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lol. I think Florida is the only team that's lost so far.

Texas A&M.

It's been a pretty sorry bowl season for sure. These games are awful.

The only two SEC teams to lose were using backup QBs, but clearly there is no good football in that conference anymore. I'm still hoping they just shut it all down and stop playing football cause it's so bad year in and year out.


Conferences like the Big 12 and ACC are at the top of the heap now. Props to them for being so wonderful.

Quote:It's been a pretty sorry bowl season for sure. These games are awful.

My 5-7 Cornhuskers made a bowl game. 5-7! What a joke.

Quote:The only two SEC teams to lose were using backup QBs, but clearly there is no good football in that conference anymore. I'm still hoping they just shut it all down and stop playing football cause it's so bad year in and year out.


Conferences like the Big 12 and ACC are at the top of the heap now. Props to them for being so wonderful.

 

BigJohn98 mad that his team plays in a terrible conference.

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Hey bud. Now would be a good time to start a "the SEC isn't that good" thread. I'm sure now more than ever people will consider your arguments.

7-2 overall for the SEC. The Pac-12 was pretty good as well

Setting records.https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/683431858109980672

So, i just saw this guys post on a different message board. It seems off. My understanding is that the individual bowls select teams at certain slots from the contracted conference. How the heck would the SEC control that? Anybody heard anything like this?

 

Quote:There's a reason that the SEC is so "dominant" in Bowl Games, and it's not necessarily because they fielded a better team amongst equals. The conference has direct control over which teams go to which bowls, and they are very selective about the matchups.


Looking down the list, almost every SEC team either had a better record going in, or had the home field advantage; sometimes both.


The lone exception is Alabama's matchup in the semi-final.


Belk Bowl - Miss State (9-3) v. N.C. State (7-5) Charlotte


Birmingham Bowl - Auburn (6-6) v. Memphis (9-3) Birmingham


Music City Bowl - Texas A&M (8-4) v. Louisville (7-5) Nashville


Texas Bowl - LSU (8(9)-3) v. Texas Tech (7-5) Houston


Outback Bowl - Tennessee (8-4) v. Northwestern (10-2) Tampa


Taxslayer Bowl - Georgia (9-3) v. Penn State (7-5) Jacksonville


Citrus Bowl - Florida (10-3) v. Michigan (9-3) Orlando


Liberty Bowl - Arkansas (7-5) v. Kansas State (6-6) Memphis


Sugar Bowl - Ole Miss (9-3) v. Oklahoma State (10-2) New Orleans


Cotton Bowl - Alabama (12-1) v. Michigan State (12-1) Dallas

Things have changed recently now that the SEC lumps 6 bowls together instead of ordering them in an attempt to prevent the same teams from going to the same bowls over and over again.  But even still the matchups shouldnt change too much.

 

Regardless looking at it based on records of the opponent is dumb.  The better way to look at it is ranking within conference.  Is the 4th best team from this conference playing the 4th best team from another conference.... regardless of whether one of those teams in 9-3 and the other is 7-5.  Traditionally the SEC always had the most difficult bowl schedule by this definition.  Citrus was SEC#2 vs Big10#2.  Outback was SEC#3/4 v Big10#3.  Cotton was SEC#3/4 v Big12#2.  Peach was SEC#5/6 v ACC#2.  Gator was #5/6 vs Big10#4.  Music City was SEC#6 vs ACC #3/4.  Liberty was SEC#7 v CUSA#1.  etc, etc....

 

Now that the SEC has added the Belk and the Texas Bowl, I'm not sure how that has changed.  I know the Big10 had 3 teams in the group of 6 bowls while the SEC only had 2, so some of those games such as Citrus and Outback may have been in the SEC's favor unlike in other years.  Although I dont know if anyone really thought that Florida was the 3rd best SEC team by years end.  

 

Anyways I think this year goes to show you how how much bowl records mean.  SEC sets the record by going 8-2 but overall was a down year.  Other years they've been much better but had a slightly lesser conference record.  Bowl games are usually all about who wants to be there and who doesnt.  

Quote:So, i just saw this guys post on a different message board. It seems off. My understanding is that the individual bowls select teams at certain slots from the contracted conference. How the heck would the SEC control that? Anybody heard anything like this?

 

Teams can pass on certain bowls if they want, but it doesn't seem to be done too often.  Auburn playing in a crappy bowl is because they were a crappy team.  I actually thought Ole Miss/UF were in bowl games they didn't even deserve to be in, but Ole Miss played pretty amazing.

 

Nobody said this about the SEC back when they weren't doing as well in the bowl games, but now that they won 8 games this will be the new talking point?  Sounds like an SEC hater.

Quote:Things have changed recently now that the SEC lumps 6 bowls together instead of ordering them in an attempt to prevent the same teams from going to the same bowls over and over again.  But even still the matchups shouldnt change too much.

 

Regardless looking at it based on records of the opponent is dumb.  The better way to look at it is ranking within conference.  Is the 4th best team from this conference playing the 4th best team from another conference.... regardless of whether one of those teams in 9-3 and the other is 7-5.  Traditionally the SEC always had the most difficult bowl schedule by this definition.  Citrus was SEC#2 vs Big10#2.  Outback was SEC#3/4 v Big10#3.  Cotton was SEC#3/4 v Big12#2.  Peach was SEC#5/6 v ACC#2.  Gator was #5/6 vs Big10#4.  Music City was SEC#6 vs ACC #3/4.  Liberty was SEC#7 v CUSA#1.  etc, etc....

 

Now that the SEC has added the Belk and the Texas Bowl, I'm not sure how that has changed.  I know the Big10 had 3 teams in the group of 6 bowls while the SEC only had 2, so some of those games such as Citrus and Outback may have been in the SEC's favor unlike in other years.  Although I dont know if anyone really thought that Florida was the 3rd best SEC team by years end.  

 

Anyways I think this year goes to show you how how much bowl records mean.  SEC sets the record by going 8-2 but overall was a down year.  Other years they've been much better but had a slightly lesser conference record.  Bowl games are usually all about who wants to be there and who doesnt.  

 

I should have read this before I responded.  Good response.

Quote:My 5-7 Cornhuskers made a bowl game. 5-7! What a joke.

 

I still can't get used to them in the Big 10.  I miss Nebraska playing Oklahoma and Texas.

Quote:I still can't get used to them in the Big 10.  I miss Nebraska playing Oklahoma and Texas.

I am the same way. It's weird with them being in the LIL 10.