SECond to none

[team first]

South car makes sec 1-0

Other conferences hate this time of year
Truth comes out !!!!

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

Isnt the PAC-12 1-0 also??  

 

 

American 2-0??

 

Big Ten 1-0??

[Peppermint Patty]

South car makes sec 1-0
Other conferences hate this time of year
Truth comes out !!!!

Conferences really don't care. Fans on the other hand, fully expect Alabama's stepchildren to run their mouths about their conferences feats of strength when they could not win a real game when it mattered.

[team first]

I don't know, u just make sure u keep up when it all said and done.
Remember this was the sec team that's was an underdog

[team first]

And yes conferences do care or you wouldn't hear about how the espn love the sec
Other conferences always complaining of the love of the sec

[LocknLoad]

Big 10 1-1 La Tech took it to Illinois 35-18....

American 1-2

Pac 12 2-0 but the Blue Devils gave the State Devils all they wanted..

 

Now it don't matter about conference affiliations!!! LOL More than half of the threads say different...... We will see how this one turns out also if the tide turns!!!

 

GIG'EM

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

Big 10 1-1 La Tech took it to Illinois 35-18....

American 1-2

Pac 12 2-0 but the Blue Devils gave the State Devils all they wanted..

 

Now it don't matter about conference affiliations!!! LOL More than have of the threads say different...... We will see how this one turns out also if the tide turns!!!

 

GIG'EM

I thought WKU and Marshall were in the American….. Both won. 

[TxHoops]

And yes conferences do care or you wouldn't hear about how the espn love the sec
Other conferences always complaining of the love of the sec

The espn love the sec? Is team first actually the iron sheik?

[TxHoops]

I don't know, u just make sure u keep up when it all said and done.
Remember this was the sec team that's was an underdog

Isn't A&M an underdog too? Wouldn't swear to it but thought they were a 4 pt dog when the lines came out? Or did tricker quitting flip the line?

[LocknLoad]

WKU & Marshall is C-USA and your correct Buddy they both won.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

WKU & Marshall is C-USA

Ahhhhh, thx. Is Memphis C-USA or American? 

[team first]

Nope is pk most places

[team first]

Smart money went on aggies, best recruits and play in the sec

[TxHoops]

Smart money went on aggies, best recruits and play in the sec

Yeah I'm sure it was that and not WVU's QB leaving the game :rolleyes:

[LocknLoad]

Memphis is American

[Baba Ganoush]

Isn't A&M an underdog too? Wouldn't swear to it but thought they were a 4 pt dog when the lines came out? Or did tricker quitting flip the line?

Opened -4.5 WV. With backup QB, WV is still 1.5 point favorite

[Peppermint Patty]

Opened -4.5 WV. With backup QB, WV is still 1.5 point favorite

Based on what I've read on this site, Vegas is never wrong.

[PhatMack19]

Based on what I've read on this site, Vegas is never wrong.

You should bet it

[TxHoops]

You should bet it

If you want to guarantee an Ag win, get me to bet the mountaineers. Fool proof. Emphasis on fool.

[PhatMack19]

Pretty crazy stat. 6 of the 8 were top 10 with #20 LSU and #17 Mizzou bringing the numbers up some. The average ranking of Arkansas's SEC opponents was 9.


"Arkansas will become the first school in history that every conference team they played was ranked in the Top 20 when they played them."

[king]

If Alabama wins the title does that mean the SEC wins it all? Or just Bama, because there is SEC schools with 0 national championship trophies.

[PN-G bamatex]

Y'all just don't get it, do you?

 

The Deep South sticks together on everything. The Southern states have an almost hivemind mentality. There's a reason the SEC is only two states shy of reforming the Confederacy through college football: the South just sticks together.

 

You can go right now and find news articles about the Southern states getting ready to form a voting block in the 2016 primaries. They're trying to do a Super Tuesday of their own. Why? Because a bunch of Southern states voting together at the same time pulls all the presidential candidates into the South for those primaries. The political reality of Southern collective operation doesn't stop there - in fact, it's rooted in national history. You can go all the way back to the early nineteenth century, and you'll find the Southern delegations to Congress voting in lock-step on virtually every piece of legislation ever to pass through the two houses. Sometimes that produces ugly results - the preservation of slavery for decades leading up to the Civil War and then the preservation of segregation up until its bloody end during the demonstrations of the Civil Rights movement, for example - but the fact remains: the South functions as one bloc.

 

Why is it like this? Because collective identity built on common ground means collective strength carried into the accomplishment of common goals.

 

It's true economically, too. When you start to look at Southern states by their economy, you won't find much difference from state to state. They all have massive agricultural sectors, and have since they achieved statehood. When manufacturing kicked into high gear in the South during the early twentieth century, all the states got into the same areas of manufacturing - mostly textiles. Several of the Southern states got into the coal mining industry. In a handful of them, steel became a major industry. In another handful, it was oil.

 

That has created and sustained a culture with a singular, Southern identity. Yes, there are different groups within the South. Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia show their English roots, Louisiana is the heart of Cajun country, and Mississippi is defined by the Delta. Texas has strong Hispanic influence and is as much Western as Southern, and Missouri shows signs of Midwestern life. Kentucky and Tennessee are strongly Appalachian, and Arkansas embraces some of the mountain life, too. Florida is overrun by snowbirds, but is culturally as Spanish as the moss on the trees. But all of them are still Southern, and they have traditionally bought into the Southern profile.

 

That translates to college football. That's why you find tremendous conference pride in the SEC. The SEC's dominance is part of it, too, but that's secondary to the influence of the preexisting Southern collective identity. That's why you find even the most bitter rivals in the SEC rooting for each other during bowl season - yes, I did root for Auburn against Florida State last year, and most Auburn fans will be rooting for Alabama in a few days. It's all about the conference, just like it's all about the South.

 

So, yes, if Alabama wins the title, that means the SEC has won the title. And yes, every fan base in the SEC will celebrate, accordingly.

[king]

That's pathetic! Did you see roll tide/war eagle on ESPN? they hate each other. Bama players Even said when Auburn went to national title game in 2010 they wanted Auburn to lose!you should NEVER ROOT FOR YOUR RIVALS IN THE TITLE GAME.

Bamakid you still in Alabama right? Yet people in Auburn Alabama want The Tide to win it all??. So you were rooting for Auburn in the title game
That's pathetic. .

How about when Florida State plays thursday I'll wear my Miami Jersey and yell GO NOLES at a bar because they are in my conference

[PN-G bamatex]

That's pathetic! Did you see roll tide/war eagle on ESPN? they hate each other. Bama players Even said when Auburn went to national title game in 2010 they wanted Auburn to lose!you should NEVER ROOT FOR YOUR RIVALS IN THE TITLE GAME.

Bamakid you still in Alabama right? Yet people in Auburn Alabama want The Tide to win it all??. So you were rooting for Auburn in the title game
That's pathetic. .

How about when Florida State plays thursday I'll wear my Miami Jersey and yell GO NOLES at a bar because they are in my conference

 

I think I'll reserve judgment about which post in this thread is pathetic.

 

Yes, I saw the ESPN documentary. More importantly, I lived that documentary. And yes, I watched the national championship game from a sports bar next to Jackson Square in New Orleans with several other Alabama students, most of whom wanted Auburn to win for a combination of keeping the national championship in the SEC, and keeping it in the state of Alabama. I am personally rooting for every SEC team in a bowl game this season. I know several other Alabama students doing the same.

 

And yes, if you're smart (or perhaps not "pathetic"), you will root for Florida State. If Florida State beats Oregon and goes to the national championship in the first year of the playoff, that's a huge boost for your conference. Conference prestige, like it or not, plays a major role in rankings and thus bowl bids. Miami could have used all the conference prestige it could get the past few years. Don't let pettiness override your own interests.

[TxHoops]

Png Bamakid - can you also explain how the Aggy mentality has changed since joining the SEC? How many do you think were rooting on Texas against SC or Alabama in title games (both in the last decade)? Did they just realize they were in the South (conceivable of course)? Or is the Bama/Auburn rivalry not quite as bitter as texas/a&m and texas/OU?