Kirk Herbstreit called out Big 12 and Pac-12 due to TCU's blowout loss to Georgia in CFP
On Monday night a record low amount of viewers watched TCU get absolutely throttled by Georgia in the National Championship.
The game quickly got out of hand with Georgia going up by 31 points in the first half and never letting up. For broadcasters Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler, it was evident they were looking for anything but the game to talk about. Who could really blame them? Something that did come up in relation to the Pac-12 aside from Deion Sanders leaking Colorado's Week 0 game against Arizona Sate, which was called off in the coming days was the "superiority" of the SEC and Big Ten compared to the Big 12 and Pac-12.
He went on to explain that TCU's lackluster showing provided the college football world another example of the Big 12 and Pac-12 simply not being able to compete saying:
"It's another brick in that foundation and that narrative that other conferences can't compete with the big spending and the big brands of the SEC and the Big Ten, The Pac-12 and the Big 12, even before all this started — the realignment again — they were already dealing with that. And then you see the results of this, and you can just imagine that being spewed all around — that TCU and the Big 12 shouldn't even be in a game like this. Hey, they earned it, they got here, but then they play it 65 to 7."
A statement that many fans across college football agreed with citing the Big 12's 0-4 playoff record prior to the loss, with all four appearances being by Oklahoma, and also bringing up the fact the Pac-12 hasn't had a representative since Washington in 2017. The discussion of whether or not these teams belong or deserve a chance has flourished in the following days of the championship, like it does every year.
Arguably the worst occurrence after each playoff is the fact that there is always an uproar over the committee selecting the wrong teams whether it be Notre Dame, Cincinnati, or TCU. The thing is, those teams all deserved to be in the playoff when they made it, they just ran into better teams. The expanded playoff will allow for the more teams that have never competed at this level to get in, and will likely equate to more upsets and parity within the playoff and eliminate the discussion of who should have been in instead.
Georgia's thrashing of the Horned Frogs speaks more so as to how good the program and possible dynasty Kirby Smart is building is, rather than how "inferior" the rest of the college football world is.
