SEC National Holiday?

Question

I am so sick of everyone screaming playoff after there team losses. I think we should have a national holiday so we can all shed a tear for the SEC because they have it so rough any now Florida and LSU may not be able to play in the BCS Championship.

I am sure the world will weep with us, since there is nothing else tragic in world.

SEC ZEN Wisdom: If you lose you lost.

I think the Pac-10 finally gets it. The Big 10 certainly does, a sign of a mature conference program.

Terry Bowden and other media types sound really childish with all the whinning, and Play Off system wails at this point in the season.

I really hope my team never plays an SEC team at home. Don't really want that type of poor loser in my city.

Any thoughts? Too harsh, let em know!

Answer 1

The main reason that I would love to see a playoff is so teams like USF and Boston College, that aren't there every year, get the chance to "dance".



Just like Utah and Auburn a few years ago. And Boise State last year. Given the opportunity there is no telling what could have transpired in a playoff system.



I don't want to see it happen as a second chance for my SEC teams when they beat each other up, I want to see it for the teams that never even get the nod to be considered as contenders.



And yes I am an SEC fan.

Answer 2

Imagine if you put the Patiots, Colts, and Chargers into NCAA football. Then imagines they all played eachother and each went 1-1 within the group, but they won all their other games and each finished 10-1.



So then, would you tell me, that Boston College and Ohio State are more legitimate BCS Championship contenders because "a loss is a loss you wussy losing whiner NFL teams" and that Boston College would probably slaughter the Patriots anyway, since San Diego exposed them with that overtime defeat?



A loss is a loss and a win is a win in the sense that a coin is a coin and a check is check. Their value varies. No team can go perfect in the NFL since like 1972 or something. Conferences like the SEC and Pac-10 can be almost as difficult in years where many of their programs are healthy. Other conferences have far fewer competitive programs.



And if you dont think its fair to compare NFL teams because they are so much better than any NCAA team, consider that a 1 loss Florida team beat an undefeated Ohio State 41-14 in the last BCS Championship. If the best team in the SEC played the best team in say the NFC West, they would probably only lose about 41-14. So the difference between the SEC and the Big 10 is very similar to the difference between the lower tiers of the NFL and the SEC.



Also, lets talk about the SEC's 'losing record in bowl games the last 5 years' that someone mentioned and LSU scheduling the might Tulane as an out of conference opponent while OSU scheduled Washington who used to be good. LSU scheduled Virginia Tech. One or two top level programs is enough. Now, LSU scheduled Tulane, who plays in New Orleans, to help Tulane and because fans like it, as they are a popular local program and there is an ancient rivalry. It is not OSU's fault if none of their out of conference opponents are ranked this year, but the nature of the gamble is that if you dont schedule teams that turn out to be good and your conference falls apart, you do not prove much, and you cannot objectively be said to have proved more than a team that played many tough opponents and only lost 1 close game to one of those opponents. Now, the bowl record. Half the teams in the SEC may make a bowl in a given year. Among recent SEC bowl appearances I remember LSU beating Oklahoma in the 2004 BCS, an undefeated Auburn that should have split the national championship winning its bowl in 2005, and Florida and LSU blowing out their opponents in the BCS and sugal bowls in 2006. Georgia was SEC champion and went to the Sugar Bowl in 2002 and 2005, where they were 1-1. So, overall, the SEC is 5-1 in the BCS Series bowls in the last 5 years. If they somehow have a losing bowl record overall, I guess that just means the Tennessee's and the like are losing when they get to minor bowls. It is clear that the SEC has dominated when they have appeared in BCS bowls, as their only loss in the last 5 years was 26-23 WV over Georgia in 2005.

Answer 3

The Big Ten is the sign of a "mature conference program"? What, play no one out of conference, have all of your teams suck instead of one so that that team can go to the BCS championship game and get their heads handed to them?



It's funny, but every other level of football, and every other NCAA sport, has a tournament. Why is it impossible for Division I-A to have one? Because teams might actually have to play someone and prove on the field that they're the best in the country instead of having some other coaches and sportswriters who don't watch the majority of the games and computer geeks who wouldn't know which body part to put a jockstrap on vote on who's the best?



Here's a clue: Not all college teams are equal. I have more respect for a team that loses a tough road game at Kentucky than a team that beats Kent State at home. The NCAA basketball committee, which puts on the greatest sporting event in the world, gets that concept, because they reward the teams that play somebody and not those that beat up on also-rans. If they get it, why can't you?

Answer 4

OSU and michigan don't schedule tough out of conference teams? Don't forget LSU played the mighty tulane. OSU scheduled Washington the year they won the pac ten, and a few years removed from a national championship. Not their fault they fell on hard times. How about last year, Texas, and the year before, Texas, you know the year they won the national championship. How about next year, and the year after, they have lowly USC, who the last 5 years have been just terrible.



Now that I got that rant out of the way, let's talk about the SEC fans. How about the fact that they call the big ten the worst conference ever, yet they have a losing record in bowl games the last 5 years.



Lastly, the playoff. College football has one, it's called the regular season. Lose and your done, instead of playing like crap all regular season, backing into a 16 team playoff and stringing together a couple wins at the end because you match up well with the teams or they are suffering injuries, and then calling yourself the best ever.

Answer 5

Who is your team again, that's right you never said, easy to point fingers when your not man or woman enough to stand up for your own team, Pac 10 and big 10 teams don't want a play off because they know the only chance they have a winning a championship is to dominate their weak conference and get lucky in a bowl game.



Roll Tide!!!!

Answer 6

Youre absolutely right. These people are completely delusional. You point out that the grass is green and they tell you its pink, and actually believe it in their minds. Facts, records, standings dont mean a thing to them. They lose games and still say they are number one. Instead of looking at the mediocrity of their own conference and teams, they are the first to point fingers at every other conference. Waaah, my team lost to the annual cellar dweller in our prestigious conference, but we are number one because that said cellar dweller is a powerhouse. When the garbage teams in your conference start picking off your upper tier teams, that doesnt mean your conference is better, it means it is watered down.

Answer 7

that is a nationwide vacation or day of remembrance - that is stated that that is said with ideal activities and a second of silence...it isn't a Federal vacation - faculties, banks and authorities agencies do no longer close. i imagine that is ideal that there is a sense of remembrance and magnitude and that some style of law did go via the federal authorities. yet, that is exciting because i assume faculties, etc. might want to close and/or do regardless of they see in good structure...there is extremely no massive massive difference between so-noted as nationwide and Federal holidays contained in the U.S. because the fellow states approve the holidays via legislative acts - they do no longer must rejoice any of them (no longer all states rejoice the 11 so-noted as Federal holidays we've)

Answer 8

don't most people want a playoff? I'm a big 12 fan, the big 12 sucks, and i think they need a playoffs, i also thought that when Texas won and when ou won, bowden doesn't sound childish he sounds like he finally figured it out

Answer 9

let me guess, you must be a hawaii fan, i hear san diego state is pretty tough this time of year. you are a true moron. the big ten cant even beat the div 1AA schools we send up there from the south: aka Appalachian State! if the big ten is mature then i dont want the sec to grow up. sec dominates, end of story

Answer 10

I think your full of ****.