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SEC SEC SEC!! fade fade fade The SEC hype is gonna go WAY over the top in 2011 We must be ready to jump agaist these guys in there 7 or so games NOT against cupcakes.

War Eagle Fezzik...The SEC does it again, another national title. No conference will ever match this SEC dominance in the BCS title game. War Eagle....SEC!!!!

I agree with Fezzik. That game last night was clearly a coin flip as the market predicted. Yet all the talking heads, east coast bias, SEC doofuses, whatever you want to call them will continue to reiterate the retarded mantra that many SEC teams could beat the Carolina Panthers or whatever for another 12 months. Yet again these teams will schedule cupcakes at home vs. La-Mo, La-La, McNeese St. and Idaho St., blah blah blah. And yes, I'd like to see Auburn play TCU, Stanford or even Ohio St. (okay not really) right now. This system is so retarded.

I don't know what game you were watching. The "great" Oregon offense put up 18 points, and that would have probably been a big Zero without the gimmicks, trick plays and Cam Newton's fumble. The SEC plays defense. That is the difference. You can't run all of the pass it around the backfield crap when Fairley has already put you on your ass. The inability for people to admit when they are wrong just amazes me. The National Championship takes place every year on the first week in December at the Georgia Dome.

[QUOTE=tradermac;37271]I don't know what game you were watching. The "great" Oregon offense put up 18 points, and that would have probably been a big Zero without the gimmicks, trick plays and Cam Newton's fumble. The SEC plays defense. That is the difference. You can't run all of the pass it around the backfield crap when Fairley has already put you on your ass. The inability for people to admit when they are wrong just amazes me. The National Championship takes place every year on the first week in December at the Georgia Dome.[/QUOTE] You realize the game was tied with less than a minute left right?

Rumpel, I want some of what you're drinkin'. I've listened to the babble for a month about how this great Oregon team couldn't be stopped. They put up half a hundred on everyone. Chip Kelly is a genious. An average SEC defense shut that ass down! 11 points if not for the late game fumble. Eleven! So for 57 minutes, your boys managed a touchdown and a field goal. But congrats on that two minute period when the game was tied!

[QUOTE=tradermac;37274]Rumpel, I want some of what you're drinkin'. I've listened to the babble for a month about how this great Oregon team couldn't be stopped. They put up half a hundred on everyone. Chip Kelly is a genious. An average SEC defense shut that ass down! 11 points if not for the late game fumble. Eleven! So for 57 minutes, your boys managed a touchdown and a field goal. But congrats on that two minute period when the game was tied![/QUOTE] I hate the Ducks more than any team in college football. I never said they couldn't be stopped. In fact I made a mint betting unders in this game. Obvious guy says Auburn didn't exactly light up the scoreboard either.

I'll tone down the rhetoric. I was also on the under. But I was on Auburn, too. Luckily, I waited until game time to bet and got it at a pick. But I really don't understand how you could watch that game and think that it was a coin toss. I think Auburn wins that game 9 out of 10 times, easy. And to be honest, I wasn't that sold on Auburn before the game. The Stanford win against Va. Tech really made me reconsider Auburn. But in the end, I felt like a month to prepare would negate the gimmicks. But I thought the safest way to bet this was on the under. I really don't know why the SEC wins the big game every year. Maybe it's because of the stiff competition all year. Maybe it's their depth. Maybe it's their coaching. But I know this year is the only year I considered not betting on them, and it will never happen again until they lose.

Agree with Tradermac Lets face it, the regular season prepares the SEC for the post-season especially for those national BCS games. Auburn was clearly the better team on Monday, and the score was a lot closer than the game played out. Kudos for Oregon for their great effort and competing to win a national title. Chip Kelly was innovative with the two pt play and the fake punt kept the Ducks, in the game. But the bottom line is that Auburn has been there before with so many close SEC games and got the job done. You see it every year but the SEC has better athletes in the trenches. At the skill spots, its about a wash, but Oregon simply could not block Fairley, at the point of attack. That Auburn offensive line also did a nice job for the Auburn running game. Auburn clearly was the winner in the running game and won the national title. If I was a SEC AD, i would schedule some cream puffs to balance out the football schedule. You will see Tenn and LSU schudule some decent non-conference opponents. But, once again a SEC team wins the national title...case closed.

[QUOTE=tradermac;37276]I really don't know why the SEC wins the big game every year. Maybe it's because of the stiff competition all year. Maybe it's their depth. Maybe it's their coaching. But I know this year is the only year I considered not betting on them, and it will never happen again until they lose.[/QUOTE] A lot of it has to do with recruiting. The SEC schools have the easiest time recruiting on a national basis because their locations and campuses are so desirable. I spent some time with a senior RB from a MAC school this past New Year's Day. He transferred from a D-II school to the MAC school this year. He was absolutely heart-broken though that he didn't get into South Carolina's program. He kept raving about the campus, the facilities, the girls, etc. The point being - unless guaranteed to be a starter from day one, who wouldn't choose the Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, Auburn, Arkansas, Tennessee, or Ole Miss. programs and locations over Penn State or Michigan or even Ohio State. Michigan and PSU are so isolated and self-contained (I've been to both campuses), and Ohio State (been there too) is in gross Columbus (I grew up in Ohio, so I'm banging on myself a little here too). Further, 4-5 months out of the year, the weather in these places is flat out depressing. Conversely, have you ever been to an SEC game in the early to late fall? Have you seen the girls that go? Have you seen the sundresses? I have a 4 year degree from UVA, and we had a terrible football program. But I went to the games because the fall weather was perfect (a little north of the SEC schools, I know), and there were so many other beautiful things to look at other then the football game. Similarly, I have a graduate degree from the University of Miami, FL. I chose UM over a number of other comparable, better, and even cheaper schools simply because it meant I could LIVE in MIAMI! Now, if Michigan or Texas (both of which have higher ranked programs) had given me a full ride scholarship, I surely would have gone there, but I didn't have that option. So I made a choice based in part on where would be the best place to live for a couple of years - maybe kind of like how Ryan Mallett ended up at Arkansas when it became clear he wasn't going to start at Michigan. Ultimately, with all things being equal, the SEC schools have the decided edge over pretty much all of the other schools in this country when it comes to national recruiting. The majority of the best players in the country simply just wind up in these schools because they are the best, most fun places to live for a couple of years when in college. On the football side of things, the SEC has built such an incredible rep that they can also recuit by promising their players an opportunity to play in some of the biggest games of each college football season (Ala/Aub, UF/FL, UF/FSU, etc.)