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Originally Posted by Saul Good
Who are these "bottom feeders"? Last year, you called Auburn a bottom feeder two years after they won a national title. Today, they are top 25.
Last year, you called Mizzou a bottom feeder after going 5-7 and barely missing out on a bowl game for the first time in nearly a decade. Now, they are 6-0 and ranked 14th. Hard to call that a bottom feeder.
You continue to call Ole Miss a bottom feeder less than a month after they crushed Texas in Austin. They've also got the number 1 recruiting class in the country.
You call Vanderbilt a bottom feeder, but they won 9 games last year including a bowl game.
You call Tennessee a bottom feeder, but they won a national title in the BCS era and have the number 2 recruiting class next year.
You call Arkansas a bottom feeder, but they just finished off a top 5 season two years ago by blowing out KSU in a bowl game. After a terrible season last year, the coach who just took Wisconsin to three straight Rose Bowls jumped at the opportunity to coach in the big leagues.
There are 14 teams in the SEC, and someone has to come in 13th and 14th place every year. This is a mathematical fact.
Don't fool yourself into thinking that just because you finish 10th in the Big 12 you aren't a bottom feeder. Not having enough teams to have anyone finish 11th and 12th in the Big 12 is not a testament to the strength of your conference. It's a tribute to years of mismanagement.
The Big 12 is a dying mall. Just because you got a youth group and a Dippin' Dots vendor in WVU and TCU to lease a couple of spots, that doesn't make you Rodeo Drive.
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5-7 & 2-6 in league Mizzou beating 8 win AzState OOC is a perfect example. We also came w/in an eyelash of beating another bowl team in terms of Syracuse w/o Big Shel & DGB.
Tenn who went 1-7 in the league beat an ACC bowl team in NCState by 2 tds on a neutral field.
Vandy, another school outside that top 6 hammered that same NCState team in their bowl.
And Auburn beat that same LaMonroe team that gave Baylor, an 8 win Big 12 school fits in their game.
Now we all know the ACC & Big East are terrible and all but the point is simply this, the notion that there is no depth beyond that top 6 isn't true as these schools did alright competing w/ bowl teams from other leagues. It just seems that way b/c those top SEC 6 schools were all great.
Ironically the SEC fraud last yr was Miss St who won 8 games. They dodged a buncha heavies, got hammered by everyone w/ a pulse & got further exposed in their bowl.