No...not because of Tebow, Harvin or anyone else who may or not be coming back.... Anyone playing this slate is on the fast track to title town.... Charleston Southern (hahaha) Troy (hey, they're a bowl team!!) Tennessee (1st year coach in his 3rd game) @Kentucky (losing 8 key seniors should soften the last place team in the SECEast) (bye) @LSU (Make or break game for Miles @ LSU) Arkansas (possibly a good game, but they were awful this year) @Miss State (1st year coach at perennial loser) Georgia in JAX (No Stafford, No Knoshawn, No hope) Vandy (they graduate most of their better players) @ SCAR (slipping back into obscurity under SOS) Florida International (hahaha) FSU (average to good last several years) Well, at least it isn't the Mountain West...
I have to agree. With this schedule UF needs to win 'em all because one loss won't cut it next year. At least there should be a good BCS boosting game at the end playing Ole Miss or Bama for the SEC title and I think FSU will also provide a ratings boost.
Ole Miss will get to the SEC CG if they can find someone to block. They lose 3/5 of that OLine AT LEAST...
Gaterz, Since you don't believe anyone plays football outside of the south, I doubt you'd know what a Pac10 schedule looks like
Perhaps during the Bowl Season, SB should enlarge its selection of emoticons so that the little icons actually capture the true meaning, warmth and spirit of the exchanges. Some suggested ones:
I didn't know airports can have college football teams. And Bobda, here's another one for your collection...
And Corey, you have such a bias against the SEC in general and the Gators specifically that it clouds your judgment. Bobda and Rick, I like them.
Gators had no choice but to go with Charleston Southern, Penn State has already locked up Coastal Carolina.
Bill, My 'bias' is that I do not buy into this immortal greatness of the SEC. I think it is a great football conference. I think they play as good a level of football in that conference as is found anywhere else in America. The pageantry and spectacle that is SEC football is truly unequaled in any conference in America when you look at it top to bottom. As a fan of college football, I enjoy college football season living here more than I have in any other region of America.. What I do not buy into is the myth that teams are simply better by virtue of their conference affiliation. I do not buy into the myth that any one conference is better on an annual basis simply because they are a member of that conference. I believe that in college football, like in all things in life, that these things run in cycles. What I can't stand about the BCS is that it is a man-made wall that prevents these cycles from running their natural course. They prevent teams from rising to greatness, while saving other programs from falling into obscurity. The polls have always had their built in prejudice, and I am sure we can all point to a point in time in which we felt our team/region/conference subjected to the short end of that prejudice. However, the polls COULD be changed... They were flexible. What we have now is an inflexible state of haves and have-nots that will never change. So inflexible are those in charge of this system that they voted against the idea of even researching the cost benefits of a playoff system. No other conference represents the BCS more than the SEC. I would say that only the Big12 has enjoyed membership as much, if not more. I would say that the SEC becomes a better 'representative' of the BCS is due to the fact that they have made the most of their opportunities while quite often the Big 12 has not. Ergo, you wind up at the tip of the spear. You become the de facto 'point man' of all that is the BCS. If you'd like, I can just move on and gripe about the Big 12 in the BCS but then you may one day run the risk of not getting to play them in title games
Tony Barnhardt agrees, UF plays for MNC after 2009 season: And his ...... And one of his ...... http://www.ajc.com/news/content/sports/stories/2009/01/09/best_worst_college_football.html
Love the self analysis about your bias, you will just have to excuse me for saying to me that your bias looks to me a lot like, well just bias.
You're excused Bill. You're more than a tad thin-skinned when it comes to the Gators and the SEC, as well as the system that they benefit from... I understand, I can be more than a tad thin-skinned about ND.
Corey,, As I've grown older I find my skin has thickened as my priorities have changed. I suspect yours will too :wink:
Tim, I don't know much about Charleston Southern other than they've appeared on a few teams schedules. The University of Miami played them this past season.
George, I'm trying to be nice here and find a resolution. When I log off here, it isn't a thought. I got my priorities well inline The vast majority of my posts here are off-the-cuff stuff I post while waiting to do something else at work. For example, while I was 'rampaging' earlier this week in one browser tab... in my other tabs I was monitoring a situation involving a possibly mobbed up Russian spammer who was launching ddos attacks to mask the fact he was really harvesting personal information from dozens of companies that 'may have' included a few of our clients. I had to take hop behind a few proxies on another system and take counter-measures when my suspicions were confirmed a few hours later. This usually leads me to making a few ill-advised misstatements on the board here...The upside is that I wind up making some spammer/hackers day a very long and expensive one because I was paying attention to details on the other side for example, CBS and Sagarin being biased... what I should have said is that Sagarin is flawed (deeply) and CBS is biased..but that's what you get when you're rushing. Sid was 100% correct in calling me out on that. I'm good with it though. We all make mistakes.