re: SEC Luggage

yea, but by the end of the season was LSU the #2 team in the conf? Vandy had a better SEC record than LSU.
Again this isnt who had the worst year (as an LSU fan, going 8-5 was a pretty bad follow up to the MNC)
who did worse representing the SEC. When the #2 SEC team (congrats BAMA) loses to Utah, thats bad. 10 point favorites didnt show for the 1st quarter-bad.
Bama certainly had a better year, but did not represent the SEC as well as OLE Miss ( was not supposed to do anything, nearly beat Wake @ Wake, then beat TT.) BAMA's w against Clemson saved the SEC's tail at the time, but it was big BECAUSE bama wasnt supposed to be good and Clemson was going to win the ACC.


Again, I still think TENN wins this hands down, all the rest is for 2nd and third.

Jeezus Gump, put down the kool-aid!

No one is arguing LSU stunk it up for some games this season, what I said that you instinctively (seemingly anyway) jumped all over is that fact that LSU has fixed the problem. Which given the evidence of weeks of preparation and game planning to do - THEY HAVE. LSU held them to 3 points, a season low after they came off very compelling games against UGA and Miami. MOST, if not ALL pundits picked GT to school us (I'm certain you did too, but since we have, suddenly they're JUST a mid ACC team) and the fact is undeniable that we got our shite together and routed them. Alabama, STILL CHOKES and still comes out flat at the end of the season and was humiliated by a Utah team that EVERYONE fully expected Alabama was going to impose it's will upon. Now suddenly, they're the better team, projected to finish 3, BLAH BLAH BLAH.

LSU went out on a very high note dominating a team most picked to dominate us -- 20 pts is what I believe ESPN was saying. MEANWHILE, St. Nick FOUND a way to go 12-0 in the reg season, and STILL end on a 2 game losing streak.

LSU has an 18 game winning streak against OOC teams -- that's no embarrassment to the SEC. Being the doormat to a MWC team (lest I also bring up ULM last year) is an embarrassment. Bama had all the firepower to destroy that team and they stunk it up. That's all GUMP, run along.

Agreed, never said LSU had the better season overall. But when representing the SEC (presumably you do that against OOC teams) LSU's success is hard to argue --- and what was the score of that Troy game once LSU got it's heads out of it's collective arse -- I see a W in that column. Not saying it was pretty, but we did (eventually) come out on top

The teams that hung half a hundred on us were SEC, so while we stank it up, there were two other SEC teams that came out smelling like roses.
You've got a good point about Troy. We could say having Tulane keep it close was almost as bad.

Please stop saying how great Utah was/is. They are still Utah. You are still ALABAMA, the past pride of the SEC, and in no way should y'all have lost to dem utes.
While it may not have been a bad loss for some bama fans, it WAS bad for the perception that the SEC is the best conf.

WHICH IT IS!!!!

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ONCE AGAIN, was referring to NON CONFERENCE TEAMS

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Ok. I wasn't. Big deal.

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For LSU fans to call Alabama's BCS non-success an embarrassment is about like Iowa saying that Ohio State is an embarrassment to the Big Ten.

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k, thanks for clearing THAT mess up!

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What three teams were the worst at reprersenting the SEC this year?

1- Tenn, by a lot. loss to bad UCLA, escape vs N Illinois, and then loss vs Wyoming. They wernt expected to be great, but that 1st loss hurt a lot.

2- S Carolina, yea they beat NC ST, but they got destroyed by Iowa and Clemson to end the season. Horrible for a middle of the road SEC team.


3- Alabama. The Clemson win was big, but for a top 5 SEC "powerhouse" to get humiliated by Utah,

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South Carolina - not surprising, this year or any year.

They've remained 2nd to Vanderbilt as the all-time worst SEC team [1992-2008: 39.3% winning percentage; 0 SEC Championships...Vanderbilt 1933-2008: 23.8%; 0].

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I guess he is good enough to equal Miles best win/loss record during his tenure in the bayou.

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And he did it without getting the hardware Miles has.

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We could say having Tulane keep it close was almost as bad.

Wait a minute. That was 35-10 and their lone td came off a pick 6. While sloppy,that game was never in question.

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???
Alabama 20, Tulane 6 (and Alabama 34, Clemson 10).

[ETA: Ah, of course...LSU 35, Tulane 10.]