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Southern passion propels SEC to top of conference ladder

Vote: College Football's best conference

Has anybody read the latest ESPN articles about who has the best conference in college football? Of course the majority of ESPN "experts" pick the SEC, but how do they figure? The "proof" that Forde uses to show that they are the best conference has to do with the fan support, not with the product that is displayed on the field. Also, he only compared them to the PAC-10. The PAC-10, are you kidding me!! The PAC-10 has two solid teams in SC and CAL. UCLA, Oregon, Oregon St, Wash. St, and Wash, ASU, and AZ are mediocore at best with Stanford being the laughingstock of college football (next to Duke). While I will agree that the SEC might have the best talent pool of players I don't think that it necessarily means they play the best football. When's the last time anyone has heard of Kentucky, Vandy, Ole Miss, South Carolina, or Miss. St having great football teams. The answer is NEVER!! The SEC is top heavy just like every other major conference. Teams like LSU, Florida, Tennesee, Auburn, and Alabama(not lately) keep the league afloat and pray for teams like Arkansas and Georgia to have an occasional winning season. I'm not trying to bash or anything I just think ESPN needs to start looking into the conference as a whole before they start pulling rankings out of their a$$.

My next gripe comes with their Sportsnation poll. Why don't they just have a poll that allows the fans to choose which conference they feel is the best. Instead, ESPN seeds the conferences and comes up with a crappy tournament to see who's the best. I wanna know who does the seeding? ESPN's "experts"!! Of course, why would they do it any other way!! This years conference poll has the SEC #1 (go figure) followed by the PAC-10 as the 2nd seed, the Big 10 as the 3rd, Big 12 as 4th, ACC as 5th, Big East 6th and then the MWC and WAC. Where do they come up with this crap? How in the hell is the PAC-10, seeded 2nd, a better conference then the Big 10 or Big 12 (see my explanation above about the PAC 10). The Big 10 has at least 3 good teams in Michigan, Ohio St. and Wisconsin (sorry excluded Penn St.) and the Big 12 has Texas, OU, Nebraska, and A&M. How does a conference with less good teams get a better seed? Can somebody tell me please?

God, I'm sick of ESPN's crap!! They no longer report sports news, instead the report their unsupported, biased opinions. GBR!!

 
I agree with you. I guess I was just more pissed off that they had the PAC-10 as the 2nd best conference than anything else. I will say that I think the top three; SEC, Big 12 and Big 10 are a lot closer than some might think.

 
Stack the top 7 in the SEC against any other conference in the country, and that would be tough to beat.

Florida, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama.

Big 12 would go NU, OU, Texas, A&M, OSU and then get smoked probably after that.

Big 10 would go OSU, Michigan, PSU, Iowa and Wisconsin and then get rolled.

SEC just goes strong from top to bottom. When Spurrier is coaching South Carolina, you know the conference is tough.

 
SOCALHUSKER said:
Southern passion propels SEC to top of conference ladder

Vote: College Football's best conference

Has anybody read the latest ESPN articles about who has the best conference in college football? Of course the majority of ESPN "experts" pick the SEC, but how do they figure? The "proof" that Forde uses to show that they are the best conference has to do with the fan support, not with the product that is displayed on the field. Also, he only compared them to the PAC-10. The PAC-10, are you kidding me!! The PAC-10 has two solid teams in SC and CAL. UCLA, Oregon, Oregon St, Wash. St, and Wash, ASU, and AZ are mediocore at best with Stanford being the laughingstock of college football (next to Duke). While I will agree that the SEC might have the best talent pool of players I don't think that it necessarily means they play the best football. When's the last time anyone has heard of Kentucky, Vandy, Ole Miss, South Carolina, or Miss. St having great football teams. The answer is NEVER!! The SEC is top heavy just like every other major conference. Teams like LSU, Florida, Tennesee, Auburn, and Alabama(not lately) keep the league afloat and pray for teams like Arkansas and Georgia to have an occasional winning season. I'm not trying to bash or anything I just think ESPN needs to start looking into the conference as a whole before they start pulling rankings out of their a$$.

My next gripe comes with their Sportsnation poll. Why don't they just have a poll that allows the fans to choose which conference they feel is the best. Instead, ESPN seeds the conferences and comes up with a crappy tournament to see who's the best. I wanna know who does the seeding? ESPN's "experts"!! Of course, why would they do it any other way!! This years conference poll has the SEC #1 (go figure) followed by the PAC-10 as the 2nd seed, the Big 10 as the 3rd, Big 12 as 4th, ACC as 5th, Big East 6th and then the MWC and WAC. Where do they come up with this crap? How in the hell is the PAC-10, seeded 2nd, a better conference then the Big 10 or Big 12 (see my explanation above about the PAC 10). The Big 10 has at least 3 good teams in Michigan, Ohio St. and Wisconsin (sorry excluded Penn St.) and the Big 12 has Texas, OU, Nebraska, and A&M. How does a conference with less good teams get a better seed? Can somebody tell me please?

God, I'm sick of ESPN's crap!! They no longer report sports news, instead the report their unsupported, biased opinions. GBR!!
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I'll give ya some props, I think I see what you're saying...Of course, it doesn't hurt having this all said with the National Champ coming out of this conference last year, but these NU fans here are really that knowledgeable, and I agree for the most part.

I think the depth as far as depth of teams go, but honestly...no one will ever know. You can say what you want to about NCO's, but it really isn't going to prove alot. Yes, very biased, but look at '95. Florida would've been written in to beat Nebraska the entire season, and had they not played, it would've been a given. But alas, there was that little bowl game.

I will be one to admit that NU isn't there yet. And yes, the SEC is very powerful and has alot of good teams, alot of talent, alot of speed. Very well-rounded and if yeah, if the Big 12 had to have a tournament with the SEC, it probably wouldn't be pretty. But does it ALWAYS matter? No. You play the games because the GAMES matter, not what's on paper.

SEC...2 NC's, and 1 split since 1997. Yeah, that's great, but spectacular? You be the judge. Have a conference standoff against the Big 12, or any other conference? OK, it could be bad. But last I checked, the NCAA doesn't work that way.

 
I wasn't trying to say that the SEC wasn't the toughest conference I was just saying I didn't think the PAC-10 was top 3 amongst major conferences. By far the SEC has proved time and time again that they play extremely tough, fast football but so do many teams in the Big 10 and Big 12.

Maybe one day a football playoff(tourney) will occur and for sure we'll be able to see what conference really does step it up and plays the best.

 
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