Posted on 12/09/2004 7:53:44 AM PST by crushelits
That explains the Citadel, but not La. Monroe or Sw La St!!
Mountain West teams played harder non-conference schedules than Auburn. Those my friend are the facts. Play chumps, and you won't be the champ!
"That explains the Citadel, but not La. Monroe or Sw La St!!
Mountain West teams played harder non-conference schedules than Auburn. Those my friend are the facts. Play chumps, and you won't be the champ!"
Ok, I admit that Auburn scheduled an easy school for homecoming and for an early season game. A lot of schools do. But here's the thing you're ignoring--an SEC team doesn't have to play a hard non-conference schedule to have a hard overall schedule. USC didn't have a hard conference schedule outside of a couple of teams. Oklahoma had a partially hard conference schedule (most notably, Oklahoma State) but it is widely acknowledged that the Big 12 north is pathetic. The SEC is filled with teams (in both its divisions) that are ranked. Auburn played more ranked teams than USC, even with the easy out-of-conference opponenets. Auburn played LSU, defending champs who were top 10 at the time, dismantled Tennessee in Knoxville, a top 5 team at the time, took Georgia apart when Georgia was ranked #8, and then beat Tennessee again, after Tennessee had seen all of Auburn's plays and systems once already, when Tennessee was still at #15 nationally.
Chumps, indeed!
Oh, and by the way, according to the NCAA, Auburn had the 9th hardest schedule in the nation. Oklahoma and USC? Both lower than 20. Hmmm. So much for your "facts!"
I am not raggin' on the SEC, it is by far the best conference in the country. Unfortunately the system that Div 1A currently uses sucks, and doesn't give us a true champ. It also holds weak non-conference schedules against good teams. If you look at past history Auburn isn't the only one to have early games held against it . Nebraska was notorious in the late 80's and 90's for playing weak non conference opponents, as was Florida. It came back and bit them in the butts also. Give us a playoff so we can stop all the stupid speculation, untill that happens it's fun as hell to argue.
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