Stanford Coach David Shaw Not Happy About SEC's 8-Game Schedule

If his team had to play 8 SEC games a year he'd probably be singing a different tune.

8 SEC games is a tougher slate than 9 PAC-12 games.

Remember when the PAC 12 won a BCS title that they got to keep?

Remember when the PAC 12 beat a top SEC team out of conference?

Yep...me neither.

Rob, what in the Hell are you talking about? You loon...

Hey, Rob? Remember when LSU spanked PAC-10 powerhouse Oregon...twice? Remember when LSU spanked ASU in their home stadium? Remember when LSU spanked Oregon State?

We can have a cupcake game and our SOS will still be stronger than any PAC-12 team that doesn't schedule an SEC team out of conference.

PAC-12 is scared.

The SEC champion will played 9 games against conferences opponents,
The ACC champion will played 9 games against conferences opponents,
The Big12 champion will played 9 games against conferences oppponents.
Seems like the Pac-12 is the only one major power having their champ play 10 games. (the Big 10 & MAC aren't factors in the NC race)

8 SEC games + 4 cream puffs > 9 PAC 12 games + 3 cream puffs
I'm sure the PAC 12 and their fans would love for the SEC to play 9 conference games because it would be a competitive advantage for them. like a pickup basketball game spotting one side 2 points.

Well, PAC-12 fans before you criticize LSU for anything you should realize that LSU has beaten ASU, Arizona, Wasington, Oregon State, and Oregon. All in the past 10-12 years and LSU has beaten most of them twice.
Regarding the living in the past comment. LSU has played in 3 BCS Championship Games and won two of them. LSU last won the SEC WAY back in 2011. LSU just won 10 games last season. That makes it at least 10 wins in 7 of the last 9 seasons Miles has coached at LSU. Last year's LSU team ended the year by beating a Big 10 opponent (Iowa) in a New Year's Day Bowl. Living in the past? LOL.

bullshite.

The fact is, the Pac 10 will continue to pad its wins with lesser competition so it can send more teams to bowls and then tell everyone how tough life is in the Pac 10.

Keep deluding yourselves.

I hope the hell that this new committee judges the hell out of strength of schedule (and the Pac 10's strength) and leaves a few Pac 10 teams home. The cry from the Left Coast will be glorious.


asurob1 troll job....0/10

"don't back down from playing your own conference,"

Easy to say when you have 3, maybe 4, good teams in your conference. Especially when your team chokes against your cupcake conference teams

As far behind*

Sec isn't afraid to play it's own, last year lsu played uga and uf who was ranked at the time. Currently the west is the best division and lsu has to play aTm auburn and Bama. So you're little argument of us being afraid to play our own doesn't hold water. It's just some faux rebuttal that you pac12ers worked up to conVince yourselves that you're not nearly as far us as you actually are

keep deflecting my question.

rob, why is 8 conference games scared, but 9 not scared? Why not make it 10 or 11? Why 9?

Why are the coaches and fans of other conferences so afraid of the SEC having an 8-game schedule?

It's okay if you admit it. The rest of us already know why.

Rankings mean little when they're so heavily influenced by preseason polls. Fact is, most SEC teams play very weak nonconference competition. LSU actually does a pretty good job of regularly playing PAC and other BCS teams, but I wish we'd play 2 every year.

I totally understand why it's in your best interest to play 9 games against your own conference when your conference is full of sissies and garbage... maybe worry about your own house and its mediocre football instead of coming over here and telling the big boys how to play.

The facts clearly point out that playing 8 SEC games every year is much more difficult than playing 9 conf games in any other conference. At some point last year all 7 SEC west teams were ranked.

Last year, Oregon played 3 ranked teams all year.

The SEC faced 5 ranked in their bowl games. The PAC-12 faced 1 and lost.

delusional and myopic? lol

asurob1, let's take some of the emotion out of it and look at the facts?

Here are some facts based on the final polls of the 2013 season. (I put teams in their 2014 Conf since this started as "scheduling" discussion)


Ranked Teams (plus "others receiving"):
SEC 7+(3) 10 ranked teams
PAC 10 6+(1) 7 ranked teams
ACC 4+0 4 ranked teams
Big 10 3+(1) 4 ranked teams
Big 12 3+(3) 6 ranked teams
AAC 1+(1) 2 ranked teams

Ranked teams

SEC Bowl Result
2 Auburn L #1 ACC
4 S. Carolina W #22 Big 10
5 Missouri W #17 Big 12
7 Alabama L #6 Big 12
14 LSU W NR Big 12
18 aTm W #23 ACC
24 Vandy W NR AAC

PAC-10
9 Oregon W NR Big 10
11 Stanford L #3 Big 10
16 UCLA W NR ACC
19 USC W NR MWC
20 ASU L NR Big 12
25 Washington W NR WCC

ACC
1 Florida St. W #2 SEC
8 Clemson W #12 Big 10
15 Louisville W NR ACC
23 Duke L #18 SEC

Big 10
3 Michigan ST W #11 PAC 10
12 tOSU W #7 SEC
22 Wisconsin L #4 SEC

Big 12
6 Oklahoma W #7 SEC
13 Baylor L #10 ACC
17 Oklahoma St. L #5 SEC

He mad bro