Yet Another SEC Bowl Loss
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Yes, the big bad SEC is 0-3. Along with Auburn losing to Houston:
Missouri lost to Army
Florida lost to Central Florida
Missouri lost to Army
Florida lost to Central Florida
That new Auburn coach made some strange offensive calls. The quarterback who he went with instead of Bo Nix didn't look all that hot and they had a couple of key targeting penalties. After their late meltdown against Bama, I'd say the new guy is off to a tough start.
Leota had one tackle on a sack where he was completely unblocked. I don't know his plans for '22. They used him almost exclusively as a pass rush specialist rushing from a standing position. Hankwitz didn't use this at all, but I recall reading an article about JON/Fitz successfully pitching a recruit on a Jerry Hughes role with that technique (probably Jaquez, Hughes didn't come up in the Saka, Firestone or Seales articles).
Before we so gleefully beat our chests, it’s likely, the SEC is going to have two teams playing for the Natty.
Maybe, but the point is it's not hard for the good teams to have a nice record since there are a lot of so-so teams in the conference. In my opinion, the BIG has more good teams, and I think Michigan will beat Georgia. The bowl season is hard to figure out, since quite a few teams, like OSU, don' have some of their best guys playing.
Michigan v. Bama in the final. Don’t think I can bring myself to root for Harbaugh.
SEC has been good to me this bowl season up until this Mississippi State debacle. I didn’t see this one coming. However, it is hilarious that crybaby Leach who made the whole week about himself is laying an egg against a VERY mediocre Texas Tech.
Nix would have been the starter except he got hurt and then transferred. I don’t think he would been behind Finley if healthy. At least I don’t know anyone who thinks Finley is good.
Not surprisingly, nothing on ESPN.com about the SEC being 0-4 thus far in bowls; Si had an article about the SEC being 0-3 before Leach's loss tonight.
Reminiscent of ESPN being silent when the ACC lost the Challenge (much less the ACC having only won twice of the past 13 Challenges with 3 ending in a tie).
Reminiscent of ESPN being silent when the ACC lost the Challenge (much less the ACC having only won twice of the past 13 Challenges with 3 ending in a tie).
Yep, and the most amazing thing about that will be that fans of SEC teams that lose their bowls will beat their chests as if it's their own team's accomplishment.
I'll never understand that.
Not sure about the Michigan prediction, I'd rather drink bleach than agree with that; however, I do think dOSU will get beaten. Utah is firing on all cylinders right now, and dOSU seems to think of the Rose Bowl as a consolation prize. The Rose Bowl!!!
Coral, come to your senses man. Why would anybody in his right mind root for 'Bama under any circumstances? I root for the BIG teams in all bowl games, so it was nice to see the BIG go to 1-0 yesterday and the SEC drop to 0-4.Michigan v. Bama in the final. Don’t think I can bring myself to root for Harbaugh.
The Sunbelt Conference has offered membership to Alabama and Georgia so they (A and G) can upgrade their conference schedules.
The B1G is going to get their shots at the SEC in the next few days, other than Michigan game, you can’t be scared of the match ups.
I still think Michigan is going to have trouble scoring on Georgia. McCarthy could be the X factor. See Georgia winning this one.
I still think Michigan is going to have trouble scoring on Georgia. McCarthy could be the X factor. See Georgia winning this one.
South Carolina is a 10 point dog to UNC tomorrow, while I’m shocked to see Tennessee as 6-point favorites against Purdue in Nashville.
UNC-USC is at the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte. I’d imagine it’ll be the best-attended bowl game ever between 6-6 teams.
I don't get the tribalism either. Basking in some sort of indirect notoriety, I guess. Can you imagine rooting for "conference pride" if Illinois was in it? About half the teams in the B1G, I will support in a bowl game (Indy, Purdue, MD, Rutgers, a few others), but there are others that I simply CANNOT STAND and wish them ill-will.
Are Auburn fans really going to shout SEC if Bama wins again? Fla fans if GA wins? I don't get it.
Tennessee has a sort of home field advantage plus Purdue will be missing both Bell and Karlaftis.
Maybe you should move to North Korea so you can root for them full time. What kind of season did they have? In any event, my money is on Michigan to crush the fighting Kim's, although he might be the answer for us at nose tackle.
i would cheer for Illinois in a bowl game against about 95% of non-B1G opponents. same for most all of the teams in the conference. i might be half cheering for Utah though - OSU not seeming to care much about the Rose Bowl rubs me the wrong way and Utah has had a tough go of it this year, like the way they play and have come together following some very unfortunate circumstances. otherwise will be cheering for all B1G teams as i do every year in bowl season.
I live in Idaho, and there are a lot of Ute fans. One neighbor - his daughter is a close friend of my daughter - is an enthusiastic Ute fan, and I started following them when the clobbered Stanford (who I do not like, either). Then they cuffed around Oregon a couple of times. They are fun to watch and, unless they wilt in the Rose Bowl spotlight, they will be ready.
I'm ok with OSU but there are a number of teams that I want to lose every game. 1) ILL 1a) Mich 3) Penn State 4) Minn 5) Nebraska 6) Iowa 7) MSU should be higher because they are basically sex-crime university, but I just like it so much when they beat Mich.
You see, I really do dislike the rival B1G teams. I don't wish them ill-health or financial misfortune (except for a couple of the coaches /s) but I want them to lose. A lot. There is no pattern to why. Some of it is fans (Mich, ILL), but Iowa and Ped State fans have been unfailingly civil to me. Some of it is coaches (Frost, Fleck, Franklin, F Harbaugh), but others not.
I suppose if Nebraska were playing some other loathsome team in a December bowl - Miami, Alabama, etc - I'd root for the fighting Frosties, but...Mich in the playoffs? SEC! SEC! SEC!
In my opinion Utah is approaching elite program status. Whittingham has really got that program consistently playing at an elite level and they do it by unearthing a lot of undervalued talent. I think our bowl victory over Utah in the Holiday Bowl is one of NU’s most impressive victories in the FItz era.
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Thing is, I can understand that, and I think a lot of fans of Big Ten teams watch the other teams' bowl games and root for them.
I don't have an issue with that, and I typically do watch Big Ten bowl games.
I think most fans of teams outside the SEC understand though that the success of Ohio State doesn't make any other Big Ten program better (and the same is true of Clemson in the ACC or Oregon in the Pac-12).
Go to those games and win them yourselves; and I think the same of us.
Purdue beating UT at home in the 3rd quarter without its two best players in what essentially is a home game for Tennessee. Pretty impressive showing for the Big Ten. Purdue’s QB O’Connell keeps getting better and better. He doesn’t wow you with anything but all he does is drop dimes and make plays. A winner. Kudos to him.
That was a pretty epic screw job by the refs. I'm pretty sure one of them had a bet on the Boilers. Throughout the game some serious calls and spots in their favor. And then that last "forward progress stopped" was egregious. Couldn't happen to a worse fanbase though. Boiler Up!
I didn’t realize it was blown dead for stopping forward progress as I was watching without sound while doing other things. I had figured they had whistled it dead for the Tennessee lineman trying to pull the ball carrier’s arm over the goal line (my memory is that an offensive player can push but not pull a teammate forward.)
I agree that the conference champion performing well in a bowl game does not help your favorite team immediately or directly, but a poor performance can reflect poorly on the conference. There have been years where the Big Ten has been something like 0-5 or 2-6 and bowl games and the social media will eat it up like they doing the SEC now for their bowl season start. I remember the 80s when the PAC 10 dominated the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl the same way the NFC dominated the the AFC in the Super Bowl in the mid-90s and it reflected poorly on the conference as a whole.
Still I understand the other side of the coin about not wanting to root for a hated rivalry, but even then, I've learned it is in the best interest for the Big Ten teams to perform well non-conference --- the direct benefits to RPI or KenPom rankings may not be as tangible as in college basketball, but I sense there is a benefit to the conference performing well overall in a way that benefits football poll rankings and access to the CFP or bowls in a given year or over time.