Because of the baseball playoffs, my car radio is usually on ESPN Radio in the evenings, so in the mornings I've been listening to much more sports talk than normal.
There's a lot of talk about SEC dominance in football. Florida and Alabama are #1 and #2. And they've mentioned that the SEC has won the last three national championships. I was looking at it and was surprised the SEC run is actually deeper than that. LSU won after the 2003 season, Florida after 2006 and last year and LSU again in 2007. That's 4 of 6 and in 2004, Auburn finished 12-0 but was shut out of the title game by two other 12-0 teams. And Georgia and LSU have had top 3 finishes in years the SEC won the title.
So the interesting question is could you have two SEC team play for the National Championship. The consensus was "no" and I agree the pollsters wouldn't let it happen. But it's pretty stupid -- if Alabama and Florida are the clear best teams in the country, go undefeated and settle the SEC Championship in double overtime, and LSU is the third best team (losing only to Florida and Alabama) do you really want Cincinnati, Boise State, or USC in the the title game?
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Put me down!
Columbia River and Washington
Notes and observations by Adam, Monica, Hunny Bear, Cocoa, Tommy, and Jasmine from Lake Sammamish in Bellevue
The Inspiration
Put me down!
Followers
The Staff
Columbia River and Washington
Labels
- agile
- ascentium
- auctions
- baseball
- basketball
- cash games
- chicago sports
- cocoa
- college sports
- customer service
- deck
- diet
- dogs
- economics
- etiquette
- family
- finances
- football
- general
- hardwoods
- health
- hideaway
- home decorating
- house
- humor
- hunny bear
- jewish
- job
- las vegas
- mariners
- math
- no limit
- plateau
- poker
- politics
- ranting
- restaurants
- seattle sports
- serena
- snoqualmie casino
- social networking
- softball
- storm
- summer
- technology
- television
- tommy
- tournaments
- tulalip
- vacation
- vanderbilt
- weather
2 comments:
You can get a job on talk radio in Nashville. The big topic is that it's too bad the loser of Florida ALabama is out of the National Championship and that they should play twice, once for the SEC title and once for the National championship.
Of course this overlooks that LSU might beat Alabama.
And also that the gap between Florida/Alabama and the next tier (Texas, Iowa, etc) is miniscule.
I don't think it's as much a done deal as it was a month ago, especially with Iowa losing. Iowa was ahead of Alabama in all/most of the computer polls. When the BCS standings come out Alabama should jump Texas to be #2.
There's a big gap between #3 Texas and the group of mid-major undefeated teams. While the polls have a human element, the polls are all about numbers -- they don't know that certain rankings would create a rematch. And I'm not sure the Alabama-Florida loser will drop far in the polls. If Texas loses and Alabama beats Florida, we're going to see a Bama-Florida rematch.
Post a Comment