SEC east worst division of power 5
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It was true last year as well. Going on a decade of pretty bad football in the East.
Has to change eventually ... right?
Has to change eventually ... right?
Yet I don't see other power 5's lining up to schedule our East teams and play here. I also seem to remember a Tenn team beating Va Tech who will be in the ACC title game from the "mighty" coastal division? I doubt Clemson is looking past an improving USC jr. at year end. Vandy may have a top 10 defense, just cant score. Missouri is hot garbage, that's it...and how dare lowly KY have a shot at the title, must be a down year...BS.
SEC East is still better than well all of the B-12, and 2/3rds of the PAC, BIG and ACC. The SEC has been on top for so long others are looking for anything to bring us down...just because the West is so strong and the East has parity this year our win loss records look so so...but no worse than any other conference, except against better competition.
Since when is having 1or 2 teams running away with their divisions make a league stronger than one with parity and quality from top to bottom?
I believe the bowl games will reflect this at end of year when the SEC stomps the competition
SEC East is still better than well all of the B-12, and 2/3rds of the PAC, BIG and ACC. The SEC has been on top for so long others are looking for anything to bring us down...just because the West is so strong and the East has parity this year our win loss records look so so...but no worse than any other conference, except against better competition.
Since when is having 1or 2 teams running away with their divisions make a league stronger than one with parity and quality from top to bottom?
I believe the bowl games will reflect this at end of year when the SEC stomps the competition
http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...ec-west-sec-east-big-12-ten-division-rankings
It's not just an opinion; it's statistically true.
This came out last week but didn't want to rain on the parade. Take it for what it's worth
It's not just an opinion; it's statistically true.
This came out last week but didn't want to rain on the parade. Take it for what it's worth
I think the SEC East is getting better, however. USC seems to be on a upswing and Vandy almost beat #9 Auburn in their house -- this, without an offense. If UF had any semblance of an offense, they would be quite good too. I think this is being a little overplayed.
We will see as the season finishes out.
We will see as the season finishes out.
Do you really believe all of that? SEC east played the Big12, we wouldn't have many teams with a winning record, top 4 teams would beat any of us like a drum and not lose a game, the next 3 might. So what if we beat the both 2/3rds of the other conferences, think about it, the top 1/3 is seal clubbing us. All anyone has to do is watch us play and I mean the East, play and to say we aren't way way down is ignoring the obvious. We are likely going to go 1-13 against the West this year, the lone win was a last second FG by UK over the last place team in the West and UK was playing for the East league last night, what does that say about the East?
Look at the teams, watch them play, watch how each level plays, how quick they react to a situation, the qb play, missed tackles, the basic fundamentals of the game. I am not 100% sure an East team could win a Group of 5 conference championship. We beat UNC, but I don't want to play them again this year, I bet UT feels the same about VT. I don't like it but can watch and tell we as an entire division are weak.
Expansion has not been a boon to the SEC East, nor the SEC over-all.
We have the two weakest teams in the conference (traditionally) in our division at a time when "being SEC" isn't quite the recruiting advantage it used to be.
Meanwhile, our talent is improving, which is a big part of the reason that we've beaten SC three straight years and are more consistently beating Vandy.
We have the two weakest teams in the conference (traditionally) in our division at a time when "being SEC" isn't quite the recruiting advantage it used to be.
Meanwhile, our talent is improving, which is a big part of the reason that we've beaten SC three straight years and are more consistently beating Vandy.
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Exactly, when the SEC Championship game started in 1992, Bama won it but the next 10 years(thru 2002), the SEC EAST TEAMS won 9 out of 10 games. But since 2003, the SEC EAST TEAMS have only won it 3 times ending in 2015. Its actually pretty even, the EAST(led by Fla 7 wins) has won it 11 times, and the WEST(led by Bama 6 times) 13 times. It does seem to what goes around comes around eventually.
bad hires at Florida and everyone else in the east other than Georgia has more or less been a revolving door of coaches. Hard to build a team with no stability.