"SEC Fatigue."

[Nutriaitch]

Ahh, another log for the fire. It was getting a bit chilly in here.

well, I woulda talked shit about baseball, but UGA didn't even try to field a team this year.

 

[scarletmike]

I know the lack of walls of text aren't there to give him away, but maybe this is a new posting style for…Gator?

 

[Mariotwins]

well, I woulda talked [Mark May] about baseball, but UGA didn't even try to field a team this year.

That and we like to talk about sports here.

 

[ulukinatme]

1. Is SEC dominance bad for college football?

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing for a conference to dominate for awhile, but after a certain point it becomes old hat and boring. Credit the SEC for winning as many title games as they've achieved, but at a certain point you need a change of scenery. You also have to wonder how tough it really is for a team like 'Bama to get there so often when they're incredibly deep talent wise, they schedule multiple FCS teams, and they often get to skip the meat of the other division.

2. Will this be the year that the SEC reign ends?

I think OSU will make it to the title game this year. If anyone can go 12-0 in back to back regular seasons it's Urb. I'm just not sure if an SEC team will also go undefeated. It may be more likely that a team like Oregon or Stanford will run the table instead...the former depending on the fallout from Chip Kelly's departure. Actually, I think it's unlikely another team goes undefeated this year aside from the Buckeyes, Stanford may have a good shot though.

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

I start a topic to generate discussion ... and I get accused of being a troll ... ok, I wont start anymore threads ..

It isn't that you just started a thread that makes me wonder about your motivation. Your very first post here on BP was in the April 2011 thread 2011 tOSU Football Discussion as seen here.

Hi everyone I am a lifelong Buckeye fan ( I am 75 years old ) ... so I have been a fan for a long time .... this is my first time posting here ...so, I am a little confused on how to navigate around .. I have a question for everyone ... if the Buckeyes win their first 5 games in 2011 what do you think Tressel should do .. Should he put Pryor and the other players who were suspended back into the starting line up ... or should he just leave the team as it is ?

At the time this seems to have been a valid post, but then who really has the heart to question a 75 year old Buckeye fan? Your second post though oddly comes in over two years later in the Sound off thread.

I hope I have found a home ... hi iggy ... are you out there ...

Seems like a long layoff between posts considering all that has happened with our football program since your first post. Your third post is what got my attention though. Without a single post being made in reference to a PERFECT BUCKEYE SEASON, a 77 year old LIFELONG BUCKEYE FAN questions the validity of a thread/post made by LJB in this great thread.

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/...chigan-different-perspective.html#post1605545

You did create a NC or Bust thread, which I'm not sure what to think of. The 2013 team has a long way to go to before either is a possibility.

AND then you created this thread...that seems to highlight the SEC as much as possible, creating some of the worst taglines ever, and not even bothering to ask if the BUCKEYES will be the team to end it.

If in fact you are a 77 year old lifelong Buckeye fan OMB then God Bless you. May you live long enough to see as many victories for the S&G in THE GAME as humanly possible. Maybe even see 2 or three National Championships brought back to Columbus. If you're not, good luck, this ain't Charlotte.

 

[Mike80]

http://www.thepostgame.com/commenta...sto-southern-secession-chuck-thompson-sec-bcs

some interesting observations at the link...

 

[Dryden]

we all knew UGA is going to choke every year.
thanks to you, now we know the dates.

Prescient.

 

[Abenaki]

http://www.thepostgame.com/commenta...sto-southern-secession-chuck-thompson-sec-bcs

some interesting observations at the link...

I've told this exact same thing to several of my friends...the SEC has a lot of highly ranked teams because they beat a lot of highly ranked teams because the SEC has a lot of highly ranked teams...it's a perpetual motion hype machine.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I've told this exact same thing to several of my friends...the SEC has a lot of highly ranked teams because they beat a lot of highly ranked teams because the SEC has a lot of highly ranked teams...it's a perpetual motion hype machine.

Has anyone ever determined exactly how many AP voters have ties to espn? It's more than a few; I know that. I know that doesn't count towards the bcs formula, but it does set a tone for the pre-season polls that do.

 

[cincibuck]

I've told this exact same thing to several of my friends...the SEC has a lot of highly ranked teams because they beat a lot of highly ranked teams because the SEC has a lot of highly ranked teams...it's a perpetual motion hype machine.

Fantastic post. should be "required reading" on BP. Now with the Big Ten clearly aiming at market share in Chicago and NYC it's time to start insisting on meaningful bowl games in the Big Ten region.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

My new favorite thing is to take SEC logic and apply it to other conferences. I just started a thread on another forum stating that Michigan State should jump up to #2 if they beat us, because losing doesn't matter and they'll have a conference championship to go along with a win over a current #2 team. That's a followup to my thread I started about everybody's favorite pain in the ass Gordon Gee going on TV and openly politicking for Ohio State to be in the BCSNCG because the opposite would be "Unamerican".

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

My new favorite thing is to take SEC logic and apply it to other conferences. I just started a thread on another forum stating that Michigan State should jump up to #2 if they beat us, because losing doesn't matter and they'll have a conference championship to go along with a win over a current #2 team. That's a followup to my thread I started about everybody's favorite pain in the ass Gordon Gee going on TV and openly politicking for Ohio State to be in the BCSNCG because the opposite would be "Unamerican".

Quite frankly, Gee probably would have done that. I'm quite glad that he's out of the picture right now. Let the SEC be the SEC. There's no need to crawl down into the gutter with them.

 

[Dryden]

Has anyone ever determined exactly how many AP voters have ties to espn? It's more than a few; I know that. I know that doesn't count towards the bcs formula, but it does set a tone for the pre-season polls that do.

Now? Just Chris Fowler. Herbstreit was classified as an Ohio media voter, so he lost his AP vote when he moved to Nashville. Craig James also used to hold a vote but lost his when he ran for political office. Nate Sandell is a radio guy in Minnesota that holds a vote and works for an ESPN affiliate, but he is partial to the B1G, so I'd consider it a stretch to say there are two ESPN guys with votes. It's really all on Fowler now.

By comparison, there are three AP voters in Ohio and all three cover Ohio State. Bill Rabinowitz and Doug Lesmerises are Ohio State beat writers for the Dispatch and Plain Dealer, respectively, while Matt McCoy works for 610 WTVN-AM radio in Columbus.