RedCreek49

Auburn already had 3 losses when they played UCF, it's not like they were unbeatable! Auburns last lost that came a few weeks before UCF was to Georgia by 21 points. Auburn lost to UCF by 7 points in a game that was tied at the end of the 3rd quarter and in. Game Auburn held the edge of time of procession, total yards, first downs, and return yards. The game came down to turnovers that helped to allow UCF two touchdown drives of less than 25 yards! Hey, but that is the way it is. UCF outplayed them and deserved to win. Auburn was fairly banged us kind of like Alamama was when Auburn beat them but not as bad! Until the Auburn game, UCF's biggest wins came against South Florida and Memphis with OOC games against Austin Peavy and FiU. Not hardly a resume deserving a playoff invite! If teams for the Group of 5 want to get in they need to schedule better. It's too bad their games against Maine and Ga. Tech was canceled . At least GA. Tech was from. Power 5 but they were a little down this year.

I believe at least a couple of recognized rating organization need to vote UCF #1 before they should be able to make any sort of claim. However, they can do what they want, I don't care. If UCF wanted to claim #1, then the SEC should claim 1o more championships, click and see! https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/alabama-football/10-titles-sec-should-claim/

Oklahoma did have a fantastic offense no doubt they did scare me a little! Both coaches didn't know each other well and that may have had a little something to do with it. They both wanted to play ball control office in opportunity defense which was going to leave till rather low-scoring game! there will be a quarterback battle next year for the starting job in Alabama I think Sabin will have to give this guy a fair shot! Hurts is 26 in and 2, and did leave the team that to the national championship games but you just can't throw very well! It's going to be a mess for Saban, he may should have redshirted Tua but since he did not and if Tua was gonna have to sit at the bench all next year he may have transferred before next season. Hurts will not turn pro after his junior year, the Pro's aren't going to take him, not as a quarterback.

No he was not hidden. He was right there on the bench all year for all to see! He was indeed wasted. Hurts can't throw and that's no secret! If the best thing about your QB is his ability to run, more him to RB or put him in if you run the Wildcat or the wild Pachyderm! Tua has thrown the ball better all year when he has had the chance to play. He did so in the spring, in the fall and during the early part of the season. I said all along, put him at QB and put Hurts at RB! I texted a friend at half time and told them they needed to pull Hurts and that their best QB is riding the Pine!

I would agree on both counts! But especially that halftime performance that was hideous talk about a cultural assassination what garbage!! How in the world could you call that music what is it called Music I don't know I hope not

I believe the Georgia team scored 54 points against Oklahoma! So I don't think their office is too shabby!

Probably not too much. I would say they would have done a little lest the Georgia did. Georgia could only score 2 TD's on them.

Same idiot and hater as always like a large part of the country. Danny is not interested in getting the best 4 teams in as much as he is eliminating the SEC. So let the best two eliminate one or the other and then let the final be against the third and best place teams? Makes sense to he haters? Really though, it was set 1 against 4 and 2 against 3. If the SEC would have been in any other spots that they were, then they would have played each other and that would have been fair because it was already established process. Now I'm surprised the Danny boy did not say the ranking were manipulated to ensure the Georgia and Alabama would not play each other. This is the case in College Baseball were they do their best to pair the SEC teams up against each other when they get to the final 16 and 8 teams were at all possible.

Yes, I did you see you that you pointed that out, that just shows your keen knowledge of the sport!!! I don't know if they would have won by 30 but I think they would have fared better!

Kirby Smart is a new to Head Coaching too and is finishing just his second year. Riley just completed his first year. I know people are questing Oklahoma's play calling the 2nd half, well, I can assure you, just as many is questing Georgia's play calling the 1st half and some in the 2nd half as well. Georgia has the best RB tandem in the country that at one time was averaging 19 years per carry and ended up around 10 yards per carry but they kept throwing the ball a lot more than they should have. .

I think PG went into a kind of a prevent Defense and that hurt them. Before that point, the game was not close. However, I do not care if the game would have ended with a 1 point victory or a 40 point victory, a win's a win baby!!!!

I would very much agree!

How did that work out for you!

How did that work out for you?

Maybe he was just trying to teach her a lesson!!!

The $33.00 Ole Miss was accused of was actually $66.00. A coach let a player sleep on his couch for two nighs and the NCAA said the player should have been charged $66.00, and that was a level 1 offense.

Funny, there has been no allegation by the NCAA or any governing body about any irregularities involving Treadwell. There were jealous grumbling from some hater fans and schools who wanted him but nothing more! No money trail or any special favors!

Ole Miss is in trouble for sure. I really thought all it would be was some minor things but looks like it will go much further. Still lot of these things are trumped up overblown propaganda that unfortunately will have lasting consequences. Let a team beat Alabama for two years and see what happens...lol! The NCAA camped out and investigated Ole Miss for 5 years which is unprecedented. Total so called payments and benefits that Ole Miss has admitted to add up to $14,400 over 5 years and even some of those are contestable since almost half of that amount was to families of players that were already on the team and were not inducements to come sign with the school. Additionally, only about $2,500 was even associated with anyone employed by the school. The remaining dollars, approximately $16,000, is alleged from a player that went to Mississippi State and their is no proof that Ole Miss actually offered him any money. However, there is proof through a recording that the player tired to gt money from Ole Miss by telling them that Mississippi State had offered him $15,000 to play for them. If all Larry Tunsil got was $800 over 3 or 4 years (NCAA agreed), I doubt that this 3 star player was offer $16 Grand! The three players that got help on their ACT test so they could enroll is more serious in my opinion, hardly on the scale of North Carolina? However, this is cheating. Also, this happened in 2010. Since Ole Miss is a poor Southern School, they will suffer terribly from this. I would like to see them camp out at some other high profile school for 5 years and see what they find. The Freeze has thawed and thus will melt away never to be heard from again. Mostly undone by things that happened both before and after he was thee but like a lot of instances undone but over aggressive coaches and booster. If you look at each of the charges t he money was so tiny of an amount it was crazy. $33 to one person so they would not have to sleep outside on the ground, Letting a player hut of their land...really??? Putting a player's family up when they came to see a the kid play which is allowed but the family was the ones who raised him and was not the kid's biological father? The NCAA has always game after Ole Miss whenever they have had a good season. Did you ever see the movie the Blind Side. hey went after Ole miss because Michael Oher signed to play for Ole Miss and turned out to be an all American!

Yes, probably somewhat justified. however, I think at least one more should have been included. More love for the big 10. Ohio State proved to be the power everyone expected them to be and a poor bowl showing over all. That is why I did not want to get away from the BCS. It takes picks away from the bias Northern and Western media, especially big 10!. I warned of that a few years ago and here it comes.

You're right! Let's not wait!!! Let's see that it's weighted correctly to be statistically valid!

For this to be more meaningful, you would have to compare it to the average points each team was scoring or letting up for the year to see if teams were held below their average or scored above their average. Also, the rankings and records of each team involved and how many teams played. I may have figured it wrong but the Big 12 may have given up 21.17 ppg. Also, at first glance it looks like the SEC gave up only 24.5 PPG. The SEC sent 12 teams and the big 12 sent 6. The comparison should be waited. If you took the top 6 SEC performers and the top big 12, the SEC would have only let up 13.67 PPG. If you take the 6 SEC with in the top of the conference, they let up 16.83 PPG.

Kiffin has done this time and time again! I He has to be too smart and fancy for his teams on good!

I think you're right at least for the next several year. If the SEC does go to 16 teams, they should break it down to 4 division with 4 teams in each. 20 teams, 5 divisions of 4 teams. That's just too many though. In a 16 team conference with 4 divisions, you would play the 3 teams in your division and two team from each of the other divisions on a rotating schedule. That would mean 9 conference games per year! If you really wanted to be bold, you could only play 11 games and have the 12 games be a playoff semifinal game between the winners of the 4 division, with the two winner playing for the SEC Championship!!!

An SEC expansion without at least one of these teams (Fa. St., Clemson. N.C., Va. Tech) no way!!!!

Down season or not, SEC still best conference in America for 2016 JOHN CRIST | A popular narrative that came out of the 2016 college Football regular season was the SEC having what appeared to be a “down” year. Aside from Alabama, which is the only unbeaten team in the Power 5, the rest of the conference has lagged behind significantly. The Crimson Tide crushed Florida in the SEC title game, giving every other club in the league at least four losses. The East in particular continues to hold back the conference’s potential as a whole. Only one squad managed to do better than .500 in conference play — the Gators were 6-2 — and five of the seven gave up more points than they scored. Vanderbilt was dead even on the JumboTron in eight games with 162 points both for and against. Don’t blame the Tide for the imbalance. They only played Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky. Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina and Vandy were spared. In the West, while ‘Bama ran roughshod over its divisional foes, Auburn and LSU still posted a 5-3 mark in the league. Four of the seven programs scored more points than they allowed, which includes 4-4 Texas A&M. Nevertheless, Alabama has been so dominant from start to finish this year that the other 13 teams in the SEC have been criticized for failing to put up more of a fight. Not only were the Crimson Tide 8-0 in conference, but they scored more points — 17 more than Tennessee — and surrendered fewer — five less than Florida — than anyone. No question about it, the conference can be described as ‘Bama and everybody else this season. The Tide have been that good. That being said, when comparing all the Power 5 leagues in terms of how they’ve done against ranked competition, the SEC still comes out on top. And it’s not necessarily Nick Saban and Co. propping up the other 13. Credit: Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports The SEC has played 55 games against teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25 — many of which came against each other, of course — and have an overall record of 17-38. That’s a winning percentage of .309, which is the best among Power 5 conferences. While the East was only 6-18, the West was a much more admirable 11-20. The ACC is second with a winning percentage of .303. But at 10-23, that’s significantly fewer times wrestling with quality opponents. Just like the SEC is anchored by Alabama, the ACC is buoyed by Clemson. The Tigers are 4-1 against the Top 25, meaning the rest of the conference only has six wins combined over ranked teams. Pitt has two, including one over Clemson. People arguing against the SEC in 2016 are likely arguing in favor of the Big Ten, which currently features Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan and Wisconsin all in the Top 8. If the SEC West isn’t the toughest division in the land, then the Big Ten East — the Buckeyes, Nittany Lions and Wolverines are a combined 32-5 — certainly is. SEC haters accuse the league of being top-heavy, especially this year considering what the Crimson Tide have done through 13 games. However, the Big Ten clearly isn’t as stable from top to bottom as the SEC this season. Even with Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan and Wisconsin all winning double-digit contests, the league is only 15-41 overall against ranked teams. That’s a winning percentage of just .268. Even more alarming, those 15 wins were delivered by only five teams — the aforementioned four heavyweights plus Iowa, which was 2-2. The other nine clubs in the conference (Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Rutgers) all came up empty. Meanwhile, 13 of the 14 teams in the SEC have defeated at least one ranked opponent. Only Missouri went 0-fer the Top 25. The Pac-12, which was almost discarded on the cutting-room floor by the College Football Playoff committee for the second season in a row, snuck conference champ Washington into the Peach Bowl against Alabama as the No. 4 seed.