The SEC has always manipulated its conference schedules. Years ago, when the SEC only had eight teams, Georgia and Alabama would go years without playing each other. In inter-division play now, they often keep top teams away from each other so as to improve those teams' chances of maintaining top poll positions.
The SEC has always manipulated its conference schedules. Years ago, when the SEC only had eight teams, Georgia and Alabama would go years without playing each other. In inter-division play now, they often keep top teams away from each other so as to improve those teams' chances of maintaining top poll positions.
The best teams in that conference usually do not even play each other...They tout the strength of the conference top to bottom, but there are many bottom feeders in that conference. The polls have really become political as the political apparatus of the South is that they all stick together ( a unified confederacy) and vote their own in above the others...I discovered this in 2004 during the CAL-TEXAS debate over the Rose Bowl...Those 9 writers that voted TEXAS above Cal...the one common denominator is that they were all from the South, all from small towns in the South, many who didn't even watch a single minute of CAL football all year long. It's like a microcosm of our political arena...MOB rule.
The SEC has always manipulated its conference schedules. Years ago, when the SEC only had eight teams, Georgia and Alabama would go years without playing each other. In inter-division play now, they often keep top teams away from each other so as to improve those teams' chances of maintaining top poll positions.
The best teams in that conference usually do not even play each other...They tout the strength of the conference top to bottom, but there are many bottom feeders in that conference. The polls have really become political as the political apparatus of the South is that they all stick together ( a unified confederacy) and vote their own in above the others...I discovered this in 2004 during the CAL-TEXAS debate over the Rose Bowl...Those 9 writers that voted TEXAS above Cal...the one common denominator is that they were all from the South, all from small towns in the South, many who didn't even watch a single minute of CAL football all year long. It's like a microcosm of our political arena...MOB rule.