[Bbradley62]

I am surprised to see that we never finished last year's list... SEC bold, WAS underlined.

Ole Miss 25, Georgia Tech 17
Mississippi State 44, Rice 7
Texas A&M 52, Duke 48
Nebraska 24, Georgia 19
South Carolina 34, Wisconsin 24
LSU 21, Iowa 14
Oklahoma 45, Alabama 31
Missouri 41, Oklahoma State 31
Vanderbilt 41, Houston 24
Florida State 34, Auburn 31


3Years.....W-L....AS
2011-12*...5-2...4-3
2012-13....6-3...5-4
2013-14....7-3...6-4

*excluding SEC vs SEC national championship game

[jjbrr]

Those spreads seem generous for all of the SECe teams lol. I think I'd take Louisville, Iowa, and ECU in those.

The Auburn/Wisky game seems like a great matchup.

[Bbradley62]

I'm a little puzzled as to why the point spreads are so high. I'd think that if the committee is making all the pairings, they ought to be able to make pairings such that the point spreads are all 3 or less.

[jjbrr]

the committee is comprised of morons

[GreenMan]

 Bbradley62, on 2014-December-27, 22:32, said:

I'm a little puzzled as to why the point spreads are so high. I'd think that if the committee is making all the pairings, they ought to be able to make pairings such that the point spreads are all 3 or less.

The committee's goal is "compelling" matchups, whatever that means; the committee has said it also considers geography and not repeating matchups from this season or recent bowls. Also, some bowls have conference contracts.

[billw55]

Also, the point spreads are based on behavior of bettors, not on objective evaluation of the matchup.

[Bbradley62]

Ok, Big 12... no more whining about how you get no respect

Edit: As soon as I posted this, I knew it would come back to bite me in the ass.

This post has been edited by Bbradley62: 2015-January-01, 14:43

[billw55]

I see that the almighty SEC west is now 2-5 in bowls. Interesting.

[Bbradley62]

Yeah, but the supposedly weaker SEC East went 5-0 to hold up the conference.

[Mbodell]

 billw55, on 2014-December-29, 07:39, said:

Also, the point spreads are based on behavior of bettors, not on objective evaluation of the matchup.

Not entirely true. Depends a bit on the bookmaking operation how much shading in the line towards larger expected profits and how much risk they are comfortable with.

[Flem72]

 billw55, on 2015-January-03, 07:20, said:

I see that the almighty SEC west is now 2-5 in bowls. Interesting.

As I have it:

A&M (6th, SEC West) +8 West Virginia (6th, B12)
Arkansas (7th, SEC West) +24 Texas (5th, B12)
LSU (5th, SEC West) -3 Notre Dame (Indep, unranked)
Ga (2nd, SEC East) +23 Louisville (3rd, ACC Atlantic)
Alabama (1st, SEC West) -7 Ohio State (1st, B10 East) HELLUVA GAME -- OS ended up making the big plays (THAT OSU CATCH! THAT ALA MISSED TACKLE!) and showed an amazing O-line
Miss (3rd, SEC West) -39 TCU (2nd? 1st? B12) Turned this one off after M's first two possessions: Very clear that without their starting wideouts they had no chance to move the ball against TCU run protect
Miss St (2nd, SEC West) -15 Ga Tech (1st, ACC Coastal)
Auburn (4th, SEC West) -3 Wisconsin (1st, B10 West)

My conclusion is that a high-ranking team from another conference is as good as a high-ranking SEC team, but SEC low-ranking (even low in one division vs relatively high in another conference) are better than some highj-rankers from other conferences ==> SEC is strongest top to bottom. For the reasons stated above, I don't evaluate the TCU win as enthusiastically as most others. In context, I was surprised by LSU's flat performance and Ga Tech's win, but not by the rest.

And I note that the teams that tried the Trickeration Plays mostly won.

[jjbrr]

oregon: the san diego chargers of college football

[jjbrr]

bump

[Bbradley62]

 jjbrr, on 2016-January-01, 20:22, said:

bump

Funny... I was going to do this after tomorrow's games.

[jjbrr]

today's games were pretty lol

[jjbrr]

on the other hand, coming back from 31 down is pretty amazing

[jjbrr]

SEC Record: 9-2 (East: 2-1, West: 7-1)

[Winstonm]

Seems like the only thing that can slow down Alabama is a NCAA investigation.

[mike777]

ratings down 15-20% and it was a good game.

[Bbradley62]

With 4 teams in the Top 8:

• is the Big 10 now over-rated?
  
• With 3rd and 4th ranked of those in the championship game, the Committee will have an interesting job to do.