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If SC had 8 wins against those SEC teams and they lost all 8 bowl games, people will perceive SC to be a lessor team because they have victories over a bunch of teams that were obviously overrated.

I see where you're going, but I don't agree. Who's to say those teams are overrated, and not just worse than their bowl opponent? A 3 or 4 loss SEC team playing a 2 loss team from another conference doesn't necessarily make SC look bad.

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It's not always fair, but that's the effect of winning/losing out of conference games

I still don't agree. Let's use USC and UGA. UGA won the game. If SC loses their bowl game, will anyone really try to make UGA look worse for beating them?

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Georgia - Boise St in 2011. That loss out of conference hurt the perception of Georgia throughout that season

Only because of the name on their helmet. Boise was a top 8 team while UGA was hovering around 20th. Any rational person would see that wasn't a bad loss. And you talk about "perception"..UGA went on to play for the SEC, despite any perceptions about us. What if UGA had held on and beaten #1 LSU in that game..would it matter that we lost to a top 10 boise team 3 months earlier?

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Posted by blkhawktiger

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Member since Nov 2011

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Posted on 12/27/13 at 10:24 am to WG_Dawg

Good lord I hope this isn't a repeat of yesterday. I had hope you were just hungover from xmas. I'll try again....

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I still don't agree. Let's use USC and UGA. UGA won the game. If SC loses their bowl game, will anyone really try to make UGA look worse for beating them?

The only way we judge teams is who they beat and who they lose to and how good those teams are. How good those other teams are matters. If you beat or lose to a bunch of SEC teams that go on to lose all their bowl games, it hurts the perception of how good/bad those teams were. It is the only thing we have to go off of. How else do you wanna judge a team? There's a reason nobody took Northern Illinois seriously. Because they beat a bunch of teams that got their asses handed to them out of conference.

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UGA went on to play for the SEC, despite any perceptions about us.

Good lord

division championships have nothing to do with voting. You got in because of record, not perception or voting. You can lose every OOC conference game and get to Atlanta. It's one of the rare places that perception doesn't matter, where records are all that is used.