- Michigan is not in my top 10, nor should they be, their schedule was weak, like Ohio State.
- Boise St should be ranked at least 2nd
- I can not believe that Louisville wins their game and drops in the polls.
- LSU played a great game against Notre Dame. They are ranked lower then Louisville because they have 2 losses.
- USC was ranked 8th in the AP so they move up some to 5
- Wisconsin won their game, they stay put, in the AP they also drop from winning which makes no sense.
- Auburn wins they move up.
- WVU moves up (although I am a fan), but because they won coming from behind without their key player, actually according to stats, Slaton is in the Top 3 for running backs in the nation.
- Ohio State, I feel that I was nice by keeping you in the Top 10, you played no one this season and coasted in on reputation alone. People gave Florida #### saying that they barely beat opponents. Ohio beats Illinois 17-10, Rutgers beats Illinois 33-0, no one mentions that, go figure.
- Rutgers, you were one of the darlings this year, have a good defense, a great running back and a great coach.
Now I know some of you might be upset by how many Big East teams are in the Top 10, but the Big East is undefeated in Bowl games this year, the only conference to do that. I also want to point out that many detractors said that the “spread offense” that was invented by WVU head coach Rodriguez would never work in the SEC or other “Major Conferences”. Florida uses it and they won the National Title.
I was browsing the blog today and I see that LSUfan has made a personal attack against me. His allegation is that I have deleted one of his posts. His rational is that I am a poor sport. However, with most of what LSUfan says, you have to dig a little deeper to get the truth. A couple of weeks ago I posted some comments defending my team and showing some facts about the SEC conference on one of LSUfan’s blog. These comments were then deleted and I was told that they were off topic. LSUfan then posted comments on the very same blog attacking my arguments that he had just deleted; thus giving only one side of the argument. My questions is, if my comments were off topic, then why did you address them on the very same blog? I thought the whole idea of blogging was to hear others thoughts and ideas. It is for this reason that I delete LSUfan’s comment on one of my blogs. Now he has taken offense to his own ignorance. LSUfan I would hope that one day you actually make an argument that is fact based, however I realize that would take some level of intelligence. I do not think you will ever graduate from sitting in the corner and eating glue sticks.
It is amazing to me that so many people come onto fox sports and make statements that just do not have any facts behind them. They regurgitate them over and over again hoping to get other sports fan to eat up their supposed knowledge and become a believer. The main focus of my argument today is the Lie that the SEC is the best conference in football. Now, let me start off by saying that I am a Big East fan (WVU). So I take a special interest considering most people who blog on fox sports considers our conference the “Big Easy”. Listed below are a couple of statements made by other bloggers and my reply with statistical evidence to the contrary.
The Big East plays 1-AA schools, get a real schedule.
Reply – Actually many teams in D-1 play 1-AA schools, I would say the majority do at one time during the year. But, if you look at the stats, the SEC teams have more games against 1-AA schools then the Big East. 8 out of 12 SEC teams play 1-AA schools or 66%. 5 out of 8 Big East schools play 1-AA schools or 62%.
The out of conference teams that are played by the Big East are easy wins because they do not play anyone.
Reply – In reality this is not the case. With the season not over yet, it is difficult to add up total wins and losses but as of Thursday, here are the stats.
WVU’s out of conference opponents winning percentage 41%
Rutgers out of conference opponents winning percentage 43%
Louisville out of conference opponents winning percentage 43%
LSU’s out of conference opponents winning percentage 35%
Florida’s out of conference opponents winning percentage 45%
Auburn’s out of conference opponents winning percentage is 44%
The difference breaks down to about a game, nothing more.
Now for the sake of argument listed below is Ohio State’s and Michigan’s out of conference opponent’s schedule
Ohio State’s out of conference opponents winning percentage 62%
Michigan’s out of conference opponents winning percentage 47%
Any SEC team could play in the Big East and win the conference
Interesting considering that the Big East is 2-0 verses the SEC this year. I think that same thing was said before WVU played UGA in the Sugar Bowl, I forget what happened to your reigning SEC Champions again.
WVU should not be ranked as high as they are what have they done.
Reply, actually they have done a lot; they beat the best team the SEC had in the Sugar Bowl, in Atlanta no doubt. They have remained undefeated thus far this year. Have two legitimate Heisman trophy candidates in Slaton and White. Thus far they have done everything that the pollsters have asked of them.
As you can see the SEC is not as great and powerful as many would have you believe. If you prescribe to the antidote that you are only as strong as your weakest link(s), the bottom three teams by record in the SEC are a combined 8-19. The bottom three teams in the Big East are 11-14.
