The "Powerful" SEC

RaceBannon said:

ThomasFremont said:

RaceBannon said:

ThomasFremont said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Tequilla said:

It's not a means to say that Alabama isn't good or that we're better ...

What it is intended to say/show is that when looking at Alabama's numbers, I do think that you have to take some of it with a grain of salt given that the other teams in the conference are a dumpster fire. I'm amused by this thought that Auburn is going to give Oklahoma a close game ... let's just say I'll be interested.

In general, my thoughts about the SEC as a whole is that it's not uncommon for them to run 9-10 guys up within 5-7 yards of the line of scrimmage. There's a lot of 1 yard and a cloud of dust as a result of how aggressive they are. On the other hand, there are a lot of big play opportunities that result from that ... particularly in the passing game. The SEC doesn't have a lot of good QBs in the league ... simple truth. Another thing that I see with the league and their defenses is that a lot of those big plays are created because of simply blown assignments ... motion can really fuck with them.

Turnovers are huge in the SEC ... occur at a far higher level than in the PAC.

They couldn't hold onto their slaves. How do you expect them to hold onto a football?

You mean like college football players?

I know you are being sarcastic but college football players worthless college education is worth 1.3 trillion dollars of debt for student loans.

Now if Bernie had made college free that scholarship would be worthless

Football players correlate to total student loan debt how exactly?

By not being a part of it because they get n education for playing football

Tequilla said:

Secfans said:

SteveSuckisian said:

SEC is an overhyped pile of dung created by ESPN/CBS

Ironic considering how poorly the "9 win" teams from the PAC12 played this year out of conference. You say the SEC is overhyped, yet Colorado was in the top 10...

Meanwhile, 8 win UT beat 9 win Nebraska. 7 win LSU beat the ever loving crap out of Louisville. 8 win UGA beat TCU. Crappy Florida is currently beating Iowa.

The only 8 win SEC team to lose so far this bowl season is a 33-28 loss by TAMU.

Maybe ESPN fabricated all these wins? Maybe they fabricated the SEC's 9-2 bowl record last year?

How about our losses? 7-5 Arkansas plays the (9-3) ACC division champ and blows a 24 point lead. AWFUL 6-6 South Carolina goes to OT against 10-2 USF. 7-5 UK loses to Ga Tech, and Vandy is Vandy.

The SEC East sucks. The SEC West is unrivaled in college football.

Let's turn this on its side ...

The most overrated conference this year was the Big 10 ... 69-0 the last 2 years in the CFP

Nebraska was trash (remember they should have lost to a shit Oregon team) and played without a number of key players including their QB ... credit to Tennessee for winning but I wouldn't put that up as some kind of verification of how great the SEC was.

LSU to me is clearly the 2nd best team in the SEC ... Louisville became very disinterested once they fell out of the national picture ... also a TERRIBLE matchup for Louisville since the dirty secret nobody has talked about is that Lamar Jackson really isn't good at being a passing QB if he can't run around ... the book is kinda out on him. But that's a really good win.

Georgia beating TCU? That's a game between 2 very underachieving football teams. TCU sucks this year led by the fact that Kenny Hill is an absolute shit QB. Again, wouldn't be using that as a verification of the SEC.

Florida beating Iowa? Besides Iowa being an above average Big 10 team, it's the same team that lost to North Dakota St or whoever the power is from D2.

The comments still stand regarding the fact that the SEC has not had a great year this year and the QB play is definitely below par.

And as for the PAC, Colorado got whipped and exposed as a team that overplayed their talent level ... Utah beat a semi-dangerous Indiana team ... Stanford beat a dangerous North Carolina team ... I expect USC will clown stomp Pedo St ... and Washington probably gave Alabama a better game than a lot of SEC people thought ...

Alabama is head and shoulders above everybody else in the SEC ... the rest of the SEC is up and down mediocre IMO

Secfans said:

Tequilla said:

And as for the PAC, Colorado got whipped and exposed as a team that overplayed their talent level ... Utah beat a semi-dangerous Indiana team ... Stanford beat a dangerous North Carolina team ... I expect USC will clown stomp Pedo St ... and Washington probably gave Alabama a better game than a lot of SEC people thought ...

Alabama is head and shoulders above everybody else in the SEC ... the rest of the SEC is up and down mediocre IMO

Colorado went 0-4 against any team with a pulse. North Carolina got wrecked by a pretty bad UGA team. USC may beat PSU, but we still don't know anything about USC. Outside of UW, their resurgence coincided with like 6 wins over teams who averaged 4 wins this season.

Indiana had a losing record in a trash league. And didn't have their HC. There's no honor in that win if you're trying to make the argument Utah is a good team.

UW may have given Alabama a better game, but they're still not in the same league as Alabama - but easily the class of the PAC 12.

I'm not saying the SEC isn't down compared to SEC years prior. But relative to the rest of the country, it's still superior, especially the west. Everyone is down.

Florida and Georgia suck though. They really really do. Which really just furthers my point - as bad as they are, they are still winning their bowl games.

For what it's worth, I think UW beats UF or UGA by 3 TDs or more. They're better coached than either, and have significantly better skill players.