May as well add tOSU in there for an even 8 teams.. 8 in the top-20 5 in the top-15 3 in the top-10 However, as Nutriaitch pointed out, what they were ranked "at the time" would be looked at as bogus by many folks. They'd say it's where they ended up at the end of the season that matters... Let's take a look at that aspect: Va Tech - #9 USC - Unranked Fla. - #13 KY - Unranked Auburn - #15 Alabama - Unranked UT - #12 tOSU - #5 Now.. even though 3 of the 8 teams ended unranked, we still beat 5 teams that ended up in the top 15 at the end of the season, 2 of which were in the top 10... Not too shabby IMHO. My point is... well, no point, I'm just bored at work and felt like posting some stats.. :wave: :lol:
True enough. I'd love to see a debate where a conference fan has to argue the merits of another conference's system. Which is what makes scheduling such a tough venture. Teams looking good today might end up being a p.o.s. 3 or 4 years down the road (Nebraska anyone.......anyone? :wave. Or you may play a decent team early in the year and for whatever reason they tank it for the rest of their season (props to VaTech for not doing so after their loss in Death Valley) and they KILL your SOS. Funny thing is, as bad as Notre Dame has been for a few years, I still think teams want to play them but they are too busy with the Commander in Chief Cup standings.
What the hell i mean by that is that because bama HAS to play tenn and it HAS to be on their special weekend, instead of rolling the east conf thru everyone, we have that messed up permanent east opponent. Is bama going to ever face Fla and Tim Tebow? Nope. Pretty good advantage for bama in the SEC, huh?
The funniest part of it is what I read on a USC board. One guy (defending the Pac-10 method) is perfectly OK with the 3 way tie-breaker deciding the Pac-10 CONFERENCE champ, but said that's a flawed way of deciding a DIVISION champ.:huh:
until bama's probation,and the sec went to only one permanent opponent from the other division,the SEC tried to give the West to Bama...How else can you explain Bama having as one of its 2 permanent opponents...VANDY.While LSU and Auburn both had Florida....That sure was fair wasn't it.At least it is better now with 2 rotating and only one permanent from the other side.
WOW! That's stretching for a conspiracy theory. Florida had a grand total of ONE (actually 2, but 1 was forfeited) Conf. championship in their HISTORY when those schedules were made. Do you really think the SEC knew they were going to go on to a decade of dominance when they had NEVER done so before? Hell, from that view-point, the crappyness that was LSU football through most of the 90's could be seen as the SEC trying to give the East to Florida every year.
Anyone watching football knew that a steve spurrier led gator team was going to chew up the sec year in and year out.Historically auburn and LSU were bama's biggest obstacles from the west.Schedule comes out and poof auburn and LSU have the toughest team Florida.Alabama has vandy...Nobody at the SEC thought LSU would suck has bad as we did .Most thought a couple of down years and then right back in the mix.You don't think the SEC thought about what a ratings coup having Alabama play in the first few SEC title games would be.Give them Vandy.Every year...the absolute weakest team in the conference.
Did they know this back in the early 50's? We've played Florida every year but 1 since then. Aubrun had played them every year since the late 20's (before the SEC even existed). Same with Bama vs. Vandy. The SEC did a pretty good job of keeping long standing series in tact, no conspiracy involved. LSU got Florida and Kentucky as permanents because we played them every year already. Nothing changed. Bama got Tennessee and Vandy as permanents because they already played them every year. Nothing changed. Aubie got UGA and UF as permanents, because they already played them every year. Nothing changed. Ole Miss got Vandy and UGA as permanents, because they already played them every year. Nothing changed. Miss St. got Kent. and So. Carolina (no real history with any East team) Arky got USCe since both joined conf. same year, and UT because that was what was left. So if there was a conspiracy, it started during the Great Depression.
:lol::lol: Maybe some people should go look and see who the SEC Commissioner was back then and what team he hated the most.
I would love to see us play our five division opponents each year and alternate with the six teams in the East. Of course it won't happen because the SEC won't break up some of the traditional matchups. If the maintain the current format, I at least hope they do away with the "Boot" and stop trying to force a rivalry between LSU & Arkansas.
