They played four gimmes, five counting Vandy. The '21 and '22 vintages of mutts would have beaten this years team handily. AU, Mizzou, GT, and Bama showed they didn't have the run stopping ability they had in '21/'22. It's more than the stats too because of their '23 schedule. Make that six gimmes with fsu's 3rd string.
Mizzou deserved their ranking because they avoided any letdowns and they only lost to two good teams. That said, I can’t imagine how anyone could draw an easier schedule in a P5 conference. The SEC East was so bad last year outside of UGA. Good for Mizzou…. But they may have just filled a vacuum.
How did GT do against the overrated SEC teams last year. 0-2 right, how could I forget. Guess we were overrated as well since we couldn't beat the overrated SEC teams.
Perhaps. The rest of the ACC was 6-2 against your mighty SEC.
Yea FSU clearly was as good as any SEC team. Beat FSU and FLA. South Carolina was the GT of the SEC vs the ACC. 0-2 vs Clemson and UNC.
Louisville was also the best OOC win that the SEC had ALL SEASON. Instead of asking who the ACC beat OOC, why don't you ask you the SEC beat OOC? I know the answer to that question. You won't ask because the SEC didn't beat any significant team OOC all season long.
And, I think we’ve established that this past year most of the bowl games were meaningless scrimmages. Tech and UCF were among the rare matchups where both teams actually cared.
The way I saw it too.
I hate to say it, but that’s the ESPN / SEC spin about good ACC teams. That’s why Clemson rarely got credit for their good seasons and why it was easy to exclude FSU this year.
How is that relevant?
The SEC played as weak an OOC schedule as possible. Hopefully the 12 team playoff format will impact that as is't no longer just the top 2-3 fighting to get in.
This could not be more true. Unfortunately.
Miami’s win over Texas A&M was a good win for several reasons. It was a convincing win. T AM was considered a top SEC team at the time. T AM beat South Carolina and Auburn far more convincingly than Ga and Alabama did. T AM was arguably a harder game for Alabama than the uga game.
The 12 team playoff format will just see 4 big 10 teams and 5 sec teams getting in based on how the rankings shook out this year. We are a couple of years away from the sec and big 10 just retooling as the nfc and afc and their winners playing in the college Super Bowl while the rest of us get relegated in another division 1 split
In the ACC it just means more. We beat ourselves up with the tough ACC competition and schedule and the SEC games did not mean as much. The SEC schools are fortunate to have such a weak conference set of opponents to play against. Outside of GT recovering from the worst coach in history. The ACC went 6-2 against that "powerhouse"
Conference
They do lots of things in circles.
I think Ole Miss and uga were good teams. I don't think they were as good as they were touted to be. GT was pretty good by the end of the year. Had we played Ole Miss later, I think the game would have been closer. Maybe not a different outcome, but closer. uga had a very talented team, but that team wasn't anything close to the previous 2 years. That's the overrated aspect. uga wasn't a #1 team.
Should’ve just done away with 1 power 5 conference add the teams to one of the other 4 and kept the 4 team playoff system and you have to win your conference championship to get in the playoffs. This fixes the ND problem because if they’re not in a conference they can’t get in the playoffs. This would’ve been fun.
That’s the heart of the CFB mess. Polling is a subjective ranking with no criteria used. It simply the average of what 61 people think. And their opinion is often no better than a waitress at your local bar.