AUTiger789

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I love KenPom as a metric to see how well a team is playing, but winning games and who those games were against is what should matter.

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Agree. WAB is probably the best indicator in terms of actual resumes.

Current WAB according to Torvik…

#5 Vanderbilt (+3.6)
#13 Alabama (+2.4)
#25 Auburn (+1.4)
#29 Arkansas (+1.2)
#30 LSU (+1.1)
#32 Tennessee (+1.0)
#37 Georgia (+1.0)
#45 Florida (+0.6)
#47 Kentucky (+0.5)
#54 Oklahoma (+0.26)
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#66 Missouri (-0.2)
#78 Texas (-0.5)
#84 Texas A&M (-0.7)
#115 Ole Miss (-1.5)
#125 Miss State (-1.7)
#139 South Carolina (-1.8)

I feel like it’s going to be almost impossible for those bottom 3 or 4 teams to make the tournament.

We need mandated 9-game conference schedules with every team playing a minimum 2 Power 4 opponents…. No FCS games allowed.

If all 69 power programs played at least two OOC games against each other it would make judging how good teams actually are much easier between the leagues.

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3 National Championships with a young hungry coach that can win some more. Is there enough support at UF for this?

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I’d pump the breaks a bit. They currently have just one Quad 1 win (#35 Miami) and are sitting with a Quad 2 loss (#66 TCU).

I think Golden is a great coach, but I also think in the age of the portal and NIL, we’re going to see a lot more programs make deep tournament runs. The Championships and Final Fours will be less consolidated with the programs at the top.

They cheated their way to the playoff. Serves them and their ahole coaching staff right.

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Alabama's first national championship.

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No one on either team nor no one in the stands knew what a “National Championship” was. This “title” wouldn’t be claimed until 1986.

Oh come on. He’s great. No reason to run him off. Give him time.

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Torvik Wins Above Bubble (aka Resume Ranking)

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Interesting that if you take Torvik’s ratings as well as their WAB rating, 28 teams have a Top 40 ranking in both…. 7 from the SEC.

Vanderbilt (8/8)
Alabama (13/14)
Arkansas (21/20)
Tennessee (12/33)
Auburn (36/18)
LSU (34/29)
Georgia (27/36)

Surprisingly Florida isn’t on that list. Their WAB / resume ranking is just 48th. Kentucky also missed with their WAB all the way down at 72nd.

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I hope Vandy can do better than 11-7. We shall see.

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Vandy just needs to step up and play a great team. The Dores have looked good but they’re beating a bunch of teams who will likely be anywhere from a 9-seed down to the NIT come March. I don’t think they’ve played a single opponent who will be a Top 8 seed in the NCAA Tourney. So it’s really difficult to project how they’ll do in SEC play.

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Tulane @ Ole Miss- $252

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When you have a stadium that is the same size as most Texas high schools, it’s bound to cause prices to go way up. This will be the hottest ticket inside Vaught-Hemingway since the George Wallace campaign stop of 1968.

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Alabama @ OU- $145

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Goodness OU. How are ya’ll SEC? It’s not like you have a huge stadium.

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James Madison @ Oregon- $82

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Our leaders aren’t serious people. How they can create a system that gives us THIS in primetime is unreal. You have to be an absolute idiot to make this happen and yet here we are for the second year in a row getting fed this garbage.

SEC against the KenPom Top 25: 6-25

2-2 Tennessee
2-3 Alabama
1-2 Arkansas
1-3 Auburn

0-1 Missouri
0-1 Miss State
0-2 Oklahoma
0-2 Florida
0-2 Ole Miss
0-3 Texas
0-4 Kentucky

*Vanderbilt, LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, and South Carolina are yet to play a Top 25 opponent

SEC against the KenPom Top 50: 17-33

4-0 Vanderbilt
3-3 Alabama
2-2 Tennessee
2-2 Arkansas
2-3 Auburn
1-1 LSU
1-3 Florida
1-3 Texas
1-4 Kentucky

0-1 Georgia
0-1 Missouri
0-1 South Carolina
0-2 Oklahoma
0-2 Texas A&M
0-2 Miss State
0-3 Ole Miss

SEC against the KenPom Top 100: 29-45

5-0 Vanderbilt
5-3 Alabama
3-3 Auburn
3-3 Oklahoma
3-4 Florida
2-1 Georgia
2-2 Arkansas
2-3 Tennessee
1-1 LSU
1-3 Ole Miss
1-4 Texas
1-4 Kentucky

0-2 Missouri
0-3 Texas A&M
0-4 South Carolina
0-5 Miss State

Record Against teams rated 101+ and worse in KenPom: 100-1

Ole Miss’ loss to #130 Utah is the only conference loss outside the Top 100

Overall, the SEC is down from last year. We collectively lack giant wins… we’ve gone 1-15 against the KenPom Top 10 and a dismal 0-14 against the KenPom Top 8…. Which is why our highest rated team is only #10 and I think most anyone would agree their metrics are a bit inflated due to a very comfortable schedule up to this point.

On the flip side, we as a league only have one loss to a team outside the Top 100…. Just two losses to teams ranked #90 and lower, and just 3 losses to teams ranked #80 and lower. That’s fairly strong.

I believe this is a 8-9 bid league this season when we get to the Tournament.