SEC delusions continue

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The media lead everyone to believe that the SEC experienced a down year in 2008; thus explaining Tim Tebow’s snubbing at the Downtown Athletic Club this past Saturday. However, hollow arguments based on envy notwithstanding, Florida is nonetheless poised to win its second National Championship in three years, and the league’s fifth since the 1998 starry evolution of the Bowl Championship Series. Sure, the game must be played, but if history has any bearing on the outcome, Oklahoma, like Ohio State, is facing the inevitable: another big-game loss to the champions of the nation’s toughest football conference.
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Too bad all those championships are between two SEC teams. I don't see how that makes everyone else great.
 
Wreck02 said:
Too bad all those championships are between two SEC teams. I don't see how that makes everyone else great.
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Three, but you are right. It doesn't make everyone else better. However, I can't think where thoses type numbers are going on in another conference.
 
GTKyle said:
Three, actually. Tennessee won the first BCS NC.
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I know... I lived in Big Orange country the last 6 years- they don't let you forget it.

I was referring more to the fact that SEC fans want to bring up all the most recent National Championships as a sign that the conference is so great even though those championships are between LS-Who and Florida. Tennessee's doesn't count anymore because it didn't happen in the last 5 years, lol. (This is the logic SEC fans want to use when I bring up our 1990 Championship- it doesn't count because it was back in the Dark Ages).


Oh... and 10-10
 
Wreck02 said:
I know... I lived in Big Orange country the last 6 years- they don't let you forget it.

I was referring more to the fact that SEC fans want to bring up all the most recent National Championships as a sign that the conference is so great even though those championships are between LS-Who and Florida. Tennessee's doesn't count anymore because it didn't happen in the last 5 years, lol. (This is the logic SEC fans want to use when I bring up our 1990 Championship- it doesn't count because it was back in the Dark Ages).


Oh... and 10-10
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UT's doesn't count because FSU's quarterback was hurt and they still barely won.
 
Is this another one of those "reflective glory" arguments that teams in the SEC make to prove their awesomeness? Like the Georgia is a good team because they lost to UF and Bama? If anything, the utter dominance by those two shows how mediocre the SEC was this year. Three coaches got fired. Les Miles is being hounded less then a year after winning a national title. But hey, at least UGA was the consensus pre-season #1, right? The SEC was not the best conference in the country this year. It wasn't the second best. It was probably the third, only because the PAC 10 and Big 10 are so miserable right now. But SEC fans don't let things like logic interfere with the sad little fantasy world they've constructed for themselves.
 
Just look at the past and anyone will tell you that no one conference is the best and no one conference is the worst. Over different periods of time, different conferences dominate. It just so happens to be that the SEC has been dominating since the BCS began.

For example, let's look at the period of 1993-2000:

Source: http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html

2000
Oklahoma

1999
Florida St.

1998
Tennessee

1997
Michigan/Nebraska

1996
Florida

1995
Nebraska

1994
Nebraska

1993
Florida St.

It doesn't look like the SEC is the most dominant conference over that time period. Oh yeah and go to this site: http://www.secsportsfan.com/top-all-time-ncaa-college-football-national-championship-conference.html

On there it has the national championships by conference as follows:
1. Big 12 (16)
2. SEC (15)
3. Big 10 (13)
4. ACC (9)
5. PAC 10 (4)
6. Big East (3)
 
Posted by me, elsewhere:

At this point in the season, I can't understand anybody riding on the SEC's jock. It's obvious the conference was a great team (Florida), a really good team (Alabama), and 10 other teams that ranged from alright to downright terrible. Of course with ESPN paying the GNP of Kenya for the right to broadcast SEC football in the future, they're glossing over that fact. In fact, when mediocre SEC teams beat the supposed good teams in the conference then it's all about the strength and parity. When the ACC teams do it, you can count on Chris Fowler running off at his substantial mouth about kicking them out of the BCS.
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JacketDan said:
Posted by me, elsewhere:
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I haven't heard Fowler say anything this dumb yet this year, mostly just talk about how crazy the ACC is and how equal most of the teams are. He also seems to have taken on Herbstreit's love for us, which isn't surprising at all. Mark May, on the other hand, has made some preposterously dumb comments about leaving the ACC out of the BCS. I guess sitting that close to Lou Holtz has osmosized his intelligence away.
 
I'm so sick of people mistaking depth for highlight teams. The SEC in 2008 has Florida and Alabama, that's it. The rest of their teams are garbage. The ACC has 10 teams in bowls and they managed to get bowl-eligible in the deepest conference in the country. SEC-who?
 
Allen Koholic said:
I haven't heard Fowler say anything this dumb yet this year, mostly just talk about how crazy the ACC is and how equal most of the teams are. He also seems to have taken on Herbstreit's love for us, which isn't surprising at all. Mark May, on the other hand, has made some preposterously dumb comments about leaving the ACC out of the BCS. I guess sitting that close to Lou Holtz has osmosized his intelligence away.
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That was some hyperbole, but Fowler has been vocal in the past about not liking the ACC and in a recent interview with Mayhem in the AM, his disdain for the conference was not even thinly veiled.

That and I don't like Chris Fowler. ;)
 
Rodzilla said:
I'm so sick of people mistaking depth for highlight teams. The SEC in 2008 has Florida and Alabama, that's it. The rest of their teams are garbage. The ACC has 10 teams in bowls and they managed to get bowl-eligible in the deepest conference in the country. SEC-who?
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The ACC has no teams better than Alabama this year, but 4 teams better than Georgia.

That's the truth of it.
 
beej67 said:
The ACC has no teams better than Alabama this year, but 4 teams better than Georgia.

That's the truth of it.
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My hatred for ugay runs very deep, yet I have to disagree. GT > ugay. FSU = ugay. The other 10 teams in the conference would not have a chance. Ugay is going to put up 30 points on every team in the ACC. I dont see anyone outside of GT, FSU, and Clemson (maybe) scoring with them.
 
JWE37 said:
My hatred for ugay runs very deep, yet I have to disagree. GT > ugay. FSU = ugay. The other 10 teams in the conference would not have a chance. Ugay is going to put up 30 points on every team in the ACC. I dont see anyone outside of GT, FSU, and Clemson (maybe) scoring with them.
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Carolina, when healthy, can. They also have the type of defense that could really slow down UGAg.
 
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