SEC Takes Week Off

[Stallion]

anybody notice the SEC has scheduled about 7 Division 1AA schools for opponents tomorrow

[mrydel]

Exactly. Even Mississippi State scheduled Arkansas.

[ReedFrawg]

anybody notice the SEC has scheduled about 7 Division 1AA schools for opponents tomorrow

It's embarrassing...sick of this SEC talk.

[sbsmith]

anybody notice the SEC has scheduled about 7 Division 1AA schools for opponents tomorrow

That's tradition for them, gives them a de facto bye week before they play their big rivalry games.

[SMU 86]

anybody notice the SEC has scheduled about 7 Division 1AA schools for opponents tomorrow

It's embarrassing...sick of this SEC talk.

Kind of like TCU playing Grambling.

[Rayburn]

Kind of like TCU playing Grambling.

Or Grambling playing TCU.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Kind of like TCU playing Grambling.

Good thing for them they did so they can get to six wins...

[ReedFrawg]

Kind of like TCU playing Grambling.

Good thing for them they did so they can get to six wins...

Great point. SFA...glass houses and all.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Kind of like TCU playing Grambling.

Good thing for them they did so they can get to six wins...

Great point. SFA...glass houses and all.

[Dwan]

Pathetic. Props to Stallion for pointing this out. It is amazing that the media is giving this no coverage. Personally I think that if you want to play for a national title, you should not be allowed to schedule division 2 teams and if you do, it should be a major reduction for your BCS average. Every game counts In college football because there is no playoff and if you schedule a week off against a division 2 team, that's cool but it' should prevent you from being the national champ. And remember all that talk in the media about how a&m and Missouri, two mid level big 12 teams, would never be able to compete in the sec was all you heard about.....how come you don't see one article about.....man, if a mid level big 12 team like a&m, who has a new coach and lost a first round draft pick at QB can kill it in the sec.....should we ask how good the sec is?

[SMUSIC 07]

I made a spreadsheet that assigned points to BCS conference's non-conference game wins and losses based on the tier of opponent played (BCS schools, lower conference schools, FCS). The SEC still has a total of 13 non-conference games to play, but even if all those games are wins, they will still have the second or third easiest schedule of the five major BCS conferences (didn't do Big East).

Meanwhile, with the exception of the annual USC-Notre Dame finale and Oregon State's postponed game against Nichols State, The Pac-12, the Big 12, and the Big Ten have all finished their non-conference schedules. The Big Ten used to play 12 straight weeks so they were finished before Thanksgiving, but with the addition of the conference championships and teams that give themselves two bye weeks so they play into December, they had to adapt. I like that tradition of playing your warmup/scrimmage opponents early to get ready for what really matters, the conference. What I like even more is that the Pac-12 and Big 12 only play 3 non-conference games.

The SEC just banks on the fact that everyone thinks they're the greatest thing since sliced bread, and while its bowl game record speaks for itself, I think the SEC's postseason success is due mainly to the proximity of their bowl tie-in cities (Shreveport, Nashville, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Birmingham, Arlington). With the exception of Arlington, that's SEC country. Yes, the majority of the bowl games are in the south because of weather, and that's the way it has been for years; however, it doesn't change the fact that the Big Ten/SEC matchups highly favor the "home" teams.

A world in which the SEC is down is a good one.