re: Is the SEC West about to be impossible?

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This was the first year ever that I believe there was a chance (although a small one) that the SEC would go undefeated in bowls. I really think it happens in the next few years.

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I'm sorry to say that this will probably never happen.

Reason being is that some team will have had national championship hopes dashed because they lost to another great SEC team and have to play in a sub-par bowl. Whenever that happens you always see that team come out with no enthusiasm and they lose.


LSU was a great example this year. Despite our shitty offense we were still leading Clemson through most of the game. The players were just going through the motions though. You could see on their faces that they were already thinking about the day they could declare for the draft.

Happened with UGA against West Virginia and Bama against Utah. Both were Sugar Bowls.

Nah, we always seem to land majority of the top in state guys from MS. Once again this year, good chance we finish with a top 15 recruiting class. Enjoy JFF while you have him. Once he's gone, we will be back on even playing field.

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reading this thread I see there are two aggies that still do not have a grasp on how things are in the SEC west.

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It's not just the West, it's both divisions, and true, clearly, the two Aggies continue to make it appear that aTm fans are math deficient.

Perhaps it is about to sink-in, perhaps they are about to have their epiphany and then they'll go-off and spread the word among their fellow fans.

What they are alluding-to is exactly why the SEC is so dominant.

You take the very best, throw them in two different cages and let them fight it out, then a winner will rise to the top of each barrel. Once you have the creme de la creme from each barrel, then you face them off against one another and voila, you've just churned-yourself-up a national championship contender.

Of course the more apropos metaphor might be a mix of forging steel and churning butter, but still ...

It's simple math from start to finish.

Ole Miss got lucky to be caught in a perfect storm.

Bama and LSU are stacked and have top 5 recruiting classes as always. Auburn and Arky had to work extra hard to try to keep what they had with coaching changes; they were worse than they ever are. TAMU has an awesome class as well, and are far enough away that we aren't effected too much by their success. The only reason we aren't talking about MSUs good class is we are overshadowing them right now because we are still in it with several uncommitted 5* recruits.

Freeze is a good enough recruiter that he actually has a few recruits believing he can win at OM. With RN most likely coming because of his brother, some of the other top talent stopped to look at OM when most years they wouldn't.

I believe that this class is all about luck. If we get the commits that are projected to us, we will have an amazing class. That puts the pressure on CHF to win with these guys. If he does, OM will pull better recruits. If not, no recruits will buy his hype again. I'm cautiously optimistic that Freeze can be successful.

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Is the SEC West about to be impossible?

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welcome to the dance, noob

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Arky and MSU could quickly get left behind.

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State currently has its highest rated recruiting class under Mullen- now #14 on 247

State isnt going away

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State isnt going away

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when did you come back?

Someone has to win the secw every year so by definition it will never be impossible

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At one point late in 2011, LSU, Bama and Arky were all in the top 4 in the BCS standings.

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In 2010, Auburn, Bama, LSU, Arkansas, and State were something like 45-2 not counting games against each other. Even counting Ole Miss, the division went something like 45-5 (best guess, not going back and checking) not counting games against each other.

With 5 teams ranked in the final Top 15, the 2010 SEC West was easily the best division in college football history.

I see LSU and Auburn as the teams most at risk in the new order of the West. Auburn because of Saban obviously. But LSU has been tredning the wrong direction the last year or so and lost a lot more than the rest of the conference to the draft this year. Plus, they're wedged right between Freeze's Ole Miss and Sumlin's A&M, both blossoming powers, which won't help their out of state recruiting. Should be an interesting year next year IMO.