Quote Originally Posted by VoshonLenard:
. But the big ten will benefit from that because they can play a softish non conference schedule, have there usual crap big ten schedule, trip up once along the way and still get in.
You're smoking crack right? The strongest OOC schedules are okay in the SEC when you look and see 2 SEC relatively high but when you really look at the schedules there's big holes. I.E. The B1G is moving to a non-fcs scheduling rule. The B1G even with rutgers at 35 and Maryland at 20 fcs schools on their record, still have scheduled approximately 50 less fcs schools then the SEC.
The SEC in general schedules very weakly picking up non-perennial teams the are okay a couple years then fall off, people remember those teams were good and are like yeah that's an okay team to schedule when a team like WVU has pretty much done nothing as a school over the years. They schedule pretty much no home and home series and tend to schedule 'neutral site' closer to them then the opponents. And then when you talk about SOS you're generally just talking about a made up stat anyways as it takes into consideration how people rank those teams as 'strongest'.
Auburn lost to Wisconsin, Baylor lost to Michigan State, tOSU won against Bama. The B1G is the only conference with 3 11 win teams and it's stupid to ignore that. It might be a fluke for a team or 2 to win, however it isn't a fluke when every 'good' team loses.
Saying a bowl game is below even the 2nd most important game in a season is complete crap. You're talking about pride for a conference, pride for your team, being able to find out if youre better then another conference, and half these teams aren't perennial winners (i.e. ole miss, mississippi state, duke, georgia tech), etc. It might be a valid point for Alabam last year, but it certainly isn't a valid point for an entire conference this year or any year.
You can say Alabama beats tOSU on their best day, however tOSU was on their 3rd string qb, Bama won more games by 14 or less then FSU did, tOSU came into the bowl out-ranked in almost every stat. As someone who's retired and able to watch every game it was extremely obvious Alabama wasn't nearly as good as people said they were along with Mississippi State and Ole Miss.
Certain teams were completely untaggable as well, i.e. will we ever know how truly good MSU was? They barely won but they also lost to the currently 2 best teams in the nation in Oregon and tOSU, and today beat the 5th best.
On a complete other note do we even know if the SEC even was the best team over the years? almost every year good teams were left out, and in the time of the BCS era at least 6 undefeated teams and 12 1 loss teams were left out of the championship. Is it then fair to say the SEC was the best when there's 1 loss teams left, or when a championship is a 2 team SEC team?
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