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Some BCS facts for your SEC friends

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MSNBC, opinion article by Ray Glier (Ray Glier writes regularly for msnbc.com and is a freelance writer):

So here is one of those sweeping generalizations that people loathe, you know, like the one about the SEC having more speed than the Big Ten. The SEC has more football players, more playmakers, than the Big Ten. The SEC doesn't just have more speed; it has more of everything.
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Ohio State didn't flop. It just got worn out by better players.
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[For LSU, it was] like having five guys on a basketball team who can score in double figures.
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The playmakers are not the only thing that separate the SEC and the Big Ten. What about the bravado of the fans?
The clocking was ticking down and the full-throated fans started chanting 'SEC, SEC, SEC.'
You ever hear a crowd chant 'Big Ten, Big Ten'?? The passion of the SEC fans -- they always lead the country in attendance -- pays the big salaries to the coaches, who chase the big paycheck, and chase the big playmakers -- all of them it seems.

Opinion: LSU top team because it has no weaknesses - College football - MSNBC.com

I agree. Any OSU fan who blames Tressel for this loss is retarded. Even though the SEC is the best conference in college football, that doesn't take away anything from how great Tressel is doing at Ohio State. Right now, even after my LSU team's win on Monday, I would still vote OSU the #2 team in the decade behind USC (and that could change if OSU beats USC next year).
 
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Commentary | college football: SEC is good, but not the Goliath some make it out to be

Friday, January 11, 2008 2:53 AM
By MICHAEL ROSENBERG


DETROIT FREE PRESS

The other day, like millions of Americans, I watched college football's national championship game. Alas, I must have been watching on a broken TV.
I saw a team, Ohio State, outgain its opponent by 2 yards per play. I saw that same team lose anyway because its opponent, Louisiana State, played a much more disciplined, fundamentally sound game.
I saw LSU commit only one turnover while Ohio State essentially committed four: three that were official and one on a roughing-the-punter penalty that allowed LSU to keep the ball. I saw a Buckeyes field-goal attempt blocked. I saw Ohio State commit five -- yes, five -- personal fouls.
Based on all that, I had no doubt that LSU deserved to win.

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Big Ten versus SEC stats needed

Hey guys, i am a born and bread Buckeye from Worthington Ohio. I grew up selling cokes at the games and have worn scarlet and grey since I was a baby. I now live in Charlotte NC, and I am sick and tired of all the smack talking of the SEC radio hosts here about the Big Ten. I am putting together and e mail with some stats about the two leagues. I feel like the SEC fans use a very selective history to say they are the most dominant league. I am up for using any stats you guys might have. All time records between BIG Ten and SEC, not just in bowls. All time head to head in bowl records, total national titles between the leagues, players in the NFL etc. I want to put together some serious ammo to go against the Big Ten hating show. Thanks so much,

Here is a great article to look at too. MICHAEL ROSENBERG: The Big Ten is fine; don't buy into the SEC myth
 
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Since y'all are going to let the nc game thread drop i thought i would put my comment on the sec chants here. It has nothing to do with a north south thing as the gentleman in that thread stated as they are also directed toward florida state, miami, etc. It is, indeed, pride in conferance thing. I got to wondering how y'all could not understand that, and it kind of hit me, that it equates to the game. Y'all say that we do not understand the game, and the emotion behind it and y'all are probably right; there is a brethren thing, a conference pride among the sec that is there, and it is something outsiders do not understand. To be honest, i don't really understand it either. I am a cubs fan, but i don't root for the Cardinals or anyone else from the nl central when the Cubs aren't in the World Series. I am a Saints fan, but i don't root for the Falcons or anyone else from the nfc south when the Saints aren't in it. Same thing for high school teams in this area. It is just wierd, but that is how it is. I reiterate, though, that is nothing to do with a north-south thing and shouldn't be taken as such.
 
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ray6072;1065987; said:
Since y'all are going to let the nc game thread drop i thought i would put my comment on the sec chants here. It has nothing to do with a north south thing as the gentleman in that thread stated as they are also directed toward florida state, miami, etc. It is, indeed, pride in conferance thing. I got to wondering how y'all could not understand that, and it kind of hit me, that it equates to the game. Y'all say that we do not understand the game, and the emotion behind it and y'all are probably right; there is a brethren thing, a conference pride among the sec that is there, and it is something outsiders do not understand. To be honest, i don't really understand it either. I am a cubs fan, but i don't root for the Cardinals or anyone else from the nl central when the Cubs aren't in the World Series. I am a Saints fan, but i don't root for the Falcons or anyone else from the nfc south when the Saints aren't in it. Same thing for high school teams in this area. It is just wierd, but that is how it is. I reiterate, though, that is nothing to do with a north-south thing and shouldn't be taken as such.
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I would love to agree w/ this statement completely. But as I read it, and while nodding my head in agreement, I could hear my fathers words ringing in my ears.........."I'll never root for a Yankee in anything".

Granted, my father was raised in a different time, in a different way, but to think there is still nothing to this North/South argument would be like saying there is no more racism in the South. While you may not agree with it, or like to believe it, I can attest that it's still there. Receeding w/ every generation, but present nonetheless.
 
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Thanks for the link, sorry I did not check the search tab. I live in South Charlotte near the Arboretum. Hopefully i can pull together some honest facts about the leagues instead of the one sided stats that are always thrown out on the show
 
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ray6072;1065987; said:
I reiterate, though, that is nothing to do with a north-south thing and shouldn't be taken as such.
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Maybe it does, at least indirectly. I think maybe since before the Civil War actually kicked-off, southerners kinda bonded and stuck together with that "us vs. the world" mentality. I don't know if that brotherhood type feeling exists among northern states or not, but it does among the Gulf coast states for sure. So while I don't think chanting SEC has anything to do with "fuck the north", the atmosphere surrounding the war may have helped contribute to this attitude of "togetherness" the SEC seems to have.

With that being said, I still hope Auburn is swallowed by a large sinkhole of raw sewage and Phat Phuck Phil chokes to death on a twinkie. And while we're at it, screw Bama too. And geaux to hell Ole Piss! I think that about covers it.
 
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You guys are all missing the most fundamental reason they chant "SEC" so much.

Its only 3 letters.

If it were two full words like say "Big Ten" half the stadium would fuck it up.
 
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Nutriaitch;1066160; said:
Maybe it does, at least indirectly. I think maybe since before the Civil War actually kicked-off, southerners kinda bonded and stuck together with that "us vs. the world" mentality. I don't know if that brotherhood type feeling exists among northern states or not, but it does among the Gulf coast states for sure. So while I don't think chanting SEC has anything to do with "fuck the north", the atmosphere surrounding the war may have helped contribute to this attitude of "togetherness" the SEC seems to have.
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The North pretty much won, right? I certainly mean that in an innocent, follow-up-to-Civil-War-question way. Maybe the loss still lingers...

With that being said, I still hope Auburn is swallowed by a large sinkhole of raw sewage and Phat Phuck Phil chokes to death on a twinkie. And while we're at it, screw Bama too. And geaux to hell Ole Piss! I think that about covers it.
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I dig ya Nutriaitch, and it's posts like these that make me feel like I already know ye.
 
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