Steve Spurrier predicts snubs will be 'bitching and complaining' about SEC Championship 'just like FSU did'

The Southeastern Conference is a couple of results away from it getting confusing as to who will make the SEC Championship. That’s where their tiebreakers will come in and Steve Spurrier knows how that will go.

Spurrier discussed the close contention in the conference while on ‘Another Dooley Noted Podcast’ on Monday. He and Pat Dooley went through the multiple teams that are still in it and why that now makes that announcement from the league back in the summer about how they’d sort all of this out post-realignment now all the more important.

“It really is going to be interesting to see who plays in the SEC Championship. It could be several teams with two losses,” said Spurrier. “Texas? They’ve got one loss. A&M has got one loss. So one of them will have two. So, Tennessee, if they could hang in there?”

“Well, (Tennessee) plays Georgia this week. So, I mean, that could be – and we could see all of these teams with two losses,” Dooley continued. “Remember when they released the tiebreakers? They released the tiebreakers sometime in the summer, how it was going to work and we all looked at it and went, ‘Who cares?’. Now, I’m starting to, like, ‘What did that say again? Who’s going to get in?'”

The SEC has that policy with six contingencies for breaking ties as far as for the conference championship. It starts with a head-to-head before going to ones like records versus common conference opponents, cumulative conference winning percentage, and capped relative total scoring margin before it actually gets to a random draw.

While that’s the way they’ll do it, though, Spurrier knows that it’ll cause issues amongst those who aren’t the two that go to Atlanta – much like Florida State had last season after not making the College Football Playoff.

“They’ll figure out something,” said Spurrier. “Somebody will be bitching and complaining – just like FSU did last year.”

While mocking the Seminoles, Spurrier has a point considering the actual amount of teams still vying to be in the SEC Championship. Tennessee, Texas A&M, and Texas currently lead with one conference loss apiece but the Aggies and Longhorns still have to face one another. From there, Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, and Missouri have just two conference losses. So, again, if certain outcomes happen, that would be as a third or so of the league playing for two berths.

That’s just for the SEC Championship, let alone how all of this impacts those among them still play for spots in the College Football Playoff.

The SEC will likely have to go to at least one of these tiebreakers by the last of the results in November. It just may also have several teams frustrated about it, much like last year at FSU, and especially if it affects the rest of their postseason.