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Why SEC Isn't As Great In Football As You Think - Chuck Thompson

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jwinslow;2198142; said:
I don't think there were unworthy SEC teams other than LSU 07 and no one deserved it that year.

I have blocked out the entire 11 season :lol: I didn't even watch the rematch, and I am a guy who loves to watch Kentucky Tennessee or Texas Baylor if I have free time ,. A tribute to ESPN's grand efforts to ruin the sport they help make so great.

My comment was based more on the South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia types that fly up 10-18 spots if they take out a top ten ranked SEC team, thereby preserving the prestige of the conference. It's not a conspiracy but it is quite cyclical early in the year.

You will not see an undefeated Penn State team leap up to #9 in the country from the low teens or twenties after giving top ten Michigan their first loss.

you especially will not see northwestern, Purdue or Illinois soar up if they were the team that upset them and were undefeated since they hadn't really played many teams of consequence yet.
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Conversely, in 2008 Ohio State stated the season ranked #2 behind Georgia, won game 1 something like 42 - 7 over YSU and subsequently fell below a USC team which was on a fucking bye week to open the season. Week 2, Ohio State won again... the reward? Fell in the polls again.

When is the last time an SEC team won and fell in the polls?
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;2198162; said:
Conversely, in 2008 Ohio State stated the season ranked #2 behind Georgia, won game 1 something like 42 - 7 over YSU and subsequently fell below a USC team which was on a fucking bye week to open the season. Week 2, Ohio State won again... the reward? Fell in the polls again.

When is the last time an SEC team won and fell in the polls?
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This doesn't fit the SEC narrative of "BEST CONFERENCE EVAH!!1!1!" so it should just be completely ignored.
 
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buxfan4life;2198167; said:
This doesn't fit the SEC narrative of "BEST CONFERENCE EVAH!!1!1!" so it should just be completely ignored.
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Well, beating the shit out of Southwest Missouri State 42- 7 is pretty impressive, I must confess.

And.. well... who can argue with a USC bye week. I mean... they are in LA after all
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;2198162; said:
Conversely, in 2008 Ohio State stated the season ranked #2 behind Georgia, won game 1 something like 42 - 7 over YSU and subsequently fell below a USC team which was on a [censored]ing bye week to open the season. Week 2, Ohio State won again... the reward? Fell in the polls again.

When is the last time an SEC team won and fell in the polls?
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While I agree with you in general, this might not be the best example. OSU might have had the misfortune of having had their game watched. That game against FredOU was a giraffe abortion. I left that game KNOWING that the Buckeyes would get blown out the next week.
 
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MaxBuck;2195421; said:
Scary - those are the three states I've lived in. Honestly, of the three I think western PA was the most football-rabid.
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Yeah having gone to school in both PA and Ohio (and played football in both) as well as having cousins throughout Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Texas, Western PA is the most high school rabid by far.

In the south, high school football is seen as more of a stepping stone. In Western PA you have lots of schools that are like Al Bundy and Polk High - that's as far as most of them are ever going to go before they live in the same community and they know it.

Ohio honestly is mostly in the middle on that, simply because most of the kids have other opportunities past high school that don't necessary rely upon their football abilities.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;2198162; said:
Conversely, in 2008 Ohio State stated the season ranked #2 behind Georgia, won game 1 something like 42 - 7 over YSU and subsequently fell below a USC team which was on a fucking bye week to open the season. Week 2, Ohio State won again... the reward? Fell in the polls again.

When is the last time an SEC team won and fell in the polls?
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Wasn't that the year that Beanie got hurt in the YSU game?
 
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SmoovP;2198270; said:
2011, Week 9, Arkansas beat Old Mississippi and fell one spot.

But honestly, that's more a testament to just how badly Mississippi sucks.
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Beating ole piss by only 5 last year is equivalent to losing to about 90 other schools in the country.

Which is why y'all got Sanduskied when y'all played any real teams last year.
 
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