Typical overrated SEC rears it's ugly head again. Wining the last 23 national...

[maelfan]

championships has nothing to do with the overstated strength of this conference from top to bottom. Are they the best conference?? Absolutely. But not as dominant as Finebaum and others have suggested for years.

Their best 1-2 teams each year have been out of this world, which is course why they keep winning NCs. But weekends like this weekend have happened way more than SEC wonks like to admit. They are more than human top to bottom.

 

[scfanblue]

Finebaum is a douche!!!!!! The SEC is good year in and year out because high school football is much better in the Deep South and Southwest from Texas to Florida. BUT you are right about it being controlled by one or two teams. The SEC East is very mediocre. Bama is just WAY above everyone else right now. The Big Ten has always been pretty good and is getting much much better year after year and their rosters are full of southern kids. I have never listened to that media crap and hype. Michigan for example has a winning record against the SEC. ANYONE can be beat at any time and does not matter where you come from.

 

[bamatide13]

^ You are delusional. But it is not a lie, if you believe it. You usually get the scrap Southern kids, the legitimate ones that leave God's country are defectors.

 

[scfanblue]

^ You are delusional. But it is not a lie, if you believe it. You usually get the scrap Southern kids, the legitimate ones that leave God's country are defectors.

Michigan does have a winning record against the SEC and they destroyed the best of the SEC East (Florida last year) who was mediocre at best. The SEC has become one team right now and that is Bama. The SEC East this year is not very good and did you see LSU lose to Wisconsin? Tennessee hung on in OT to beat Appalachian State. Auburn lost to Clemson, Ole Miss lost to FSU, Mississippi State lost to Southern Alabama. South Carolina and Vanderbilt really suck this year and Georgia barely scraped out a win against the Heels. This year, the Big Ten looks to be really tough on the top with UM, OSU,MSU, Wisky and Iowa looking really tough.

 

[detroitjohn]

Michigan does have a winning record against the SEC and they destroyed the best of the SEC East (Florida last year) who was mediocre at best. The SEC has become one team right now and that is Bama. The SEC East this year is not very good and did you see LSU lose to Wisconsin?

If my memory is correct UM has beaten Arkansas, Florida (3xs), Mississippi, Alabama (2xs), and Auburn in bowl games over the last 30 years (they're something like 8-5 vs the SEC in bowls over that span).

I'm not apologizing about anything regarding our school matching up to the SEC. Alabama has been an absolute beast, but we have a conference beast of our own that chewed them up a couple years ago and I think UM is closing the gap between us and OSU. The B10 will be a formidable opponent for the SEC, up and down the conference, for years to come.

 

[Reality Man]

If my memory is correct UM has beaten Arkansas,

I'll tell you why Alabama has been so dominant.

1. USC went on probation
2. Saban runs an NFL operation.
3. Alabama has great tradition/history to recruit


If Pete comes back to USC and Harbaugh/UM rises to power along with OSU then the SEC won't be winning nearly as much.

Problem now is that Oklahoma isn't a power. Nor is PSU. Nor is UM at the moment. OSU choked away their chance last year. USC is relatively down replaced by Oregon and ND has Kelly.

In order to beat Alabama...the powers need to be USC, OSU, MICH, OKLA & ND. Really. Not Clemson and FSU. Not saying these latter teams aren't formidable but to beat a power like Alabama you need the traditional powers to be strong that have the fertile recruiting hotbeds (CA, OHIO, TEX, FL, PA) to be able to feed their power programs because Alabama is stealing recruits from these areas...very similar to what Nebraska did back in the day in CA.

You can also add the fact that Alabama isn't getting much resistance anymore since Meyer left FL w/Tebow and is going up against Les Miles .

Let me ask you this. Do you think Saban knows on some level that UM is going to be push OSU? That they are both well coached and will be a threat to them? Of course. I think Saban wanted to kill USC to nip them in the bud so to speak and I don't know if he sees USC becoming dominant with their new coach. I don't think he fears Kelly or PSU or Stoops.

I bet he loves Clemson or Houston or Oregon as potential adversaries. What he doesn't love is when UM can pull in Gary or maybe a DPJ or other high level guys because he knows they will be well coached.

I bet you anything that Saban has his eyes on OSU all the time and when they lost to MSU...he was probably jumping through the roof. If UM and OSU are both strong then he is going to get one of them and he knows it will be a battle. You get two more of these type powers in the BCS 4...then the resistance is going to be tougher.



RM