What will be the best conference in 2014?

[WestEndVol]

Better enjoy it really, because that is probably about as weak as Tennessee has ever or will ever be.

Hopefully it will stay that way a good bit longer.

 

[TexasExes98]

That was funny after all the shit talking Big 12 fans about A&M being a scrub. Almost as funny as Ole Miss ass raping texas @ texas last season....

LOL at Team SEC fairies still sucking on that Ole Miss dick for beating Texas last year. I don't recall you pimping out Ole Miss after Texas poured 66 pts on them in Oxford the previous year?

 

[bamabear82]

LOL at Team SEC fairies still sucking on that Ole Miss dick for beating Texas last year. I don't recall you pimping out Ole Miss after Texas poured 66 pts on them in Oxford the previous year?

That's cause they lost, duh.

 

[Codaxx]

Um Auburn ran the table and won the national championship that year. The seasons that Oregon played Tennessee in '10 and '12, the Vols finished with losing records both years. Different quality of teams we're talking about here.

Of course Oregon didn't have any problems with Tennessee's d-line or anything else in those match-ups. Tennessee sucked those seasons.

Oregon moved the ball on Auburn all game. They had 450 yards of offense. Fact is 2 high scoring teams played a great game. Great NC game between evenly matched teams. Not sure how that equates to Oregon cant hang.

 

[TheLonestarDUCK]

Better enjoy it really, because that is probably about as weak as Tennessee has ever or will ever be.

Hopefully it will stay that way a good bit longer.

The first time UO beat UT worst in Neyland history - the Vols finished right in the middle of the SEC East. The point is the SEC has great fronts and weak fronts. Lumping in all SEC fronts as great is incorrect.

 

[Boise4Life]

Oregon moved the ball on Auburn all game. They had 450 yards of offense. Fact is 2 high scoring teams played a great game. Great NC game between evenly matched teams. Not sure how that equates to Oregon cant hang.

I never said they couldn't hang. They had a great season. Recently they've been a top notch program, one of the best. I'm not taking anything away from them. I'm just saying in that NCG, Oregon did move the ball. But as I said to me the problem in that game was when they got into the red zone and the field started becoming compressed. They struggled. They ran out of space and weren't able to spread Auburn out. Then of course you had some crucial poor reads by Daron Thomas out of the zone read and it cost them the game. Highly entertaining NC though.

 

[Wild Turkey]

Oregon moved the ball on Auburn all game. They had 450 yards of offense. Fact is 2 high scoring teams played a great game. Great NC game between evenly matched teams. Not sure how that equates to Oregon cant hang.

Worse defense for a national championship team during the BCS era.

 

[Boise4Life]

Worse defense for a national championship team during the BCS era.

Yeah, the explosive and timely offense at key moments is what carried them to the title. When they had to have a play they got it all season. Cam was money (no pun intended).

 

[TheLonestarDUCK]

Worse defense for a national championship team during the BCS era.

But it was a SEC front

 

[Boise4Life]

But it was a SEC front

Okay. So red zone issues, particularly running the ball in the red zone and some poor decisions by Thomas at key times in the zone read didn't cost Oregon that game. What did then in your opinion?

 

[Olyduck]

Don't forget Louisville went to the ACC - I'd definitely put them into the top tier.

Losing Strong and bridgewater and only 4 D starters back? I dont know

 

[RegentDenali]

I was thinking Sun Belt since that's the conference that the SEC plays the most.

zing!

 

[WestEndVol]

Losing Strong and bridgewater and only 4 D starters back? I dont know

Idk, Clemson lost Boyd and quite a bit as well, not to mention Louisville put a pretty good whoopin on Miami last season (36-9). VT was pretty average (8-5) and I'm just not quite sold on Duke yet after one good season. Louisville isn't on the same level as FSU, but I'd put them in the same category as Clemson, Miami and VT. That's just my opinion, guess we can agree to disagree.

 

[Olyduck]

Idk, Clemson lost Boyd and quite a bit as well, not to mention Louisville put a pretty good whoopin on Miami last season (36-9). VT was pretty average (8-5) and I'm just not quite sold on Duke yet after one good season. Louisville isn't on the same level as FSU, but I'd put them in the same category as Clemson, Miami and VT. That's just my opinion, guess we can agree to disagree.

I think the other thing for me is the step up in competition. UCF was good last year Cinci and Houston were alright but other than that the bottom half doesnt compare to the obttom half of the ACC. I would take NC ST, WF and Virginia over Memphis, Temple and South florida and Uconn.

 

[WABLTY]

Far more often than not it will be the SEC, but it's a Quarterback driven game and the Pac 12 has tons of good QBs right now.

SEC might be the stronger at the top, but I suspect the Pac 12 has depth on them. Really only expect 2 teams to be bad.

 

[occupant]

Not much of a conference honk...also-rans and has-beens worry about such things.

Go team. Conference can go suck a weiner.

 

[WhiteMamba]

my piggly wiggly is better than yo piggly wiggly.

 

[WhiteMamba]

We need a piggly wiggly smiley for conference and team homerism.

Well, at least when it comes down to silly debates about such things.

But this one doesn't fit that billing yet.

Now, if Bamatee and SoxOSU were here..... Different story.

 

[WhiteMamba]

The piggly wiggly comment was a Finebaum show classic.

When two fans of two different sec teams were debating school superiority, the conversation took an unexpected turn when one fan went to this "my piggly wiggly is better than yo piggly wiggly."

Those words turned the heated discussion into a 4 alarm fire debate.

 

[Pariah]

TCU and West Virginia need to step up.