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UGA, Bama & Tennessee are still stout. Texas A&M is much improved over last year & will make some noise this year in the SEC.

Auburn will improve under Freeze but will typically stay a notch under Bama & UGA.

It is a top heavy conference.

A&M will be a major test for us. Petrino has improved their passing game significantly. We better bring it in every phase of the game.
 
Florida is a bad team near the bottom of the SEC right now and lost to the back to back pac 12 champs.

LSU is the 4th or 5th (or worse) team in that conference and they lost to ACC #1.

SCAR is like the 6th or 7th best and they lost to ACC number 3.

These aren’t, or shouldn’t be, considered upsets. I get that the media giving some of these preseason rankings sets it up that way, so this response is natural.

The thing that takes the crown away is when they stop ****ting on the other conferences in NC’s and draft picks. Middle and low tier conference teams losing to top tier teams isn’t.
 
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They’ll all still be ranked and then keep moving up when they get in conference play.
One wins, they move up 5 spots, the other drops 3. ESPN wil make sure of it.
 
Dude said:
LSU got embarrassed.
Florida got embarrassed.
South Carolina got embarrassed.
If we beat A&M does that start a media turn on the SEC?
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If we beat A&M...let's not conjecture about the fate of the SEC. UM has to take off business before we talk of rebalance of power in college football. I could care less about which conference is the media darling. Win, win, win...and it won't matter which conference the Canes are in.
 
Who does everyone consider the best conference in cfb for lets say the last 10 years?
 
Canedude08 said:
The SEC is what it's always been: A couple of elite teams, a bunch of okay teams and then the garbage. In other words, the SEC is just like **** near every other conference. The only difference is that now, SEC teams are being forced by ESPN to play people worth a crap earlier in the season, so they can't all enter conference play 4-0, and then use the "We beat each other up" excuse to justify the obvious.
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This literally sums the entire system up.
 
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westcoastcanes said:
Florida is a bad team near the bottom of the SEC right now and lost to the back to back pac 12 champs.

LSU is the 4th or 5th (or worse) team in that conference and they lost to ACC #1.

SCAR is like the 6th or 7th best and they lost to ACC number 3.

These aren’t, or shouldn’t be, considered upsets. I get that the media giving some of these preseason rankings sets it up that way, so this response is natural.

The thing that takes the crown away is when they stop ****ting on the other conferences in NC’s and draft picks. Middle and low tier conference teams losing to top tier teams isn’t.
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You're forgetting, though, that the narrative has always been that their 5th best team could win any other conference. So don't tell me that it's just a normal expectation for ACC teams to trounce them simply because it's 3 vs. 6 or whatever. What this shows is that the SEC isn't actually some kind of bloodbath week in and week out. Outside of Alabama and Georgia, their teams all have weaknesses just like the rest of us.
 
Dude said:
LSU got embarrassed.
Florida got embarrassed.
South Carolina got embarrassed.
If we beat A&M does that start a media turn on the SEC?
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At least for the SEC conf as a whole. The strength top to bottom will take a big hit. Especially if Miami wins thats 3 teams from the weak ACC beating the SEC.
 
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WanderFranco said:
You're forgetting, though, that the narrative has always been that their 5th best team could win any other conference. So don't tell me that it's just a normal expectation for ACC teams to trounce them simply because it's 3 vs. 6 or whatever. What this shows is that the SEC isn't actually some kind of bloodbath week in and week out. Outside of Alabama and Georgia, their teams all have weaknesses just like the rest of us.
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The issue is that prior to now, the other conferences weren't handling their business in those inter-conference matches. So Kentucky, who would be eighth in the SEC, goes and beats UL, who would be fourth in the ACC, and it would convince everyone that they were right about the SEC

The SEC is the best conference, but not by much. What the media does, especially ESPN who has the largest financial stake in the rise of the SEC, is prop up the conference's top dog(s) to the point where they get extra chances to win it all.. and to their credit, they go and win it with that extra chance

The same thing happened with FSU under Bobby Bowden ('00).. The difference is, his team didn't capitalize whereas Miles' team did ('07), Saban's team did ('12), etc. That's the real difference.. when they got their extra shot, that was questionable if they deserved at the time, they didn't **** the bed which shuts their detractors

But let's be cleaaarr.. They signed the largest media rights deal of that time with ESPN in 06ish and ESPN made **** SURE that they had every advantage as a conference after that. They don't win 13 of the last 17 (years since they signed the billion dollar deal) without their media mouthpiece partnership 🤝
 
Btw stop, they are the best conference. Teams that never won the conference have routinely beaten top tier teams from other conferences. None of that means anything to me. We just need to deliver.
 
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