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Why do big six teams always act entitled and lose bowls?

Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:40 am
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:40 am
Seriously, every year it seems one of the alleged big boys misses out on going to the playoff, and before that the bcs title game

They get given a nice bowl game for the season they have, and then players leave and the team acts like they don't wanna be there cause "NOOOOOOO NOOOOOO THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR YEAR WE ARE SUPER SPECIAL"

Be it Florida yesterday, Georgia a couple years ago, Auburn in the peach Bowl, or Bama in the sugar before that, it happens alot and it's pathetic.

Whoever loses the sec title game should be forced to go to the Birmingham bowl to end this gayness.

please note this is a football thread, not a basketball thread
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 11:13 am
Posted by Ag Zwin
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:41 am to
Posted by AUstar
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:41 am to
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Auburn in the peach Bowl


What year you talking?
Posted by ChiGator
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:43 am to
Why is UK 1-6 in basketball?
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:43 am to
The one against UCF
Nowhere near as bad as last night but still, Auburn shouldn't lose to UCF
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:44 am to
>football thread
>brings up basketball
quote:

ChiGator

quote:

Gator

Posted by Che Boludo
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:44 am to
Sports psychology. Hard to play or prep the same in the next game after giving your very best and coming up short in a championship game.

It would be the same for most. You are just focused on the big 6 because they are more typically one of the teams losing the SEC CG.

Non-Big 6 SEC CG losers are 2-5 in their follow-on bowls. seems consistent
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 10:52 am
Posted by ValDawgsta
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:45 am to
Georgia is 14-6 in bowl games the last 20 years.

Richt went 2-1 in BCS bowls. Kirby is 2-1 in NY6 bowls.

I realize everyone hyperventilates about Georgia losing to Texas, but that was a rare bowl loss for Georgia
Posted by ChiGator
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:45 am to
Basketball titles since 2000:
Florida - 2
UK- 1
Posted by Leto II
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:46 am to
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Auburn shouldn't lose to UCF

Agree. Another reason we fired the guy who did that. Unfortunately, unless things change, I don't think we are going to see full strength and motivated teams anymore. It sucks.
Posted by mikehoncho69
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:46 am to
It's because all the teams you listed were on the fringe of going to the playoffs and just missed it. I think after the letdown, they just don't care to play in a bowl game that doesn't mean much.

Some people will say I'm pulling the excuses card, but I'm just being real.
Posted by AUstar
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:48 am to
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The one against UCF


Yeah. But it wasn't opt-outs (AFAIK) but more like key injuries. Kerryon Johnson was banged up pretty bad. He got hurt in the SECCG and was knocked out of that game. His injury deflated the whole team and AU got smashed by UGA.

As for UCF, I don't remember if he was still hurt or just opted out (I don't recall). But it's hard to blame him when he was going to be a high draft pick AND was coming off a big injury.

AU has several players opting out of this upcoming game and I am not happy about it. The thing is, none of them are top 5 picks or even 1st rounders like Pitts was. That makes it even worse.
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:48 am to
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ChiGator

This is a football thread man. If you wanna talk bball start your own and quit coping in here
Posted by BlackCloud
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:48 am to
quote:

Why do big six teams always act entitled and lose bowls?

How do you feel when your Kentucky BB team gets an invite to the NIT?
Posted by SummerOfGeorge
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 10:50 am to
Alabama's 2013 Sugar Bowl came after losing the following on the last play of their previous game

- chance at a national championship 3 peat
- chance at a Heisman
- chance at a national title (replaced by Auburn)
- chance at a SEC Title (replaced by Auburn)
- chance at a SEC West Title (replaced by Auburn)
- chance at beating our rival (replaced by Auburn)

And that one play was possibly the single most famous play in college football history and it allowed our rival to replace us in all of those things that we were chasing.

For most of the guys on that roster it was literally the first time they'd played a game at Alabama that had no national championship implications. In their entire Alabama career.

So...yea, I completely understand the human element of going from THAT to playing the #11 ranked team in a bowl game. It sucked, but they aren't robots.
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 10:56 am
Posted by RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 11:09 am to
How’s Kentucky’s basketball season going?
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 11:37 am to
tRant SEC fans when getting called out over football: MUH BASKETBALL

Anytime a UK fan brings up basketball during football season: WHY YOU TALKIN BOUT ROUNDBALL MUH FOOTBALL CONFERENCE

Y’all are something else.
Posted by Pigfeet
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 11:39 am to
Ours got cancelled because TCU got the Wuhan
Posted by Dawgfanman
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 11:40 am to
They don’t? We lost the SECC last year, were missing 11 (maybe more) starters for the Sugar and whipped our opponent.
Posted by mulletproof
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 11:41 am to
This is a football thread Rocky, if you want to talk about what utter hot dogshit Kentucky basketball has become and how they probably won't even be .500 in the SEC this year, start your own thread.
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