Posted on 01/02/2015 5:39:29 AM PST by C19fan
The so-called mighty SEC West was embarrassed this bowl season. The state of Mississippi has not taken this type of beating since Grant's Vicksburg Campaign. Both Wisconsin and THE Ohio State University ran the ball down the state of Alabama's throat. The SEC as a whole plays horrible non-conference schedules and the apologists claim that is because the SEC is too tough. Sorry but that is BS. The Top 4 SEC West teams as a whole only played perhaps 4 quality non-conference games: West Virginia, Kansas State, Boise State, Wisconsin. Whatever you thing of FSU they alone played four legitimate programs out of conference. Stop scheduling directional schools, schools made up of choir boys like Incarnate Word and Presbyterian, and FBS opponents.
Should be FCS opponents. Doh!
LOL- so for the first time in how many years the SEC doesn’t have a team playing for or winning the national title and that makes them overrated???
This thread is a joke (5 claps), joke (5 claps)....
Ohio State is now 2-9 against the Sec in bowl games. As a famous SEC coach once said, act like you been there before, son...
three minutes of research- over the past ten years the only time an SEC team did not play for, win or share a national title in football was 2005 (Texas)....2004’s title went to USC but was later vacated...but i guess the SEC is overrated...
and it took a former SEC coach to teach them to act that way....
It does raise an interesting question though. If two teams are hand selected by a panel to play for a national championship, is it more likely to introduce bias into the process than if four are (or eight ... Or sixteen)?
i’m a college football purist and could care less about any playoff system but there’s bias in everything, just like everything is racist...
if there were eight teams in the playoff the ninth team would be b!tchin about bias, and the 17th team would b!tch if it were a 16 team draw....
there’s what- 68 teams in the NCAA BB bracket and someone is always crying bias about not making it...
Personally, I liked the old bowl system and letting everyone argue it out. BUT if the playoff system is what everyone likes, then the BCS system picking two teams to play could be responsible for a conference’s successes if there were biases in selecting teams from that conference.
AND the coach of Ohio State is a former SEC coach..........................
If Oregon, or the Buckeyes, or FSU, or TCU had to play the SEC WEST every season, they’d be lucky to finish at .500 It is a brutal schedule..week after week..and it takes it’s toll on the teams..
Can not believe a crap team like Ohio beat Alabama. Not suprised at all that Oregon destroyed FSU. Someting they will certainly do to Ohio also.............
Correction: a former SEC coach who was a BIg 10 coach first.
True enough.
Defensive toughness and physicality - just more SEC mythology promoted by ESPN.
Problem is, many CFB fans fall for it.
Just like this “playoff”, regardless of what ESPN calls it, it’s still a 4-team invitational.
Outside of Arkie, the other 6 teams gave up 2,980 yards and allowed 5.8 YPC.
In fact both coaches in last night’s Sugar Bowl have coaching roots in the Big 10. Saban was a Michigan State coach before LSU.
Go Ducks
I think you should make this post more inflammatory so that people will actually respond and discuss. ;)
...an SEC coach from the “undefeated” University of Utah.
2 and 5. All five ranked SEC West teams lost their bowl games.
An incredible number of the best coaches in the country are from a 100 mile radius of Canton, Ohio - including Saban and Meyer - as are a number of the best quarterbacks in the history of the nfl. At one point during this season, 9 different teams from the SEC were in the top 10. There has always been a bias toward the SEC under the BCS and even under the current system. Why was Alabama number 1? If the BCS were in effect, #1 Florida State would be playing #2 Alabama next week. It should be a 16 team playoff with the first two rounds hosted by the highest seed. Bring these southern teams north for a change and see how they perform in less than ideal conditions. One week between games except for the national championship game. Every other college football division does it so it’s not a matter of academics. A 4-6 week layoff to prepare for games is ridiculous. Teams lose their sharpness. I am from Ohio (within 100 miles of Canton) and I coach football so you can take every thing I say with just a little grain of salt. But this is not sour grapes since Ohio State got in and won. It’s a shame that more teams didn’t get to compete. Lower seeds win all the time in our high school playoff system and it is tremendously exciting. Match ups are key and the only way to determine the BEST team is to see them match up against a variety of other teams in a variety of conditions.
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