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re: Travis Gregory Stano says SEC should get 3 playoff teams
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:24 am to AlaTiger
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:24 am to AlaTiger
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Yes, I disagree with that statement. When you are picking the top 4 teams and you are using the "eyeball" test and you are picking teams from the same conference because of how it looks to the media and to defenders of that conference, you devalue the entire game of college football.
I agree. BUT, in 2011, you would not be using the eyeball test. The game between LSU and Alabama could not have been closer. The whole game played out as even teams.
Honestly, now....what team do YOU think was better than LSU or Alabama?
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:28 am to DawgsLife
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Honestly, now....what team do YOU think was better than LSU or Alabama?
So you are saying that some years, there are clearly 2 top teams, however you support 2 more teams being introduced to possibly knock them off?
Besides, that's not his point. His point is that conference championships should be the first hurdle in having the right to play for the national title.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:31 am to DawgsLife
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Honestly, now....what team do YOU think was better than LSU or Alabama?
LSU was the best team that year and they proved it by beating Alabama on the road in the most hyped up regular season game we have ever seen.
When two evenly matched teams play, the team who lost always has the emotional advantage the second time around. Plus, the second game was at a neutral site (Alabama had at least 40% of the crowd there) with over a month to prepare. And, LSU had to play an extra game and beat Georgia.
It doesn't matter if they were the two best teams. They already played and LSU won. The only way to replicate the first game would have been to play the third game in Tiger Stadium with only two weeks for each team to prepare in the midst of the season. The game should have been between LSU and Oklahoma State.
Who remembers what happened in the first game? Who considers LSU to have been the best team in the SEC that year? Because of the artificial second game, it rendered all that was accomplished in the regular season meaningless.
Now, multiply that out and that will happen again and again over the years. Regular season games won't matter as much because you know that you always have a chance to sneak back in. The national picture will supersede the conference title, and that is exactly how ESPN, a national network, wants it. They want college football to be like the NFL. That way they can make more money and we, the fans, get a cheapened experience.
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