ESPN's Paul Finebaum on Why the Big Ten CRUSHED SEC Football in 2024-2025 | Ohio State, Georgia, CFP

[@DrMorpheus]

This was a very entertaining interview. Feinbaum showed that he can take criticism as well as dish it out. He recognizes that he has a TV show about a TV show and his audience is composed of people who take college football much more seriously than he does.

[@sumdolt8948]

I dont think anyone really considered the possible ramifications to the SEC of other conferences being allowed to pay their players too

[@buckeyefan20012001]

Exactly. We all know the SEC got away with paying players under the table much more so. Now it's a level playing field.

[@PhonyBalagna]

NIL payments started 3 years ago, and now we have a 2nd straight title game without the SEC. Coincidence?

[@mikewilliams9069]

sttopidomment. the sec is getting exposed in a true playoff format

[@stevelizzio1785]

Yep … It’s all leaking out … To win in an unprecedented 18 yrs span was accomplished by unprecedented cheating. Be proud sec of your great accomplishments with the thumb on the scale. (Or of your secular churches passing the money to the fams)

[@bigjonh444]

@@mikewilliams9069 The SEC played a lot of first year QBs. Many of them were freshman.

[@mikewilliams9069]

@@bigjonh444 but you all said sec jv and freshman teams could beat other leagues best teams

[@bigjonh444]

@ And they probably did. I’m a first year SEC fan. But I don’t care how talented you are as freshmen. It’s hard to beat a team loaded with seniors and super seniors. OSU spent more money keeping their players out of the draft than they did bringing in new players.

[@CarlaJenkinsTV]

3:57 Indiana only lost to Ohio State and Notre Dame. These are the two teams playing in Monday's national championship. So the CFP Committee got it right picking Indiana over Alabama and South Carolina. And the way the 4 Big 10 teams are playing in the playoffs, expect the Big 10 to have a minimum 4 teams in the 2025 playoffs.

[@Steven-r2w9b]

ANYBODY who calls it the "Big 10" is being DISHONEST. The "Big 10 Conference" has not been the "Big 10" since 1989. Penn State joined the Big 10 in 1990 to make it the "Big 11". Now, It's the BIG 18! WHEN is that LIE going to stop?

[@voiceofreason2674]

Indiana played nobody

[@jdmiller5832]

Indiana didn’t have one quality win. They shouldn’t have been in the playoffs.

[@fw8465]

@@jdmiller5832they beat Michigan . How did Alabama do with them.

[@mikewilliams9069]

@@voiceofreason2674 the sec plays lilgirlyfootball

[@jamesasmith2494]

Records don't matter unless you are in the SEC. Florida St was robbed because of ESPN and SEC bias. Florida St earned the right to play in the CFP.

[@jamesosteen4280]

Tell it all brother- tell it all

[@mikecurtis2710]

And so did Georgia in 2023. A 3 point loss in 40 games CANNOT Keep you out of the 4 team playoff. Plus TWO NFL Receivers off the team setting records in the NFL this year proves it. Ridiculous to keep Georgia and Florida State OUT!

[@alanmartin6436]

This is the problem with playoff expansion. No matter how big the field, someone will complain about being excluded. "We're number twelve! Not them!"

[@mikewilliams9069]

@@mikecurtis2710 georgia and fsu are loserschools that play in loserconferences

[@jamesasmith2494]

@@mikecurtis2710 We do not play 40 games in a season. What's your point.

[@AlphaHunter-e9d]

Paul credit for stepping out taking questions.. good to see

[@JWoogie66]

I would understand Bammas argument if they had lost to Texas Georgia and Tennessee but two of their losses came to 6-6 teams.

[@Maal7432]

The SEC aren’t the only teams paying players now. 🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@mikecurtis2710]

Really?? That's your fallback now? The SEC Has been Great. Period. Now the others are playing great. Thank God.

[@FIGHTONnatties]

​@@mikecurtis2710I just love you people from the SEC country you're inbred hillbilly logic never ceases to amaze me 🙄😆

[@mikewilliams9069]

@@mikecurtis2710 the sec sukksat sports especially football

[@Robert-bo1jq]

You can always tell when a legend leaves a conference. Nic saben was the sec

[@GaryHenning-c9w]

Finebaums remarks now after listening to him is disgusting it's all Alabama and no one else no matter how good the other team is

[@littlewing2357]

Big Ten vs. SEC in 2025 bowls 5-0

[@samariohoward6298]

4-1..iowa lost by 3

[@littlewing2357]

@@samariohoward6298 5-1

[@KennethVerkest]

The last 2 years the Big ten has beaten the SEC.

[@LivinRentFreeInYourHead]

There were ZERO indications Downs was going to Georgia. During Downs initial high school recruiting his top 2 schools were Alabama and Ohio State. As soon as Saban left Downs was favored to transfer to Ohio State.

[@SteveAllen-x2m]

Wrong he was in the process of moving in and the last minute Ohio state through the bag at him.

[@LivinRentFreeInYourHead]

@ Moving out of Bama, Downs is from Georgia. He was never going there.

[@philgates9876]

Even now that one guy can't admit that Alabama wasn't that good a team this season and all in all neither was the SEC.

[@GaryHenning-c9w]

ESPN pays his salary that's why he keeps his head up Alabama's ass

[@victorcaldwell2900]

Milroe sux

[@curtblust6560]

Georgia was a very beatable team this year because their pass game suffered with Bowers and McConkey's graduation and they weren't replaced.

[@Teukel-f7h]

As a Bama fan I knew we couldn't do it with Milroe, who somehow held the team ransom. Now that he is gone, we got a shot again. Optimistic for next year. Hate Big Ten. Glad they winning a couple. Will they challenge our dominate record? We will see.

[@TruBonehead]

I’m not an SEC fan, but it won’t be challenged. It’s not possible to stockpile talent like Saban and other SEC schools anymore. That’s because of the transfer portal not just NIL. I also think the big ten has a coaching advantage currently.

[@mikewilliams9069]

@@TruBonehead without dicksaban to dsukk favors for the sec, the conference is done

[@gregscoggins9972]

You idiots think the SEC doesn't get to use the NIL also just sit back and watch the money flow. These SEC schools ain't poor. Their aluminum got deep pockets and don't mind spending it.

[@Steven-r2w9b]

Isn't it ABOUT TIME that the Big 10/18 "crushed" the SEC, isn't it? The SEC has won 13 of the last 18 National Championships, The ACC has won three, and the Big 10/18 has won TWO of the past 18 Nattys. It's EMBARRASSING!

[@A_Realist]

Yea but what about THIS year? 😂😂😂

[@Steven-r2w9b]

@@A_Realist So what? Talk to me when the Big 18 wins 13 out of 18 national championships.

[@A_Realist]

@@Steven-r2w9b keep living in the last then, I don’t care lol

[@stephenlang7870]

Now that everybody is free to pay players, it's a new world

[@GBU61]

It was a few teams from the SEC that was winning those championships. The SEC narrative is irrelevant. It was a few schools not a conference.

[@Bond007fan]

Great show. I appreciate their impute especially Paul. I think NIL and 12 team playoffs really promotes College football parity. I love my team winning every year but, I think it's best for college football to have different teams in the mix every year. I think inexperienced playoff teams like Tennessee, Indiana, SMU, Arizona St. Once they get that experience will make them better, they won't have those Gitter's before a game because they have been there before. SEC got spoiled & it's difficult to realize in the next few years it will be like March Madness more. They really need 16 team playoffs. 1 inconsistency with the CFP Committee is Last year Florida St WAS UNDEFEATED in the ACC and deserved to be in the playoffs, but the excuse was their QB got hurt. This year Georgia lost their QB at the end. Shouldn't Georgia have been out of the playoffs w/ 3 loses AND losing their QB? It should have been the top 12 team's period w/ NO AUTOMATIC BIDS. but who were the top 12 teams??? the committee seems blinded by SEC or even Big Ten. Georgia should have dropped in the polls when they went to 8 OT vs and unranked Georgia Tech team at the end of the season. Even winning the Championship like Florida St won the ACC in 23' it shouldn't have been an automatic bid. Maybe we need a NCAA Committee w/ no tie to any of the college teams. Maybe from the Canadian CFL, to be in charge of watching teams play and rank them based on play?

[@jesserp23]

Can we go back to the older conferences. Having two mega conferences is stupid and it’s bad for football.

[@JohnMandock]

Agreed, it's absolutely ridiculous, for example, the big ten has 18 teams and they only play 9 of them? How do you get a true champion out of that.

[@FIGHTONnatties]

​@@JohnMandockwell the SEC has 16 teams but only plays 8 conference games with four cupcakes that are FCS schools most of the time🫤🙄

[@mikewilliams9069]

lmao stewpidcomment. you're the one who advocated for things to happen "organically" in sports

[@cory2023]

The big ten teams did well against the sec bc the big ten teams outscored the sec teams in 60 minute games

[@spencerspillman7904]

lol middle guy sounds JUST LIKE David Cross 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@biofixphysicaltherapy5353]

I remember his smug look when he said Texas was basically gonna dominate asu how I would love to be a fly in the room through the last couple minutes of the fourth quarter in the peach bowl just to see his face 😂

[@Chewy-qg3ir]

Bama loss to Vandy and Oklahoma so stop whining. SEC reign of dominance is over.

[@jeffmassey6811]

You wish!!

[@stevemccann1954]

Georgia was really tough too!🤣

[@Colonel__Ingus69]

Southern teams got arrogant, Clemson, Bama and GA. Dabo wouldn't use the portal, Kirby and Nick not upping NIL and letting really good players walk. Those 3 programs failed to adapt. I predict the SEC will begin NIL collectives sooner than later.

[@longhornlarry8398]

Paul, keep fighting for the SEC!

[@jamesaddie4895]

Is he wearing scarlet and gray??

[@fbharris67]

It looks like SEC fans are very confused and fixated on the preseason rankings, or the thoroughly debunked ESPN FPI (ESPN FPI still has Alabama ranked #4, and Illinois #42). The AP and coaches polls haven't been updated in weeks and still show the SEC dominating. Perhaps that is why a lot of SEC fans are upset about Indiana. But they should look at themselves in the mirror and realize that they live in a world of fantasy. They believe that the SEC is some sort of ultra competitive circular firing squad where 9-3 SEC teams are superior to 11-1 Big Ten teams because of their superior strength of schedule. Well, it turned out to be complete nonsense. 7-5 Michigan beat 9-3 Alabama with their practice squad. Illinois put on a clinic against South Carolina (and got robbed of a TD early in the game). 6-6 USC beat 8-4 Texas A and M. The team that had ZERO business being in the CFP was Tennessee.

[@DMo6t2-w9l]

This is a STUPID argument slanted by so called podcasters. Finebaum is an entertainer, not God- his opinions are not gospel. He is wrong just as much as he is right. The reason the B10 had greater influence in the CFP is because they held 4 team slots of the top 10. By your account the CFP championship game should have all B10 and it wasnt, nor did they hold more than 2 of the 4 semifinal CFP slots. I dont see you clobbering the ACC and they got clobbered in the CFP. Crushing is a Finebaum jounalistic exaggeration.

[@stanbrown3904]

Sagarin and every other computer rating like ELO show that the SEC was light years ahead of the Big Ten. The difference by which the SEC was better than the Big Ten was enormous. .Not even close. Anyone using a sample size of the entire season, i.e. all the games played by all the college football teams for the whole year, knows that the SEC was the dominant conference. Only a complete moron, using a tiny sample size consisting of a handful of games, could possibly conclude otherwise.

[@timcourlas2403]

😂

[@thatmechanicguy1993]

They are still dying on the hill. The ESPN SEC jig is up. A 2 loss Ohio State is still better. A 1 loss IU is worthy. These takes look dumb.

[@Ev3rNoor23]

Because Saban retired

[@jonathanwillis1143]

The SEC was still the deepest conference and still very good, but they lacked those 2 or 3 elite teams at the top. They usually have 2 or 3 teams at the top that are truly elite. This is why they have won so many national championships in the last 20 to 30 years. That part is undeniable. The question now is whether they can consistently produce a few truly elite teams at the top that with the exception of an Ohio State or Michigan no one else can beat. And often UM and OSU, while always good, have a difficult time dealing with a truly elite Bama or Georgia. But now we have NIL and the transfer portal and it's much more difficult for even the best teams to keep players. Everyone is looking for a payday. These kids want to start and not sit.

[@jdmiller5832]

SEC was not deep. Mediocre at best

[@bama1891]

Not for long. Sanity will prevail. I hope

[@earnieeveridge]

Sanity is the B1G back on top like it was when I was growing up until Saban went to LSU. Who didn't exist on any competative radar till he got there. Because he couldn't compete with Michigan when he was at Michigan State.

[@bama1891]

If college football gets a salary cap the SEC will kick ass again as they always have in this entire century. Enjoy it while it lasts. You deserve it after your awful century.

[@Chewy-qg3ir]

You guys looking for anything to stop the Big10. Now it needs salary cap and rules. SEC was living their best life when paying was illegal.

[@Chewy-qg3ir]

Your salary cap is what you can afford!

[@stephenlang7870]

This entire quarter of a century. Yeah, it's a long time, but it was a blip. Things are getting back to the natural order.

[@earnieeveridge]

They already have it's 20 million. It's a good thing for you too, or Michigan would double or triple it. Ha ha! Go Blue!

[@earnieeveridge]

Michigan has B1G money, ha ha! I love it. They're helped reestablish Michigan at the top of college football where they should be.

[@stevemoserify]

Tennessee was mediocre, had no business in the playoffs

[@JasonPhillips-sv9ih]

Getting drafted doesn’t mean your team is great. It’s a lot of marketing being done. Half the first round picks bust and had no business being drafted that high No one ever wants to mention that