The College Football Thread 2006

[Sikander]

How come the PAC 10 only has ten teams? They are clearly inferior to the Big Ten, which goes up to 11.

[pchang]

I'm glad to see

that Spinal Tap is your inspiration for humor.

[Eroberer]

I don't care what anyone says, the SEC is the far superior conference this year. Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, LSU, Tennessee, with three of those teams still in the national title hunt, is better than any other conference. I don't really know why there's any discussion on this. All other conferences have 2 teams in the title hunt at most.

The ACC is, by far, the worst, though, with both FSU and Miami being the biggest disappointments of them all. Like I said before, a bet against the ACC this bowl season is a sure win.

[Drake Tungsten]

I don't care what anyone says, the SEC is the far superior conference this year.

Where's your evidence?

All other conferences have 2 teams in the title hunt at most.

Only because the other conferences aren't as overrated as the SEC.

In actuality, though, the SEC doesn't have any teams in the title hunt at the moment. They need several teams to lose if they want to send one of their mediocre teams to the title game..

[Eroberer]

The SEC teams that I listed as title contenders (all but Arkansas) are all 1 loss teams, who lost to.......other SEC teams. Auburn, Florida, and Ten are all in the AP top-10 for a reason.

Earth to Drake, most people are counting on those other teams to get a loss, and for the SEC title winner to be in very high contention for the BSChamp game. By your definition, only OSU/Mich and USC are in title contention, which I hope you know is bunk.

If USC wins out, they're a legitimate Championship contender (who will lose badly to OSU), but based on past BCS seasons, what are the odds of getting two legit contenders? The odds are clearly stacked against this!

[Drake Tungsten]

Auburn, Florida, and Ten are all in the AP top-10 for a reason.

Yeah, because the SEC is overrated. If the Big 12 was as overrated as the SEC, then Texas, Texas A&M and Missouri would all be in the top-10. If the Big East got the respect it deserved, unbeaten Louisville, West Virginia and Rutgers would all be ranked higher than a bunch of one-loss SEC teams.

By your definition, only OSU/Mich and USC are in title contention, which I hope you know is bunk.

OSU, Michigan, USC, Louisville and West Virginia are all in contention for the national title at the moment. Rutgers will be if they got undefeated.

If USC wins out, they're a legitimate Championship contender (who will lose badly to OSU)

I bet you're one of the people who thought USC would blow out Texas last year. Or that Ohio State would get blown out by Miami in 2002.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
It's a widely-held belief that you're a bigger nerd than I am.

are you going to compute some averages to determine that?

[MRT144]

its funny how similar usc this year is to OSU in 2002. but I still go by the averages

[Eroberer]

I bet you're one of the people who thought USC would blow out Texas last year. Or that Ohio State would get blown out by Miami in 2002.

Not even close. Who did you find that thought USC would blow Texas out last year? Do these people even exist outside of USC fans (which I'm obviously not)?

.....Louisville and West Virginia are all in contention for the national title at the moment. Rutgers will be if they got undefeated.

Wrong. Rutgers needs people to lose even if they go undefeated. Louisville and WVU will need peope to lose after one of them loses against the other, and even then, they're no more in contention for the title game than Auburn, Florida, and Texas (and MAYBE Tenn, if they get the SEC championship). But thanks for making my overall point, that there are a lot of top-10 teams in the running for the title game (including 3 SEC teams).

If the Big 12 was as overrated as the SEC, then Texas, Texas A&M and Missouri would all be in the top-10.

Besides your rankings, which you don't even give any links for, Sagarin rankings have the SEC ranked 2nd, and the Big 12 ranked 6th, behind the ACC. I think you're overrating your own conference to even say that if they were overrated they'd be better than the SEC. There's a lot of overrating that needs to be done there.

[Drake Tungsten]

Since I know you're going to ask, the top 10 teams over the past 40 years (ranked by mean wins): Nebraska (9.8), Alabama (8.8), Michigan (8.8), Penn State (8.8), Oklahoma (8.7), Ohio State (8.7), Texas (8.5), Tennessee (8.4), Florida State (8.4) and USC (8.3).

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/stewart_mandel/10/24/mandel.bag/1.html

[MRT144]

wheres the national title listing?

[Eroberer]

Where's Notre Dame on that list of teams?

[mrmitchell]

War Memorial Stadium (Razorbacks' "second home," only in Arkansas) has painted this on their midfield just in time for our first game there:



:vomit:

[Imran Siddiqui]

VTech just BEAT Clemson 24-7

[MRT144]

word to your motha!