Realign the SEC

#26
#26
What about adding Louisville and WV? There are several good teams in the surrounding area that could replace the cellar-dwellers we have now.
 
#27
#27
WVU doesn't exactly fit the Southeastern geography...Louisville does....but i don't see the SEC changing it's current members any time soon.

welcome to the board.
 
#28
#28
IMO UT's biggest rival is the team it has to beat to win the SEC east. In the 90's it was Florida, in the 00's its Georgia.

Moving Bama to the west and putting UT in the East weakened the rivalry. The game against Ga and Fl mean more.

Defeat Bama and lose to Ga or Fl and you don't play for the SEC championship. Defeat Ga and Fl and lose to Bama your still play for the SEC championship. The games mean less now, the rivalry is weaker. :zeitung_lesen:
 
#29
#29
i still hate bama a whole lot more than UGA. UGA is more important for division reasons, obviously, but i remember a day when you beat bama, that was just about as good as winning the SEC....hell, in some years, it meant you did win the SEC....jmo.
 
#30
#30
lawgator1 said:
A more sensible question is whether the coutnry might ever be divided up into quadrants for a playoff system, like a Southeast, a Northeast, a Southwest, and a Northwest.

Imagine having to outplay the SEC every year AND get through the likes of Miami and FSU just to advance into a quarterfinal!! The Southeast would be ridiculously tough year in and year out whereas the Northwest would be a cakewalk.

I actually fear this kind of scenario is possible.
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That is scary. Oregon wins the NC through attrition!
 
#31
#31
I wouldn't want to just ditch teams like Mississippi State or Vanderbilt just to add decent competition. Every conference has the bottom feeders. Even if you did get rid of those two, there'd still be a team or two that stay at the bottom of the conference year in and year out. Plus MSU and Vandy have history in the conference and you never know when they'll sneak up and have a good season, it'd make a good story.
 
#35
#35
ah...they were CoSECW Division Champs in 03...they went 10-1 and lost to LSU so they won the tie breaker....:p
 
#37
#37
If we kick out Vandy, we remove the last vestige of student-athlete left in the SEC. Then we really are "football factories".
 
#38
#38
tidwell said:
Plus MSU and Vandy have history in the conference and you never know when they'll sneak up and have a good season, it'd make a good story.
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5-6 is a good year at Vandy. Plus, having to play Vandy every year tends to hurt the strength of schedule numbers for the rest of the sec teams.
 
#39
#39
A few years ago, I used the Bowls to do a playoff. I placed the bowls in geographic regions based on the locations of the Bowls, and then placed the teams in the bowls based on Conference tie-ins, etc, and it seemed to work out very well.

It would have solved the debate about the bowls going away if we used a playoff.

There were more games played, but the season didn't extened any more than it does now with the National Championship Game coming the second week of January.
 
#40
#40
OrangeSquare said:
A few years ago, I used the Bowls to do a playoff. I placed the bowls in geographic regions based on the locations of the Bowls, and then placed the teams in the bowls based on Conference tie-ins, etc, and it seemed to work out very well.

It would have solved the debate about the bowls going away if we used a playoff.

There were more games played, but the season didn't extened any more than it does now with the National Championship Game coming the second week of January.
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Div. 11 runs though every year what a typical playoff system looks like. I know a lot of coaches complain, about about the extra games, but their is never any disputing who the champion should be.
 
#41
#41
OrangeSquare said:
A few years ago, I used the Bowls to do a playoff. I placed the bowls in geographic regions based on the locations of the Bowls, and then placed the teams in the bowls based on Conference tie-ins, etc, and it seemed to work out very well.

It would have solved the debate about the bowls going away if we used a playoff.

There were more games played, but the season didn't extened any more than it does now with the National Championship Game coming the second week of January.
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It's a nice idea, but it really doesn't solve anything. It's pretty much useless to speculate about a playoff system. The Bowl System isn't going anywhere anytime soon. The best we can hope for is to keep tweaking the BCS to make it a little better every year.
 
#43
#43
jakez4ut said:
ah...they were CoSECW Division Champs in 03...they went 10-1 and lost to LSU so they won the tie breaker....:p
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There is no such thing as a co-division champion. The team that plays in the SEC Championship game is the division champion. Period.
 
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