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I wonder if OSU will drop in the polls. Didn't Auburn drop about 10 spots when they squeaked by Jax State?
 
Stainless said:
I wonder if OSU will drop in the polls. Didn't Auburn drop about 10 spots when they squeaked by Jax State?
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We dropped 12 spots, from 6 to 18.

Where are all the Bama fans today? They are very quiet in the twitter-verse and on the book of face.....
 
Steelerlyn said:
We dropped 12 spots, from 6 to 18.
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In hindsight they should have probably dropped completely out of the rankings because they are turrible and beating Louisville isn't looking very impressive right now.
 
After another solid outing without 3 offensive starters, including their starting QB, Notre Dame should move into the top 4...

Without the late game comeback, they handled a very good and formidable foe rather easily.

Right now, they are looking like a candidate for the first college football playoffs!

Go Irish!
 
steel dino said:
After another solid outing without 3 offensive starters, including their starting QB, Notre Dame should move into the top 4...

Without the late game comeback, they handled a very good and formidable foe rather easily.

Right now, they are looking like a candidate for the first college football playoffs!

Go Irish!
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Weren't the first college football playoffs last year?
 
Stainless said:
In hindsight they should have probably dropped completely out of the rankings because they are turrible and beating Louisville isn't looking very impressive right now.
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Oh I agree.
 
There really is no dominant conference in college ball this season. The hisorically "great" SEC looks weak this year. The PAC 12 has nobody outside of Oregon. USC is not a feared school anymore. The Big XII? TCU, Baylor, Maybe Oklahoma, Big 10 looks like toss up between Mich St and Ohio St. BYU, and Notre Dame look scary but can they be consistent?

My team UGA, always a good running game. Chubb and Michel should ease up the pressure on Lambert/Ramsey. Whoever Richt decides to start. But the D has some holes. Weird college season
 
I think UGA is the team to beat in the SEC.
 
bmoritz said:
Vader, with all due respect, you're making your own point AGAINST the SEC when you say Ohio State doesn't play anybody. For years, all we've heard is how great and dominant the SEC is (while they've been given every advantage for over a decade). Who does the SEC play out of conference? Nobody! It's easy to sit there and say "We're so much better than everybody else" when you don't play anybody else. Last year, Ohio St versus Bama in the playoff was one of the first times the SEC was forced to play a major out of conference opponent. (And don't give me when Bama beat Notre Dame. The Irish had NO BUSINESS being anywhere near the championship that year). How did that game last year work out?

I'll admit I'm a Buckeyes fan, but I'm VERY concerned with how we've played, particularly in the first half of every game this year. They better get their crap together by November, or Mich State will steamroll them.

I'm not saying the SEC sucks, that would be ridiculous. But the plain and simple fact is, they've had their rear ends kissed for YEARS, and been given advantages. The past couple of seasons have proven they are NOT the end all, be all that we've been constantly told.
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Sorry you're just wrong. The SEC conference has been stacked for years. When was the last time anybody but OSU won the big 10? You have maybe 3 teams that have any sort of chance. And Michigan hasn't been good in several years. What out of conference teams are they playing? Hawaii? UNI? Please.

The SEC championships were against major colleges NOT Hawaii. You ***** about ND but OSU got slaughtered every time they played in the championship game against an SEC team until last year. Florida beat OSU 41-14 then LSU beat them 38-24. I guess they shouldn't have been in those games?

My point is that OSU looked like **** but they won't fall because they are OSU. I'd love a 16 team playoff. BTW I'm an ole miss fan but I know they have no chance of every winning a championship. The SEC is too hard and nobody is going to put a 1 loss ole miss into a championship game.
 
Well, one thing is for certain. The folks who put the Championship Series idea together have accomplished one of their goals. They have the fans from every conference watching what happens in the other conferences and talking about the rankings. Even if the rankings are unofficial at this point and may not reflect who the Committee chooses.
 
Just another quick point. In 2011 Bama played Penn St. Who ended up 9-4 and 6-2 in the Big Ten. In 2012 they played Michigan who went 8-5 and 6-2 in the Big Ten. So who exactly does OSU play out of conference that is as good as those teams? Most SEC teams play at least one good out of conference team. Tenn. has played UCLA and OK recently. Bama played Wisconsin this year and are scheduled to play FL. State next year.
 
Northern Illinois has went 57-13 in the last 5 years. They have been a power and the MAC is a good conference. Osu played like crap but let's not pretend that was some cupcake like auburn played last week. Meyer needs to pick a qb and stick with him. He's trying to make everyone happy and it will have the opposite effect.
 
Well you should probably understand that the schedules aren't made the year before. Most are made at least 3 - 5 years before the actual season. Thus, at the time that tOSU scheduled Virginia Tech, they were a team that was as good as the teams mentioned. In 2016 and 2017 they play Oklahoma, in 2018 they play Oregon State and TCU. So, it seems to me that they were actually following the SEC model of scheduling 1 "good" team and a few cupcakes. Problem is that VT didn't stay good.

Let's see who Ole' Miss plays ... 2016 - FSU and a bunch of stiffs as non-conference foes, 2017 - Cal and a bunch of stiffs, 2018 - not available.

Btw, that 2015 Ole Miss non-conference schedule is packed with powerhouse teams ... UT-Martin, Fresno State and Memphis. You wanna talk about a bunch of stiffs. These guys weren't even good when Ole Miss scheduled them; unlike Virginia Tech.
 
The top 25 poll was just released. Bama fell to 12. Auburn is #25. I have NO CLUE how that is possible. (The Auburn ranking, not the Bama ranking).
 
i guess SEC fans don't like it when they fall in polls after losses just like teams from other conferences do. They rode a wave of staggeringly biased polling which ignored losses and gave them a free pass to the title game whether it took allowing a 2 loss Florida team in there or setting up a bogus rematch.

Now that the polls seem to have gone back to normal, SEC fans are upset.
 
tapeANaspirin2it said:
i guess SEC fans don't like it when they fall in polls after losses just like teams from other conferences do. They rode a wave of staggeringly biased polling which ignored losses and gave them a free pass to the title game whether it took allowing a 2 loss Florida team in there or setting up a bogus rematch.

Now that the polls seem to have gone back to normal, SEC fans are upset.
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I'm not. I said Auburn didn't deserve to be in the top 25. I don't understand why we are. It's ridiculous.
 
bmoritz said:
Vader, with all due respect, you're making your own point AGAINST the SEC when you say Ohio State doesn't play anybody. For years, all we've heard is how great and dominant the SEC is (while they've been given every advantage for over a decade). Who does the SEC play out of conference? Nobody! It's easy to sit there and say "We're so much better than everybody else" when you don't play anybody else. Last year, Ohio St versus Bama in the playoff was one of the first times the SEC was forced to play a major out of conference opponent. (And don't give me when Bama beat Notre Dame. The Irish had NO BUSINESS being anywhere near the championship that year). How did that game last year work out?
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This is not necessarily true. Let's be specific for a moment. The teams in the SEC WEST like LSU and Alabama do go out of conference periodically and get some quality games. LSU has gone to Oregon, Washington, Dallas and Houston for openers. Alabama has had a home and home with Penn State, opened the season win kickoff classics several times... Arkansas regularly plays teams from the BigXii, Auburn has had home-and-home with Clemson and has opened in Atlanta a couple times. The two teams in the SEC West that haven't schedule out of conference are Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

The SEC East is a completely different story for one BIG reason: The Eastern teams (for the most part) have annual rivalry games with the ACC. Florida/Florida State, Georgia/Georgia Tech, South Carolina/Clemson, Kentucky/Louisville are on the schedule every year. The teams in the SEC West don't have these annual out-of-conference rivalries. Additionally, Georgia has added Arizona State, Boise State and Clemson to their already packed schedule.

So no, the SEC's scheduling is just fine, thank you very much.

By the same token, I do NOT agree with Vader's criticism of Ohio State's schedule. Buckeyes have scheduled NIU (a bowl team last year) and opened the season on the road in Blacksburg. You cannot fault Ohio State for their confernece schedule. The B1G being down is just to thier benefit. Nothing you can do about that. Is Urban Meyer supposed to recruit for Penn State and Indiana too? The B1G teams need to get their act together. Northwestern being the 3rd best team in that conference says all you need to say. Can you imagine Vanderbilt being the best team in the SEC... EVER?
 
tapeANaspirin2it said:
i guess SEC fans don't like it when they fall in polls after losses just like teams from other conferences do. They rode a wave of staggeringly biased polling which ignored losses and gave them a free pass to the title game whether it took allowing a 2 loss Florida team in there or setting up a bogus rematch.

Now that the polls seem to have gone back to normal, SEC fans are upset.
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You're thinking of LSU... The only reason that happened was because WVU couldn't beat an average Pitt team at home. If WVU wins that game, LSU doesn't sniff that title.
 
SteelBuckeye said:
Well you should probably understand that the schedules aren't made the year before. Most are made at least 3 - 5 years before the actual season. Thus, at the time that tOSU scheduled Virginia Tech, they were a team that was as good as the teams mentioned. In 2016 and 2017 they play Oklahoma, in 2018 they play Oregon State and TCU. So, it seems to me that they were actually following the SEC model of scheduling 1 "good" team and a few cupcakes. Problem is that VT didn't stay good.

Let's see who Ole' Miss plays ... 2016 - FSU and a bunch of stiffs as non-conference foes, 2017 - Cal and a bunch of stiffs, 2018 - not available.

Btw, that 2015 Ole Miss non-conference schedule is packed with powerhouse teams ... UT-Martin, Fresno State and Memphis. You wanna talk about a bunch of stiffs. These guys weren't even good when Ole Miss scheduled them; unlike Virginia Tech.
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Ohio State annually schedules one power team out of conference every year... opting to play at least two in-state games.

...and Ohio State rarely plays Cincinnati.
 
Steelerlyn said:
I'm not. I said Auburn didn't deserve to be in the top 25. I don't understand why we are. It's ridiculous.
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I'd say the teams in the SEC that deserve their rankings accordingly are LSU, Ole Miss, UGA, and BAMA. Everyone else is kinda middle of the road play right now
 
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