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2013 Preseason and regular polls

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Okay, I'm back to hating Auburn again. Their AD, Jay Jacobs said it would be "un-uhmerican" for a 1 loss SEC team to be left out of the NC game. I have two of these for you, Mr. Jacobs:
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"The SEC has won x amount of national championships in the last x years."

Ill buy the fact that it is an impressive stat for the conference.

However, as impressive as that may be, you can't use that to justify that spot for Mizzou or Auburn who have either only been in one of those national championships and the other team didn't even sniff one
 
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ESPN:

"Ohio State escapes Michigan"

"Auburn stuns Alabama on FG return"
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I would be MUCH more willing to stand and say that a defense drawing up and executing on a prevent 2 point conversion is much more methodical, athletic, and more indicative a team win. A player returning a missed-field goal-for-touchdown is a fluke play showing that a teams special teams got lucky. There is no scheming on a 109 yard return, just pure luck. That said, you can tell ESPN is trying to spin it the opposite way with their articles.

SI:

"OSU tops Michigan, alive in BCS"

"Auburn shocks Alabama 34-28"
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Yahoo Sports:

"Buckeyes hold off Michigan in thriller"

"Auburn stuns Alabama on FG return at :00"
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Both SI and Yahoo Sports at least gets it. No surprise there.
 
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SEREbuckeye said:
"The SEC has won x amount of national championships in the last x years."

Ill buy the fact that it is an impressive stat for the conference.

However, as impressive as that may be, you can't use that to justify that spot for Mizzou or Auburn who have either only been in one of those national championships and the other team didn't even sniff one
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Adding to that, the announcers during the Mizzou game last night were commenting on how both Mizzou and Auburn had something like one combined win in conference last year. To ESPN, it goes to show how awesome the SEC is when those two bottom feeders are all the sudden the representatives, but it doesn't seem to say much for your conference when two teams can go from 0-8 or 0-9 to 9-0 in a one year span.
 
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CookyPuss said:
Okay, I'm back to hating Auburn again. Their AD, Jay Jacobs said it would be "un-uhmerican" for a 1 loss SEC team to be left out of the NC game. I have two of these for you, Mr. Jacobs:
nVqcZL7.gif
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It's amazing how the SEC can turn 180 degrees and argue the complete opposite of what they argued just a few years prior. Then again, when football is literally ALL your universities have and ALL they represent, I guess it's understandable in a dysfunctional, illiterate kind of way.
 
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USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, Week 14
1. Florida State (12-0) (1546 points) (58 first-place votes)
2. Ohio State (12-0) (1462) (4 first-place votes)
3. Auburn (11-1) (1437)
4. Alabama (11-1) (1333)
5. Missouri (11-1) (1315)
6. Oklahoma State (10-1) (1248)
7. Baylor (10-1) (1100)
7. South Carolina (10-2) (1100)
9. Michigan State (11-1) (1037)
10. Stanford (10-2) (1034)
11. Clemson (10-2) (853)
12. Oregon (10-2) (843)
13. Arizona State (10-2) (765)
14. LSU (9-3) (720)
15. Oklahoma (9-2) (660)
16. Louisville (10-1) (625)
17. Central Florida (10-1) (572)
18. Northern Illinois (12-0) (547)
19. UCLA (9-3) (473)
20. Duke (10-2) (402)
21. Wisconsin (9-3) (266)
22. Fresno State (10-1) (215)
23. Cincinnati (9-2) (167)
24. Texas (8-3) (149)
25. Texas A&M (8-4) (121)

Dropped out: No. 23 Southern California (9-4, lost to then-No. 22 UCLA 35-14)

Others receiving votes: Miami (Fla.) (9-3) 47; Georgia (8-4) 41; Vanderbilt (8-4) 18; Iowa (8-4) 13; Marshall (9-3) 13; Southern California (9-4) 10; Washington (8-4) 6; Minnesota (8-4) 4; Virginia Tech (8-4) 4; Notre Dame (8-4) 3; Ball State (10-2) 1

Top 25 stock report: Biggest ups, downs in Week 14
OF course, the all-consuming question given its BCS implications is, "Who's No.2?" The answer this week is Ohio State, though voters' opinions on the Buckeyes differed after their one-point escape from Michigan. Ohio State does own the nation's longest active winning streak, now at 24 games, heading into next week's Big Ten title game. The Buckeyes received the remaining four No.1 votes, and a vast majority (42) of the second-place nods. But three voters ranked them fifth and one had them at No.6.
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Auburn, the team responsible for unseating Alabama from the top spot it has occupied all season, checks in at No. 3, 25 points behind Ohio State. The Tigers were voted second on 16 ballots, and no coach had them picked lower than fourth. Alabama holds the No.4 position this week, keeping intact its string of top-five rankings dating to the beginning of the 2011 campaign. Missouri, who will face Auburn for the SEC championship next week, climbed to No.5.
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