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NCAA Bowl Season 2011

#181
basstotheface said:
All games I listed were this year.

Top to bottom the SEC is no different than the Big 10 (12), Big 12 (10), and PAC 12. They're just cycling right now and happen to have their top teams performing well.

EDIT: OSU didn't have fit the bill for high powered offense.
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It is one heck of a cycle, and it involves more than just the top teams--and those top teams change over pretty short periods.

"The SEC is assured of one of its teams winning a BCS national championship for the sixth consecutive season, the longest such streak for a conference in college football history. Since the Associated Press Top 25 poll started in 1934, a conference had won three consecutive national titles only twice -- the Big Ten did it from 1940 to '42 and the SEC did it from 1978 to '80."

"Since 1998, five different SEC teams have won national championships (Tennessee won in 1998); no other conference had more than two teams win national titles during that time."

" Vanderbilt is the only SEC team which has failed to appear in the BCS standings during the last six seasons."

"The SEC posted an 8-2 record in BCS bowl games, more victories and a higher winning percentage than any other league. The Pac-12 is 5-3 in BCS bowl games; the Big East is 2-3; the Big 12 is 4-4; the Big Ten is 3-8; and the ACC is 1-4. Seven of the SEC's eight victories in BCS bowl games since 2006 were decided by 10 points or more."
http://espn.go.com/college-football...414179/little-love-sec-teams-college-football

That '06 Ohio State team featured a Heisman-winning QB. They may not have been as high-powered as Oregon, but they were completely dominated from start to finish. 82 yards of total offense.
 
#182
Wait, a couple years and it'll stop. I'm sure no one in the 90s thought FSU would suck now.

People in the 80s never thought Miami would lose. The Pony Wagon couldn't ever stop.

The 70s had Alabama destroy everybody...which didn't happen again til the 90s.

60s had I guess Mich State.

50s, Syracuse couldn't stop producing great RBs and winning NCs.

You get the point.
 
#183
basstotheface said:
Wait, a couple years and it'll stop. I'm sure no one in the 90s thought FSU would suck now.

People in the 80s never thought Miami would lose. The Pony Wagon couldn't ever stop.

The 70s had Alabama destroy everybody...which didn't happen again til the 90s.

60s had I guess Mich State.

50s, Syracuse couldn't stop producing great RBs and winning NCs.

You get the point.
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Oh, it's not permanent or anything. My points are that the SEC's run of dominance is unprecedented, and it involves more than just a couple teams. And the fact that we're talking about an entire conference, rather than the individual schools above, means this run may continue to extend beyond folks' predictions (as it already has).
 
#186
GregC said:
Oh, it's not permanent or anything. My points are that the SEC's run of dominance is unprecedented, and it involves more than just a couple teams. And the fact that we're talking about an entire conference, rather than the individual schools above, means this run may continue to extend beyond folks' predictions (as it already has).
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I think next year could be the end.

Bama loses gobs of defensive talent. Auburn isn't coming back soon. UF has a lot of turnover. LSU loses some great front 7 players and Morris Claiborne.
 
#193
aborgman said:
Trent Richardson vs LSU:
23 carries, 89 yards, 3.9 YPC


Trent Richardson vs Kent State (2011)
13 carries, 37 yards, 2.8 YPC.

Trent Richardson vs Auburn (2010)
10 carries, 24 yards, 2.4 YPC

Trent Richardson vs Kentucky (2009)
14 carries, 26 yards, 1.9 YPC

Trent Richardson vs Auburn (2009)
15 carries, 51 yards, 3.4 YPC
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Okay, Trent didn't play much in the season opener. We probably won't know why until the season is over (my guess is an undisclosed injury, which is Saban's MO). The other examples you gave were from previous years when he was 2nd and even 3rd fiddle? LOL!
 
#194
basstotheface said:
I think next year could be the end.

Bama loses gobs of defensive talent. Auburn isn't coming back soon. UF has a lot of turnover. LSU loses some great front 7 players and Morris Claiborne.
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Bama will decline a bit I think, but folks are already talking about LSU repeating. They most likely will be the preseason #1 team, with Bama #2 or #3. Auburn will be MUCH improved next year, though not a title contender I don't think. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Arkansas will all be improved from this year. By many accounts that I've seen (along with my own thoughts on the subject) next year could make for one strongest SEC conferences in the last decade, which could of course damage our chances of repeating a national title in the end.
 

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