djskillz
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ORIGINAL: Ian Joseph quote:
ORIGINAL: djskillz Actually, I would dispute that. I think South Carolina is overrated. Texas A&M is all about youth at QB but they still have a ton of talent. I firmly believe that Georgia/Auburn/Ole Miss are all top 10 teams in the country along with Bama/Miss St. And LSU is a top 20 team, at worst. Their losses are to each other. Do you really think Auburn/Ole Miss are much worse than Alabama/Miss St? Look what has happened when these teams play each other. Incredibly close games. You can't have it both ways. Either Alabama and Miss St are very good and amongst the best in the country (and those other teams are too) or none of them are. Cracks in the foundation? They've won 7 of the last 8 national title games, and had the 8th all but won last year. With 4 different schools! Again, the gap is only widening really. There are more top recruiting classes, more money, better coaches, and more great teams in the SEC with each passing year. Which is probably bad for the sport. And see, I don't agree with the first part of your statement. Five of the top 10 teams in the COUNTRY are from the SEC? I don't buy that at all. Not at the moment and not at the onset of the season, when the regional bias is at an all time high. There is just too much football being played throughout the country for at least half of the top teams being not only in the same region, but damn near the same zip code. I don't buy it. Statements like that totally discount football being played in Texas, where they live football more than any part of non-Texas SEC country. Florida puts out major high school players and they tend to stay local (and theyre not going to University of Florida right now). I wont even talk about California and my high school, which is a factory of NCAA stars and NFL studs. And then there is the Midwest lunch bucket, cornfed brutes that play out that way. Sorry, but the best college football teams don't all reside in the SEC. Not even close. But, we get to see this year, finally. Again, it's all or nothing, Ian IMO. To dispute that at least 4 of those teams (the SEC West teams, because they play each other) aren't incredibly, incredibly close doesn't really make sense. Any of those games could have easily gone another way. Bama probably beats Ole Miss at home, for example. Ole Miss loses their game to Auburn on one of the craziest ending plays ever. Etc. Either you believe that all of those teams are among the best, or none of them. And I find it REALLY tough to believe that none of them are. Again, the SEC has dominated college football, with all different schools, for the last 8-10 years.
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