Special Guest Post To The Hog Tale

I'm building this up a special guest post, when in actuality, it's nothing more than me being lazy and using my copy and paste skillz.






My buddy "Boom-Boom" (former OU football player and supporter) and I trade emails from time to time about the whole "SEC is the best football conference in America" debate.
Of course, I usually provoke the debate like I did this year with my whole "SEC won the national championship, went 7-2 in bowl games (Florida and Arkansas blew it), and covered the point spread in six of them (Florida, Arkansas, and Kentucky all failed to cover). Also, the SEC ended up with 2 top 5 teams and 5 top 25 teams. Anyway, like I said, this is lazy, but here is Boom-Boom's thought provoking, slightly lengthy response...

... you can't change your arguments from year to year..... Last year, you talked about how many ranked teams---aka depth of the conference as it's strength...

Now when the same argument is made about the Big12... Big12 having more top 10 teams and both having 5 top 25 teams,,,, you change the argument..

But we can look at the AP all-american teams...
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first team All-Americans 8
2nd team 4
3rd team 2
SEC first team All-Americans 4 (2 from LSU)
2nd team 5
3rd team 0

As far as point spreads go... Kentucky did not cover... the line went off the board for 2 weeks after suspensions and the final line was Kentucky -9.5
but, GA, LSU, Aub, Miss St, and Tenn all covered...Arky and Kent Lost
And congrats on covering these games.... if beating point spreads makes a conference??? good job...
I kinda of look at it as... Vegas knows there is not much difference between Tenn and Wisky (Wisconsin); Miss St and UCF; Clem and Aub; FSU -32players and a healthy Kentucky;

But Vegas sures knows now that their is a huge difference between Mizz and Arky; OSU and Ind; TX and ASU; Ga and Haw..

Your argument about covering small point spreads is weak at best.... overall, that's the same type of argument that allows an OhioSt team to be in a BCS Championship game... 'OSU had only one loss,' therefore they deserve it.

Honestly, Congrats to LSU... Anyone who played in that game backed into it.... the most disappointing college football season ever... Nobody earned the title... Even a plus-one game wouldn't have worked because USC would have been left out....

There is absolutely NO clear case for anyone being in the title game this year....
OU is a week minded team, chalked full of NFL talent, but has absolutely no emotion... is awful on the road (sign of mental weekness)... and Stoops still has not re-covered from losing too many coaches over the years.
LSU is also a weak minded team who is also chalk full of talent... Had awesome Defensive players who sucked the last 2/3rds of the season... They won 2 Championships playing 90 minutes from campus in a dome... not LSU's fault however.... Like to have seen them down 10pts w/ that game at the Fiesta Bowl in an unusual enviroment and see what happens when their ass-holes pucker...
theOSU... hey, this was their re-building year... they did not beat a top 20 team... enough said.... PS neither did Hawaii
VT -- got clobbered by LSU and beat by BC at home..
GA -- got clobbered by TENN... got beat at home by one of the worst SEC defenses in history, South Carolina... the only team to be beaten by a non-bowl bound team.
The Media always has to make a push for someone ELSE... this was Georgia... They get tons of credit for being one of the 1/4 teams to beat FLA.... 'they charge the endzone' 'celebrate' 'look at Reicht changing his ways' (wish Stoops would do a little of this)... but this does not make a team.... after this game... they ESCAPED Troy while getting outgained in yardage, giving up around 450yds... then holding off Kentucky --- these were home games... and then pulling away from an AWFUL Coachless GTech team....
They became the media darlings when they took that title from Fla.
USC--- they finally actually got upset... and it was a big upset... but lets not forget, that while LSU uses their injury bug card... USC can do the same... QB plays w/ broken finger and throws 5 ints.. Then they lose to a damn good Oregon team on the road with a back up QB... and lost by 7 pts.

Why USC should have been playing???
They are the only teams who have legitimate excuses....
In Stan game, USC a QB w/broken hand turned the ball over 5 times... yet statistically, they DOMINATED THE GAME....
AT Oregon... a backup QB throws has 3 turnovers to start the 2nd half leading to Oregon short scores... But USC did outplay Oreg statisically, and is the only team to somewhat hold Dixon in check.

OU... got beat by CU and Tech... no doubt, and almost ISU
LSU... got beat by Kent... and Arky... LSU is the only team who barely won most of their games..
VT... got beat by BC at home (the 1st TD was clearly out of bounds, BC should not had to come from behind)... and clobbered by LSU
MIZZ -- was physically pummelled by OU twice
KU and theOSU -- you must play/beat someone to even let us know where you stand... but theOSU lost to an average ILL team at home and KU lost to MIZZ...
WVA -- got beat by PITT, this was not a fluke... they got beat by SFla which may have been a fluke w/ 7 turnovers.
HAW -- 117th worst schedule out of 119 teams... enough said...

Nobody deserved it... but I do think USC deserved playing in the title game more.... And if you think LSU put a whoop ass on theOSU???? What do you think the point-spread and the final score of a USC/theOSU matchup...
If it means anything... Vegas did say that USC would have been favored by 9-13 pts vs theOSU and slightly over a TD vs LSU... this was said prior to championship game...

Put all this in your pot and smoke it.


I just hope they get this system fixed... another year of a title game

The Hog Tale's Response to Boom-Boom's Response:

Pot is illegal except under a doctor's prescription and I would never knowingly inhale or inject anything illegal into my system in order to improve any type of performance or prove a point, and the SEC still kicked ass!

Feel free to leave your comments for Boom-Boom...