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2011 SEC Football Discussion

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BB73;1967065; said:
Don't want to click on the Schedules&Picks link for yourself? Or is CFN blocked at work but not BP? :lol:

They're predicting a win over Boise - I'm quite surprised by the pick of the home loss to Auburn. It seemed like they needed to do something to avoid a tie, which would have given the Dawgs the trip to the CCG via the head-to-head win in the WLOCP.

But if everybody gets at least 2 losses - I'm fine with those predictions.
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They have UGa losing in the WLOCP.
 
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Good Lord! They have the Lesser dogs losing to Kentucky while beating Bama, and Florida beating Bama while losing to LSU and the Cocks. I think the Miss St predictions are whack, and that the Florida one needs to have us losing to FSU and Bama in addition to the LSU and SC losses.

Georgia we punk because they'll try too hard again.
 
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BigWoof31;1967165; said:
http://dogbytesonline.com/georgia-and-ohio-state-agree-to-play-in-2020-21-40421/


Was this reported? Granted its from December of 2010, but I just now heard about it?

I wonder if the 9 game Big10 schedule might hurt the chances of this game taking place :(
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I assume that link shows the UGA-tOSU games slated for 2020/21. I don't want to click on dogbytesonline. :wink2:

That's been talked about on BP. There's a thread that deals specifically with the 9-game B1G schedule and how it'll have an impact. Based on how we're predicting things to go in the conference scheduling, tOSU will ask UGA to have the C-Bus game in 2020 and the visit to Athens in 2021, to allow tOSU 7 home games in each of those years.

BP.9-game.B1G.schedule

I don't think tOSU will try to back out of the 2-game series. B1G commissioner Delany talked in the summer of 2010 about the 9-game schedule as being something he wanted, so it was something tOSU should have been planning for when the 'memorandum of understanding' was signed last December.
 
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Mandel's Mailbag:

Stewart, I'm a devout LSU Tiger fan living amidst the Pac-12 conference fans in Northern California. As much as I love the Tigers, can you explain to me how they can possibly justify their high preseason rankings given they have one of the toughest (if not THE toughest) schedules in football this year?
-- Curtis Barthold, Danville, Calif.

Knowing the way the voters think, it's no secret how the Tigers garnered such a lofty ranking. They went 11-2 last year while playing in the big, bad SEC; they won a January bowl game; and, like Alabama, LSU is a recent national-championship program that recruits well year in and year out. But is it asking too much of the pollsters to dig a little deeper?

This is a team that caught every imaginable break en route to 11 wins last season -- the last-second mulligan against Tennessee, the fake field goal that bounced just right against Florida, the remarkable Les Miles fourth-down reverse against Alabama. I know many feel Miles is immune from typical football karma, but generally speaking, teams that eke out so many close wins one year tend to go the other way the next.
For example, Iowa, which went 11-2 in 2009 with a slew of comebacks and last-second miracles, then, with mostly the same core of players, reverted to 8-5 last year with several last-minute losses.

Throw in a murderous early schedule (non-conference games against Oregon and at West Virginia, and a trip to pesky Mississippi State all in September) and the continual enigma that is quarterback Jordan Jefferson, and you've got all the ingredients for a textbook "flop" team. In fact I'm puzzled why the Tigers are 10 spots ahead of the same Arkansas team that both beat them head-to-head last season and earned a BCS berth. Mark it down here: The Razorbacks will finish at least 10 spots higher than LSU in the final poll.


Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/10/mailbag/index.html#ixzz1Ukj8MDJ1
 
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SmoovP;1967868; said:
Mandel's Mailbag:

Stewart, I'm a devout LSU Tiger fan living amidst the Pac-12 conference fans in Northern California. As much as I love the Tigers, can you explain to me how they can possibly justify their high preseason rankings given they have one of the toughest (if not THE toughest) schedules in football this year?
-- Curtis Barthold, Danville, Calif.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/10/mailbag/index.html#ixzz1Ukj8MDJ1
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I will never understand why some people think a team's strength of schedule should factor into their preseason ranking.
 
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DaBuckeyes;1968006; said:
I will never understand why some people think a team's strength of schedule should factor into their preseason ranking.
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Some people rank the teams based off of how they think they'll finish at the end of the year... and based on that philosophy a higher strength of schedule may lead to some ranking them lower because they won't make it through unscathed.
 
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