Paul Finebaum predicts a 'bloody day' for SEC, shares conference's biggest fear following Georgia's loss

The postseason, including the College Football Playoff, hasn’t been a good one for the SEC. It could then get even worse with how this season could potentially end.

Paul Finebaum discussed the issues for the Southeastern Conference during their bowls and playoff games while on ‘Get Up’ on Friday. He realizes that many across college football are going to take joy in that, and rightfully so, to an extent, with how the league has shown in the postseason this past month.

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“There is a lot of schadenfreude going on in this country and that’s okay,” said Finebaum. “The SEC? The big names have taken some very, very big hits. Tennessee, obviously Alabama in a lesser game. Georgia was the team that everyone was wrapping their arms around.”

“And isn’t it remarkable that the lone SEC team was in the Big 12 a year ago in the College Football Playoff?” Finebaum added.

First, of the three teams from the SEC that made the CFP, only one remains in Texas, who just joined the league this year. That’s after Ohio State blew Tennessee out in the first round, and Notre Dame eliminated Georgia yesterday in the Sugar Bowl. Then, during the overall postseason, the Southeastern Conference has an 8-6 record overall, including four losses in non-playoff bowls by four of their biggest brands in Alabama and South Carolina, two teams who could have been in the field, as well as Oklahoma and Texas A&M.

So, in a conference race between the SEC and Big Ten, the Big Ten is currently winning it through last month and into the new year. The league is 4-1 against the Southeastern Conference so far during this postseason. It has a chance for one more, too, in the Cotton Bowl, with the Buckeyes playing the Longhorns next week on Friday.

If Ohio State then advances to the national title game, especially against Penn State, Finebaum thinks that’d complete the worst-case scenario for the SEC.

“Ultimately, I think, for SEC people, who they like to beat their chest, our chest, of course? Here’s the real fear,” Finebaum said. “You know, Texas is still alive. Everyone knows that. But what if Texas gets knocked out on Friday night, Ohio State goes to the national championship game, and plays, perhaps, Penn State? Then you would have two Big Ten teams. The SEC has seen that three or four times but that would be the final blow for SEC fans who just love to rub it in everybody’s face and, now, they’re having it rubbed in their face.”

It’s been a rough four weeks for the SEC after three of their teams just missed the expanded field, several more have lost in their bowls, and now only one remains in contention at all in the CFP. That now has Finebaum not looking forward to his call-in show later today with what he’s expecting to hear following the latest loss by the Bulldogs in New Orleans.

“It’s going to be a bloody day if you’re an SEC homer, if you wave the flag,” Finebaum said. “I don’t know what to expect this afternoon but I have a feeling we’ll have more Big Ten callers on our show than SEC callers.”