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Just like LSU, the offense wasn't much to speak of.
ESPN knows we all want to see coaches jawing at refs rather than replays of what happened on the field.
Not having that problem tonight.
Right, pointing out the SEC's flippant excuses can only possibly be whining or trolling. Nothing else.
Give the special teams some credit.
Louisville's Sagarin Predictor Ranking: 60
NIU: 36
Florida: 6
I completely agree. Especially a stretch play like that. That's a great way to have 11 guys all rushing the passer.
Huge reverse there, nice call.
You want to know why you're getting trolled? BECAUSE YOU'RE BEING RIDICULOUS.
The SEC is the deepest conference in football. But they're not the NFL. Other teams are good too. Lordy.
This is an uncharacteristically bad bowl season for them. It's pretty rare for two top ten SEC teams to lose OOC. Of course, that's part of what happens when you have 6 teams in the top ten I guess.
This never looked like the SEC of the past five seasons to most people around here, so it's not a huge surprise to see the conference vulnerable to good teams from other conferences. Of course, if they win the MNC on Monday, I think it won't matter much that UF and LSU lost.
I'm just thankful that writers and computers still select 2 teams to play for the title. I hate that messy part where less popular choices would have a chance to beat the teams that the cognoscenti anointed for the title game. It's so inconvenient.
Because that's absurd. Six teams in the top 25 is more like it. They're the best, no doubt, but six top ten teams? These teams aren't choking, they're just playing like the top 15-25 teams they are. AND THAT'S OK.
Yeah, those rankings were definitely a function of the schedule and their rep from previous seasons. Still, it looked like they would be able to maintain those rankings when the games were announced. It's nice to see Clemson and Louisville do their part to knock em down to a more realistic level.
Not really. He committed to Meyer, then stuck around after Urban left. Weis probably helped keep him.
Weis gets all the credit for UF's back-up, Jacoby Brissett.
Statistical rankings like the Sagarin ranking aren't perfect, because of the limited number of games. But they do show that the top 6 from the SEC are legit top 10-12 teams. I think that's part of what makes this game so crazy. Louisville *isn't* that good. Florida has just been awful. Their rush defense and kicking has been good, but the discipline, pass defense, and offense have all been abysmal.
Just thought I'd mention that. Make some of us children of the 90's feel old.
btw: Sean's McD's repeated use of '[insert qb] running for his life' has replaced Ron Franklin's old call on a field goal every time of 'It's got the distance' (even if it didn't.) as the rolodex call of choice.
Just thought I'd mention that. Make some of us children of the 90's feel old.
Even better than that one, Torii Hunter's son is going to play college football next season.
That would be odd, as Henry went to Tennessee.
Wow, that QB sneak was stupid.
#### it. It's the south.
Fred Taylor is actually younger than Torii Hunter.
This is actually still kind of a game, huh.
Florida's not the south. Just ask the south.
They're still Big East members as far as I know.
According to my heart rate, yes it is.
Sure, but if the left tackle is going to get so thoroughly abused, it's hard to place too much blame on Driskel.
Styles make fights, and when the favorite has one or more big leaks, upsets are possible.
agree with this, don't believe it ask Saban and Bama, or Spurrier and Florida or Fulmer and Tennessee after receiving big time whippings in bowl games.
so what your saying is you'd rather be in Charlie Strong's head, humming UT's fight song.
Though it did mean we did not have to hear the second dumbest chant: S-E-C.
If they can lose as a 40+ point home favorite to Syracuse with much better talent than this team, than they can lose next year, without even looking at their schedule.
Oh sure, but in the event that they do pull it off, will their schedule keep them out of it no matter what? Or will this game give them some legitimacy?
(THAT IS A JOKE SORRY GUYS WHO GET EMOTIONAL OVER SCHOLASTIC FOOTBALL)
BTW...Pitt has a chance to make it 5-0 for the BE vs. SEC against Ole Miss in the Compass Bowl.
That would appear to be more than his head is worth.
1. The SEC is clearly the best conference in college football, with the Big12 coming in a reasonably close second.
2. The PAC12, B1G and ACC shuffle around after that, depending on how good their power teams are in a given year.
3. The SEC was notably weaker in 2012 than in previous years.
4. The SEC didn't come to play, across the board, in 2012 bowl games.
5. The Big East has played above their heads in bowl games, giving that conference a better final shine than it probably deserves.
Congrats to Louisville, though. I hope Sam M. got back to the hotel safe after the game.
THE USF&G sponsorship started in 1987. The Sunkist Fiesta Bowl was a year earlier, and the Florida Citrus Bowl (if you count that one as corporate sponsored) was four years earlier.
########. Florida was playing mean spirited defense in the Sugar Bowl, they just couldn't stop Bridgewater. LSU started out strong, but then faded down the stretch, which doesn't at all suggest they didn't come to play. The Outback Bowl was an evenly matched game with no sign of laziness or let down on USCe's part. I didn't see the Capital One Bowl, but you would be the first person to suggest Georgia didn't come to play.
This is what people don't like about some SEC fans and why it is impossible to have a reasonable discussion about conference strength. Just because you didn't blow everyone out of the water does not mean you didn't come to play. It means you just aren't that much better than everyone else. Welcome to 2012-2013, two of your four best teams lost to lower ranked squads straight up.
MSU just sucks (at least the QBs do).
Southern Cal is about the only team where it was painfully obvious that they were completely disgusted by their own presence. Purdue was simply disgusting.
WVU's attitude was pretty shameful too, but that's so par for the course these days that it might just be who they are rather than a bowl let down.
It was definitely an up year for the PAC-12, at least until bowl season started. The Big 12 had a pretty good year, although it wasn't as strong as it might have been. And for sure the WAC, MAC and MWC conference had big years. Look at how many non-BCS teams were in the final polls, most with fairly unimpressive OOC wins. That's how you know that the BCS conferences had down years.
And I think, all in all, this is a fairly successful year for the ACC. A winning bowl record. No losses to 1-AA programs (IIRC), Clemson beat LSU, FSU won the Orange Bowl. If Miami and UNC weren't on probation, they would have had a fairly deep bowl lineup. I mean, it wasn't a banner year or anything, but compared to the recent crap fest that has been the ACC, they did alright this year.
They had a bowl performance that was poor - ONE - UF.
Clemson is a good team, but LSU has been defense all year, with not much offense, and they just couldn't get a stop when they needed it. SoCar lost Lattimore and so they played Michigan without that part of their running game, and still eked it out. And Michigan wasn't a bad team.
The SEC has three more bowl games - if they win those three they go 6-3 in bowls and (another) national championship. Everyone, including ASmitty says they are the best conference, hands down.
Heck, they are a Les Miles handoff from being 4-2.
Even when there is a 90% chance the SEC will beat your ass, there is still that 10%.
Take it from an Arkansas fan who works with an Auburn fan -- it was a very down year.
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