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Originally Posted by Montana Moe
If Vanderbilt wins tomorrow, 11 of 12 SEC teams will be bowl eligible.
Overrated?  |
If they beat Wake Forest (which it is doubtful they will) they will have become bowl eligible by beating a total of three teams above .500 including a Miami (OH) team that is 6-5 in the MAC, with two games they could easily lose left. They also beat a Division 1-AA team. So I'm not sure that them being bowl eligible makes the SEC any less overrated.
For the SEC in general it is pretty easy to become bowl eligible when you guarantee yourself 4 wins by not only scheduling cupcakes for OOC games but rarely leaving home to play them and almost never leaving the State. That means that all you have to do is get two wins in conference.
Out of the 48 OOC games for the SEC, 5 were played out of state including four games played in the far of lands of Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, West Virginia.
I am not saying the SEC sucks but to use how many bowl eligible teams they have to say that they are not overrated when it is clear that they are able to easily reach that mark doesn't really prove anything in my view.
I think that the SEC also has to start having a lot more success against schools from the other big conferences if they want to maintain the idea that they don't need to schedule tough OOC games because the SEC is so tough. Sure the big Florida win was good but overall the SEC has been kicked around to often recently (particularly by the Pac 10) to say that it is clearly the top dog in the land.