The SEC West will go undefeated against the SEC East
- Thread starter AlanDawg
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Every west team could contend for the title in any other conference. Half the east teams would struggle to win the Sun Belt.
I could see UT being a trap game for OM, being right in the middle of OM's nightmare stretch and because they have an extra week to tune up against Chattanooga.
The east griped about it being so much tougher than the west in basketball until they got divisions done away with. I don't see a way to do away with divisions in football but the gap is now wider in the other direction than bball ever was, and division play is ten times as important football. Watching the end of the uga/ut game, Georgia has only one ranked opponent left on their schedule, Auburn. Arkansas will and I can see UK potentially sneaking in meaning UT-Martin & Vandy would be the only unranked foes left for us. Besides the obvious lack of lose-able games, the real advantage may be resting players/avoiding injuries. The odds that Gurley would be less than 100% after 12 games would be much higher facing our schedule than as is. So many injuries seem to come late in close games where ball carriers are fighting for that extra yard and get stood up allowing the 2nd-3rd defender to get some wicked licks in. I guess you could constantly rotate divisions in a non-geographical way but that will never happen. I just don't see Georgia doing any better than 9-3 with our schedule, yet they probably have a +40% of winning one game in Atlanta. And if they beat Spurrier, they probably have a 30-40% of slipping into the Final 4 with a competitive loss in Atlanta. It just shows you how much weight UK's and Floridas complaints have in SEC basketball.
If they play like they did tonight, Tennessee is going to whip their ***. It doesn't help matters that they will be going into that game a little beat up.