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Game Thread 2015 Sugar Bowl: (1) Alabama vs. (4) Ohio State, Jan 1st @ 8:30p ET, ESPN (civilized thread)

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AlabamaPaul said:
How do you figure it's gift wrapped?
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Well for starters, Tennessee. Second you guys have a cupcake or bye scheduled around every important game of the season. The fact that the State of Mississippi finally put all football players on the payroll is more of an inconvenience than anything else and will probably be over in no time. At the most one of them might prevail and be the USCe of the West. aTm? :lol: Like I said, I wish the BIG treated tOSU as well as the SEC treats Bama, and LSU for that matter. I mean next year while you are pounding on the Charleston Southern Buccaneers getting ready for the Iron Bowl, we'll be slugging it out with MSU getting ready for THE GAME. I honestly can't remember the last time Bama didn't get some "special" scheduling. Like I said before though, You guys have proven it on the field when it matters, so it is what it is.


I hate the way our conference schedules. I've said it many times before that I wish the BIG would take a lesson from the SEC in terms of scheduling it's premier programs. I'd love to at least play one BIG school that might have a ranking at the beginning of the season, much like an Ole Miss. The BIG decided that scheduling the first 5 years of the this new playoff schedule was a genius move. I think it's dumb as hell. I mean heaven forbid they actually tried to make a schedule that could benefit a team or two. Maybe they just figured they gave Wisconsin and Nebraska enough help by letting them battle for the West.

EDIT: Oh and for the record, don't go throwing around Kent St as garbage this year and say how good they are in 2016 when they are on your schedule.
 
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AlabamaPaul said:
Crump, seven of the last eight BCS championships would be relevant, wouldn't it?
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I think that just shows that those 7 years, the SEC had the best team in the country. That doesn't show that the SEC had the best conference. Note that I think that the SEC is and was the best team, but I don't think that that fact shows any proof.

It's like when people try to say the SEC is the best team in college basketball, simply because Kentucky won the NCAA tournament that year. No, the SEC was really really really bad that year, but Kentucky was the best team in the country.

And when I say "people", I mean the guys who call in to radio shows. I know that that isn't a true representation of the fanbase, but what else do I have? But when I hear these "people" criticize the Big Ten for having a lousy Week 1 schedule, it only makes me laugh at them. Not that I disagree with them - I'd love to see the Big Ten schedule tougher games, Weeks 1-4. But I know that the SEC is doing the same thing in Week 13.

Off-topic: I might have a problem. Every time I try to type SEC, it comes out SEX. Probably just from muscle memory.
 
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HorseshoeFetish said:
Well for starters, Tennessee. Second you guys have a cupcake or bye scheduled around every important game of the season. The fact that the State of Mississippi finally put all football players on the payroll is more of an inconvenience than anything else and will probably be over in no time. At the most one of them might prevail and be the USCe of the West. aTm? :lol: Like I said, I wish the BIG treated tOSU as well as the SEC treats Bama, and LSU for that matter. I mean next year while you are pounding on the Charleston Southern Buccaneers getting ready for the Iron Bowl, we'll be slugging it out with MSU getting ready for THE GAME. I honestly can't remember the last time Bama didn't get some "special" scheduling. Like I said before though, You guys have proven it on the field when it matters, so it is what it is.


I hate the way our conference schedules. I've said it many times before that I wish the BIG would take a lesson from the SEC in terms of scheduling it's premier programs. I'd love to at least play one BIG school that might have a ranking at the beginning of the season, much like an Ole Miss. The BIG decided that scheduling the first 5 years of the this new playoff schedule was a genius move. I think it's dumb as hell. I mean heaven forbid they actually tried to make a schedule that could benefit a team or two. Maybe they just figured they gave Wisconsin and Nebraska enough help by letting them battle for the West.

EDIT: Oh and for the record, don't go throwing around Kent St as garbage this year and say how good they are in 2016 when they are on your schedule.
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By the same standards people could say the same thing about your schedule. Between the Michigan State game you have Illinois. Penn State hasn't been good in quite some time and were god awful this year as well. In between Michigan State and Michigan you have Minnesota and Indiana. Minnesota had a heart beat for once but Michigan hasn't been that great since 2006 so that makes up for it. Then you have Wisconsin. You shouldn't throw stones from glass houses, nothing is intimidating about that schedule.
 
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cmstophe said:
Pretty sure it was Crimson Tide fans that brought up how Ohio State's "SOS is why we don't respect you."
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No shit. But of course Alabama's opponents were tougher, they played Alabama! More circular reasoning. It's a fucking rabbit hole to go down, because who did your opponents play? Where does it end? Like I said, when I was in school at OSU I saw the out-of-conference opponents Florida State, Arizona, Washington State, Oregon, and the like. Meanwhile Alabama and the rest of the SEC were developing rivalries with Florida A&M and Alabama State.
 
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JCOSU86 said:
Meanwhile Alabama and the rest of the SEC were developing rivalries with Florida A&M and Alabama State.
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Last few years we played Va Tech twice, Clemson, Michigan, Penn State twice, West Virginia. On the horizon we have Southern Cal and Wisconsin. Quite a lot of Big 10 teams in there. In a bowl game we also played Michigan State in 2010 the year they shared Big 10 champ rights.
 
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OSU played VPI and will again next year. Kent is on your schedule. We play Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State and Wisconsin. Just sounds disingenuous of Alabama fans to critique OSU's schedule. Actually more like arrogant, but I digress.

We don't play Presbyterian though, so you have that going for you. Which is nice.
 
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