…and Auburn, many years ago.
That’s 4 teams, as opposed to other conferences, like the Big South (Texas and Oklahoma), the Pac-xx (Southern Cal and Oregon), the Big Ten (Ohio State and Michigan).
If it’s Georgia, I won’t care. I only care if it’s Alabama, because they’ve been in the title game 2 of the last 3 years.
Despite having general disdain for the SEC I’m more than able to admit that they’re the best conference in the country. But I want 3 things out of the title game:
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Different teams every year
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To spread the wealth, and
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A team with an entertaining play style (purely subjective, obviously)
Alabama fails all these tests.
Outside shot I suppose, but the Gators have a date in Tallahassee next Saturday afternoon. I do not think that they will win that game.
Florida will be hurt in SoS by not playing in a Conference Championship game.
Auburn was two years ago. And were the odd team out in 2003. Tennessee won a NC in the late 90’s.
I hope you realize that “many” was sarcasim.
Poll prediction Question #3: Will Notre Dame be the the unanimous #1 team in the polls tomorrow?
Thank you, Baylor. Roll Tide!
BCS Projections according to Brad Edwards (ESPN CFB Insider) on his twitter account.
- Notre Dame, 2. Alabama, 3. Georgia, 4. Florida, 5. Oregon
He hedged his #5 pick by saying:
No. Ohio State (not bowl eligible) is still undefeated. AP poll can still vote for them.
If Alabama fell 3 spots from #1, Oregon is almost certainly going to fall below #4.
AP? Maybe. Coaches? No, as they weren’t a unanimous #3 last week. (They were 11 points short.)
I agree that the SEC schedule today looks a lot like Georgia Tech vs Cumberland BUT I’d like to make a few points that I think mitigate things a bit. First remember that the visiting team gets a wad of cash for showing up, that is a major source of funding for their entire athletics program. Also notice that four of those games were against FCS schools from the same state (UGA, USC, A&M and Auburn). Apparently USC always schedules their FCS game in-state, it’s Coastal Carolina next year! Also, I just found this out today, but the SEC requires that all teams play on Thanksgiving weekend. Since most teams have big rivalry games to end the season, they schedule FCS teams in the penultimate game as a rest week (or in UGA’s case to figure out the option before playing GaTech).
The SEC also schedules Conference games in Week 1 and Week 2 of the season which affords them the opportunity to have “Homecoming” Games in November.
Two SEC Questions:
1)Any chance of a “Cocktail Party” National Title Game?
2)WTH happened to Tennessee? National Champ to doormat in 10 years!
14 years. 
Pfffhahahahahahahahahaha! The “Alabama Crimson Died” says hi!
Roll Tide!
The prophesier has spoken true, The end of the world is nigh. The curse of the almighty powers is upon us. We have sinned against the will of all creation. The only undefeated teams are Notre Damn and Ohio. We will be lucky to make it to Dec 12, before all ends in misery, because we must look to Sa[del]t[/del]ban to save us from the insufferingly insufferable Hell that is … unspeakable.
That is just totally ridiculous. K-State was undefeated and in a dog fight with a few other teams for the top spot at the time. They needed as much help as they could in the rankings and if that meant running up the score against perennial doormats, Baylor, then Snyder had an obligation to do so. Any other coach would have done the same thing.
And IIRC, that was one of the games that led to the margin of victory being removed from several of the polls.
Don’t know yet about the rest of the BCS, but the coaches have them at #4, although it’s a “close” #4.
AP has Notre Dame a unanimous #1. Two coaches voted for Alabama, and one for Georgia.
Alabama Crimson Revived.
Haters gonna hate. Roll Tide.
And just to make 'er official, Bama takes #2 in the new BCS standings.
