College Football: Will the SEC "6 Peat"







Looks like we are back to living rent free in Linus' head. It's so easy to own his thinking. Why? Just stick to the truth. The SEC owns ohio and loves eating ohio cupcakes in the postseason. It's that simple. I love the predictability of an SEC victory over ohio in the post season.

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SEC baseball becoming football-like dominant
MAY 12, 2012
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South Carolina has won the College World Series the past two years. LSU won the year before that.

If not for Fresno State’s improbable ousting of Georgia in the 2008 CWS finals, the Southeastern Conference would enter college baseball’s postseason next month looking to finish on top for the fifth year in a row.

Last year, as South Carolina, Florida and Vanderbilt went deep in the tournament, the SEC became the first conference in CWS history to have three teams among the final four standing.

South Carolina and Florida met for the national title in an all-SEC best-of-three.

And the league may be even stronger this year.

LSU, South Carolina, Florida and Kentucky entered the weekend ranked among the nation’s top 10 in all three major polls. Arkansas was ranked among the top 20 in all three and Mississippi State and Ole Miss were among the top 25 in one poll apiece.

Florida catcher Mike Zunino is a candidate to go with the No. 1 pick of the MLB amateur draft. LSU pitcher Kevin Gausman could go in the top five.

SEC baseball could be on the verge of becoming what the Pac-12 has long been in softball. Or what the SEC is in football.

During their podcast earlier this week, Baseball America writers Aaron Fitt and John Manuel debated whether every one of the SEC’s big four deserves a top-8 national seed in the NCAA tournament.

Florida is No. 1 in the NCAA’s RPI report. LSU and South Carolina are the co-leaders of the nation’s strongest conference. Kentucky has taken series from LSU and South Carolina and has lost only two all season.

All of those teams are capable of making noise in Omaha next month. But they’re hardly alone.

If you’re a top seed in this year’s field, how amped would you be to see Georgia or Vanderbilt come to town as a three? Probably not very. The league’s top-to-bottom strength showed last year when Mississippi State made it to the super regionals while Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama all reached the final day of their respective regionals. This year, the conference should have its usual army of CWS contenders.

In its latest projections, the website ChasingOmaha.com has eight SEC teams among the field of 64: LSU, Florida and South Carolina as national seeds, Arkansas and Kentucky as No. 1 regional seeds playing at home, Ole Miss and Mississippi State on the road as two seeds and Georgia on the road as a three.

Vanderbilt has a healthy RPI position, but the Commodores must finish above .500 overall or win the SEC tournament to become postseason eligible.

Last year, the SEC had only seven teams selected to play in regionals — the fewest for the conference since 2007. As recently as 2008, the league had nine.

Expect the strong to get stronger in 2013 when Texas A&M, ranked as high as 8th in the national polls, joins Missouri in growing the conference to 14 teams.

By then, the SEC could have four straight CWS titles to celebrate.

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Another example of Slive's genius and his ability to constantly one-up the little ten and take a leak on their wannabe conference. SEC is belly laughing out loud at this one!!!!


Take Two: SEC-Big 12 partnership
May, 18, 2012
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By Edward Aschoff and David Ubben | ESPN.com
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The days of the Rose Bowl being the bowl of bowls could soon be coming to an end now that the SEC and the Big 12 have agreed on a five-year bowl partnership.

The new deal, announced Friday, will have the champions of the Big 12 and SEC meet in a New Year's Day bowl game annually beginning with the 2014 season. So while it won’t have the tradition of the Rose Bowl, it’ll have the viewers and it’ll have the popularity.

We’re seeing more and more how power is truly the most important component in college football, and this is a great example. Soon, we’ll have the two best BCS conferences going at it in their own special bowl competing with the beloved Rose Bowl.

We’re joined on the SEC blog by Big 12 blogger David Ubben to get his thoughts on what this means for the Big 12. We’re gentlemen down here in SEC country, so we’ll let him go first:

David Ubben: Rose Bowl, we love you. Not as much as Jim Delany does, but I'm not sure anyone can stake that claim. Anyway, it's time to face an unfortunate truth: You've been one-upped. The unnamed, unplaced bowl partnership between the Big 12 and SEC won't have the same level of tradition, but it will feature better teams. That's a powerful draw.
The BCS has played 14 national title games since its birth. The Big 12 or SEC have participated in 12 of them. Teams from the league have met in the game twice.

Now, they'll have another big stage to showcase their top teams. If a Big 12 or SEC champion is in the four-team playoff that will likely begin in the 2014 season, the next-best team will fill their place in the annual game. Deciding who plays in that game is up to each conference. The nation's two best conferences will get a much-needed opportunity to face one another on the field and test the hotly debated offense vs. defense theories on the field annually. The nation's college football fans were robbed of that when Oklahoma State was squeezed out of the national title game for SEC West second-place finisher Alabama. This year, the SEC and Big 12 only play once, when eight-win Texas travels to face two-win Ole Miss in September. Not exactly must-see TV.

This will be.

It assures the Big 12 a place at the adults' table of college football, further extending the distance between college football's top four leagues -- the SEC, Big 12, Pac-12 and Big Ten, in that order -- and the ACC and Big East. The ACC and Big East have the Orange Bowl, but any game like the SEC and Big 12 put together will pale in comparison when it comes to TV ratings and more importantly, TV money.

Only a few months ago, the Big 12 had eight teams, with half the league considering a move to the Pac-12 and the conference on life support. Things are looking very different now. It's about to sign a giant television deal, likely extending the grant of rights into the next decade and assuring stability at least through then, and probably beyond.

Tired of getting stuck playing Boise State and UConn in everything to lose, nothing to gain BCS bowl matchups? Seven-time Big 12 champion Oklahoma won't have to worry about that anymore, and even if the Sooners are in the forthcoming national championship playoff, the next-best Big 12 team will have a quality opponent to prove itself against.

Another plus for the Big 12? The Cotton Bowl's odds of getting into the BCS as it stood were minimal. Now? It's still in flux, but does anyone want to bet against Jerry Jones and his wallet to get this game in his Dallas palace at some point? That's a big game in the Big 12 footprint, something that's never happened on the BCS bowl stage.

How will this affect Florida State, too? News has surely reached Tallahassee by now, and the Florida State spear-toting brass have to be wondering how much this factors into their wandering eye toward the Big 12. Is the ACC the place to be?

We'll find out soon, but on Jan. 1, 2015, there will be only one place to be.

This game.

Edward Aschoff: I couldn’t agree more with pretty much everything you said. There’s no question that both of these leagues have dominated the BCS since its first year in 1998. The conferences have been left out of the national championship just twice in the last 14 years and the SEC has participated in -- and won -- eight. The Big 12 has won two of its seven appearances.

SEC commissioner Mike Slive has just about everything he wants in his conference, but he hasn’t had the Rose Bowl. Sure, all those national championship trophies are nice, but an annual game like the Rose Bowl commands respect. The game that the Big Ten and Pac-12 covet so much, and is watched by millions annually, will now get a major run for its money. While they’ll be played in different time slots, there’s no question that this will turn into the ultimate popularity contest. If you could sense that Big Ten-SEC tension before, just wait. Now, the SEC will be looking down on the Big Ten and picking at the game it holds so dear. Don’t think that didn’t cross the commissioner’s mind when he was thinking about this deal.

The SEC has truly been front and center in the college football world for the past six years with its 6-0 record in BCS championships, and now it will pursue a game it thinks can have the gusto of the Rose. This is a great opportunity for the SEC to build another fine tradition for the country’s top college football conference. And fans/the media want to see more of these matchups. For the most part, we're all deprived of them during the regular season, so here's a chance for us to win something as well. These two conferences need to play more. The best should always play the best, and as David said, we can finally settle the whole offense-defense debate.

This also means that more SEC teams have the chance to play in a primetime, marquee matchup in January. If this had been in place last season, Arkansas, which certainly had a BCS-caliber team, would have played in a BCS-like bowl, since Alabama and LSU met in the title game. The Cotton Bowl got the matchup this game would have received, but it would have been on a much grander scale and much more attention would have been paid to it. Oh, and much more money would have come out of it.

It would likely help the SEC this year too, as there could be as many as five teams jockeying for BCS position. Imagine if the four-team playoff took place this season? You might have two more SEC teams fighting for a chance at a national championship, meaning this game would give No. 3 a chance strut its stuff in front of its own grand audience.

There’s no question that with a four-team playoff, the SEC will have more opportunities to put teams in the national championship, continuing its dominance. Now, Slive has helped to ensure that a high-caliber team left out of the championship hunt will still play in a game that will command the type of attention that comes with a BCS bowl.
 






And this is a great article that mirrors the sentiments of the SEC fans on this blog and how little respect we have for the little ten and it's group of whiners.
Article Below:

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I guess Jim Delany just can’t help himself.

It’s not enough that Delany continues to blurt out ideas for a college football playoff, each one geared to benefit the Big Ten. Can’t blame the guy for that. He’s trying to protect and promote the conference of which he is commissioner.

In the process, though, Delany keeps taking swipes at a certain team from a certain conference that won a certain championship last season.

Delany recently referred to Alabama as “that team” in an interview with the Associated Press. And the reference was not in a favorable vein.

Attempting to fortify the case for his plan that would give conference champions the inside track to berths in a four-team playoff, Delany said:

“I don’t have a lot of regard for that team. I certainly wouldn’t have as much regard for that team as I would for someone who played nine conference games in a tough conference and played a couple out-of-conference games on the road against really good opponents. If a poll doesn’t honor those teams and they’re conference champions, I do.”

Never mind that Alabama played four SEC opponents that were ranked in the Top 25 at the time of the game. Or that the Crimson Tide played at Penn State — a Big Ten team — and won 27-11.

In Delany’s world, Alabama didn’t amount to much because the Tide did not even win its division. The part he left out is that half of the teams in the SEC West — Alabama, LSU and Arkansas — ranked in the top five in the final AP poll last season.

I suppose Delany doesn’t pay much attention to polls. Can’t say I blame him since Big Ten champ Wisconsin checked in no better than No. 10 — behind four SEC teams.

Delany is suffering from SEC fatigue. The conference he loves to hate has won the past six football national championships. The Big Ten has not scratched since Ohio State won it all in 2002.

He’s showed his bias before. In January 2007, after Florida blitzed favored Ohio State 41-14 in the championship game, Delany dashed off a dispatch on the Big Ten’s website that suggested his league was more ethical and had stronger academic standards in recruiting, focusing his attention on the defensive line.

“I love speed and the SEC has great speed, especially on the defensive line,” Delany wrote, “but there are appropriate balances when mixing academics and athletics.”

And I suppose there are balances when mixing a lying football coach at Ohio State and covering up for an alleged pedophile at Penn State. But I digress.

Delany wasn’t always so misguided and bitter. When he was commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference in 1979-89, he oversaw a period of impressive growth for both men’s and women’s sports. His move from the commissionership of the OVC to the Big Ten is one of the most extraordinary leaps in recent college sports history.

These days, though, Delany seems preoccupied with finding ways to undermine the SEC in order to elevate the Big Ten. In his world, Alabama (you know, that team) isn’t worthy.

The guy needs to get out more often.
 






the ohio cheaters just can't stop cheating...46 Violations in 21 sports were just reported. This is to be expected of a declining program....just look at Miami. ohio is the next miami...
 






Me thinks SEC is going to pick up VA Tech, which would be a great asset. Chris Lowe of ESPN dropped the bombshell on Paul Finebaum's radio show today when he said "the SEC without a down is looking at Virginia Tech". They won't stop at 15 - the question is will it be NC State or will UNC realize that breaking free from Duke and their basketball moniker will absolutely be in their best interest? VA Tech gives the SEC a great school/football program and the VA TV market and some of the DC TV viewership. The NC market and recruiting grounds would also be a great addition to the SEC. You can make statements about the caliber of the football teams (like you can about Missouri and A&M) but look at USC and Arkansas 20 years ago when they joined the SEC and look at them now - both top 10 teams and legitimate National Championship Contenders. There is no reason to think UNC or NC State couldn't be competitive down the road.

FL, UGA and USC won't let FSU, GA Tech and Clemson into the SEC - plus it won't help in media markets. FSU, especially after the recent Big IX/SEC Champions Bowl announcement, will be looking to jump ship to the Big IX and Clemson and Miami might follow suit after realizing that the ACC is nothing but a glorified Big East. Will the Big East and ACC have to jump in bed together to form another Super Conference - in light of how many times the ACC has raided the Big East over the years. If things follow through as mentioned above, then the ACC has no choice - unless they can covet Notre Dame which just doesn't look like it will happen.

After these moves start to take place, the PAC 12 will add BYU (grabbed from the limited pool of independents) and will have to find few others to form a 16 team Super Conference like the SEC. The little ten will do make similar moves - Pitt and Syracuse from the ACC? Notre Dame?(Makes sense to everyone but ND - the problem is ND might be left out of the advantages of conference alignment with regard to playoff and rankings and it's looking like TV payouts are rapidly approaching the NBC money ND gets by itself. Louisville? (Doubt it - I think the Big IX gets Louisville but time will tell).

Regardless, the teams outside of the four Super Conferences (SEC, Big IX, Pac 12, and little ten) will be left scrambling for scraps of TV money and the schism between the haves and have nots will be greater than ever. The good news is that the playoff field will expanded to more than four and will allow for more of the have nots to try and break through - good luck. the real problem is the rich get richer and the have nots will not be able to compete with facilities and recruits.

All of this is $ driven of course but the good news is that games will be played on the field and a playoff system will pit the best 4 (and in the future more) teams against one another soon to yield a National Champion. The good news is that none of this will change the inevitable -

A 7Peat is coming.

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