Papa Willie wrote:No - you're not a Southerner, SCS. You're from a small part of the country that nobody really knows or gives a fuck about. Odd how you live in Florida. Texas folks' inferiority complex precedes them in most cases - it's painfully obvious.
Inferiority complex? Most everyone I know thinks Texans are arrogant.
You must not have really read this one before you posted it cause you just KYOA
3 big 12 schools in the top 10 and a 4th in the top 25. How many does the SEC have? Six so it looks like the SEC has better overall depth but with the Big 12 having 3 in the top 10 vs 1 for the SEC it is pretty obvious which one is tougher to win.
I have yet to see where anyone didn't say that the SEC isn't the toughest conference right now, but in the top 10 you have 3 SEC schools and 2 Big 12 schools it hardly seems like its that much better now does it. It does however lend fuel to the fire that the Big 12 South is the toughest division in all of college football.
http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/ra ... nkings.php
Note the distance between the SEC and the Big 12. See it? See - this is why people cry about the SEC. This is why SEC teams don't usually go undefeated - they are playing tougher schedules - EVEN when they throw in the Citadel, etc... Just how it works out.
This is a stat that proves nothing without some back ground information like time frames, I mean it hardly seems conclusive since the Big 12 is only 12 years old and the BCS is only about 9 or 10 years old. It also doesn't take into account that there is no Big 4 bowl games before the BCS and conferences like the SWC were locked into the Cotton bowl. This is one of those times where stats lie and liars use stats.
Again this is another case that the stats mean nothing without the backup data like time frames. How can they determine strength of schedule when that information wasn't kept before the saragin rankings (at lease as far as I can determine). It also doesn't take into account the now defunct SWC and if it does it should still mention where it fell in these rankings as well. If it did you would know that once upon a time teams like TCU and SMU were once power houses in college football.
This is sounding like a broke record but stats like this mean nothing unless they are one a level playing field, and they can't be because the Big 12 is only 12 years old and the SEC as we know it has a team from the old SWC in it who in the 60's was a power house and along with Texas owned that decade. I hardly see how that makes the SEC one of the greatest when it was built on the greatness of the old SWC.
When it comes right down to it all your arguments are pretty weak since this is not a level playing field for any of those stats.
more stats that prove nothing without the data to show how they came up with this BS.
http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/ra ... =2000-2007
Again - SEC. This is really getting kind of funny, but I feel I'll have to post these links, as I don't think a few of you will have the intelligence to do as such. In fact - I'm sure you'll continue to bog yourselves down in some of your apparent insecurities. Sorry.
As I'm sure your going to continue to piss yourself thinking how great the SEC is when in fact none of the stats outside of the ones with definite time frames like 2000-2007 really mean anything.
All that really says is that the media expects more from Texas and over rates them. Take a real close look at the teams on the top and the teams on the bottom. Which group would you rather be in? the one that groups you with Nebraska, USC, Miami, Oklahoma, or the one that groups you with WSU, Boston College, Boise State and BYU?
Auburn has had a very nice record in the last decade against some of these elite SEC teams. I'm not at all saying AUBURN IS THE BEST PROGRAM IN THE COUNTRY, fuckup, I'm saying that it belongs right up there with all the rest, though. And yes - they're playing in the best conference in the land. I believe I've provided substantial information to clue you in to the fact that Texas is normally overrated, and they play in what is normally a #3 or #4 conference.
You will also note that earlier in the year, I was pretty much under the assumption that the Big 12 IS the best conference THIS year, but we've certainly been fed enough media bullshit about Oklahoma in the past, haven't we? What usually happens to them when they go to a BCS game?
Again - Auburn does belong. Texas would not be nearly as high in some of those all-time rankings if they actually played in a conference that was year-in, year-out worth a fuck.
Getting through to you yet? I doubt it - but enjoy the stats!
congrats to auburn but that doesn't make them elite, hell taco tech has a good record against Texas and Oklahoma over the last few years along with some impressive bowl wins but that doesn't make them elite either. you have yet to prove that auburn belongs any more than Vandy belongs. Just because a clown fish lives in the toughest part of the pacific ocean doesn't mean it can kick a barracuda's ass that lives in a pond.
And make no mistake allbarn is the clown fish of the SEC. BTW I seem to remember a year being 2k5 when the Big 12 really sucked bad but Texas won the conference and went on to beat what was considered the greatest team of all time.
I don't know of anyone in their right mind that would think that Texas wasn't the best team in the country. When ranking the best teams on this decade it is pretty much between the 2k1 Miami team and the 2k5 Texas team as to who is the best. But I'm sure you will come up with some kind of argument to prove that Vandy was better since they played in the meat grinder.
