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Every playoff team will have a loss...
Except maybe FSU . If Stanford or Oregon wins out, they're still in playoff.. Root hard for Stanford. That fluke USC win vs tree hurt the pac12 bad. Nice job Sark. Hope Stanford undresses ND.
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I'm hoping for the Pac-12 South champ and three SEC SEC SEC West teams.
Not saying the SEC West teams aren't good (LSU raped a Big 10 Wiscy team, grats. UO also beat MSU), but we really won't know just how good until the end of the season.
If KSU had a kicker they would've beaten Auburn.
LIPO.
But they don't need to, because ESPN will suck them off regardless.
Pac-12 teams are willing to travel to the opposite coast with frequency.
SEC teams are lucky to travel 1000 miles.
The SEC still doesn't schedule well, but the Pac has dumbed down their schedules to match.
The furthest the various teams traveled in the non conference this year:
Arizona: UTSA
ASU: New Mexico
Cal: Northwestern
Colorado: Massacheussets
Oregon: Autzen
OS: Hawaii
Stanford: ND
UCLA: Virginia
USC: BC
Utah: Michigan
UW: Hawaii
WSU: Nevada
So the Pac had a total of three games on the east coast, but one of those was at UMass which isn't exactly impressive. Is 1/4 of Pac teams travelling to the opposite coast "with frequency"? The LA schools carried the day here, and still, it's not like BC or UVa are powerhouses. The Pac had five road games at BCS opponents, plus UCLA's "neutral" game at Jerry World, so five 1/2 road BCS games.
Bama: WV (at Georgia Dome)
Ark: Texas Tech
Auburn: At K State
Florida: At Florida State
UGA: None
Kentucky: At Louisville
LSU: Wisconsin (at Houston)
MSU: South Alabama
Missouri: Toledo (Gary Pinkel Bowel?)
Ole Miss: Boise (at Georgia Dome)
South Carolina: Clemson
Tennessee: Oklahoma
TAMU: SMU
Vandy: None
So yes, the Pac travels further than the SEC does, though at least part of that has to be a function of their being a hell of a lot more options in the eastern half of the US than the western half.
But what it lacks in travel distance, the SEC makes up for in travel opponents. Even if you discard the "neutral" site games, the SEC still has games at K State, Florida State, Texas Tech, Louisville, Clemson and Oklahoma. Which is not only more BCS road games than the Pac it's a hell of a lot more impressive slate.
Again, Pac road BCS games:
Northwestern, BC, Virginia, Michigan, ND, sort of Texas
SEC road BCS games:
K State, Florida State, Texas Tech, Louisville, Clemson, Oklahoma. Plus semi neutral games against West Virginia and Wisconsin.
I get your point about the SEC not traveling far, and I wish they'd travel more also. But the Pac isn't traveling like it once did, and when the SEC DOES travel, it picks marquee opponents much moreso than the Pac.
TL; DR - the SEC schedules better than you're willing to admit, and the Pac schedules worse than you acknowledge. WIW.
We had teams to the east coast, Texas, and Hawaii (3 fucking time zones away).
End of debate.