It is my basic contention, but I'm not sure your data confirms that. As was noted in the response to my post above, the 3 SECheat 3-loss teams are actually only about .3 per year over a 10-year period. That's still higher than the rest, but perhaps not significant. However, the sample size in this study is so small, it still may be statistically significant.
Maybe it’s the start of a trend? Not sure the data even confirms that though…
I think you’re spot on. However, there have been some concerning decisions. Alabama has been the recipient on a couple of occasions. Once they won it all and in 2023 they lost their semi. Seldom, if at all, has there been a clearly dominant team wrt the other top 4-6 teams, so any of them “could” win. So, expansion beyond 4 is a good thing. My personal opinion is 8 is the optimum - like the CWS.
Exactly. We are about to witness things we’ve never seen because 5-12 now matters. It’s going to be another crazy chapter in this sport. The month of November will be like watching 30 cars all coming to pit row with 2 laps left. The difference is which media talking head is better than the other guys talking head. And you better not let your center get injured because that’s now a legit reason to move you down.
I don’t think the severity of the Jordan Travis situation really hit me until I read this.
Glad to see many waking up but it’s NEVER been results based. If so, why do preseason polls exist because they have zero results based data. It’s like saying the Braves will win the World Series when we’ve all seen it doesn’t work like that.
Yes, but your whole premise was based on that "if". Perhaps i'm misreading your posts, but you seem to want to treat every team identically. I keep picturing your arguments like you're comparing every team to the pieces on a checkerboard when it would be much more appropriate to compare them to the different pieces on a chessboard.
I’m not sure what you mean here. Of course all teams are different. That is really part of my premise. In fact, it is the Cartel that seems to want to treat all conference teams as if they are all Alabama or Ohio State. If Wake beats Vandy that’s an ACC win over the SEC just as much as an FSU win over LSU.
No it is not not is it if Vandy beats Wake. That is where your position falls apart. What matters id if Clemson beats Georgia this coming season or if Georgia beats Clemson. The Loser's conference will suffer. The ACC moreso than the SEC as the ACC has few peers to Clemson over the past 7 or so years where the SEC has several peers to Georgia over that time frame.
It’s pointless to compare a conference leading FSU (13-1) beating a 7-5 LSU team as evidence of conference superiority. Its equally pointless to declare a 4-8 Wake Forest team beating a 2-10 Vanderbilt team as evidence of conference superiority.
No it’s not. It’s a discussion of *conference* superiority not team superiority. It is quite possible for a conference to have 2-3 dominant teams but the rest of the conference be rather weak.
In terms of football, it is 100% pointless to say a 13-1 team (and conference champ) beating the 5th best team as evidence of conference superiority.
To your credit you work hard at denigrating SEC Football.
Exactly correct. But I do enjoy the fervor of those who desperately cling to the idea that the ACC is a superior football conference. It isn’t. Adding FSU and Miami was supposed to change that. It didn’t.To your credit you work hard at denigrating SEC Football.
Comparing college football and basketball is not a good way to go about it. 12 games versus 34 games.
But most importantly 98% of the population only cares about the top teams in each conference. How Houston, Indiana, Stanford or Vandy played last year moves no needles.
The ACC’s failure as compared to the SEC is squarely at the top of the conferences. Until the ACC has 3 or so teams capable of wining the CFP any given The ACC will be viewed Nationally as a lower level Conference.
The ACC badly needs Clemson to beat Georgia to open their seasons next year.
Probably true. And how many times has that happened?
Don’t confuse them with facts. That Wake over Vandy shows the SEC is overhyped and has not really been better. Those NCs don’t mean anything, only Conference Championships are what counts.
o one is aaying the ACC is superior to the SEC jn football. Not I. The ACC did have the better of the SEC this season, head up, and it wasn’t just Wake vs, Vandy. The SEC was down this past season, and the SEC east has been down for a long time. When the ACC wins in a aet of 10 games across all levels of quality, you know it’s not a great year for your conference, regardless of how good you are at the top.