The Blue Board

The numbers I posted ITT are actually pretty favorable for the SEC, far and away either the best or right next to the best out of any conf. since 1998 against 8+ win ( aka - very good) teams. It's funny how insecure a lot of you SEC fans are considering the large amount of success the conf. has had, especially the last 6-7 years.

Notice I just posted the SEC's totals. I tend to always make comparisons between the SEC/PAC, so I thought
I would stay away from that this time and just show what the SEC has done, and they have done very well.
By the reaction I got you would have thought I had posted Alabama's all-time record
vs Texas & Notre Dame, which is like 2-12-1 or something terrible like that, but I didn't
do that - until now.

Anyway, maybe a few people who looked at this post had never seen SEC results vs other conferences in
the BCS era broken down by reg. season, bowl, and all OOC games vs the best competition and found it interesting. Maybe not.

Perhaps, I may have over-estimated how knowledgeable college football fans are in the south.
Passionate yes, great attendance at games - hell yes, but I kind of expected several posters like the
Harbinater on this site, not just 1 or 2. Maybe there just aren't that many on this site that played one of the big 3 team sports at a collegiate level, which certainly isn't neccessary to be knowledgeable, but does provide a perspective different than someone who the closest they ever got to actually playing the game, was playing
it on a video screen.

agreed, plus go and look at the conference standings of the SEC vs Big10 bowl games its constantly lopsided (SEC # 4-7 vs big10 #1-3) and we still win.

Actually, the results below don't support your claim at all.
It looks like a pretty evenly matched series. Out of 34 games,
the B1G had the higher ranked team only 2 more times than the SEC did.

Of course, also no mention was made of the fact that all these bowl games are played in the south,
maybe not as much of an advantage as a true home game, but still an advantage.

This shows all bowl games SEC vs B1G since
1998, not just the ones between 8+ win teams.

-SEC vs B1G (17-17)
-SEC the lower ranked team 17 times.
-SEC the higher ranked team 15 times.
-Neither team ranked 2 times.

Rankings at time of bowl game.

SEC 7-10 when ranked lower
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W #2 Florida vs #1 Ohio St
W #2 LSU vs #1 Ohio St
L #12 Arkansas vs #6 Wisconsin
L #8 Arkansas vs #6 Ohio St
W #12 LSU vs #7 Illinois
W #15 Alabama vs #7 Mich St
L #10 Florida vs #9 Mich St
W #19 Auburn vs #10 Penn St
L #12 LSU vs #11 Iowa
L #13 LSU vs #11 Penn St
L #22 Florida vs #12 Michigan
L #18 Georgia vs #12 Mich St
L #17 Florida vs #13 Iowa
L #20 Auburn vs #17 Michigan
W #21 Georgia vs #19 Purdue
W South Car vs #19 Ohio St
L Kentucky vs #22 Penn St

SEC 9-6 when ranked higher
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L #5 Alabama vs #8 Michigan
L #7 Auburn vs #21 Wisconsin
L #9 Florida vs Michigan
W #8 Georgia vs #16 Wisconsin
W #8 Tennessee vs #17 Michigan
L #11 Arkansas vs #15 Michigan
W #11 Georgia vs #12 Purdue
W #16 Tennessee vs #18 Wisconsin
W #16 Georgia vs #19 Michigan St
W #10 South Car vs #21 Nebraska
W #14 South Car vs #22 Ohio St
W #16 Florida vs #25 Iowa
L #17 Tennessee vs Penn St
W #21 Miss State vs Michigan
L #25 Arkansas vs Minnesota

SEC 1-1 when neither team ranked
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L South Car vs Iowa
W Auburn vs Northwestern

Probably should put the "SEC's #4-7th place teams beat the Big 10's #1-3 place teams"
excuse to bed now.

I love how mad these facts make you. It's both funny and pathetic at the same time. Haha, you dance better than any puppet on the board when your strings are pulled.

Yes, that data does show the SEC's dominance. I was trying to hide it,
but I might as well just let the dominance Roll.

In all OOC games vs AQ Conf. teams .500 or better in the BCS Era (1998-2012),
Alabama is 9-10.

Truly dominating.

The thread should have been closed after this. Kiss the rings & suck the crystal balls.

Simply stated as "To be the man, you gotta beat the man"

Guess I'll wait...

I counted the Texas Tech win because I don't consider anything the ncaa does as legit. I included the Utah game because I included games against any MWC teams. After all, if the ACC, who has won 2 BCS Bowl games is included then the MWC should be since they managed to win 3.

I can post some other conf #' s when I get home later. Originally, I didn't post that just to stay away from my usual PAC- SEC comparison, but I will later.

How many NC's? It's okay little buddy, the big will be back one day.

Harbinater, Here's what I got

BCS ERA (1998-2012)

PAC OOC games between 8 or more win teams only.
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Regular Season/ Bowl Games/ All OOC vs 8+ win teams
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10-5 vs B1G......./ 8-4 Bowls...../ 18-9 vs B1G
5-4 vs B12........../ 8-11 Bowls.../ 13-15 vs B12
3-2 vs SEC........./ 0-1 Bowls....../ 3-3 vs SEC
1-2 vs ACC......../ 3-1 Bowls....../ 4-3 vs ACC
2-4 vs B.EAST.../ 3-1 Bowls....../ 5-5 vs B.EAST
7-2 vs INDY......./ 1-0 Bowls....../ 8-2 vs INDY
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PAC Totals
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(28-19) .595 Regular season between 8+ win teams.
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(23-18) .561 All Bowl games between 8+ win teams.
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(51-37) .580 All OOC games between 8+ win teams.
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(60-42) .588 Add in MWC games
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vs the MWC 7-3 reg season/ 2-2 Bowls = (9-5)

Add Colorado and Utah
(Just to compare the amount of games/wins
if the PAC had 12 teams like SEC the entire time.)
Col & Utah = 6-5 reg season/ 4-2 Bowls / 10-7 Overall.

PAC (70-49) .588
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Win Pct. in games between 8
or more win teams from these
7 Conf & Indy's in the BCS Era.
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1) PAC (.588)
2) SEC (.552)
3) B1G (.500)
4) B12 (.485)
5) MWC(.465)
6) ACC (.458)
7) BEast(427)
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BIG 10
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6-1 vs ACC
9-18 vs PAC
16-15 vs SEC
2-1 vs MWC
5-2 vs BigEast
9-7 vs Big12
4-7 vs Indy (ND)
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51-51 .500
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BIG 12
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8-14 vs SEC
7-9 vs BIG
15-13 vs PAC
7-6 vs ACC
3-3 vs Big East
1-1 vs Indy (ND)
7-5 vs MWC
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48-51 .485
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MWC
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2-1 vs ACC
5-9 vs PAC
2-0 vs SEC
1-2 vs Big10
5-7 vs Big12
2-1 vs BEast
3-3 vs Indy
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20-23 .465
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ACC
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16-27 vs SEC
3-4 vs Pac 12
1-2 vs MWC
1-6 vs Big10
6-7 vs Big12
25-16 vs Big East
3-3 vs Indy (ND)
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55-65 .458
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makes sense, mwc is (or was) a legit conf.

and thanks for other conf #'s.