullin’s MSU team would have lost this game

No it wouldn't have. It wouldn't have even been a close game.

 

[Seinfeld]

Correct. Mullen’s team would’ve had some sort of Shrader/Hill-like combo that would’ve absolutely mauled Tulsa on the ground until their will was broken. All this in spite of the fact that he’d have been job hunting rather than preparing for the bowl

 

[tatedog]

Pretty much watch the bowl game against Miami-OH but imagine Miami-OH wearing Tulsa uniforms.

 

[wsjmsu75]

Right. And we came much closer to losing to Miami-OH.

 

[tbaydog]

Highlights the hilarity of the Power Six argument.

Thought you were referencing A. Baldwin wife.

 

[PineGroveBully]

You’re not wrong, but unless I’m mistaken that was the last State team to beat both Auburn and Alabama. Not sure what that says but it does speak.

 

[paindonthurt_]

Yes we had a bad game but bad games were in the minority for Mullen.

 

[Russ Wheeler]

Don mullin’s MSU team would have lost this game

Don't get stupid.

 

[Go Budaw]

People seem to argue expanding to either a 6 team CFP with all Power 5 champs vs. 1 at-large, with top 2 seeds getting a bye....OR....8-team CFP with the same as the above plus one more at large and one guaranteed G5 participant. The reality is there is no difference between those options. Bama / Clemson vs. a G5 or the 2nd or 3rd best team from the B1G, Pac-12, or Big 12 is no different than a bye week.

I say either keep it at 4 or go to 16. 16 is the minimum number of teams for MSU to ever be able to get in even intermittently. We won’t ever make the field even at 6 teams, and won’t even make it in a 8 or 12-team except maybe once every 50 years or so.

 

[FlotownDawg]

This didn’t age well. Cincinnati is kicking Georgia’s ***.

 

[wsjmsu75]

By 2 points at the moment.

 

[wsjmsu75]

This comment didn't age well. UG just won the game.

 

[FlotownDawg]

Haha. Talent won out in the end I guess. Incredibly dumb call on the third down by Fickell. Gave Georgia an extra 40 seconds to get in field goal range.

 

[wsjmsu75]

You’re not wrong, but unless I’m mistaken that was the last State team to beat both Auburn and Alabama. Not sure what that says but it does speak.

If you mean 2013 State, you are mistaken. I know we didn't beat Alabama, and pretty sure we didn't beat Auburn either.

 

[GloryDawg]

No it wouldn’t have.

Depends on who is the DC.

 

[PineGroveBully]

I was thinking Liberty Bowl with Sly Croom that beat Auburn and beat Bama on the 100 yard pick 6 by Anthony Johnson.

 

[mstateglfr]

I dont think 1 game should be used to definitively declare much of anything. That goes for declaring the gap is wide, and it goes for declaring the gap is narrow.

And this is especially true for bowl games where multiple impact players sit.