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re: Biggest Embarrassment of SEC football last year?
Posted on 2/16/09 at 12:09 am to liferedeemed
Posted on 2/16/09 at 12:09 am to liferedeemed
Wait, you are seriously going to rank the Utah loss ahead of the wyoming loss?
Posted on 2/16/09 at 12:46 am to bamaboy87
I interpret the question as what was the biggest embarrassment for us as a conference.
Easily... when the pundits make the case about leaving the SEC out of the BCS Championship game next year, are they going to be talking about TN / Wyoming? No. They will be talking about how Utah took Alabama to the woodshed. SEC strength isn't determined by who represents the bottom of the conference, it is the leaders in a prospective sport that determines our strength.
Alabama was one of the best teams in the SEC last year and they got dominated on the national stage by a school from a non-BCS conference. Forever changing the argument of non-BCS schools in the BCS game and potentially the BCS Championship game.
What does the UT / Wyoming game mean in comparison to that? Near nothing. Was it embarrassing for UT? No doubt. Was it embarrassing for us as a conference? Not really that much.
Easily... when the pundits make the case about leaving the SEC out of the BCS Championship game next year, are they going to be talking about TN / Wyoming? No. They will be talking about how Utah took Alabama to the woodshed. SEC strength isn't determined by who represents the bottom of the conference, it is the leaders in a prospective sport that determines our strength.
Alabama was one of the best teams in the SEC last year and they got dominated on the national stage by a school from a non-BCS conference. Forever changing the argument of non-BCS schools in the BCS game and potentially the BCS Championship game.
What does the UT / Wyoming game mean in comparison to that? Near nothing. Was it embarrassing for UT? No doubt. Was it embarrassing for us as a conference? Not really that much.
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