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re: Alabama in top 3 sports

Posted on 3/28/16 at 1:40 pm to
Posted by SummerOfGeorge
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Posted on 3/28/16 at 1:40 pm to
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You are spouting stats that frankly don't mean much


If all of those numbers don't mean much, how do you rank SEC football programs? It is basically Alabama, a huge gap and then Florida, LSU and a then a bunch of schools with 2, 1 or 0 titles over 100+ years of football.
Posted by Tuscaloosa
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Posted on 3/28/16 at 1:46 pm to
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If all of those numbers don't mean much, how do you rank SEC football programs? It is basically Alabama, a huge gap and then Florida, LSU and a then a bunch of schools with 2, 1 or 0 titles over 100+ years of football.


This is actually a great point.

If wins don't matter, then Georgia is on par with Ole Miss.
Posted by BHMKyle
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Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 3/28/16 at 1:55 pm to
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If all of those numbers don't mean much, how do you rank SEC football programs?


Because football has historically lacked any form of a postseason tournament, obviously there is no postseason tournament measure for football.

Bowl games are just stupid. A bowl game appearance in 1955 is worth far more than a bowl game appearance in 2015, when teams with 5-7 records are going to bowl games every year.

I think performance in the AP poll is a very good indicator for football.... its a far better indicator that wins or winning %.

Kentucky plays football in the SEC and therefore is going to struggle to get to 5 or 6 wins. But Boise State plays in the MWC and it would be hard for them NOT to win at least 10 games a year. But had Kentucky and Boise played every year for the past 30 years, the record would probably be about equal.

Conference titles are stupid. Obviously winning the Sun Belt is nothing compared to winning the SEC.

If football had had an 8 or 16 team playoff dating back 50 years, then the number of appearances in the playoff and the success within that playoff would be the only measure worth looking at.

But football does not have such a structure.
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