{"id":378897,"date":"2025-11-14T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378897\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:26:11","slug":"cam-newton-fires-shot-at-notre-dame-while-campaigning-for-sec-to-have-more-spots-in-college-football-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378897\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Newton fires shot at Notre Dame while campaigning for SEC to have more spots in College Football Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on the latest ranking this week of the CFP Top-25<\/a>, the SEC is now up to five teams currently projected to be<\/a> in the College Football Playoff<\/a>, which just further extends their lead over representation elsewhere around the FBS. However, that\u2019s still not enough of the league in the playoff<\/a> for Cam Newton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newton made that argument for the SEC during a segment on \u2018First Take\u2019<\/a> on Friday. He, as they were talking about No. 10 Texas<\/a><\/strong> ahead of their game at No. 5 Georgia<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday night, argued that the Longhorns, the last at-large in the field and of the five total teams in from the Southeastern Conference, shouldn\u2019t be the final one in from the SEC. They were his example considering their case is being debated even if they were to be a three-loss team<\/a>, which he says he would take over several other programs, even a Notre Dame<\/a><\/strong> who\u2019s in just ahead of them at No. 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, oh man, I keep receipts. A couple of weeks ago, I said, on this show? I said I would prefer a three-loss SEC team to be in the College Football Playoff than another conference. And, we\u2019re looking at it, we\u2019re seeing it happen right now!\u201d Newton exclaimed. \u201cIt don\u2019t matter (that five are already in). When you start to see teams like Notre Dame? Texas A&M<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 yes, I said it, I said it. A lot of people believe that you take Texas, who still has UGA and Texas A&M? Bro, listen. I\u2019m telling you. You have to understand the truth, and the fact that you know what it\u2019s like to play in the SEC, and you start to see like, hey? I wouldn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newton often campaigns for his former conference<\/a> in the SEC, as he reminded us that he did just three weeks ago also on \u2018First Take\u2019<\/a>. And, in the past, it has often come at the expense of Notre Dame, with them obviously still being an independent, as, for example, Newton was against them throughout their run into the playoff and to the national title game last year in the CFP.<\/p>\n

Newton, though, based this take on strength of schedule, with the SEC having the top-seven in SOS for all the teams in the field<\/a> per ESPN\u2019s FPI. He wants the sport to put even more of an emphasis on that metric, with him arguing that the Southeastern Conference gets penalized for having teams with two plus losses despite the difficulty of their schedule while other conferences get rewarded for better records from weaker schedules as far as the CFP.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can fix this, college football<\/a>,\u201d stated Newton. \u201cIf you allow teams to have more of a strength of schedule, not picking who you really want to play? You have a conference in the SEC that gets penalized for playing tougher individuals on a week-to-week basis, where, on the other hand, you have other conferences that are rewarded by merely their record. That\u2019s the only thing I\u2019m saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is, whether you agree or not, often the position taken when it comes to the SEC having more teams make the CFP. Newton just made it again this morning, in trying to argue that half the field, or more, should be from the Southeastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on the latest ranking this week of the CFP Top-25, the SEC is now up to five…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":378898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[181808,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-378897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-cam-newton-07-westlake","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115549463290935220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}