Started By
Message
re: Bama fans wouldn't be so insufferable if they just acknowledged the grift
Posted on 12/5/23 at 12:49 pm to Robot Santa
Posted on 12/5/23 at 12:49 pm to Robot Santa
quote:
The ACC is a G-5 conference all but officially and has been for as long as I can remember. People suddenly trying to prop it up because they don't like what the committee did are being juuuuuuust a little disingenuous.
The ACC had a winning record against the SEC this year.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about Bama getting in, but I understand it. They will draw viewers. They are a good enough team to win it all (see the Michigan players' reaction to them getting in.) That's why I predicted Bama would get in on Facebook Saturday night.
But, for FSU, there was literally nothing more they could do than not get Jordan Travis hurt.
The committee was talking out of it's neck when they said the Noles weren't downgraded because of his injury: of course they did that. They outright said that they thought Bama would give Michigan a better game because the Noles would not be playing with their starting QB.
Would they? Who knows. After all, even TCU beat Michigan in the playoff last year.
GEAUX TIGERS!
2
Posted on 12/5/23 at 1:13 pm to Thorny
quote:
The ACC had a winning record against the SEC this year.
So now the ACC is the top conference because they were successful against the bottom of the half of the SEC East and the middle of the road in the SEC West?
Posted on 12/5/23 at 1:52 pm to Thorny
quote:
The ACC had a winning record against the SEC this year
Match ups matter.
Here were their six wins
ACC champ (13-0, ranked 5th) defeated SEC West 3rd place team (9-3; ranked 13)
ACC champ (13-0, ranked 5th) defeated SEC East 5th place team (5-7)
ACC 6th place team (8-4, ranked 22) defeated SEC east 6th place team (4-8).
ACC last place team (4-8) defeated SEC east last place team (2-10)
ACC 7th place team (8-4) defeated SEC east 6th place team (4-8)
ACC 9th place team (7-5) defeated SEC west 4th place team (7-5)
Four of the wins were against non-bowl eligible teams with losing records. It was largely a case of teams from the top half of the ACC playing teams from the bottom of the SEC. Three of the wins were against Vandy and South Carolina. There were two quality wins.
Kentucky upsetting Louisville and Georgia naming the score against Georgia Tech during rivalry weekend hurt the ACC’s perceived strength. Florida State struggling with a bad Florida team hurt the ACC’s perceived strength. The only two SEC wins that made the ACC look good were Florida State’s win over LSU and Miami’s over A&M. But they were early season, and neither LSU nor A&M lived up to their preseason expectations, so even those wins lost a little of their luster.
Page 1 of 1
Popular
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News