BreakawayZou83

So we're kicking LSU out for trying to cheat like every SEC school, but Pedo State is still a respectable member of the B1G? I don't get it. Fine LSU or something, but kicking them out of the SEC for this seems insane. And like it or not, programs like LSU do not grow on trees. They're a cornerstone of the conference.

"Blue blood" USC on a hot Saturday against San Jose State:



Mizzou on a similarly hot Thursday against an FCS school:

Of course, it means they've made it to the pros already.

If LSU gets kicked out of the SEC, will y'all still host the SEC Rant? Monster Big 12 Rant just doesn't have the same ring to it.

He is the competition to SEC Shorts, but actually consistently funny.

The young bucks don't understand what Pinkel and Brad Smith beating Nebraska in 2003 did for our program. I doubt we're in the SEC today if not for them.

Ole Miss 7-1 (.875)
Arkansas 13-4 (.76)
Vanderbilt 12-5-1 (.71)
Mississippi State 4-2 (.667)
South Carolina 10-6 (.625)
Florida 7-6 (.538)

Tennessee 6-6 (.500)
Auburn 3-3 (.500)
LSU 2-2 (.500)

Texas A&M 7-11 (.389)
Kentucky 5-9 (.357)
Texas 9-18-1 (.339)
Oklahoma 25-68-5 (.281)
Alabama 2-7 (.222)
Georgia 1-12 (.077)

Shameless spinoff thread. I was curious what this looks like without heavy weight on tv ratings, and and attempt to factor in "fit".

I created seven categories, each with a weight assigned:

1. Distance from geographic center of SEC (Houston, MS): 15%
2. Number of games played all-time against current SEC members: 15%
3. 2025 athletic revenue: 20%
4. 2025 attendance: 10%
5. 2025 stadium capacity percentage: 10%
6. Top 25 AP poll finishes, 2000- present: 15%
7. Weeks all-time in the Top 25 AP poll: 15%

Here are the results:

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There's just not much dead weight other than Vandy. Even MSU ranks well ahead of four BIG 10 programs.

In hindsight, adding Clemson back in 1992 rather than South Carolina would have been a better call, but what's done is done. Florida State would have been great too but they passed on the opportunity.

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There's not and the other thing to keep in mind is that the current SEC TV deal actually kind of throttles the lower half of the conference in this metric that very heavily weights tv ratings.

Take this comparison: Notre Dame, even when they're bad, get a free giant rating because every single game is on NBC. It's basically impossible, even if the two worst FBS programs are going at each other, to have a lower rating on NBC than two great teams playing on SEC Network or even say ESPN 2.

So a really fun slugfest between say 5-3 Ole Miss and 4-4 South Carolina is relegated to the SEC Network or ESPN 2 at 11am. If that game had the opportunity to be on ABC in primetime, it would do great ratings.

But the SEC only has a handful of primetime network slots each week:

ABC: 1-3 games (big ratings guaranteed)

ESPN / ESPN2 / ESPNU: 3-6 games (can still see big ratings on ESPN, basically impossible on ESPN2 / ESPNU)

SEC Network / digital only: 1-3 games (guaranteed shite ratings to tank your average)

So a genuinely competitive, fun, middle of the pack SEC team is going to get weighed down in ratings because it rarely gets on a national network. Since the SEC is the deepest conference, but has no more national tv slots than the B1G or the ACC or the Big 12, its sinks its own middle class and lower class teams.

To put that in perspective, Mizzou appeared on national television twice last season. Texas appeared on national television seven times. Notre Dame appeared 10 times (with one game on Peacock and one on ESPN).

Of course Mizzou's tv ratings look like dog shite in comparison. They were relegated to SECN / ESPN2 / ESPNU / digital only broadcasts seven times.

If the SEC had a better tv deal and scheduled better, it would pump ratings even higher.