A funny thing happened last night that the college football world hasn't realized, yet.

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  1. TerryP

    TerryP Founding Member

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    I've always been a bit amused at the term "SEC fatigue." Of course, I've always been amused at people when they get upset about others success.

    If we assume the rest of the college football world truly suffers from SEC fatigue, we can also assume they find themselves happy this morning with the slim chance there is a team from our conference in the title game.

    But, one thing that doesn't require an assumption is they'll find themselves thinking about the SEC once again in the BCS bowl season.

    Since the inception in 1998 it's been a forgone conclusion for a conference to have more than one team in the BCS bowls they'll need for one of their teams to be in the BCSNC game. At some point this week people will look at the rankings and realize that isn't the case.

    When the rankings are released this evening the SEC is going to hold the #4, #5, #6, #7, and #8 positions in the rankings. If things continue as they are forecast, and even if some of the three unbeaten teams lose a game, the SEC looks to be the first conference to have two teams in the BCS bowls without having a team in the title game.

    While some may choose to think the SEC is finally unseated, they'll also be forced to concede the same conference is going to occupy at least 50% of the slots in the top eight teams—possibly more.

    It may not work out this way. It'll be determined by SEC vs ACC teams in two games: UofSC vs Clemson and UF vs FSU.

    The odds of two ACC teams winning over two SEC teams to close out the season? Even if UF loses to FSU, would Clemson jump into the top eight with a win over UofSC and the FSU win?

    This season still has a lot of drama left in her.
     
  2. dudley

    dudley oops!

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    I'm glad Bama lost, but not real glad. I love to hate those arrogant bastards, but now I just feel sorry for them. I feel like something is missing from my life. Guess they just didn't play their best game.
     
  3. msully

    msully Founding Member

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    With bama losing to A&M I won what I lost back . When you look at the size of the SEC players the speed and then look at what they call the two teams The Ducks hell they are still ducking , ND, LOL, they look like big High School teams . They know they cannot compete . BTW Texas A&M could comein the SEC and play in the SEC Champion Ship Game . This is the SEC , no doubt we play the best foorball in the nation . I would have never bet on that .But I do believe a little MoJo was in play last night . LOL
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  4. cwatsn

    cwatsn Loyal Servant

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    I do not feel even the slightest bit sorry for them.

    I will despise this team til the day I die...classless, arrogant and delusional POS fanbase.
     
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  5. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Nick will whine his way into a national championship anyway
     
  6. plotalot

    plotalot Veteran Member

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    Maybe nobody noticed beause this has already happened, more often than not....a lot more often. It as happened 12 times in the 14 years of the BCS's exisistance to be exact.
     
  7. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    The SEC would rule an 8-team playoff if it were seeded by ranking rather than conference quotas. Perhaps even the 4-team playoff that is coming.

    Alabama, LSU, Florida are perennial Top-10 contenders. Georgia, Auburn, Tennessee and Arkansas contend regularly. That's the entire top half of the new SEC, which has fine ranked teams like South Carolina and A&M leading the second tier of teams. Missou and Mississippi State are not chopped liver. We are a 14-team conference with exactly three weak sisters in football. But Kentucky and Vanderbilt are huge assets in basketball.

    And Ole Miss? Well, the South shall rise again.
     
  8. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    See what happens when you get gifted an easy schedule? The one bump on it was play LSU, then A&M. And Alabama failed. Maybe the tide should be upset at the schedule makers for scheduling a 7 game sleepwalk before they play a real team.
     
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  9. cajdav1

    cajdav1 Soldiers are real hero's

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    The college football world knows how great the SEC is, even those that bitch about it have 5 SEC teams in their top ten.
     
  10. TerryP

    TerryP Founding Member

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    When has a conference had two teams appear when one of them ISN'T in the NC game?
     

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