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<blockquote data-quote="GTpdm" data-source="post: 166646" data-attributes="member: 1451"><p>Won <em>what</em>? Out of conference games against the weakest roundup of non-P5 cupcakes you will ever see? When it came to games against <em>real</em> non-conference opponents last season, the SEC was awful. Oooh, they beat themselves up in-conference...guess what—<em>every</em> conference does that. The measure that tests a conference's true mettle is how they do against comparable out of-conference opposition. The SEC—and in particular the vaunted <u>SEC-West</u>—showed the size of their cohones (get a microscope) by mostly <em>avoiding</em> any real OOC challenges until Bowl Season forced their hand—and please remind me, how well did they do in the bowls?</p><p></p><p>It only takes a few minutes looking at statistics to realize that the SEC was actually one of (if not <u>the</u>) worst P5 conference in terms of their competitiveness against other P5 teams, and that they established their "OOC reputation" by beating sub-P5 teams that were not even competitive within their own conference. How is this observation so difficult for ESPN to stumble upon? (Rhetorical question...we all know that it is in their economic interest to bury this fact...)</p><p></p><p>The SEC "got the PR" because that's ESPN wanted, NOT because their actual performance deserved it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTpdm, post: 166646, member: 1451"] Won [I]what[/I]? Out of conference games against the weakest roundup of non-P5 cupcakes you will ever see? When it came to games against [I]real[/I] non-conference opponents last season, the SEC was awful. Oooh, they beat themselves up in-conference...guess what—[I]every[/I] conference does that. The measure that tests a conference's true mettle is how they do against comparable out of-conference opposition. The SEC—and in particular the vaunted [U]SEC-West[/U]—showed the size of their cohones (get a microscope) by mostly [I]avoiding[/I] any real OOC challenges until Bowl Season forced their hand—and please remind me, how well did they do in the bowls? It only takes a few minutes looking at statistics to realize that the SEC was actually one of (if not [U]the[/U]) worst P5 conference in terms of their competitiveness against other P5 teams, and that they established their "OOC reputation" by beating sub-P5 teams that were not even competitive within their own conference. How is this observation so difficult for ESPN to stumble upon? (Rhetorical question...we all know that it is in their economic interest to bury this fact...) The SEC "got the PR" because that's ESPN wanted, NOT because their actual performance deserved it. [/QUOTE]
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