Good weekend for SEC

[SaguaroCat]

Conference goes 10-1. 8-1 against FCS schools. 5-0 against P5 schools.
Beats a Pac 12 South contender, Big 12, and ACC top teams.


Big 10 has five loses.
acc has three
PAC 12 has five. Including "top" team Stanford.
Kansas loses to Fcs school. Texas gets clobbered.

Weekends like this make sure a two loss champion gets in the playoffs. Or maybe two teams from conference can get in. That way we can get in, if we win the eat but don't win in Atlanta.

 

[Bigblueforever]

Poor Vandy, Will they win a game this year?

 

[Caveman Catfan]

WKU is not an FCS.

 

[jauk11]

Poor Vandy, Will they win a game this year?

They beat the point spread for me.

 

[FreeSafety36]

Actually the conference was 12-1, not 10-1. We were 11-0 yesterday, and 1-1 Thursday night. LSU's game was cancelled, everyone else played and only Vandy lost. WKU isn't FCS, they're in Conference USA. Bama beat a ranked B1G school, AtM beat a ranked PAC 12 school, Auburn and SCjr each beat an ACC school, Ole Miss hung 76 on the board...and it's a "down year" for the conference.

Wonder if all the "PAC 12 is the best conference" folks want to change their minds now that Stanford lost to N'western, Wazzu lost at home to Portland State and Oregon allowed 549 yards and 42 points to Eastern Washington.

 

[Rhavicc]

Actually the conference was 12-1, not 10-1. We were 11-0 yesterday, and 1-1 Thursday night. LSU's game was cancelled, everyone else played and only Vandy lost. WKU isn't FCS, they're in Conference USA. Bama beat a ranked B1G school, AtM beat a ranked PAC 12 school, Auburn and SCjr each beat an ACC school, Ole Miss hung 76 on the board...and it's a "down year" for the conference.

Wonder if all the "PAC 12 is the best conference" folks want to change their minds now that Stanford lost to N'western, Wazzu lost at home to Portland State and Oregon allowed 549 yards and 42 points to Eastern Washington.

it's clearly not the best conference, but Stanford and Oregon are legit. First game of the season, hoss. People lose sight of that.

 

[footballfanatic77]

Poor Vandy, Will they win a game this year?

Austin Peay, I think.

 

[footballfanatic77]

it's clearly not the best conference, but Stanford and Oregon are legit. First game of the season, hoss. People lose sight of that.

Stanford is not that legit. They will finish middle of the road in the Pac 12. USC, Oregon, UCLA, Arizona, and Utah are all better than Stanford.

 

[SaguaroCat]

Add another in the loss column to the big ten as Purdue goes down. To a conference USA team no less. I highly recommend that Ohio state go undefeated. They barely made the playoffs last year and their schedule looks even weaker.

One day my brain will accept that the SEC has fourteen teams now.

 

[FreeSafety36]

it's clearly not the best conference, but Stanford and Oregon are legit. First game of the season, hoss. People lose sight of that.

Lose sight of what? Does the first game count any less than the others? Didn't think so.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

it's clearly not the best conference, but Stanford and Oregon are legit. First game of the season, hoss. People lose sight of that.

That first game thing is overrated, was it not the first game for both teams? Oregon's defense looked like it took a step down, Stanford looked like they took a big step down.

 

[Omega22]

My cards will beat UK! Also the ACC will defeat the SEC head to head this year!

 

[PowellVolz]

That first game thing is overrated, was it not the first game for both teams? Oregon's defense looked like it took a step down, Stanford looked like they took a big step down.

I've read a few posts saying "it's obvious we where rusty". I'm like... It's the first game for both teams, WTH?

 

[Rhavicc]

I've read a few posts saying "it's obvious we where rusty". I'm like... It's the first game for both teams, WTH?

At the end of the season, do you think Bowling Green could still hang 30 on Tennessee? Or even if they played in the second week of the season for that matter?

Lose sight of what? Does the first game count any less than the others? Didn't think so.

Nobody said it didn't count as much as the others, especially me, who has been preaching that people should be satisfied that we won the game, because a win is still a win. Doesn't mean that if Kentucky and ULL played again, that ULL would keep it close though. Same with Tennessee and Bowling Green, same with Oregon and Eastern Washington, and if Nebraska or Stanford had a chance again, they would likely win their games the next time around as well. Some teams just get off to rocky starts, some teams run more smoothly out of the gates. Kentucky was that team last season that did well to start the season, meanwhile, Arkansas and Tennessee were lackluster. Down the stretch, when both teams looked rather poor, both stepped it up to another gear, and now both teams are in the top 25.
Football season, like any other sports season, is a strange thing. Nothing is set in stone, and odd things happen throughout a year.

 

[Caveman Catfan]

it's clearly not the best conference, but Stanford and Oregon are legit. First game of the season, hoss. People lose sight of that.

Hogan and Stanford did not look legit. I realize traveling a couple of time zones might be tough for an early start, but they did not look championship series caliber, as some people predicted.

 

[SaguaroCat]

Here's the thing about first games. You can't use a close game to predict future success. Mistakes happen. Freshman got jitters. Coaches are off. No one has game film.

But you still gotta win. That's the rub. You won close, you'll probably get better. You lost? That's worthy of a side eye.

 

[FreeSafety36]

The whole "first game" thing is sort of passable as an excuse for being sloppy. It doesn't fly as an excuse for being bad. Stanford's offense was very bad Saturday. I watched part of that game, flipping over to it from the Maryland game on ESPNU. Kevin Hogan is supposed to be one of the better QBs in the NCAA and he was terrible. Their running game was no better. Oregon is good, but they're not playoff good. Their defense, as usual, lacks the ability to clamp down and prevent scores; so as soon as their offense has a game in which they struggle, the Ducks are in trouble.