ACC, PAC-12, and BIG alliance / conference realignment

[Scooch]

Alabama and Oklahoma didn’t deserve to be in whatsoever.

Bama is such a great example of what I'm talking about.

Any other school loses to FSU as they did and they fall out of the top 25. Of course Bama doesn't, cuz history and SEC.

They got credit for beating then-#14 Mizzou and then-#11 Tennessee. Teams that had no business being ranked that high, but they got credit for beating cupcake OOC teams and mid-tier SEC teams -- the vaunted phantom quality depth.

They lost to Oklahoma... who beefed up their ranking by beating the phantom quality SEC depth. So it's seen as a good loss.

And of course they got hammered by the two, actually good teams they played: UGA and Indiana.

It's all so stupidly circular.

 

[kirbivore]

Little crazy talk here. But the SEC hasn’t felt the need to increase its size, wanting to keep the conference “strong”. I wonder if the thought process might change a little with this years, especially, lack of success in the bowls. Does SEC start thinking that maybe adding some more cupcake teams as the B10 has done, will help the better SEC teams not beat up on each other all season. As far as from their perspective. Having some built in cupcake teams to play like the B10 has Rutgers and MD. Maybe that means a school like SU, other than the regional differences which the SEC cares about more than the B10, could mean we have a place to go instead of just the B12.

I volunteer Syracuse to be one of those future SEC cupcakes.