Of course they’re good. My point is that every thread about college football gets turned into an SEC dick-sucking contest to the exclusion of all else. It’s been going on for years and I’m soooo tired of hearing it.
Conference fanboy-ism is annoying as hell, in part because it’s directed at one, and only one, conference, year after year after year.
See, now you know how we in the SEC have felt for years (nay, DECADES) at hearing about how great the Big 10 was. Now that their champion is no longer locked into the Rose Bowl, the Big 10 is just getting a well-deserved come-uppance.
Maybe someday, somehow, the SEC will get a similar come-uppance. Just not right now.
Am I really the only one who likes my favorite team (Penn State, so Big Ten), but doesn’t give a damn about the rest of the conference (filled with teams I hate), or how it stacks up against other conferences?
Funny, people said that about them last year when they lost to IL. and yet… there they were and ended the year ranked #2. 
This is without doubt the greatest collection of stupid I’ve ever seen in any SDMB thread. Mostly from Spartydog. For a moment or two I thought I was reading YouTube user comments.
Look, the SEC is just really, really good. There are swings and roundabouts, though. SEC schools hire people like Bobby Petrino and Nick Saban, who will end up fucking over Arkansas and Alabama just as surely as they fucked over Miami and Atlanta. They turn out more than their share of thugs- though not as many as West Virginia. Their fans are annoying as fuck.
What’s really impressive is that the SEC turns out so many good teams despite the fact that they have to share their recruiting hotbeds- Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and so on- with the ACC and Big East. The Big Twelve, PAC-10 and Big Ten don’t have to share their recruits with any other BCS conferences.
Thank you. Thank you, thank you. This state is just lousy with [del]fuck[/del]buckheads who couldn’t find Columbus on a bet, who’ve never been to a game, who have never set foot on the OSU campus, but who wear their scarlet and gray jerseys like they’re chain mail. You can’t even name a player! SHUT UP!
OSU has plenty of recent experience with being a loser. Just because you wait until the last game of the year to embarrass yourself in front of a nationwide audience, that doesn’t make it any less of a loss.
I’m with you here. I root for Penn State because I hate the Big Ten.
They’re looking like they’re on track for not choking and dying until maybe the fifth week this season, at least.
If you mean “the last 5 years” by consistently, then yeah, sure the SEC has been consistently the best conference in the nation. The truth of the matter is that it swings around from conference to conference. The Big 12 was the best for a while, and the Big 10 has had several years as the best conference in the last 15 years. The SECs dominance is only recent, and relatively short lived so far.
USC wins against teams in the Top 25: 1
Combined wins of #3 Georgia + #4 Florida + #5 Missouri + #6 LSU + #9 Alabama + #10 Auburn vs. Top 25: 2
Look, I like college football, but I don’t really care who wins the title. I did not go to an SEC school, and I have never lived in SEC country.
But…it’s impossible for a rational person to deny that the SEC is the best conference this year. The following is a list of schools outside the SEC that have a realistic chance of winning the title:
The SEC has 3 schools that could do it.
I don’t know why it’s “getting old” the SEC is really good this season.
Missouri belongs up there with whoever you’re throwing in with Georgia and Florida, and given that the SEC will self shred the chance of themselves, I’ll throw in UT too.
Whoever comes out of the Big XII south has a damn good shot at it. (Anyways, OU is gonna get their ass kicked during the last week of the regular season :D)
For the six thousandth fucking time, I didn’t say that they weren’t good. I did say that for the past few years, we haven’t had a college football thread that hasn’t devolved into SEC wanking. Jesus fucking broken record Christ.
Well, on the rare occasions when I talk about sports, I like to talk about teams and individuals who are good at said sports. Feel free to go down to your local sports bar and talk about the Kansas City Royals, Algeria’s quest for the World Cup or about how mediocre I am at shooting baskets.
You have to admit that your jab is a lot misleading in that the season is just getting started. Try taking that same little poll at the end of the year. I’d be willing to bet that USC doesn’t play or win against as many top 20 teams as ANY of the SEC teams you mentioned, much less collectively.
indeed.
And at least where Georgia is concerned, I am way right:
USC’s current schedule toughness: 2 top 25 teams; 3 at preseason
UGA’s current schedule toughness: 4 top 25 teams; 6 at preseason
That translates roughly into a schedule at least twice as difficult as USC’s, and this is a consistent, year after year thing. I think you’ll find similar comparisons for USC’s schedule against Florida, LSU, Alabama and Auburn.
It’s not that difficult to look like the best in the country, if you rarely play anybody worth a damn.
Last 17 games, Pac 10 vs SEC.
Pac 10 leads 11-6.
That isn’t just USC owning the SEC (though USC crushes the top SEC teams when they play). Take out USC and LSU, and the Pac 10 still leads.
The SEC East champion just lost to a Pac 10 team who just got annihilated by a MWC team.
The SEC is the best conference, but there is a lot of parity in college football. If you schedule quality teams OOC (in general, the SEC doesn’t do this) you will pick up losses due to parity.
Bragging about number of ranked teams is also silly considering what rankings are based on.
Hey, you submitted that there are 5 SEC teams in the Top 10. I submitted that was because they haven’t PLAYED anybody yet. 
Good lord, nobody saw that coming.
I did.
It’s for the best, really. This saves them from really being humiliated by an SEC at the end of the season.
So now Georgia/Florida is the de facto National Championship game.
College football is silly, sometimes.