Originally Posted by LiveRock27
Reefraff, I am not sure how you can not say the SEC is the best football confrence, but keep on giving us stats about how bad they are and I am sure we can find even more things to prove you wrong.
If your going to go by just the raw results the Mountain West Conference was best this year at 4-1, higher winning percentage.
Arkansas gets killed by Missouri, Kentucky just barely beats Florida State after State lost over 30 players including 15 full or part time starters, Auburn wins by three in Overtime, Tennessee wins by 4 points, Florida gets outplayed by Michigan, Miss State beats Central Florida by 7 and bama beat Colorado by 6. Considering all but 1 of those game were considered a home field setting for the SEC team how do you see that as showing they are a superior conference? If they were such a great conference, so much better than the rest that the teams must import 3 or 4 rent a victims every year to make it even with other conferences don't you suppose they would show it on the field?
Wining by a touchdown or less in all but 2 bowl victories is a good perfomance but hardly a sign of the dominant super conference its made out to be. Nature of the beast is SEC teams tend to have the home field advantage in the bowl games, all but one this year were played where the SEC was on it's home turf. Had Tennessee, bama, Kentucky, Miss State and Auburn played their games in hostil settings would they have still won? The scores of those games were close enough home field advantage very well could have been the difference in the games.
Last year I thought the SEC did show they were better than the rest despite having a worse bowl record than this year. Nuts you say, They had more competative matchups last year. Arkansas played right with Wisky who was probably the best team in the Big 10, Bama could only beat Vany and Ole miss in the SEC but they were able to sneak past Ok State, a decent big 12 team, and Auburn (who had a couple of lucky wins and lived kinda a charmed life in the SEC which made them look a lot better on paper than they really were) was able to beat a pretty good Nebraska team. Tennessee, yeah they got schooled. Georgia Florida and LSU all Kicked butt.
