Living in Columbus I generally try and watch the Buckeyes even if I hate everything about the program and the loss was only shocking to me because I thought they'd lose by more. The team has been an absolute shit show ever since Urban had no clue how to pick a starting QB. I'm sure if Cook was playing it would have been a 2 score victory.
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Chanur
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This is it exactly. SEC teams are more heavily weighted when they don't deserve to be.
Also again none of that matters because a committee decides what they feel is best. You're point would be valid if the rankings and strength of schedule were all that mattered. Please talk shit some more while being completely fucking retarded WhatsAmmatU.
He's with the Newcomer. No where near man enough to post here after a loss.
Yeah, the MIT mathematician, born in New York and living in Indiana, built an algorithm to "heavily favor" SEC teams just because. That is it *exactly*.
Of course, his basketball ratings always favor Kansas, UConn, Duke, North Carolina, and Kentucky just to fuck your shit up, too. No other reason, he's just biased.
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Bias or no bias, the SEC is 31-15 in Bowl games over the past 4 years. Find me a conference that has a record anywhere as good as that and I'll start to listen to opinions of the SEC being overrated.
Big10 is 15-26 over that timeframe
Pac12 is 18-15
Big12 is 17-16
ACC is 15-23
Say what you will about the somewhat randomness of playing a bowl, but that's the one measurable you can use for out-of-conference competition on a somewhat neutral site that isn't just padding stats by feeding on bad teams(like in-season non-con games)
Big10 is 15-26 over that timeframe
Pac12 is 18-15
Big12 is 17-16
ACC is 15-23
Say what you will about the somewhat randomness of playing a bowl, but that's the one measurable you can use for out-of-conference competition on a somewhat neutral site that isn't just padding stats by feeding on bad teams(like in-season non-con games)
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Big East still has the the highest bowl win percentages out of any conference. Is 10-8 vs. SEC in bowl games.
Big East - .571
SEC - .567
SEC vs. Big East conference: 25-29
Ultimately, Big East > SEC...
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The top end of the Big East was always pretty decent over the past decade or so(Louisville, Cinci, West Virginia). Big East was 12-8 in bowls in their last 5 years of existence
Obviously something to be said for a conference only getting it's top 4 or 5 teams into bowls, as opposed to the SEC sending like 11 teams to bowls. You start getting down to those 6-6 SEC teams and they really aren't that good(but they're big schools who have fans that travel well) so they end up getting bowl bids over small conference schools with better records. Thats how you end up with a 10-3 Cincinnati playing a 6-7 Vanderbilt in 2011 or 10-3 Cinci vs 6-7 Duke in 2012. The P5 conferences would send their 8th place team to play the Big Easts 2nd or 3rd best team.
But I get your point. I always liked the Big East, it's too bad they couldn't have found another football school or two to join rather than falling apart. Always like that Pitt-Cinci-L'ville-W Virginia games. Good showing in football and basketball and all those schools were relatively close to each other geographically, made for some intense games. Reminded me of the old Big 8 with Missouri, kansas, Nebraska, Iowa St all beating up on each other, all only a couple hours apart. Playing some random team 800 miles away just isn't the same level of fun and rivalry :/ Its more fun when you beat a team thats in your own backyard.
Obviously something to be said for a conference only getting it's top 4 or 5 teams into bowls, as opposed to the SEC sending like 11 teams to bowls. You start getting down to those 6-6 SEC teams and they really aren't that good(but they're big schools who have fans that travel well) so they end up getting bowl bids over small conference schools with better records. Thats how you end up with a 10-3 Cincinnati playing a 6-7 Vanderbilt in 2011 or 10-3 Cinci vs 6-7 Duke in 2012. The P5 conferences would send their 8th place team to play the Big Easts 2nd or 3rd best team.
But I get your point. I always liked the Big East, it's too bad they couldn't have found another football school or two to join rather than falling apart. Always like that Pitt-Cinci-L'ville-W Virginia games. Good showing in football and basketball and all those schools were relatively close to each other geographically, made for some intense games. Reminded me of the old Big 8 with Missouri, kansas, Nebraska, Iowa St all beating up on each other, all only a couple hours apart. Playing some random team 800 miles away just isn't the same level of fun and rivalry :/ Its more fun when you beat a team thats in your own backyard.
Went drinking some beers with george o'leary today after class. Look for UCF to go after Les hard, some rumblings around campus about it going down.
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I was mainly being sarcastic.
Big East has played a lot of big name schools in their history however. There are plenty of wins against big-time SEC schools such as Florida (numerous times), Auburn, Georgia, Miss St., Ole Miss, LSU. We are not just talking shitty UK or Vandy here. This is within the 13 years these all occurred, a good majority being in bowl games.
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And considering Bama could not give less of a shit about bowls unless it is for the championship that is even more impressive
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Considering Bama will just claim Women's Health and Beauty or Southern Living National Championships anyways, not sure why they even care about the real game.And considering Bama could not give less of a shit about bowls unless it is for the championship that is even more impressive
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Why are the playoff rankings not out for this week?
AP was brutal to Ohio State, but correct I think. Iowa jumped Notre Dame, but the Irish are still at #4. This week's game against Stanford is their whole season at this point.
AP was brutal to Ohio State, but correct I think. Iowa jumped Notre Dame, but the Irish are still at #4. This week's game against Stanford is their whole season at this point.
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Playoff rankings come out on Tuesday nights. Patience young one, your team will be in the top 4.
Is this you practicing being wrong so that you can be sure to nail being wrong when it really counts?
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No, I'm genuinely shocked they didn't put ND in the top 4. ND carries a lot of weight in the national media and minds of the committee. But as far as being wrong, you're the expert so you tell me.
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I would rather not play FLA in any post season event in any sport ever again if that's ok.