sleeper;1318646 wrote:It's part of the SEC strategy to play easier games later in the season; since losses earlier in the season don't mean as much.

Sad that this is so true lol.

ptown_trojans_1;1318644 wrote:Adding to these discussion, check out the SEC schedule this week. Talk about the heavy hitters. What jokers:
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboard?confId=8&seasonYear=2012&seasonType=2&weekNumber=12

While the following week has USCe playing Clemson and Florida playing FSU (hows your argument work for that sleeper?)Anyone can pick and choose weeks during the year to discredit. LSU has played 5 ranked teams in a row. Is that easy scheduling? I would like to see OSU play 5 ranked teams in a row and 4 of them being top 10 teams. You guys have played what, one ranked team all year (NEB)? thread/

5 paper ranked teams within their own conference. Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy. FSU and Clemson are OOC rivalries and usually they both suck.

http://www.thepostgame.com/commentary/201208/better-without-em-northern-manifesto-southern-secession-chuck-thompson-sec-bcs

This is the best article ever. Hits every single point, with facts to back it up

Crimson streak;1318695 wrote:http://www.thepostgame.com/commentary/201208/better-without-em-northern-manifesto-southern-secession-chuck-thompson-sec-bcs

This is the best article ever. Hits every single point, with facts to back it up

Good article- I wonder how CGW will spin this one :rolleyes:

cats gone wild;1318651 wrote:While the following week has USCe playing Clemson and Florida playing FSU (hows your argument work for that sleeper?)Anyone can pick and choose weeks during the year to discredit. LSU has played 5 ranked teams in a row. Is that easy scheduling? I would like to see OSU play 5 ranked teams in a row and 4 of them being top 10 teams. You guys have played what, one ranked team all year (NEB)? thread/

After Vandy gutlessly pulled out of the OSU game next year for a conference game (in Aug?), I started to look into this a little more.
First, let me predicate this with saying, yes the SEC is the best conference in the country. No one of any sanity can argue against that.

That said, the SEC's conference schedule makes no sense, and I'd argue insulates them from wider key non-conference games.
There are SEC games it seems every week. That makes no sense as it limits the ability for other schools to schedule SEC opponents.
Each of the first 2 weeks, there were SEC matchups. Why?

While most conferences, the Big 10, Pac-12, Big 12, etc, have 4 nonconference games the first 4-5 weeks, and then conference games, the SEC has conference games throughout the year.

What results is some SEC teams traveling across the country (LSU to Washington a few years), but not many. All the key out of conference games for the SEC are always week 1 or 2. And as we saw this year, the big names won, but the middle of the conference was ehhh.

The flip side of this, is when other conferences are playing in conference games, when the SEC has a free week, it is always a creampuff. See this weekend.
It is a joke that the SEC is playing creampuffs this week.

If the SEC freed up its schedule, I'd say we would see more great out of conference games. Suddenly, those dates are free.


What I'd like to see is the SEC move towards OOC scheduling that mirrors the rest of the country.
SEC plays OOC weeks 1-4, then conference scheduling weeks 5-12, and then the last week can be "traditional" weekend, keeping the rivals like UF-FSU, Geo-GT, Clemson-USCe.

That way, we could see more SEC teams perhaps travel north to the Big Ten, or west to the Pac-12 or Big 12.
Instead, we rarely get any SEC team coming north or west. And as a result, as fans we are cheated out of potentially great matchups.
The SEC is great yes, but let's see how great they are in the regular out of conference games away from the south.

Crimson streak;1318695 wrote:http://www.thepostgame.com/commentary/201208/better-without-em-northern-manifesto-southern-secession-chuck-thompson-sec-bcs

This is the best article ever. Hits every single point, with facts to back it up

Exactly. It's a myth and only stupid people who can't think for themselves(read: the south) buy into it.

cats gone wild;1318651 wrote:I would like to see OSU play 5 ranked teams in a row and 4 of them being top 10 teams.

That's for pollsters to decide, not OSU. How can we play 5 ranked teams in a row if the polls don't overly favor our conference?

Hell, Indiana would be in the top 25 (before this last week) if they were in the SEC.

SportsAndLady;1319108 wrote:That's for pollsters to decide, not OSU. How can we play 5 ranked teams in a row if the polls don't overly favor our conference?

Hell, Indiana would be in the top 25 (before this last week) if they were in the SEC.

Agree, though this year the B1G is pretty much deserving of its lower rankings. Maybe 3 of the 6 SEC teams in a row in the BCS deserve to actually be where they are.

SportsAndLady;1319108 wrote:That's for pollsters to decide, not OSU. How can we play 5 ranked teams in a row if the polls don't overly favor our conference?

Hell, Indiana would be in the top 25 (before this last week) if they were in the SEC.

Indiana would win the SEC East; I guarantee it.

ts1227;1319121 wrote:Agree, though this year the B1G is pretty much deserving of its lower rankings. Maybe 3 of the 6 SEC teams in a row in the BCS deserve to actually be where they are.

Based on?

Having Georgia and Florida ranked in the top 10 is a complete farce. And South Carolina shouldn't be ranked at all. LSU shouldn't be in the top 10 either

A&M has destroted the myth regarding the great defenses of the SEC...ALL YEAR. Not just this past weekend. Match up the PAC 10 with the SEC right on down the line and the PAC 10 wins 7 or 8 of thise games. Hell, the MAC would win at least half of them.
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sleeper;1319162 wrote:Based on?

Be honest here. The Big 10 is in fact terrible this year. Massacjusetts would destrot Illinois...and probably beat Purdue and Iowa.

The Buckeyes have their worst defense since the Earle Brice days and they are unbeaten.

Footwedge;1319465 wrote:Be honest here. The Big 10 is in fact terrible this year. Massacjusetts would destrot Illinois...and probably beat Purdue and Iowa.

The Buckeyes have their worst defense since the Earle Brice days and they are unbeaten.

Good lord, man, either learn how to spell or learn how to enter text, one or the other. Please.

Footwedge;1319465 wrote:Be honest here. The Big 10 is in fact terrible this year. Massacjusetts would destrot Illinois...and probably beat Purdue and Iowa.

The Buckeyes have their worst defense since the Earle Brice days and they are unbeaten.

Maybe, but every team in the B1G with the exception of Minnesota(Maybe even Minnesota) would win the SEC East this year.

Footwedge;1319465 wrote:Be honest here. The Big 10 is in fact terrible this year. Massacjusetts would destrot Illinois...and probably beat Purdue and Iowa.

The Buckeyes have their worst defense since the Earle Brice days and they are unbeaten.

Well, against Indiana (who is comparable to the three mentioned above), UMass lost 45-6, so they might not be the best example.

Footwedge;1319465 wrote:Be honest here. The Big 10 is in fact terrible this year. Massacjusetts would destrot Illinois...and probably beat Purdue and Iowa.

The Buckeyes have their worst defense since the Earle Brice days and they are unbeaten.

You are a fucking idiot. That is warranted name calling.

Pick6;1319548 wrote:You are a ****ing idiot. That is warranted name calling.

reps

This thread is full of lulz. Its funny how upset people get over the simple fact that the SEC is the best conference in college football.