The whole fuckin world saw the last 2 national championship games.....The whole fuckin world saw LSu win 38-24, and florida win 41-14, so yea I believe everyone is aware what the rest of the world offers....SEC won 3 of the last 5 championship games, maybe the rest of the world's fans are unaware of the SEC, so they better stand up and take notice, and stop living in a make believe world.
"My team", Lsu, won the national championship, 2 out of the last 5 years, so I wouldn't fit in your catagory of SEC fans that support sec just becuase their teams suck....we just wont people to take notice how hard it is to get thru this confrence, with the caliber of player, and coachs it has with out getting a lose...If they had a playoff system, SEC would win EVERY single year.
The three best teams this year are georgia, lsu and florida...if anyone of these teams can make it thru their schedules, and get to the national championship game, they will win.
Go ahead and post them. I've forgotten so you can do the work. If I mentioned it, it was so insignificant I've forgotten it already.
30 TIMES! WOW! You got some work cut out for you if you want to pursue this.
But from your side of things.... OUCH! You sound like it still messes you up.
Wake up bud. It's 2008. Move on if you can.
The SEC is the best conference, but not by as much as people say. As for the guy saying McCoy won't be playing on Sundays, I'd be willing to make a bet that he has a more successful NFL career than Tim Tebow. Sam Bradford will as well. Stafford is a stud when talking about NFL prospects and is the top prospect in the country, but if you want to bring up the NFL don't even try to say McCoy won't be successful. Chase Daniels won't be, but Colt McCoy could easily be a pro bowler some day.
This is about college though, not the NFL. The SEC has two very good teams; Florida, and Georgia. None will be title contenders IMO, but all are very good football teams. LSU isn't IMO because they don't have a QB. They are a good team, but not in the top tier with the previously mentioned squads. Auburn is another good team, but not sure this team improved enough to be considered top tier. Oklahoma and Texas could both win the SEC, and I would have OU as the favorite if they played in that conference.
I think Missouri and especially Kansas are very overrated and I don't think those teams would be successful in the SEC. Kansas wouldn't even make a bowl game. The SEC is the deepest conference in the country and that is why it is the best. The Big 12 is pretty close though and has the best team overall from the two conferences.
This is about college though, not the NFL. The SEC has two very good teams; Florida, and Georgia. None will be title contenders IMO, but all are very good football teams. LSU isn't IMO because they don't have a QB. They are a good team, but not in the top tier with the previously mentioned squads. Auburn is another good team, but not sure this team improved enough to be considered top tier. Oklahoma and Texas could both win the SEC, and I would have OU as the favorite if they played in that conference.
I think Missouri and especially Kansas are very overrated and I don't think those teams would be successful in the SEC. Kansas wouldn't even make a bowl game. The SEC is the deepest conference in the country and that is why it is the best. The Big 12 is pretty close though and has the best team overall from the two conferences.
Interesting point about OU... I think that could be true. Texas is more speculative, but I can't write off Missouri that easily, even though they are owned by OU. They still have way too much talent on that team to be written off if they played in the SEC. I think they are capable of giving either FL or GA a game of it and on any given Saturday....
Kansas, I think, will come back down to earth this season. They're a good team, but not as good as they appeared last season. I hope to see some overinflated lines on them in the first half of the season, in fact, as that could be a tempting fade.
Missouri, though, I expect to be very good. They've got a light-out offensive system up there and a smart quarterback who's been running it since junior high. That's Chase Daniel's main strength -- he knows what he's doing and he doesn't make many stupid mistakes. Going into the season Mizzou is legit Top 5.
Now this is the smartest post that I've read yet. I personally think Bradford and McCoy are the two best NFL prospects in our league..McCoy has a head on his shoulders..And despite Texas struggling somewhat in the last couple of years, they wouldn't had those 10 win seasons without some of the Houdini plays that McCoy made to get them a big share of their close wins..The only time McCoy has struggled is when Texas young offensive line was still coming together, or when he was hurt..Otherwise this kid is a great QB....Bradford is just a stud with a gun for an arm and good size..There's no doubt in my mind he's going to be playing on Sundays...Although TT's Harrell is a system QB, I still give him a shot because of his accuracy..His only problem right now is he isn't a very durable QB...Todd Reesing of Kansas is small, but he is the most accurate QB in the Big 12..The kid can flat out play for his size..Probably too small for the NFL. The most underrated QB in the Big 12 is Zac Robinson of OSU..He has a great combination of size, mobility and passing ability. (60% passer 23-9 ratio last season) with 903 years rushing. One of the most dangerous QB's in the league..Then there's Daniel. Again, probably too small for the NFL. But he was made for the spread offense..One of the most sought after QB's coming out of highschool, where he also ran the spread offense..The most overhyped QB in the Big 12. Nevertheless a great competitor. And his numbers both rushing and passing speak for themselves. And he's got some of the best skill players in the country to throw to.
I also agree that the SEC will have two legitimate title contenders with Georgia and Florida..With Tennessee a possible darkhorse. But though this conference is the overall best simply because they don't have the amount of bottom dwellers as other conferences, their stats from last year are actually pretty comparable to other conferences.
Here is a little writeup on their stats from the ESPN Insider:
The most interesting items were the comparism between the SEC, Big 10 and Big 12 over the final 6 games of the season. Jungman found that total offense was higher in the Big 12 than either of it's two supposed rivals for the best conference. But he found that total offense between the Big 10 and Big 12 was comparable and that rushing defense was the worst in the SEC than any of the three conferences.
Now this was over the last 6 games of the season, which would mainly be conference play. But what this tells me is that with the high amount of returning starters the Big 12 is going to have this year, they very well could give the SEC a one year run for their money as best conference based on these stats..
AA..I believe what people are thinking of Missouri is they can't possibly improve enough from last season to overtake OU. I think the thing that is going to be improved and underestimated about them this year is their defense. Their defensive line ranks a close third to OU and Texas...But their overall defensive backfield and linebackers in my opinion will be better than OU's or Texas. I just don't see many weaknesses on this team..Plus if they make it to the Big 12 title game, the atmosphere will be totally different than when they had to play down in San Antonio last year.. Kansas City will be running rampant with black and gold. And now that Mizzou has had a taste of the Big 12 title game, I can promise you they'll be much tougher the second time around.
If you want to talk about traveling, look at Florida. I will by no means say UF's scheduale isn't hard because it is. They often play OOC games with Miami and FSU, but UF hasn't played a single game outside the south since something like 1965. Of course this only refers to regular season games not bowl games. But as someone that played college sports I can say that without a doubt it effects you greatly when you have to travel several hours to play a game in a differant climate while still trying to do your regular day to day stuff like classes ect. It's one thing when you travel for a bowl game and get there 10 days early, its totally another when you travel 1000 miles on friday for a game on sat. Why do you think teams like the Arizona Cardinals can go 6-2 at home and 2-6 on the road like they did last year. And they beat a very good Pittsburg and Clevland team at home. Meanwhile when that same Cardinal team traveled to the east they had a 1-4 record. Believe me part of it has to do with the fact that those teams had to travel across the country to play in those games.
