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SEC is great but not that great

Sooner in WA- Cardinals blow | 01/07/08, 10:24 PM

OSU couldnt beat Tenn. wat are you talking about.

Captain Cloud | 01/07/08, 10:47 PM

overall it's the best conference in the ncaa.....

MaF | 01/07/08, 10:50 PM

Oh, gawd, here we go again. Yes, the SEC can never ever lose a game. They'd win every conference including the NFC and the AFC.. You act like you've never won a game before.

1Hawkeye1 wants Vida | 01/07/08, 10:51 PM

I hate Ohio State I really do with like everything but this throwdown is was too un realistic

KentuckyFan#1 | 01/07/08, 10:52 PM

If Michigan can beat Florida why couldn't Ohio State? If Florida can demolish tennessee -- why couldn't OSU or Michigan. Yes the SEC is the best this year MaF but it goes in cycles. It was just a few years ago the Big 12 Had 4 top 10 teams. Plus even if the best the notion cant win 8 games is nuts

Sooner in WA- Cardinals blow | 01/07/08, 10:54 PM

well he's an auburn fan. please forgive him lol

MaF | 01/07/08, 11:04 PM

I never said Ohio State couldnt beat florida.I said probably not consistantly.got to remember Floridas defense was extremly young and raw.They lost alot of players last yr.

st*rainman*sssc* | 01/07/08, 11:10 PM

I love, LOVE, LLLOOOOVVVEEE the Buckeyes, and even rooted for Michigan to make the Buckeyes and the Big Ten look good. And everyone around here has been saying, and last year said, o yea, the SEC is so overrated and we're going to come out and win and it won't even be close. For some reason, I go along with what they say. But, to be honest, the Big Ten is THE most overrated conference in the history of college football. There is no way anyone, even OSU, would've gotten passed 8 wins. OSU got lucky that they got in the BCS Championship. It shocked the **** outta me when they got in.

ROYALw/CHEESE* BS CB MS 2179 | 01/07/08, 11:20 PM

Lynch... most of us have said Big 10 is overrated not the SEC. Regardless, teams would still win 8 in SEC.

Sooner in WA- Cardinals blow | 01/08/08, 12:11 AM

weren;t slow agianst your florida team BC team or Tenn. team....

Steveo16220 is a GGTK | 01/08/08, 12:12 AM

This throwdown makes it sound as though:

1. Speed is the only factor in college football. What the Michigan-Florida game showed us -- or should have -- is that there are many ways to play in and win a football game. Speed can be neutralized...

2. The SEC is some mythical quasi-professional conference that is a magnet for the fastest players in the country. The reality is that it is elite programs with big names -- including the Ohio States, the USCs, the Michigans, the Oklahomas, etc. -- which regularly land the fastest, strongest, best recruits. But recruits don't always pan out...

3. Every team in the SEC is two rungs up the quality ladder from even the cream of the crop of the other conferences. The truth is that every conference has its dogs -- a Mississippi or a Vanderbilt, a Stanford or a Washington, a Minnesota or a Northwestern, a Baylor, a Duke, an Iowa State... no conference is perfection from top to bottom, even the exalted SEC...

In the end, the past college football season should have made us realize that the talent gap is shrinking, not growing, and that a big name is not the sole barometer of success. Speed is not the only determining factor between victory and defeat. I might change my vote if you find a way to back this absurdity up, mc, but for now my vote is with rainman...

Bigalke | 01/08/08, 12:13 AM

Wow. No bias here. yikes.

SoonerGirl | 01/08/08, 12:18 AM

Wait. So since an SEC team happened to beat a big 10 team in the "national championship" game all of a sudden no big 10 team could win more than 8 games in the SEC? Come on.

Cowboys-Celtics-Chisox | 01/08/08, 12:56 AM

mc1281, your gay tigers only beat an ACC team by 3.....you have no room to talk.

Freebird is AWESOM-O | 01/08/08, 01:28 AM

Ohio State embarrassed themselves 2 years in a row against SEC teams. Those games made me sick. and certainly did nothing to prove the Big Ten naysayers wrong. But Michigan, the fourth best Big Ten team, beat Florida. Wisconsin, the third best in the Big Ten, should have beaten Tennessee, which played for the SEC title. I think the SEC is better top to bottom, but the Big Ten has teams that would compete.

Porkins | 01/08/08, 08:18 AM

Actually Wisconsin is #4 or 5 after Penn State and Illinois and of course Mich and OSU...

And the Big Ten went 2-1 last year against the SEC. And ask Florida if the Big Ten is slow. Ask LSU too. I don't think speed was the problem. Personal Fouls, and turnovers maybe.

Y2jCrisis | 01/08/08, 08:28 AM

I think Big Ten teams need to reverse their recruiting policies. I can't tell you how many times I've heard Big 10 coaches say "Well, we liked that kid when we started recruiting him, but then we saw him play and he was just too doggone fast. I want that slow chubby kid on the bench!"

Then in tears the recruit begs and pleads to go to Ohio State, to which the coach replies "Sorry, kid. You'll have to go play in the SEC. We don't take kindly to you quick whippersnappers."

The Ram | 01/08/08, 08:46 AM

As of 2007, the University of Alabama has played in and won more bowl games than any other school, with 55 appearances and 31 victories.
hows that for an sec team? cant no other team in the ncaa boast that fact. enough said !

MaF | 01/09/08, 10:28 PM

1 Alabama 55
2 Tennessee 46
2 Texas 46
4 USC 45
5 Nebraska 44
6 Georgia 41
7 Oklahoma 40
8 Penn St 39
9 Michigan 38
9 LSU 38
9 Ohio State 38
out of 11 teams the sec has 4 teams in the record books...that says alot for the sec.... and im not taking sides with mc1281 saying the big ten wouldnt win 8 games in the conference but........the sec has the best overall record therefor the SEC is probably the toughest conference to play in. and those are the hard facts.if you dont believe me do a little research and see for yourself

MaF | 01/09/08, 10:40 PM