It's that time of year! SEC football time. Time to respect the greatest conference in all of sports.
I say the championship game is between Bama and my home state Vols. go BIG ORANGE!!!!!!
It's that time of year! SEC football time. Time to respect the greatest conference in all of sports.
I say the championship game is between Bama and my home state Vols. go BIG ORANGE!!!!!!
They better put at least two in this year after last years bowl games. I think it should be at least 3 SEC teams and then maybe humor a B1G or PAC12 team in the playoff. I'm going with Alabama and Georgia for my 2 SEC schools. Though I do think Michigan has a good shot to spoil this year.
Alabama LSU
Ole Miss and some other team that Ole Miss will have beaten.
Go Gators!!!!
Every team in the SEC will have at least two losses. It so, so tough. Beating each other up every single week. ESecPN will see to it that two SEC teams get into the Final Four.
They shouldn't allow 2 teams from the same conference in the final four. It should be conference champs only. Too many politics involved, the system can be rigged easily.
2 Loss SEC wrote:
Every team in the SEC will have at least two losses. It so, so tough. Beating each other up every single week. ESecPN will see to it that two SEC teams get into the Final Four.
Beating each other up every single week? Surely you jest. They play 8 conference games and there are 14 teams in the conference. The only nationally relevant teams rarely play eachother.
Here is the COMPLETE list of nationally relevant SEC games, based on how well teams have played over the last 3 years:
Week 1 = 4 games
Alabama vs. USC (OOC vs. P12)
Ole Miss vs. Florida State (OOC vs. ACC)
Georgia vs. North Carolina (OOC vs. ACC)
LSU vs. Wisconsin (OOC vs. B1G)
Week 2 = 0 games
Week 3 = 1-2 games
Alabama vs. Ole Miss (SEC West showdown)
Georgia vs. Missouri (questionable, because it depends on Missouri being as good as they have been the past few years)
Week 4 = 1 game
Georgia vs. Ole Miss
Week 5 = 0-1 game
LSU vs. Missouri (questionable, see Week 3 note)
Week 6 = 0 games
Week 7 = 0 games
Week 8 = 1 game
Ole Miss vs. LSU (SEC West showdown)
Week 9 = 0 games
Week 10 = 1 game
Alabama vs. LSU (SEC West showdown)
Week 11 = 0 games
Week 12 = 0 games
Week 13 = 0-2 games
Georgia vs. Georgia Tech (OOC vs. ACC)
Florida vs. Florida State (OOC vs. ACC ... questionable, as this has been lopsided of late)
Week 1 (OOC showdown weekend) and maybe Week 3 should be good. Outside of those weekends, the SEC isn't going to feature much relevant national news outside of a major upset. Ironic that the strongest weekend for the SEC, opening weekend, is strictly against OOC teams.
Alabama and LSU are the only real contenders for a spot in the CFP, IMO, unless Georgia is much better than expected. I'm not buying the Tennessee hype, and Ole Miss lost a LOT from a pretty good team last year.
As for the topic of the probable CFP teams, I'd take a wild guess and say that the SEC (Alabama or LSU, unless Georgia pulls an upset), B1G (Ohio State or Michigan) and ACC (Florida State or Clemson) Champions are all going to be locks. The last spot is more interesting: Oklahoma or TCU in the B12 are going to be good as usual, and the P12 storyline of Stanford vs. the rising? Washington and falling? Oregon or often-disappointing USC and UCLA might end up with another candidate as well (talk about a conference that might actually beat up on eachother on a weekly basis..).
Seapking of which, Oklahoma vs. Ohio State in Week 3... that could make or break both team's CFP hopes. A win for Oklahoma, plus Michigan winning the B1G, probably sets the final four and locks the P12 out of consideration regardless of how well those teams play.
There no NCAA national champs in Division I-A football due to CTE concerns. We just a TV college champion.
The correct answer is none because there is no "NCAA finals" for football. At least not for FBS anyways.
Dingler wrote:
The correct answer is none because there is no "NCAA finals" for football. At least not for FBS anyways.
There's a 4 team "beauty pageant" though. Very pretty!
Archie Manning wrote:
Ole Miss and some other team that Ole Miss will have beaten.
Is Miss eligible this year? Their highly drafted player was proven to and admitted to having received cash payments from a coach ffs.
What NCAA thingy? In December of each year the NCAA turns over football to Hollywood TV execs.
Stanford & Oregon