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SEC slips in bowls but shouldn't slide far - Jan 5 SEC Blog (ESPN)
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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 120094" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>A basic problem is the insistence on trying to think of and write about conferences as a whole as if that is the most interesting angle with which to grasp the sport of college football. It is a long-standing problem and will always continue to be a problem of dominating narratives until this sport fixes its postseason to best approximate the crowning of a proven champion.</p><p></p><p>Compare to college basketball. There are still conference narratives to muse and debate over throughout the season and even somewhat after the tournament when you can see how your conference teams fared in the bracket. But those narratives always are just background noise, or just otherwise pale in significance to the discussion over TEAMS. Really the same occurs in every sport as even in the pros you can say "well, the NL East was pretty weak this year" or "NFC South was weakest division in NFL this year" and so on. Such discussions should just be amusing sidelights to the sport. College football media treatment, however, gets dominated by such lines of discussion and it is bad for the sport that this is the case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 120094, member: 231"] A basic problem is the insistence on trying to think of and write about conferences as a whole as if that is the most interesting angle with which to grasp the sport of college football. It is a long-standing problem and will always continue to be a problem of dominating narratives until this sport fixes its postseason to best approximate the crowning of a proven champion. Compare to college basketball. There are still conference narratives to muse and debate over throughout the season and even somewhat after the tournament when you can see how your conference teams fared in the bracket. But those narratives always are just background noise, or just otherwise pale in significance to the discussion over TEAMS. Really the same occurs in every sport as even in the pros you can say "well, the NL East was pretty weak this year" or "NFC South was weakest division in NFL this year" and so on. Such discussions should just be amusing sidelights to the sport. College football media treatment, however, gets dominated by such lines of discussion and it is bad for the sport that this is the case. [/QUOTE]
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