College FOOTBALL 2008 is back!

[kaolinchemist]

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Folks, their coach goes into the inner city, at night, by himself, and gives of his time and money for the needy.

I watched this show COPS once where guys would go into the inner city by themselves at night to give some time and money to the needy and it got them in ALOT of trouble.

Hopefully Pete is not up to that kind of "giving".

 

[palmer]

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When you look at the top 15 teams at the end of the year for the past years, there is no argument against the fact that the SEC is the most solid conference.

I disagree.... I haven't looked up the stats so I'm going from memory...

The SEC, Big-10 and Big 12 are the most solid in placing teams in the top 25 year in and year out... Who has the most placements in the top 25 over a period of time (the last 5 years? 10 years?) would tell who is the most solid and that is only if they a placement significantly higher than the other conferences.

Liking your conference and bragging on them is one thing....Taking the blinders off and looking at the whole picture is another....

I'm not slamming anyone....just show proof that a statement like that is valid... If you're right...then kudos to your conference because you are far superior...

 

[kaolinchemist]

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Okay here are some stats:

First, the caliber of players is one way to gauge a conference's strength so lets see:

The Southeastern Conference had 263 players on the 2007 National Football League opening day active rosters, which led all conferences.

The Atlantic Coast Conference was second with 238 players, followed by the Big Ten with 234 players, Pac-10 with 183 players, Big 12 with 176 players and the Big East with 84 players.

Among SEC schools, Georgia was first with 37 former players on NFL rosters, followed by Tennessee with 36, LSU with 33, Florida with 31 and Auburn with 30. Alabama had 21 players on NFL rosters, while South Carolina had 19, Ole Miss and Mississippi State had 17 each, Arkansas had 12, Kentucky six and Vanderbilt with five.

The SEC had five of its schools with 30-or-more-players on NFL rosters. No other conference had two.

Nationally, Miami (Fla.) leads with 46 former players on NFL rosters, followed by Ohio State with 44, Florida State with 41, Tennessee with 36 and Georgia with 35.

Now if you say well NFL players doesn't really mean how strong a conference is how about the ALL-Time Final AP poll which ranks teams by how often they have been in the top 20, top 10, top5 and ranked #1 or 2 www*secsports*com/index.php?s=&change_well_id=2&url_article_id=3891 (REPLACE * with . because it would not let me post hyperlink)

According to this stat 6 of the top 16 All time are SEC schools wow!

What about national champions lets see...

since 1996

1996 Florida
1998 Tennessee
2003 LSU
2008 Florida

So in the past 9 years an SEC team has won three times! and if you go back to 11 years 4 teams have won.

Now it seems that I am not just bragging,and I am not saying the PAC 10 sucks, I am just making a case that the SEC is without a doubt the strongest conference in the land for the last decade and will continue to be strong in the future.

 

[palmer]

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ESPN.com examined which teams were the most overrated and underrated over the last 10 college football seasons by taking a team's preseason ranking in the AP Top 25 poll and compared it to where that team finished the season. Here are the highlights:

Most overrated teams in last 10 years:
1. Florida State (-63)
2. Tennessee (-58)
3. Washington (-42)
4. Miami (-35)
T5. Ohio State (-34)
T5. Nebraska (-34)
7. Florida (-33 1/2)
8. Michigan (-25)
9. Texas (-24)
10. Clemson (-22)

Most underrated teams in last 10 years:
1. Washington St. (+51)
2. Boise State (+48)
3. Oregon (+32 1/2)
4. Arkansas (+26)
5. Wisconsin (+23)
6. Louisville (+20)
7. TCU (+18)
T8. Boston College (+17)
T8. Iowa (+17)
T8. Maryland (+17)

BCS Conferences:
1. Pac-10 (+60 1/2)
2. Big East (+9)
3. Big 10 (+3)
4. SEC (-12 1/2)
5. Big 12 (-78 1/2)
6. ACC (-102)


Which is the top all-time NCAA college football national championship conference?

Listed below and to the right is the order of conferences with the number of college football national championships in parentheses.


Big 12 – (16)

SEC -- (15)

Big Ten -- (13)

ACC -- (9)

Pac-10 -- (4)

Big East -- (3

HERE is a comparison of all conferences.... this last stat is from the SEC sports fan web site...

 

[kaolinchemist]

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I am just making a case that the SEC is without a doubt the strongest conference in the land for the last decade and will continue to be strong in the future.

I stand by my statement of the last ten years, but to me your findings further prove my point because ESPN is so biased against the SEC it's not even funny.

Also they use PRESEASON rankings in their analyses and Pre-season polls aren't worth crap . I don't think any polls should be released before mid October.

ESPN is the devil!

 

[Hershal]

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Hershal,

It's great to finally meet someone from the west coast who has their football head on straight.

Now you have to work on the rest of the minions out there

I know we are biased because we are from Southeast, but that doesn't mean we are wrong!

Keep em' straight Hershal

I try.....though as soon as some find out I am a multi-generation Southerner they stop listening.....oh well, it is CA after all.....

 

[n866fandp]

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OK we've beaten the confrence thing like the dead horse that it is.
How about individual teams. Over the last 10 years few teams have been as consistant as OSU. Say what you want about loosing back to back BCS championship games. But the fact is they were there. Could some one remind me howmany BCS Championship games Georgia has played in over the last 10 years.

 

[Craig H.]

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OK we've beaten the confrence thing like the deae horse that it is.
How about individual teams. Over the last 10 years few teams have been as consistant as OSU. Say what you want about loosing back to back BCS championship games. But the fact is they were there. Could some one remind me howmany BCS Championship games Georgia has played in over the last 10 years.

Should/could have been in one last year. Maybe they will figure out some way to have a true BCS championship with 2 SEC teams playing.

Oh, by the way (all together, everyone)...

Keep talkin'...

 

[Randy Stewart]

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Say what you want about loosing back to back BCS championship games.

But I thought the idea was winning the championship not just getting there!!!! I just had to say it.

 

[n866fandp]

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You must admit it starts with winning "your" regular season games.