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2017-2018 Bowl Season
- Thread starter Highlander
- Start date
You know how you think the Stanford band is trying too hard?
You have my permission to stick around. You'll get more comfortable.
I am not sure anyone is calling the SEC a second-rate conference. But when only four teams make the playoff, conference strength matters quite a bit. It also needs to be noted an eight-game conference schedule with one protected cross-divisional rivalry basically ensures Bama and Georgia will not meet in the regular season. If they had played in the regular season, do both teams make the playoff? Not likely.
One question is how do you define best conference - is it this year alone, or is it over a longer period of time? Not that it will settle any debates, but here's some data for you: below are the W/L records and corresponding winning percentages of each conference against the other P5 conferences over the past 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, and 10 years. Going by this, the BIG has been the strongest conference the past 3 years, but beyond that and especially over the last 10 years the SEC has been by far the best conference. If you take this back all the way to 1998 (beginning of the BCS/playoff era) the SEC and Pac 12 are the only conferences with winning records against the others with the SEC still on top with a 0.5439 winning percentage:
This is interesting.
SEC was unbelievable from 2005 to 2010. After that I felt that a bit of self-fulfilling prophesy muddied the water at the top of the conference and bolstered the rankings.
And as each time period shrinks to the current, both the SEC and the Pac 12 are the only conferences going down in each scenario. With the Pac 12 vying as the least competitive conference these days.
I do believe the argument is fair that the SEC has become top heavy and far less competitive throughout the conference over time - and that was before seeing this data.
4 different SEC teams have won the title over the past 12 years and if UGA wins this year that will make 5.
It is not nearly as deep as it was. The sheer amount of coaching turnover is a clear indication.
I think that's the Saban effect because these other schools are trying to keep up with Bama and as a result some pretty good coaches like Richt, Miles, (and almost Malzahn) have been cast aside just because they can't beat Bama. Aside from Saban the coaching in the SEC is certainly subpar compared to the other conferences. If you look at the top coaches after Saban you'll likely come up with a list that includes the likes of Meyer, Harbaugh (yes that's growing questionable), D'Antonio, James Franklin, Dabo, Jimbo, David Shaw, Fuente, and also maybe guys like Gundy, Gary Patterson, Petrino, Chryst, etc.
Point is, once you get past Saban none of these coaches are in the SEC although that may be changing with Jimbo now in the conference, Mullen going to a program where he will have more resources to win and Kirby Smart having this kind of success early on and putting together a top recruiting class.
Agree. B1G has better coaches at the moment.
BlackNGold
Club Member
Cheering for Georgia tonight but mostly want a great game - the last two years have been pretty good. Interesting that both teams have one lost each and both were to Auburn.
Rooting for Georgia too but have Bama 24-21. Hope Im wrong.
as soon as I turned the broadcast on Rece Davis was talking about the massive amount of scrutiny Jalen Hurts undergoes.
wat
I hope he sees Roquan Smith quite a bit tonight.
Go Dawgs!
The media just cannot bring themselves to admit he is a mediocre QB for some reason.
You and I get vastly different search results
Damn, it would be the first true freshman qb to win a Natty since 1985 if Georgia wins.
Print media is more even-handed than broadcast media.
jkppkjjkp
Well-Known Member
Wait, who gets printed media from search engine results?
I like this stadium.
Almost like those broadcast guys are incentivised to keep you interested in the game
Georgia has to hit some big pass plays in this game pretty badly.
Trump attending this event is not surprising. That there were any audible boos among this crowd is hilarious.