POLL Toughest P5 Division?

[Across The Field]

Good point, I was wrong.

 

[4down20]

BCF Toys - 2014 SOS Ratings

1. Auburn
2. Alabama
4. Texas A&M
5. Miss St
6. Ohio St

That's 4 SEC West teams before you get to the 1st Big10 team.

7 Arkansas
8 Florida
9 Tennessee
10 Ole Miss
13 LSU
14 Michigan St

That's every single SEC West team, plus a few other SEC teams, before we get to even the 2nd Big10 team.

 

[KingKoolKat75]

That you hold onto a single game pretty much makes my case.

A single game? Urban Meyer is 50- 4 at Ohio State.

 

[4down20]

A single game? Urban Meyer is 50- 4 at Ohio State.

For some reason, that doesn't sound anything like your original post.

If Alabama played half as hard as you talk they might have made a game of it against Ohio State.

 

[KingKoolKat75]

For some reason, that doesn't sound anything like your original post.

I doubt you care about the other 49 wins.

 

[4down20]

I doubt you care about the other 49 wins.

Based on your posts it doesn't seem you do either.

 

[Across The Field]

BCF Toys - 2014 SOS Ratings

1. Auburn
2. Alabama
4. Texas A&M
5. Miss St
6. Ohio St

That's 4 SEC West teams before you get to the 1st Big10 team.

7 Arkansas
8 Florida
9 Tennessee
10 Ole Miss
13 LSU
14 Michigan St

That's every single SEC West team, plus a few other SEC teams, before we get to even the 2nd Big10 team.

Ha, so what? Ohio State showed how much those SOS rankings meant when they played Bama. I also don't see Ga Tech (destroyed Miss State) or TCU (even more destroyed Ole Miss) in those rankings, either. SOS means nothing once you get on the field, and once that happened in bowl season in 2014, the SECW just couldn't stack up. If anything, it just shows that the metrics used in 2014 to determine SOS were BS.

 

[4down20]

Ha, so what? Ohio State showed how much those SOS rankings meant when they played Bama. I also don't see Ga Tech (destroyed Miss State) or TCU (even more destroyed Ole Miss) in those rankings, either. SOS means nothing once you get on the field, and once that happened in bowl season in 2014, the SECW just couldn't stack up. If anything, it just shows that the metrics used in 2014 to determine SOS were BS.

SoS is a measure of how tough your opponents are FYI.

 

[KingKoolKat75]

Based on your posts it doesn't seem you do either.

Not at all.. I care about all of them. I think Ohio State played poorly in the Sugar Bowl. The game I watch the most is the 2014 B1G Championship.

 

[4down20]

Not at all.. I care about all of them. I think Ohio State played poorly in the Sugar Bowl. The game I watch the most is the 2014 B1G Championship.

Way to talk about the strength of your conference.

 

[Across The Field]

SoS is a measure of how tough your opponents are FYI.

According to what?

 

[KingKoolKat75]

Way to talk about the strength of your conference.

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Already talked about the strength of the conference in previous posts. I didn't take your dumbass post as a serious.

 

[4down20]

According to what?

So you just don't know how to click links posted, or you just want to pretend a source hasn't already been given?

 

[4down20]

Already talked about the strength of the conference in previous posts. I didn't take your dumbass post as a serious.

Yeah, that was some funny shit.

Unless you really believe it.

 

[ericd7633]

Forgive me for not fawning over a bunch of teams that "beat each other up" in the regular season only to get beat down in bowl season, mostly as the favorite in those matchups as well. At the end of the season, when it matters, they simply didn't measure up. Simple as that.

That's literally what happened before bowl season. Why do you think they were favored in those bowl games? Why do you think they were ranked so high? That's what happens when you don't lose a game outside the conference all season. It's dumb to suggest they didn't measure up when they hadn't lost a game outside the conference all year. What the hell happened the other 28 games?

 

[ericd7633]

NCAAF Sagarin - NCAAF Football - USA TODAY

1. SEC West
5. B1G East

Not even close either.

 

[TROJAN-MAN]

So whole SOS thing is BS, in 2014 aTm ranked 21st beat a 9th ranked SC, they switched spots aTm went on to play and beat Lamar, Rice, SMU and an OT win against Arkansas which moved aTM to 6th ranked. aTm got the benefit of beating a shity SC team and returned the favor to Miss St, Ole Miss & Alabama. Both aTm & SC ended the season unranked

 

[Across The Field]

That's literally what happened before bowl season. Why do you think they were favored in those bowl games? Why do you think they were ranked so high? That's what happens when you don't lose a game outside the conference all season. It's dumb to suggest they didn't measure up when they hadn't lost a game outside the conference all year. What the hell happened the other 28 games?

In bowl season, dude. I clearly said they didn't measure up in bowl season, which they didn't. When the time came to show up on the big stage, they all failed except for Arkansas who beat a 6-6 Texas team and A&M who beat a 7-5 WVU team. Wow, that's amazing!

 

[ericd7633]

In bowl season, dude. I clearly said they didn't measure up in bowl season, which they didn't. When the time came to show up on the big stage, they all failed except for Arkansas who beat a 6-6 Texas team and A&M who beat a 7-5 WVU team. Wow, that's amazing!

Bowl season is just a bunch of exhibition games, unless you find yourself in the CFP. And yes, they did do bad, but don't you think it's dumb to wipe away a whole season's worth of games? They still went 33-5 in OOC, which was BY FAR the best record of any division that season. I've seen nothing in publication to suggest the B1G East was the best division. I've seen multiple publications to suggest the SEC West was.

 

[ericd7633]

So whole SOS thing is BS, in 2014 aTm ranked 21st beat a 9th ranked SC, they switched spots aTm went on to play and beat Lamar, Rice, SMU and an OT win against Arkansas which moved aTM to 6th ranked. aTm got the benefit of beating a shity SC team and returned the favor to Miss St, Ole Miss & Alabama. Both aTm & SC ended the season unranked

Happens all the time. Teams are overrated to begin the season. Wasn't USC up to #2 at one point a couple years ago and finish unranked?