is there anyway to kick mizzou out? please...

also, i think they need to go to 9 conference games in the future. it was bad enough with just 3 crossover games, but now with only two games, georgia can dodge every sec west team with a pulse.

Looks like the SEC East is going to have a big advantage for years to come.

Somebody put Ole Miss on suicide watch....

The University of Georgia's officials' mouths must feel real good.

The $25000 Dodecahedron: Looks like the SEC East is going to have a big advantage for years to come.


Until they have to play (read: get mauled by) a team from the West in the SEC Championship.

Seriously, for all of the "SEC" lovefest that has occurred for the last decade, it is amazing to me that the teams in the East get to skate by under the "SEC" mantra. Between South Carolina and Georgia last season, they played one of the top teams in the SEC -- Scar played Arkansas. Neither played Bama or LSU. Coincidentally, both teams won 10 games.

Georgia will do the same in 2012, and they will probably be the sacrificial lamb to Bama or LSU in Atlanta, again. South Carolina will come back to earth a bit by having to play LSU. Still, when your division schedule includes Vandy, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida, it isn't hard to imagine a 9 or 10 win season annually. (At least until Tennessee and Florida get their programs in order.)


/UGA alum

The_Great_Hambino: The $25000 Dodecahedron: Looks like the SEC East is going to have a big advantage for years to come.


Until they have to play (read: get mauled by) a team from the West in the SEC Championship.

Seriously, for all of the "SEC" lovefest that has occurred for the last decade, it is amazing to me that the teams in the East get to skate by under the "SEC" mantra. Between South Carolina and Georgia last season, they played one of the top teams in the SEC -- Scar played Arkansas. Neither played Bama or LSU. Coincidentally, both teams won 10 games.

Georgia will do the same in 2012, and they will probably be the sacrificial lamb to Bama or LSU in Atlanta, again. South Carolina will come back to earth a bit by having to play LSU. Still, when your division schedule includes Vandy, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida, it isn't hard to imagine a 9 or 10 win season annually. (At least until Tennessee and Florida get their programs in order.)


/UGA alum

Weren't the SEC East and West actually pretty balanced in power until about 2 years ago? It was the fact that Tennessee and UF both collapsed and haven't recovered yet that led to the West gaining a disproportionate advantage.

Still shaking my head at Kevin Sumlin taking the A&M job. Good luck with playing Alabama, LSU, Arkansas, and Auburn on a yearly basis.

For the love of Tebow, someone in the league office has it in for Ole Miss.

the_vegetarian_cannibal: Weren't the SEC East and West actually pretty balanced in power until about 2 years ago? It was the fact that Tennessee and UF both collapsed and haven't recovered yet that led to the West gaining a disproportionate advantage.

Pretty much, but it's been going on for more than two years. Florida was pretty dominant during the Meyer/Tebow years, but Florida was pretty dreadful between Spurrier and Meyer. Tennessee started the decline in the early-to-mid 2000's and hit rock bottom when it hired Lane Kiffen. Georgia had some fantastic teams in the early 2000's, but they have woefully underperformed since then.

South Carolina is, well, South Carolina. They are about to attend the best bowl game in the team's history, the Capital One Bowl. You may remember the Capital One Bowl by its former name: The Citrus Bowl. You may remember the Citrus Bowl because of Steve Spurrier making fun of Tennessee having to go to it:

"You can't spell 'Citrus' without 'UT.'" -- Steve Spurrier

Remember that zinger, Steve? Remember when going to the Citrus Bowl sucked ass? Well, your new team is about to make commemorative rings for this great "accomplishment"

Well, you can't spell 'citrus' without 'SC', either.

I didn't open the link but I'm assuming the SEC continues its 100 year tradition of every team playing at least 9 FCS opponents (at home, no less!) then proclaiming that the SEC cures cancer?

Cheops: Well, you can't spell 'citrus' without 'SC', either.

Ah, South Carolina. Legally, neither the real "Carolina" nor the real "USC".

Am I the only one who feels like the SEC is trying to promote Georgia inside the $EC the same way they try to promote the $EC inside the NCAA? Its not like the the ca$h from the $tate or Georgia ha$ anything to do with it.....

/who else is in the market to buy a bridge?

UNC_Samurai: For the love of Tebow, someone in the league office has it in for Ole Miss

Ole miss has had Vandy as their permanent East opponent since the 90s expansion. I'd say they are due

Not bad. I wish the Tide was going to Aggieville but playing in Missouri will be interesting.

Early guess will be Bama vs. UGA in SEC Championship game only because UGA misses us and LSU. But I could see UGA tanking it and Missouri with the second year starter at QB giving headaches to the East.

iron_city_ap: Am I the only one who feels like the SEC is trying to promote Georgia inside the $EC the same way they try to promote the $EC inside the NCAA? Its not like the the ca$h from the $tate or Georgia ha$ anything to do with it.....

/who else is in the market to buy a bridge?

You sound like a south carolina fan. if you promote any team you would promote florida due to recent success, national brand, and state population.

In 2003 uga played bama, lsu, and auburn, and once again in 2008 they played them. Its almost like these schedules follow a predefined cycle that was set in place years ago but yeah your tinfoil conspiracy sounds way more logical.

Missouri needs non-conference games and Boise State and BYU should be knocking down their door. I'm guessing another round against Southeast Missouri and some Sun Belt team are in the works instead.

Mizzou is going to the national championship in 2012 (as I throw my orange on the field). Alabama and LSU are shaking in their boots.

/Mizzou '94...

TheGreatGazoo: Mizzou is going to the national championship in 2012 (as I throw my orange on the field). Alabama and LSU are shaking in their boots.

/Mizzou '94...

They'd better do something quickly because right now they're primarily known around here as the team that lost to Troy State.

downstairs: the_vegetarian_cannibal: Weren't the SEC East and West actually pretty balanced in power until about 2 years ago? It was the fact that Tennessee and UF both collapsed and haven't recovered yet that led to the West gaining a disproportionate advantage.

Exactly. Florida did win two national championships.

Did is not are going to, UF looked horrible last year and doesn't look to get better any time soon.

Beside UGA has a locked in rivalry with auburn so that leaves one spot left and they got a lucky rotation.

Or mike adams is sucking some major cock.

MaxSupernova:
You sound like a south carolina fan. if you promote any team you would promote florida due to recent success, national brand, and state population.

Except I'm not a south carolina fan. I just see a conference with major prominence trying to tap into the largest urban area within its market, which also happens to border a rival conference (ACC). FWIW, I went to a Ohio (MAC, not tOSU), so I have no dog in this fight. Just making an observation. From a bidness standpoint, it makes sense to promote a team when you see $$ to be made. Isn't that what college football is all about..... er.... I mean STUDENT ATHELETES....STUDY....TITLE 9......

Buffalo, Georgia Southern, Florida Atlantic, no Alabama or LSU. Uga must still be scarred from losing to Boise.

Poison: Buffalo, Georgia Southern, Florida Atlantic, no Alabama or LSU. Uga must still be scarred from losing to Boise.

So they now have a schedule that is basically like every other big 10 or big 12 team, makes sense.

Oh and no one is scared of boise, the problem is that boise wont play anyone in the middle of the season after getting worn down and the other teams getting in gear, I would have loved to see a bowl game have the balls to schedule a UGA/boise rematch, the team looks 100 times better than it did to start the season.

TheGreatGazoo: Mizzou is going to the national championship in 2012 (as I throw my orange on the field). Alabama and LSU are shaking in their boots.

/Mizzou '94...

Ha. You realize that the SEC is rebranding you as West Kentucky for the 2012 season? The Aggies came in first so they already claimed the West Vanderbilt name for next year.

/Geaux (the other) Tigers!

Dr J Zoidberg: Because when I think of the East I think of Missouri...

It is when you are from Oregon

bionicjoe: steamingpile: Oh and no one is scared of boise, the problem is that boise wont play anyone in the middle of the season after getting worn down and the other teams getting in gear,

Exactly how heavy are goal posts when you need to move them quickly?

Boise:
Can't be Oklahoma
Can't do it again.
Can't do it a 3rd time.
Only has to play TCU in a bowl. (TCU & Boise ranked 1-2 according to all models not farked with by the BCS)
Can't beat anyone in the regular season.

Not farked with by the BCS is assuming you are excluding computer polls and rankings? All boise supporters talking about how boise was in the 20s for SOS earlier this year and bama was in the 50s yet were ranked ahead of boise. Now boise is back to the 70s(which will drop further with another mwc team losing) and other teams have jumped up.

And what's this 3rd crap? You do realize that was a shiat OU team, right? People biatched about them getting a BCS game since they were crap and didn't deserve to be in there(I think Texas was in
the BCS).

All most of us have biatched about is that boise plays shiat teams almost all year except the first game, if they played tougher teams they would A) not blow teams out and B) have more losses per year.

And dammit if Richt didn't get lucky and make a good choice in Grantham for D-cord, they are playing as good as I have seen them in years, so yes if they were to play boise again I think it would be a vastly different outcome and more in line with the beatdown they got when they were in Athens in 2005.

Poison: Buffalo, Georgia Southern, Florida Atlantic, no Alabama or LSU. Uga must still be scarred from losing to Boise.

...you guys do remember UGA have one of the hardest schedules in the country a few years back, right? Chalk these new ones up to our new AD, the old Associate AD from Florida, AKA the International House of Pancakes. Goodbye, Oregon - Hello, Charleston Southern!

/Not exactly excited over this
//At least we get the BUCKEYES in about five years

bionicjoe: (TCU & Boise ranked 1-2 according to all models not farked with by the BCS)

Lolwut?

/things you imagine after taking acid do not qualify as a ranking model

bionicjoe: I never heard "Boise can't beat a good team mid-season" until this year, MINUTES after beating UGA.

Boise did that last year when they played a #24 ranked Oregon State team in the middle of the year and that did not stop the haters then either and don't forget the game with Nevada who ended up ranked around 10th to 15th in the polls. This year they played a TCU team that ended up ranked. These folks just glom onto talking points without doing much research.

Haters gonna hate

lilplatinum: Lolwut?

/things you imagine after taking acid do not qualify as a ranking model

Yeah, I like Boise, but I am not going to say that they deserve to be in the title game. Boise had its chance and did not pull it out with mid season losses the last two years. This is a pretty good theme song for the Broncos for the last couple of years (new window)

I'm fine with Boise being out when they lose a game. After all, most teams are out when they get one loss and given their schedule, winning out is nessecary. It's only when they win out and don't get in that it is problematic(But that's true any year more than 2 teams go undefeated anyway).

HeadLever: lilplatinum: Lolwut?

/things you imagine after taking acid do not qualify as a ranking model

Yeah, I like Boise, but I am not going to say that they deserve to be in the title game. Boise had its chance and did not pull it out with mid season losses the last two years. This is a pretty good theme song for the Broncos for the last couple of years (new window)

Also this is funny.

bionicjoe: steamingpile: And what's this 3rd crap? You do realize that was a shiat OU team, right? People biatched about them getting a BCS game since they were crap and didn't deserve to be in there(I think Texas was in the BCS).

So it's Boise's fault they get 'crap' teams to play?
The '3rd time' is just reference to whatever Boise does it's always 'yeah, but they can't do this'. I never heard "Boise can't beat a good team mid-season" until this year, MINUTES after beating UGA.


All most of us have biatched about is that boise plays shiat teams almost all year except the first game, if they played tougher teams they would A) not blow teams out and B) have more losses per year.
I'm sure the Boise AD gets dozens of phone calls from power conference teams that want to play them on November 1st, but he lets it go to voicemail.

Boise plays shiat teams because they are in a shiat conference, they shouldn't whine since the BCS was created to stop shiat teams like byu from winning again. And you haven't been reading the cfb threads enough I said years ago that they would have a tougher time in the middle of the year against a good team, and no headleaver, Oregon state doesn't count.

The boise AD did get calls until they started demanding money and 2 for 1 visits, they didn't want to take a home/home or even a one and done game without getting a huge payday.

Billy Crystal Meth Lab: Poison: Buffalo, Georgia Southern, Florida Atlantic, no Alabama or LSU. Uga must still be scarred from losing to Boise.

...you guys do remember UGA have one of the hardest schedules in the country a few years back, right? Chalk these new ones up to our new AD, the old Associate AD from Florida, AKA the International House of Pancakes. Goodbye, Oregon - Hello, Charleston Southern!

/Not exactly excited over this
//At least we get the BUCKEYES in about five years

That would mean Ohio St has to end it's series with perennial MAC power Akron, right?