Oboy
Premium Member
Glad I'm not alone there. I was starting to wonder.
Ok... I keep reading this thread and biting my tongue... Motion, you know you can't reason with a Nole fan! :wink:
Sorry Just HAD to say it!
Glad I'm not alone there. I was starting to wonder.
I don't base my ranking's off of Bowl apearance's. I based them off of a conference having a title game. In my opinion your beloved WVU should have been in the Orange Bowl, because they were probably the best team in the Big East, but because they slipped up one week they weren't given that opportunity.
Conference USA has a title game so does that make them better than the Big 10? If you base them off title games only ( which is completely ridiculous) you'd have to think Conference USA or the Mid-American Conference is better.
I think that because this site is a Florida based site you're going to get a lot of SEC bias.
Sure, they were ahead of the Big 10 this year--but the two conferences are pretty even IMO.
Actually, the site is Miami based so the majority are Canes fans.
The Bowl Season is a Great way to see how your conference is...a big OOC game--what better way is there really?
Tell me the talent level...it's in the Big 10's bottom teams as well. Anyone can make that arguement. I prefer stats....here are some for you other than standings. And remember that I did say the SEC was a little better this year, but year in year out...it's VERY close.
Off the top of my head, I would say that the Big 10 has more National Championships than the SEC. I know Alabama has quite a few--but Ohio State and Michigan have somethng like 18 between the two of them. (7-OSU/11-Michigan)?
2006 Awards - (Big 10/SEC)
BIG 10
Heismen - Big 10 - Ohio State
Walter Camp Award - Big 10 - Ohio State
Davey O'Brien Award - Big 10 - Ohio State
John Mackey Award - Big 10 - Minnesota
Bronko Nagurski Award - Big 10 - Ohio State
Chuck Bednarik Award - Big 10 Penn State
Outland Trophy - Big 10 - Wisconsin
Vince Lombardi/Rotary Award - Big 10 - Michigan
Ted Hendricks Award - Big 10 - Michigan
SEC
Doak Walker Award - SEC - Arkansas
Dick Butkus Award - SEC - Ole Miss
South Fl is far from SEC country. I-4 is basically the Line of Demarcation, but in reverse. Everything south of I-4 is littered with transplants from the mid-west and north-east. If that half of the state (which just happens to be where this site's fan base is concentrated) pulls for a conference, it's the ACC. It is by no means an SEC or UF centric fan base. They hate UF far more than the twice humbled OSU faithful does.Isn't Miami in Florida?? I may have to go check a map....
And my point wasn't to the extent of Florida--as in University of Florida. It was to the extent that Florida is SEC country--there for a vast majority of people on this site would say the SEC is the best based on sheer numbers.
If you were to go to an Ohio based site--IE Cleveland Browns--you would see a very different trend towards the Big 10. That's all I am saying.
South Fl is far from SEC country. I-4 is basically the Line of Demarcation, but in reverse. Everything south of I-4 is littered with transplants from the mid-west and north-east. If that half of the state (which just happens to be where this site's fan base is concentrated) pulls for a conference, it's the ACC. It is by no means an SEC or UF centric fan base. They hate UF far more than the twice humbled OSU faithful does.
You map won't tell you that, but it is a matter of fact.
How did all those OSU award winners fare against UF's talent? This isn't smack talk, but rather added perspective to just how much weight should be given to those individual awards when evaluating a conferences overall talent, and top team talent. Posts like that littered this board before the NC game. At this point there's zero doubt as to how irrelevant those points were.