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re: Embarrassing postseason for the once-mighty SEC
Posted on 1/9/26 at 1:52 pm to 6columns
Posted on 1/9/26 at 1:52 pm to 6columns
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Watering the league down with teams from Great Plains and the Southwest has its consequences.
Ummmm....the Texas teams helped the SEC. Texas won its bowl game albeit over a dysfunctional Michigan program. A&M didn't look great in the playoffs but they did put up a fight against Miami. Meanwhile, how did South Carolina and Auburn do this year?
Watering the league down with teams from Great Plains and the Southwest has its consequences.
Ummmm....the Texas teams helped the SEC. Texas won its bowl game albeit over a dysfunctional Michigan program. A&M didn't look great in the playoffs but they did put up a fight against Miami. Meanwhile, how did South Carolina and Auburn do this year?
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Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:12 pm to MizzouTrue
Lol I read it bro. Dunno why everyone has such short attention spans. I'm from eastern Ky and can read for days..I saw Mizzou was included. Congrats on yalls first win at Rupp..God we blew that one. Mizzou round ball ain't scrubs but I think we are. Spent a sorry arse football season hopeful for good basketball at least. Now we don't even have that.
Hope Stein can turn us around.
Hope Stein can turn us around.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:32 pm to 6columns
frick the SEC.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:37 pm to 6columns
Ok, come back after the NFL draft. 
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:42 pm to AUTiger789
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Watering the league down with teams from Great Plains and the Southwest has its consequences.
Yeah suck it OU, Texas, and A&M.
#MidWestIsBest
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:43 pm to Mohican
quote:They’re all in the portal looking to get paid instead of in the gym working on offseason nutrition/S&C.
Wtf happened to the big DT’s that this conference once bred and made it impossible to run on? It’s like they’ve all disappeared.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:49 pm to Mohican
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Wtf happened to the big DT’s that this conference once bred and made it impossible to run on? It’s like they’ve all disappeared.
This is it. And throw in how all of these highly rated, enormous OL cant block for shite. Maybe we all have just shite OL coaches, but our OLs are dog shite.
The resume of the bowl games is hard to stomach because its probably going to cost some deserving teams from the conference from opportunities down the line.
Houston pantsed us. Yeah, we were missing a lot players. We still let fricking Houston bodybag our supposedly good defense to the tune of 38 points. Houston didnt even score that much on Stephen Austin. The only team they scored more on was OK State (39 points).
Mizzou lost to a horrible 11 win team. Virginia lost to NC State, Wake Forest and Duke, and needed 1 scores/OT to beat teams like UNC, FSU and Wash State. That team held the SEC leader in rushing to 70 yards below their average.
Alabama. No words needed, that was a castration in front of 25 million viewers
Tennessee is the latest victim to Bert after USC last year.
Miss State I give a little bit of a pass because they shouldnt have been in a bowl to begin with.
Miami manhandled A&M and Ole Miss in physicality.
Vanderbilt got manhandled by Iowa in physicality.
Texas is the only one who did their job, and they did it against a team whose coach was in prison.
Conference needs to do a lot better next year or we are going to be a 2 bid conference.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:55 pm to hoojy
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Most of us have the cognitive abilities of a goldfish.
Don't you shite on Hecklefish
He's one of, if not the smartest goldfish ever.
Even if he's considered a bit of a conspiracy nut.
This post was edited on 1/9/26 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:01 pm to 6columns
Well.. Nothing last forever...... Saban! 
Come back!
Come back!This post was edited on 1/9/26 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:03 pm to 6columns
The man has a point
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:09 pm to 6columns
Diluted the product with Big12 schools. The first cracks started to show when A&M and Missouri joined. The name doesn't have the same caché and the southern recruits became more distributed.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:12 pm to 6columns
It's because the SEC got 5 teams into the CFP.
That means the #6 team will be the first up in representing the SEC in the bowl games. It's not like they really try to find even teams, it's about who is the best available from each conference that plays in.
So take Mizzou for example. You're like the 9th or 10th SEC team, but Virginia is one of the top ACC teams. It's not like Mizzou was playing the 10th best ACC team.
LSU played one of the better Big12 teams, a team that was ranked even.
Miss St was a 5-7 team playing an 8-4 team. Miss St is lke 14th best in the SEC. Wake Forest about 8th or so.
2 of the SEC teams took each other out.
And a game like #1 Indiana playing #9 Alabama wasn't even possible in the past 25 years until last year.
Most previous years the majority of those bowl bids are filled out by better teams. Alabama would have gone to some bowl game, played some other team around the strength of Oklahoma, and that would have been the season. Oklahoma would have done the same, Ole Miss and Texas A&M also would have done the same. Maybe not all of them, but many of them likely end up being wins.
And then there are the opt outs.
In short, I don't think the results mean much of anything. Bowl season games are as exhibition as they have ever been at this point. And the playoff system is a mess with too many fricking teams.
That means the #6 team will be the first up in representing the SEC in the bowl games. It's not like they really try to find even teams, it's about who is the best available from each conference that plays in.
So take Mizzou for example. You're like the 9th or 10th SEC team, but Virginia is one of the top ACC teams. It's not like Mizzou was playing the 10th best ACC team.
LSU played one of the better Big12 teams, a team that was ranked even.
Miss St was a 5-7 team playing an 8-4 team. Miss St is lke 14th best in the SEC. Wake Forest about 8th or so.
2 of the SEC teams took each other out.
And a game like #1 Indiana playing #9 Alabama wasn't even possible in the past 25 years until last year.
Most previous years the majority of those bowl bids are filled out by better teams. Alabama would have gone to some bowl game, played some other team around the strength of Oklahoma, and that would have been the season. Oklahoma would have done the same, Ole Miss and Texas A&M also would have done the same. Maybe not all of them, but many of them likely end up being wins.
And then there are the opt outs.
In short, I don't think the results mean much of anything. Bowl season games are as exhibition as they have ever been at this point. And the playoff system is a mess with too many fricking teams.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:20 pm to weremoose
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Diluted the product with Big12 schools.
In what way has Arkansas ever improved the “product”?
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:20 pm to tBrand
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SEC’s lone victory against another power conference was Texas over a Michigan team with no coach
It could be argued Texas was with "no coach" as well.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:35 pm to 6columns
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I guess you didn't read it?
You are expecting someone from kentucky to read?
I take that back
You are expecting an SEC football fan to read?
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:35 pm to 6columns
The flea flicker on the first possession of the second half is what nearly did it to The U. Driving, OM didn't stand a chance and you pull that dumb arse thing out of the playbook.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:46 pm to 6columns
SEC, 1-8 record against nonconference Power Four teams in the Postseason.
SEC can hang their hat on new buddy Texas beating a Michigan program in disarray in the Citrus.
3 years, no Title game despite a continued plethora of SEC teams invited to the Dance.
Next years selection Committee won't be so kind as we now have 3 years of evidence of being exposed.
SEC can hang their hat on new buddy Texas beating a Michigan program in disarray in the Citrus.
3 years, no Title game despite a continued plethora of SEC teams invited to the Dance.
Next years selection Committee won't be so kind as we now have 3 years of evidence of being exposed.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:48 pm to RollTide1987
It was the best, but some B1G fans didn’t want to accept it
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:52 pm to GeauxBurrow312
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Houston pantsed us. Yeah, we were missing a lot players. We still let fricking Houston bodybag our supposedly good defense to the tune of 38 points. Houston didnt even score that much on Stephen Austin. The only team they scored more on was OK State (39 points).
Missing a lot of good players meant it was not the same supposedly good defense.
The defense was only missing its top 3 LBs, top 2 DBs, and top defensive end, lol.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:53 pm to 6columns
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And what happened to that UGA D that used to be dominant?
We had 12 wins and won the SEC Championship. Not exactly a record breaking buck, but definitely a Boone & Crockett whitetail. I'll take it....
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