SEC Football: Let’s Get Some Love For Georgia
Georgia is a 13-2 betting choice to win the SEC title, and there are five conference teams with better odds. It’s no surprise that Alabama is the prohibitive favorite, even if the Tide are rebuilding.
Georgia is a 13-2 betting choice to win the SEC title, and there are five conference teams with better odds. It’s no surprise that Alabama is the prohibitive favorite, even if the Tide are rebuilding.
The last Saturday in October is upon us, the first official BCS rankings were released later in the week and that means the race for conference championships and bowl bids is in full swing. TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage is breaking down the week with a separate post for each conference. Our focus here is the SEC.
Let’s take a look at the hows and whys of “Black Saturday” in the SEC and then discuss what the long-term implications are in both the national and conference picture.
Let’s take a brief look at the landscape in the nation’s top conference and then make some SEC bowl projections…
There’s an East-West combo on the ESPN family of networks at 7 PM ET.
TheSportsNotebook.com’s college football coverage has updated its BCS bowl projections following Week 4, with a special look at the chances of Fresno State rising out of the Mountain West. Here’s a look at the SEC…
The SEC’s dominance of college football goes well beyond the fact they’ve owned the BCS National Championship since 2006, including Alabama’s thrashing of Notre Dame in the 2012 national title game down in Miami. When it comes to measuring conference strength, it’s far more important to look further down the ladder, and it’s here that SEC dominance has really stood out.
The three-team fight for supremacy in the SEC East should be as entertaining a race as any in college football this year. You can make a good argument for any of Georgia, Florida or South Carolina to win the division. You can make a good argument that any of the three could beat Alabama in the SEC Championship Game on December 7, and from there, the recent history of this conference tells you that it’s likely any of the three could move on and play for a national championship.
I know the media reaction today is about the Alabama dynasty and how it ranks with the best of all time. I guess I’m still going to go down fighting on the whole question of Tide dominance, because I see this as less about how good Alabama is, then whether the SEC really has made this whole bowl season a pointless endeavor and what it means for college football.
The ACC was rattled to its foundations in college football Week 6, and it wasn’t just the seismic upset that N.C. State hung on Florida State. The league’s powers-that-be had a rough Saturday and an up-and-comer in Durham might end up being the beneficiary.
The SEC took its dominance of the national championship race last year to a new level, not only winning its sixth consecutive title, but having it sewn up prior to the BCS National Championship Game even being played, as Alabama-LSU paired up in a rematch for the title, a game that will take its place in history alongside the 1976 NCAA basketball final when Indiana met Michigan and ushered in a new era of conference rematches in the postseason. I have my doubts that this is a good thing, but it’s undeniably happening. Will the SEC make it seven in a row in 2012? Will they sweep the title game spots again? Let’s break down the SEC football race for the coming season…