The sec is proving to be garbage and didn't deserve 2 teams. You're saying that tOSU, PSU, or even uw didn't deserve to be in over Bama?
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With wins over all power 5 teams, including Miami, USC, Washington, and BC in the top bowls. Like I said, not debateable really.
I’m saying that reality says that the Big 10 doesn’t have a team good enough to be the top 4
Oklahoma certainly has the dudes, but their scheme is questionable. Mike Stoops is a stubborn DC.
If we are talking about P5 conferences not in the playoff, then yes; it’s not debatable that the B10 is better than the 1-8 P12.
6 of 14 teams in the B10 have losing records. Easy to forget about all those bad teams, but they are part of your league, too.
Its still impressive they have all gone undefeated. Have to at least tip the cap.
When only about half of the conference is eligible in a 14 team league? It means the top half is maybe the best top half of any league, sure you could say that.
Only 57% of the BIG made a bowl game, the lowest by far of all power 5 conferences (SEC - 64%, ACC - 71%, Pac 12 - 75%, Big 12 - 80%).
It is possible to have the SEC be down and still have 2 worthy teams. And it appears that is exactly what has happened here. No way OSU deserved to get in after being blown out twice to OU and Iowa. I think Wiscy had a better argument, except for the fact they lost the last game of the year. One-loss Bama deserved to be in imo.
Keep in mind that with two teams in the playoff, the SEC is playing up 1-2 levels in bowls. The league may be down, but they all moved up 1-2 levels of bowl competition; depending on how you want to count two teams in the playoff.
No question, they took full advantage of not having a team in the playoff and playing down in their bowls. With one game left they could run the table. Meanwhile, the P12 played down too and went 1-8; completely exposed.
Did I miss where a B10 team beat someone that was ranked higher than them? A 5 beating a 8 just shows that the rankings were right.
Let me know how the big x game goes tonight. I’ll be watching the other teams and won’t have the chance to check scores.
The Big Ten is a fine football conference. It just has a major balance problem with the East/West divisions.
I mostly just get tired of the Big 12 receiving ZERO credit for another great bowl performance. The vast majority of the loudmouth CFB media absolutely do not watch Big 12 games and it's obvious. And why would they? They all played for Ohio State, Florida, LSU, Michigan, etc. Rece Davis is about the only guy that makes any argument for the Big 12. The rest of them just ignore it unless it's time to take jabs when it fits their narrative.
I mostly just get tired of the Big 12 receiving ZERO credit for another great bowl performance. The vast majority of the loudmouth CFB media absolutely do not watch Big 12 games and it's obvious. And why would they? They all played for Ohio State, Florida, LSU, Michigan, etc. Rece Davis is about the only guy that makes any argument for the Big 12. The rest of them just ignore it unless it's time to take jabs when it fits their narrative.
Baker has been carrying around a sign that has "pretenders" written on it. Corso called OU that on gameday before the OSU game.
Caution to the wind is OU tends to be a wild card on this kind of stage which would be red meat for the B1G homers.
The B1G's best are fine and a good football team is going to do well in any conference. However I can't say that anyone from the Big Ten has beaten another real good football team from another conference this bowl season. USC was never that good and even the pundits weren't always high on Miami, although it was impressive to see Wisconsin settle in and shut their fans up.
This might worry me had Oklahoma not completely dominated the exact team Big 10 fans think should be in the playoff. On the road.