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BACKDOC

BACKDOC

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Before the season a lot of people on this board picked them to be the the surprise team of the SEC. I wondered why. After playing cupcakes I realized Schaffer wasn't that great of a player when he was here. Ole Miss has to be the worst team in the league since Vandy beat Ga, and would of taken Ark. to OT if Kicker doesn't miss PAT, and MSU beat Bama.

UK has to be the surprise team of the SEC. How many SEC teams go to bowls. USC is kinda like we were last year. They have to be the best five loss team out there. Just barely lost to UT, Auburn, Fla., and Ark.
 
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BACKDOC said:
USC is kinda like we were last year. They have to be the best five loss team out there. Just barely lost to UT, Auburn, Fla., and Ark.
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:lolabove:

Whatever... I don't really view making a bowl in the SEC team as that big of a deal. Yeah, there are a lot of really good teams. But a lot of really bad ones, too. Between that and your usual SEC cupcake non-conference schedule, it takes a realllly bad team to not get a bowl bid.
 
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BACKDOC said:
Before the season a lot of people on this board picked them to be the the surprise team of the SEC. I wondered why. After playing cupcakes I realized Schaffer wasn't that great of a player when he was here. Ole Miss has to be the worst team in the league since Vandy beat Ga, and would of taken Ark. to OT if Kicker doesn't miss PAT, and MSU beat Bama.

UK has to be the surprise team of the SEC. How many SEC teams go to bowls. USC is kinda like we were last year. They have to be the best five loss team out there. Just barely lost to UT, Auburn, Fla., and Ark.
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Remind me, who won the Ole Miss-Vanderbilt game?
 
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milohimself said:
:lolabove:

Whatever... I don't really view making a bowl in the SEC team as that big of a deal. Yeah, there are a lot of really good teams. But a lot of really bad ones, too. Between that and your usual SEC cupcake non-conference schedule, it takes a realllly bad team to not get a bowl bid.
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As opposed to Pac Ten teams feasting on Stanford, Washington, Arizona, and Arizona State. Not to mention perennial powers Portland State and Sacramento State as non-conference opponents.
 
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tidwell said:
As opposed to Pac Ten teams feasting on Stanford, Washington, Arizona, and Arizona State. Not to mention perennial powers Portland State and Sacramento State as non-conference opponents.
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Eight Pac-10 teams have played nationally ranked non-conference opponnents. Oregon State also played Boise State before the Broncos were ranked.

Only Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Vanderbilt can make such a claim. Ole Miss also played Wake Forest before the Deacs were ranked. South Carolina and Georgia also have Clemson and Georgia Tech, respectively, looming on the schedule who are borderline top 25 at the moment.

So, in the Pac-10 that accounts for 90% while it's not much over half in the SEC, and mostly the crappy teams anyways.
 
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When you've got a team like Georgia in your conference, there's no way anybody should take the non-conference scheduling seriously.
 
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Or when you schedule... Sacramento State and Portland State.

But I'm sure those teams are just on the fringes of Pac Ten membership, so it's ok.
 
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tidwell said:
Or when you schedule... Sacramento State and Portland State.

But I'm sure those teams are just on the fringes of Pac Ten membership, so it's ok.
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Is this topic even open for discussion?

Get back to me when Auburn, Georgia and Alabama actually leave the south for a road game.
 
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tidwell said:
Or when you schedule... Sacramento State and Portland State.

But I'm sure those teams are just on the fringes of Pac Ten membership, so it's ok.
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Besides, I have no problem with the scheduling of D-IAA teams... Most people recognize it gets the smaller team a nice chunk of change. But IMO teams that fashion themselves as a respectable D-IA program ought to schedule a serious non-conference game or two. Just because a team plays in the SEC doesn't mean they get a pass to exclusively play D-IAA and bottom of the barrel D-IA teams.
 
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Georgia tried to schedule Oregon State, and actually did, but OSU backed out of it.

Can't imagine it had anything to do with Cal or Arizona's trips to SEC sites this season.

According to Auburn fans, they have tried to schedule home and homes with top schools over the last few years, but the other teams wouldn't take them up on it. I know Alabama has a series coming up with Notre Dame as well.
 
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Georgia is a little unique in that they play Florida at a neutral site every year and have a built in quality non-conference opponent in Georgia Tech and a recurring game with Clemson. Scheuling someone like Colorado this year was a big step for them.
 
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GAVol said:
Georgia is a little unique in that they play Florida at a neutral site every year and have a built in quality non-conference opponent in Georgia Tech and a recurring game with Clemson. Scheuling someone like Colorado this year was a big step for them.
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not many people consider that a neutral site against florida
 
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I'd say it's very neutral other than UGA having to come a little farther.
 
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volfanbill said:
i'd say it's very pro gator
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It's a shorter trip for the Gators, but the crowd is exactly 50/50.

I think it's perceived as pro-Gator because Florida has owned the rivalry since Spurrier got there in 1990. Before that it was actually a little lopsided in the other direction.
 
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milohimself said:
Get back to me when Auburn, Georgia and Alabama actually leave the south for a road game.
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This made me curious, so I looked it up. As has been mentioned, Auburn played at USC and Alabama at Oklahoma and UCLA in just the last few years, so I didn't look much farther back for them. But other than one trip to the Hawaii bowl a few years ago, Georgia has not played a game anywhere outside the south in over 40 years -- 1965 at Michigan.

If you don't count Texas as the south, then they did make four bowl trips to Texas in the 70s and 80s. And one game at Houston in 1965. But either way, it's been 40 years since they scheduled a game outside the southeast.
 
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It's pretty amazing. You'd think that once in the past 40 years they would have accidentally crossed the Ohio River. Heck, the addition of Arkansas to the SEC really broadened their horizons.
 
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Hahahaha....you're right, at least they have to cross the Mississippi every now and again now!

Frankly I think that's too bad. I'm looking forward to flying to San Francisco next year, seeing the Cal game, and then driving up through the Pacific NW for a week or so. That sounds a lot more fun than just another opening scrimmage at Sanford Stadium against somebody like Western Kentucky, doesn't it?
 
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In defense of Georgia, the new AD is looking to change that. In the coming years they have trips scheduled to Oregon, Colorado and I think one of the Arizona schools. I wonder if UGA fans will know how to book a flight?
 
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