But the SEC is the conference with a "record setting" number of teams in the top 25 to start a season.
So? Right now there are 7 Pac 12 teams and 5 SEC teams in the top 25. Even though there were a record number of SEC teams to begin the year ranked, they aren't all there now. And the SEC teams who have dropped out of the rankings hasn't benefited other SEC teams since most of the games to this point have been non-conference matchups.
When it comes to the SEC, he likes the complain just for the sake of doing so. Nobody with any sense cares about rankings in week 3 except for when they need something to bitch about.
Because it shows the bias and clearly explains why the SEC will always have a team in the college playoffs. Which is fine.
So it shows bias in the meaningless polls that have no real effect on the season's final outcome. Who cares?
They do though, which is what you don't seem to comprehend. It all goes into a teams resume. If you start near the top it's a lot easier to finish near the top then if you start near the bottom. Especially if all the teams you're playing are ranked initially. Because they will all be higher in the rankings then the teams that have the same record who weren't ranked initially.
Auburn went the NC game 2 years after starting the year unranked. If a team puts up a great season, they will be recognized. If multiple teams do it, than the ones who pad their schedules with cupcakes (Baylor and TCU) will be left out.
You mean like the SEC teams who pad their out of conference schedules with FCS teams and use the excuse that their in conference schedule is super tough (since they played so many ranked teams in the SEC
)?
Auburn plays in the SEC, which is kind of the point that is being made. When you put a bunch of SEC teams at the top of the rankings to start the season. Even if it is totally undeserved, what happens is even when a crappy SEC team starts winning, their strength of schedule looks ungodly because all the SEC teams they are playing are "ranked highly" when they play them. The SEC isn't playing some murderers row outside of their conference schedule. And just like we saw this year a lot of those non conference games caused serious problems for the SEC.
I agree with this point. I said it last year. If that were Texas and Oklahoma instead of Baylor and TCU I guarantee one of the Big XII schools would have made the playoffs. No doubt about it.
That's true to an extent. Ohio State made the playoffs last year because they are Ohio State. If Northwestern had gone through the Big Ten with the same record there isn't a chance in hell they make the playoffs.
TCU actually plays a respectable non-conference schedule. Unlike Baylor, they aren't afraid to schedule competitive non-conference games. Off the top of my head I know they've played Virginia, LSU, and Oregon St. in recent years.
Exactly my point. Ohio State's name got them into the playoffs.
That and the lack of a conference championship game.
I'm of the opinion that the lack of a conference championship game was a convenient excuse.
True but if they played in the SEC with that record Baylor would be in regardless of their non conference schedule.
If they played in the SEC they would have played a tougher schedule and belonged in.
