Rip
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quote: Originally posted by dbpro56
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rip
[B]Look Tennessee is awful this year BUT if they played Boise's schedule they may actually be undefeated.
Part of the reason they haven't earned it is the week in week out grind, losing players to injury, and having to play a tough game more often than not. Teams in real conferences have to do that, Boise does not. Can they beat any team on any given day? Sure any team can but there are Div II teams that would have a winning record and may only have 1-2 losses if they played in Bosie's conference. Matter of fact their conference strength would go UP if a few DivII teams joined them.
The SEC was so dominant in the bowls when they were playing close matched opponents (SEC 2nd place team against Big 10 champ etc) that they only lost one game in two years (heck maybe three it was in the 90s and it was some large number of wins vs losses).
Wow....I thought the Big 10 Champ always played in the Rose Bowl
against the Pac-10! Should have checked with RIP
Sorry if you can't see an example for what it was, I could have easily said ACC and Big 10, doesn't matter for the point I was making.
They don't ALWAYS play in the Rose Bowl. Matter of fact I think OSU was the Big 10 champs and played LSU and then Florida. That didn't work out too good did it? Neither of them was in the Rose Bowl either were they? Didn't think so. See I can take things out of context too, I understand by "always" you meant "traditionally" but turn about is fair play 
However, you would be WRONG either way. Matter of fact Tennessee laid a whoppin on the Big 10 Champs back during that time frame I was speaking of. That was when Northwestern was good, they won the conference championship 2 years in a short span (either back to back or within the last few years). The second time was a tie with another team and because they didn't play each other the one that went to the Rose Bowl last had to go to another bowl and let the one that hadn't been go. It was widely considered that Northwestern got the shaft in that deal because they fell to the Citrus bowl and had to play the 3rd placed SEC Team.
They should have went to the Rose Bowl cause that 3rd place Tennessee team beat the big 10 champs like a drum.
So while I was only making a point, the fact of the matter was it was worse than I stated, it was the SEC 3rd place team that whooped the Big 10 champs that year, and it was one of the games that led the powers that be start scheduling "better matchups" as opposed to scheduling teams that finished comparably in their respective conferences.
LMBO.
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Last edited by Rip on 11-22-2010 at 11:46 PM
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