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re: Some of yall fit right in to an Orwell novel
Posted on 12/27/13 at 10:24 am to WG_Dawg
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....
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.
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.
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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. 
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Posted on 12/27/13 at 10:32 am to blkhawktiger
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Good lord I hope this isn't a repeat of yesterday
Me too, hopefully you can post more like an adult today.
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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.
I understand that. But why can you just arbitrarily throw away 12 games worth of results and only use the final game as the end all be all? If an SEC team goes undefeated in conference and those 8 teams they beat go 3-5 in bowls, does that really diminish what they accomplished? Why are the bowl games more important than a whole seasons worth of data?
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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.
Yes, you're right. They played nobody all season. The reason that is 100% completely opposite of my point, which is still misinterpreted, is that SEC teams play an SEC schedule. My point has nothing at all to do wiht August-December. It has to do with bowl season. If Northern Illinois had breezed through their charmin soft schedule and played in a BCS bowl, don't you think that would improve their recruiting quite a bit? And thereby hur the recruiting of teams they directly recruit against?
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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
Then why did you bring it up?
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