IIRC, the last couple of years it was played *after* the CFP championship game.
Why couldn't it have been on Saturday? Lead in for the 4:30 NFL game versus going up against 10 1PM NFL games on Sunday.
It was on Saturday last year. Here's an ESPN exec explaining the rationale:
Georgia has an enrollment of approximately 39k and is and has always been the top Dawg in GA fan wise and has a long tradition and has a weak pro team football-wise and plays in a 92k stadium
Feels like last week was the opportunity to take Georgia. Now they’re firing on all cylinders.
Does TCU recruit nationally at this point or is there just so much talent in Texas they can stick to it and surrounding states? I know they’ve been active in the transfer portal as well.
Texas only mostly, yes. Bunch of 2 and 3 stars. They’re not that good - I don’t say that to be disrespectful but Duggar has played so far out of his mind he’s won games they otherwise lose fairly routinely. They have fast WRs and Johnson is legit good though Their D plays unconventional and teams failed for it. Kirby Smart won’t.
Back in the days of the Southwest Conference, TCU would occasionally put together a team good enough to beat Texas. This greatly annoyed Coach Royal when it happened and in an interview once he called TCU annoying, like cockroaches that get under your feet when you walk in a really messy house. They’ve been the cockroaches in Austin ever since.
Coach Royal (Texas’ legendary coach) called them the cockroaches because they just hang around and hard to kill/beat. It stuck. https://magazine.tcu.edu/fall-2018/texas-coach-darrell-royal-compared-tcu-to-the-cockroach/
COVID and the resulting NCAA eligibility rules have led to more very old (relatively) players than usual. At least it seems that way to me.
