#2, #3, #4, #7, #9, #10 Add on an 8-4 Vandy, an 8-4 Miss State as well as a pretty damn good 6-6 Ole Miss team who was playing their best ball at the end of the season, that's some kind of conference.
What's just as impressive is every loss each of those six have had this season came from one of the other five.
I think it may be more accurate to say this is one of the main reasons we saw "conference champions" bantered about by a few conference commissioners. If you look at this year in a playoff model we'd have the SECCG winner, Oregon, Florida, and Notre Dame. What strikes me about this is three of the four aren't conference champions, but you'd have a hard time arguing against any of the three. Kansas State is sitting at #5 today, and assuming they win over TX they'll remain outside the top four. Do they have a legitimate argument to replace any of the other three? I'm not asking could they win a game against one of the other four. But, do they have a reasonable argument to put themselves over one of those three teams.
It's interesting you bring this up now. Many have said eight teams would mean the regular season would be watered down and mean less. If it were eight teams, three of the top eight would have lost two games to teams ranked ahead of them. I am not a fan of the playoffs. I never have been. That said, something strikes me as interesting about your comment. We are—well, not really because I still see it discussed—less than a year involving a rematch for the BCSNC. Now, you're advocating the possibility of having three in the playoffs?
The regular season already has been watered down now that non conference champions can play in the championship game. Especially when a team gets a rematch with a team that beat them late in the regular season, at their house, and gets to sit out the conference championship game and piggy back that teams success into the national championship game. That alone tells me regular season means nothing.
I do compain about ya'll being given a rematch with us last year. Mostly when you talk smack. In all honesty, though, I was for the rematch last year. It was a chance for us to stake the claim as having the best single season in college football history. I, personally, relished the opportunity. My team and coach, however, it appears, did not... Teams get 2nd chances in the NFL from time to time. It's the nature of a playoff. That would be the case in an 8-team playoff. Esp. with so many top rated SEC teams. I LOVE the idea, just not the result from last year.
