(09-30-2014 07:40 AM)vandiver49 Wrote: (09-29-2014 07:36 PM)He1nousOne Wrote: (09-29-2014 07:23 PM)JRsec Wrote: (09-29-2014 07:16 PM)He1nousOne Wrote: (09-29-2014 12:29 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: Bet that hurt S Carolina as bad as our meltdown last year hurt us...
They are pretty much screwed now.
Probably, but I don't see Mizzou winning against Georgia this year and I don't think they will be favored against either of their SEC West opponents. It is quite conceivable given that each East team has two West teams to play that the winner of the East will have 3 conference losses this year and the champion will have to be determined by the tie breaker rules.
What happens if that team ends up winning the SEC Championship game?
Then the SEC West representative wasn't the team we thought they were.
(09-29-2014 07:42 PM)JRsec Wrote: Anger, followed by shock, followed by a new divisional alignment. Vanderbilt and Missouri to the West, Auburn and Alabama to the East and two divisions that could yield a champion on any given year will emerge. Right now Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia are suffering from ACC disease infecting them because the Vols are too close to North Carolina and the other states have to associate with in state ACC fan contagion.
I would hope the SEC wouldn't be so reactionary to what basically is a statistical anomaly. And what is this ACC disease you are referring to?
1. The East hasn't pulled it's weight in almost a decade now.
2. Anytime an undefeated team has to play a two or three loss team in its own championship game it has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
3. The divisions do need to be realigned for strength.
4. The ACC routinely has a strong Clemson or F.S.U. going up against a two or three loss school from the other division. It's hurt them in every way, upsets, loss of S.O.S., a second game against a weak school they've already beaten once, etc.
5. The inability to win consistently against weaker opposition is the ACC disease. Clemson and F.S.U. and particularly Georgia Tech have problems with this. Frequently you can add Virginia Tech to that discussion. Lately Georgia, South Carolina in particular, and this year Missouri are suffering from that disease. Florida is just plain down and will be until they actually hire a coach.
Realigning wouldn't be a knee jerk reaction, but having a strong West team lose in a rematch against a weaker eastern team they've already beaten (like Auburn having to play Tennessee for a second time, or South Carolina for a second time, or this year possibly Georgia just stinks. So far we have won those rematch championship games but in 2004 having to play Tennessee again (even though we won) hurt us in trying to jump U.S.C. for the BCS game. If Alabama lost to a 2 or 3 loss eastern champion you would see the long overdue realignment of our divisions occur. It wouldn't be knee jerk but it would be the catalyst to finally create change.