SEC logic dictates Sparty should be #1
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 4:53 pm
By Davis
The SEC has long been crowned the king of College football. Winners of 7 straight championships, it’s hard to argue the fact that conference must be doing something right. Even Billy Currington would agree. The conference shows up in big non conference games and consistently posts winning bowl records on the reg. The SEC is rewarded regularly on a weekly basis with unranked teams winning and being slid into the top 25, a luxury no other conference has, nor deserves.
Most recently, we saw an Ole Miss (Mississippi) team, a team that was destroyed by TCU in the bowl game last year 42-3, and entered this season unranked, catapulted into the top 5 in most polls after defeating Alabama last Saturday. The equivalent would be Tulsa beating Oklahoma and suddenly becoming the #1 team in the country..IT DOESN’T make sense. The tired old line of “Well we beat each other up in conference play,†is archaic at best if not albeit outrageous. When Tennessee beats South Carolina, should they be #1? But you can bet a sexy little dollar that the Vols will be ranked next week.
If the bias doesn’t exist, and SEC drum beaters will say it doesn’t, then why is it that Michigan State, a team with a high quality win over Oregon has not jumped ohio state, a team that has under performed in every game this year, nearly losing to Northern Illinois. Granted they were the best team the buckeyes had/will play outside of Sparty but that says nothing about how good osu is but a lot about how they schedule favorably to win out. No one does it better than ohio state. Virginia Tech was relevant 15 years ago. Western Michigan and Northern Illinois are MAC schools, who sadly beat up on 75% of the big ten. Kyle Orton isn’t at Purdue anymore, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana are garbage and let’s not even pretend Michigan and Penn State are good programs anymore, even if you wear Dockers.The buckeyes schedule has been terrible.
So why is it that Sparty can’t get the SEC jump over ohio state. If Michigan State and Oregon are SEC schools, is Sparty not #1. What is this love affair with ohio state in the media and did it play a role in getting them in a championship playoff last season. That’s not for me to say but if the NCAA Playoff Committee has any integrity at all, Michigan State will be #1 next Monday.
The SEC and ohio state need to quit playing politics with our game.
The SEC has long been crowned the king of College football. Winners of 7 straight championships, it’s hard to argue the fact that conference must be doing something right. Even Billy Currington would agree. The conference shows up in big non conference games and consistently posts winning bowl records on the reg. The SEC is rewarded regularly on a weekly basis with unranked teams winning and being slid into the top 25, a luxury no other conference has, nor deserves.
Most recently, we saw an Ole Miss (Mississippi) team, a team that was destroyed by TCU in the bowl game last year 42-3, and entered this season unranked, catapulted into the top 5 in most polls after defeating Alabama last Saturday. The equivalent would be Tulsa beating Oklahoma and suddenly becoming the #1 team in the country..IT DOESN’T make sense. The tired old line of “Well we beat each other up in conference play,†is archaic at best if not albeit outrageous. When Tennessee beats South Carolina, should they be #1? But you can bet a sexy little dollar that the Vols will be ranked next week.
If the bias doesn’t exist, and SEC drum beaters will say it doesn’t, then why is it that Michigan State, a team with a high quality win over Oregon has not jumped ohio state, a team that has under performed in every game this year, nearly losing to Northern Illinois. Granted they were the best team the buckeyes had/will play outside of Sparty but that says nothing about how good osu is but a lot about how they schedule favorably to win out. No one does it better than ohio state. Virginia Tech was relevant 15 years ago. Western Michigan and Northern Illinois are MAC schools, who sadly beat up on 75% of the big ten. Kyle Orton isn’t at Purdue anymore, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana are garbage and let’s not even pretend Michigan and Penn State are good programs anymore, even if you wear Dockers.The buckeyes schedule has been terrible.
So why is it that Sparty can’t get the SEC jump over ohio state. If Michigan State and Oregon are SEC schools, is Sparty not #1. What is this love affair with ohio state in the media and did it play a role in getting them in a championship playoff last season. That’s not for me to say but if the NCAA Playoff Committee has any integrity at all, Michigan State will be #1 next Monday.
The SEC and ohio state need to quit playing politics with our game.
