Non Conference Records vs. The Power Five

[Smashcat]

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Non-conference records vs. Power 5 this season:
Pac-12: 13-4
ACC: 12-13
SEC: 11-11
B1G: 11-15
B12: 6-11

 

[Rhavicc]

Originally posted by Smashcat:

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Non-conference records vs. Power 5 this season:
Pac-12: 13-4
ACC: 12-13
SEC: 11-11
B1G: 11-15
B12: 6-11

But... But.. It's the SEC!
What is the Non-con SOS rankings, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[.S&C.]

More and more people are starting to realize the sec is a good league actually. They were even talking about it on I think first take this morning.

The sec has around 7 teams in the top 50 of the RPI/BPI. We have a conference RPI that is very respectable. We will get 5 maybe even 6 teams in the big dance its looking like. No less than four. People don't seem to understand when a league has 7 top 50 teams in it, it's a good league. The mob mentality of ignorance toward the sec is ridiculius on this board.

 

[ThroughBlue]

SEC will be even better next year

 

[Joneslab]

The SEC has a weird tendency of losing bizarre early-season games every year. Hard to shake the reputation when that's the case.

But if you look at those games, they're always played at home and there are fifty people in the stands. Everybody's still in football mode. You watch a non-UK and non-Florida home game in the SEC and it's better, but not by much. A ton of apathy and empty seats.

Home games aren't home games in that dynamic. There's very little advantage. It leads to weird situations like losses to Charleston Southern and .500 conference records for teams that should be much better.

I still tend to think it's a four-bid league.

 

[Sithlyone]

Even though it makes our schedule more difficult I always want the SEC to get the big time recruits and OOC wins. I'm tired of the SEC being the thing that other schools fans throw in our faces. I want it to be the best conference because I know we will still thrive no matter what.

 

[.S&C.]

Oh and I made a mistake.

The sec actually has 7 teams in the BPI top FORTY, not 50. That's HARDLY a crappy league. Ignorant people see the "top 25" and base everythig off of that. The sec has lots of teams right on the brim of that category. But if you're going to base your opinion soley on that be ready to be wrong.

Next year the sec will have between 4-5 ranked teams all year probably and an additional few top 50. We are fine as a league.

Now if people would stop adding to the myth that the sec sucks, this board would be a lot better.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

I am not understanding something here. Whose records are those? It appears like they are saying they are records for all teams in those conferences vs the other conferences, but the numbers are way too low for that. Somebody help me out.

 

[Joneslab]

Originally posted by SilentsAreGolden:
I am not understanding something here. Whose records are those? It appears like they are saying they are records for all teams in those conferences vs the other conferences, but the numbers are way too low for that. Somebody help me out.

Believe it's the record teams have against other power five opponents.

Ole Miss would have only played two games against those teams before last night: Oregon and TCU. Mississippi State has played one: Florida State. Auburn one: Texas Tech.

So 22 games for the SEC seems about right.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

I just started checking myself, and I'm only halfway thru the SEC and we are at 13-9.

 

[Smashcat]

Speaking of Ole Miss


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Toughest non-con skeds by opp. win%:
Ole Miss - .856
Oregon - .760
#VaTech - .750
SoMiss - .744
#FSU - .702
#GaTech - .689

 

[SaguaroCat]

Ithink that's football.iwould hope the fourteen teams played more than twenty two ooc games.especially since we played five of them.

 

[ganner918]

I read today or yesterday, though, that I think 10 SEC teams have a loss to a team outside the RPI top 100.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

Very quick scan through the schedules and I came up with 18-25 for the SEC. I probably missed a couple though. I knew it had to be higher than what's in the OP. Mizzu is what really brought our numbers down. The top half of the conference has done pretty well. The bottom half was terrible.

 

[Smashcat]

Originally posted by SaguaroCat:
Ithink that's football.iwould hope the fourteen teams played more than twenty two ooc games.especially since we played five of them.

Yeah, looking closer that's probably the case. I'm going to do the bb stats for the SEC.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

Originally posted by SaguaroCat:
Ithink that's football.iwould hope the fourteen teams played more than twenty two ooc games.especially since we played five of them.

That's gotta be it. The Pac-12 being far and away the best conference didn't make any sense at all.