{"id":567,"date":"2015-09-30T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2015-10-21T01:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:54:53","slug":"the-sec-effect-covering-up-mediocrity-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"THE SEC EFFECT! Covering Up Mediocrity Football"},"content":{"rendered":"
We can already see the writing on the table. What type of writing you say? The writing that we as fans see every Sunday at 12:00 PM. The AP and Coaches Polls, the type of polls that change the landscape of College Football every week and apparently now every season. Some teams still get credit for what they did five years ago. While others suffer a one point loss and drop 15 spots while\u00a0at the same time a team still gets credit for beating a team that ends up with 4 losses. These Polls are destroying College Football and the average fan doesn\u2019t even see it coming. Now there is one conference out there that gets the benefit of the doubt every time.\u00a0 That Conference is the SEC!<\/h6>\n
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In the last two seasons, the SEC has shown signs of a downward trend. Every conference goes through from time to time.\u00a0\u00a0But in this case (SEC)\u00a0the media doesn\u2019t want you to think that\u00a0they\u00a0are losing\u00a0their hold as the\u00a0top conference. Remember that self-proclaimed best division in football that went 1-5 in Bowl games last season. You have to, right? The best division in football was filled with fraud! Do I even need to talk about Ole Miss and Mississippi State or that five lost Auburn team. The SEC West was the best example of “media building”, to protect the ego of the past.<\/h6>\n
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Unfortunately for college football fans that live outside the SEC, we\u00a0can already see the same thing happening again this season.\u00a0 Look at Ole Miss, Florida, and Texas A&M. Tell me, if a 6 point win over East Carolina, followed by a five point win over Kentucky, and finally a one point victory over Tennessee makes you a TOP 25 team in the nation is \u201cludicrous<\/em><\/span>?\u201d.<\/strong> If that team played in the ACC, BIG 10, BIG 12 or even the PAC 12 they would not even gets votes. The only reason why Florida is ranked right now is because of this weeks matchup verses Ole Miss. The media will add more votes to the polls in which will boost up teams in the TOP 25. Then they will make a big deal on how this team has turned the corner (to boost up TV ratings). It is the arrogance of how the SEC is treated over other conferences that bothers folks.<\/h6>\n
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This Saturday night in Gainesville, the #25 Florida Gators could lose to #3 Ole Miss and then the\u00a0media craziness will go away and you won\u2019t hear a thing from them about Florida\u00a0the rest of the season.\u00a0 But\u00a0later the press will bring up\u00a0(Florida)\u00a0again to help Ole Miss out. Saying stuff like \u201cwell they did go into the Swap and beat that good Florida team.\u201d Huh!! I can already see that happening if Ole Miss is being considered for a Playoff spot. Now, I know this may make people mad but this is how College Football has been this season. \u00a0I guarantee you, that if, and I mean \u201cif\u201d Florida beats Ole Miss this weekend, the Florida Gators will be in the Top 10 in Sunday\u2019s polls. This is called in my part of the country, “the SEC effect!” Over hyping upcoming teams so we can say that were the best and stay in the conversation for a playoffs.<\/h6>\n
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Yes, you herd me! OVERRATED<\/strong><\/span> teams!! Many of you will read this and bring up the SEC and how great the Conference is.\u00a0 ATTENTION<\/strong><\/span> SEC fans, please stop living in the past and basing these teams rankings\u00a0from their\u00a0teams ten years ago! That is why polls these days are judge by one game and not the body of work of the season. We still don\u2019t know who the best team in the nation is and we might know until January. We do know the SEC will get over hyped every year for what they did five to ten years ago. This needs to stop, College Football is more balanced than ever and the stats prove it. (That a different subject for a different day.) So to you real college football fans, enjoy the season and watch as the SEC implodes on itself.<\/h6>\n
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Bold Statement: SEC Champion will have two losses and will be left out of the Playoffs!<\/h6>\n
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I will add my final four is still alive: (My Pre Season Picks) Ohio State, TCU, Michigan State, UCLA<\/h6>\n