**** BCS national title game ****

[TribalElder]

Auburn vs Florida State

[siberian khatru]

My money goes to FSU, but I don't feel like I won a national championship. I was waaaaaaaay more excited by the Cotton Bowl victory.

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

If only Auburn* had done something, anything, in the 3rd quarter.


*and by Auburn I also mean the Chiefs

Yup Auburn pulled a K-State

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Deserving national champion. That FSU team hadn't been tested this entire season until tonight, and they were tested against the SEC champs. Very, very impressive on all sorts of levels: mental toughness, physical line play, coaching staff adjustments.

Some people will be jacking their dicks to the slew of articles talking about how the SEC is dead/overrated/etc. All of those articles will be wrong.

Dead? Hell no. Over hyped this year? Without a doubt.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Dead? Hell no. Over hyped this year? Without a doubt.

What was the SEC's bowl record this year?

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Dead? Hell no. Over hyped this year? Without a doubt.

Lol, had Auburn not scored so quickly on that run with like a minute twenty left, they probably would have been champions again. Just saying.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

Lol, had Auburn not scored so quickly on that run with like a minute twenty left, they probably would have been champions again. Just saying.

It was clear that whoever had the ball last was going to get the win.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

I'll say this about the BCS era. The best team usually ended up with the title at the end of the season, which is really the point of all this.

How do you know that?

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

What was the SEC's bowl record this year?

Who gives a shit about bowl games with middle of the pack teams? The big guns got shot down. The conference wasn't as top heavy as advertised.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

Lol, h Auburn not scored so quickly on that run with like a minute twenty left, they probably would have been champions again. Just saying.

FSU slept walked through the first half. They were the much better team.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

How do you know that?

Watched a lot of football. BCS almost always got it right (if the goal is to get the best teams in the final).

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Dead? Hell no. Over hyped this year? Without a doubt.

The SEC took the heavily-favored, #1 team in the country, who had done nothing but thoroughly destroy all opponents all season long, to within an inch of its life.

Clearly, the SEC is not unbeatable. This was a down year for the conference. But it wasn't much of a down year. FSU simply was that good.

You have to understand: there are plenty of people out there who think that the SEC's run of titles has been something of a fluke. They go on about things like Alabama's last two titles not coming against a school from a different conference, etc. This FSU win validates that loony theory in their eyes. There is a real urge to portray the SEC as less than what it is (and your posts the past few days have been the biggest example on this board).

I'm looking forward to the 4-team playoff. Now that we've seen all the games, I think Michigan State could have beaten either Auburn or Florida St in a close contest. Next year? Who knows. It is my opinion, however, that the SEC has earned the benefit of the doubt w/r/t getting a 2nd deserving team into the playoff. FSU's win doesn't change that for me. In fact, this game only bolstered my opinion there.

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

FSU slept walked through the first half. They were the much better team.

Auburn played like jizz for the entire third quarter. Equal parts to blame here.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

If my kids toy with the idea of not going to college I'm putting on this Jameis Winston speech to put them in their place.

[BigCatDaddy]

[QUOTE=Reaper16;10352550]The SEC took the heavily-favored, #1 team in the country, who had done nothing but thoroughly destroy all opponents all season long, to within an inch of its life.

Clearly, the SEC is not unbeatable. This was a down year for the conference. But it wasn't much of a down year. FSU simply was that good.

You have to understand: there are plenty of people out there who think that the SEC's run of titles has been something of a fluke. They go on about things like Alabama's last two titles not coming against a school from a different conference, etc. This FSU win validates that loony theory in their eyes. There is a real urge to portray the SEC as less than what it is (and your posts the past few days have been the biggest example on this board).

I'm looking forward to the 4-team playoff. Now that we've seen all the games, I think Michigan State could have beaten either Auburn or Florida St in a close contest. Next year? Who knows. It is my opinion, however, that the SEC has earned the benefit of the doubt w/r/t getting a 2nd deserving team into the playoff. FSU's win doesn't change that for me. In fact, this game only bolstered my opinion there.[/QUOTE

So what happened this year tells you next year that the SEC deserves 2 teams in the playoffs?

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

So what happened this year tells you next year that the SEC deserves 2 teams in the playoffs?

The single most dominant non-SEC team in the BCS era needed a pulled hamstring and a last-minute blown coverage to barely squeak out a win against the SEC's champion in a conference-wide down year.

I don't think that the SEC automatically deserves two spots. But there will be years were it will be appropriate.

Now, maybe if the SEC has two down years in a row. If we start seeing a trend rather than an anomaly, then and only then will I find it appropriate to rethink my stance.