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<blockquote data-quote="Squints" data-source="post: 94030" data-attributes="member: 822"><p>That plus the bowls generally being a home game for Southern teams and that having a whole month to prepare the game skews the result to the point of being meaningless in my mind.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No it's not. The answer is that the pollsters need to wake the hell up and stop overrating teams just because of the conference they play in.</p><p></p><p>Take this example from this year. South Carolina is ranked #9 and Texas A&M is ranked #21 to start the year. Texas A&M blows out South Carolina. So Texas A&M moves into the top 10. As the season continues South Carolina is shown to be absolutely unworthy of their preseason ranking. So Texas A&M gets a massive boost in their ranking by beating a team that was grossly overrated. Texas A&M stays in the top 10 based on an absurdly easy schedule. When they play good teams they get embarrassed showing that their boost from beating a fraudulent ranked #9 team is, surprise, also fraudulent.</p><p></p><p>It took 9 weeks to straighten this **** out all because of where South Carolina was ranked. Why were they ranked so high? Because they needed a team in the SEC east in the top 10. End of story.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure that'd help but my issue is with the <strong>narrative </strong>surrounding the results. Because when it does happen it's ignored. The SEC lost bowl of its BCS bowls last year. Didn't put a dent in circlejerk. All I see is SEC teams are strong because they play SEC teams. How do we know the SEC teams they play are actually strong? Because they play SEC teams. And those SEC teams are strong because they play SEC teams. It's textbook circular reasoning.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I honestly don't know enough about Massey to comment about it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except that it's not. But they'll keep pushing that it is. From what I hear in college football coverage I don't see why they shouldn't crown the national champion at the end of the SEC championship game. Like you said nobody beats the SEC other than the SEC so why bother playing anymore games?</p><p></p><p>TL,DR; I'm tired of the media saying "The SEC is far and away the best no matter what. Deal with it." College football media is a joke and the SEC bias is largely why.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squints, post: 94030, member: 822"] That plus the bowls generally being a home game for Southern teams and that having a whole month to prepare the game skews the result to the point of being meaningless in my mind. No it's not. The answer is that the pollsters need to wake the hell up and stop overrating teams just because of the conference they play in. Take this example from this year. South Carolina is ranked #9 and Texas A&M is ranked #21 to start the year. Texas A&M blows out South Carolina. So Texas A&M moves into the top 10. As the season continues South Carolina is shown to be absolutely unworthy of their preseason ranking. So Texas A&M gets a massive boost in their ranking by beating a team that was grossly overrated. Texas A&M stays in the top 10 based on an absurdly easy schedule. When they play good teams they get embarrassed showing that their boost from beating a fraudulent ranked #9 team is, surprise, also fraudulent. It took 9 weeks to straighten this **** out all because of where South Carolina was ranked. Why were they ranked so high? Because they needed a team in the SEC east in the top 10. End of story. Sure that'd help but my issue is with the [B]narrative [/B]surrounding the results. Because when it does happen it's ignored. The SEC lost bowl of its BCS bowls last year. Didn't put a dent in circlejerk. All I see is SEC teams are strong because they play SEC teams. How do we know the SEC teams they play are actually strong? Because they play SEC teams. And those SEC teams are strong because they play SEC teams. It's textbook circular reasoning. I honestly don't know enough about Massey to comment about it. Except that it's not. But they'll keep pushing that it is. From what I hear in college football coverage I don't see why they shouldn't crown the national champion at the end of the SEC championship game. Like you said nobody beats the SEC other than the SEC so why bother playing anymore games? TL,DR; I'm tired of the media saying "The SEC is far and away the best no matter what. Deal with it." College football media is a joke and the SEC bias is largely why. [/QUOTE]
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