answer.... because the quality of football is so much better than any other conference, real fans recognize true talent. some idiot was saying the big-10 is best? gimmie a break....who do they have beyond ohio state and michigan? indiana? illinois? please....ohio state is the most overrated team in the country, and i think it'll show when they play michigan.....too bad they're not in the SEC so we could all see them struggle through a 5-6 season and jim tressel could stop wearing those gay sweaters.
2006-10-02 08:11:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
The SEC has the best football as a conference. But it wouldn't matter which conference Ohio State played in they would still be the best team in the nation. Your top 3 in the sec are auburn,florida,and lsu. Auburn struggled against a weak south carolina team. So who is the one overated. If Auburn stays at number 2 at the end of the year. They won't be national champions. It will be Ohio State. And as for as the Big 10 that has the most national champions of any conference.
2006-10-02 08:21:28 · answer #1 · answered by Obsidian © 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Based on your logic, the "quality of football" played by the 2005 New York Jets, with a record of 4-12, was superior to almost every other team.
NY Jets (4-12) 77,494 attendance per game
Denver (13-3) 76,098
Carolina (11-5) 73,462
New England (10-6) 68,756
Seattle (13-3) 66,619
Cincinnati (11-5) 65,808
Jacksonville (12-4) 65,689
Tampa Bay (11-5) 65,217
Pittsburgh (11-5) 63,429
Chicago (11-5) 62,120
Indianapolis (14-2) 57,171
So, you are saying quality of football played the Indianapolis Colts, with a record of 14-2, was inferior to that played by New York Jets, with a record of 4-12?
LOL!
By the way, the University of Michigan is 19-5-1 all-time versus the SEC, outscoring the SEC 560-300. They are 6-3 in bowl games versus the SEC. Too bad Michigan isn't in the SEC, they'd breeze through that schedule.
2006-10-02 23:27:11 · answer #2 · answered by AF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The SEC has consistently had at least 5 nationally ranked teams year after year. LSU, Auburn. Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida are teams that have proven themselves nationally for a long time. Alabama could easily be added to this list although they have not been quite as good as the others lately. The SEC has several huge stadiums in Knoxville, Baton Rouge, Athens, Gainesville, and Auburn. Top quality teams and top quality competion fills stadiums. Honestly, I don't think any Big 10 teams other than Ohio State and Michigan could compete in the SEC. The 5 SEC teams mentioned earlier could all compete in the Big 10. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the SEC teams could win the Big 10 pretty much every year.
2006-10-02 12:45:25 · answer #3 · answered by perdidobums 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have always had large stadiums with the top SEC teams with Tennessee having the largest stadium. About 15 - 20 years ago most SEC teams were expanding their stadiums. LSU at one time held about 72,000 now it is closer to 94,000. Ole Miss, MS. State, South Carolina, Bama, Florida, Georgia have all upgraded their stadiums. Also of equal importance is the South loves its college football. Even Vanderbilt has a solid fan base.
As far as toughness, I have been an LSU ticket holder since 1972 and I have always considered the SEC and the Big 10 as the best football to watch. Not just the top teams but up and down the line. As far as the toughest conference, I have always felt that the SEC has more teams in the top twenty at the end of the year if that is a measuring stick. But you have to hand it to OSU this year in that so far they have delivered and with a message. I just hope Michigan goes undefeated when they go head-to-head with Ohio State. If OSU wins that one then the rest should be theirs even though my pre-season prediction was Auburn over OSU. We'll see.
2006-10-02 08:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the way, how are Ole Miss, Miss St, Arkansas, Vanderbuilt, and Kentucky doing this year?
Don't attempt to bring up the dredges of another conference, when each top conference has their own schools that are average or below.
As to answer your question, their is a reason OSU is #1. It is because they are projected to be better then every school available, including your beloved Auburn Tigers. For your original question, the majority of your schools are located in states where either they do not have NFL teams, or within the past 10 years got NFL teams in their vicinity. That built up a lot of loyalty to their programs (Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Miss St, Arkansas, and South Carolina, while Kentucky fans may be tied to Cincinnati and Tennessee and Vanderbilt to recently added Tennessee Titans) which is why they are high in attendence.
On the other hand, only one Big Ten team comes from a state that doesnt have the NFL and that team is the Iowa Hawkeyes. Every other team is located in a state with an NFL team (Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles; St Louis Rams which is just on the other side of the Mississippi River from Illinois) and therefore there aren't as many die hard college-only fans as there are in the SEC.
Also, it helps to be the 1st conference to have 12 teams and therefore more teams to host home games. Another big benefit is that 7 of the 12 schools have stadiums with capacity over 80k with Tennessee at 107k.
As to the quality of football, I am a Michigan State Spartan fan (team sucks, but it wont detract from my love of the team), but I would tend to side towards the SEC being a better conference because the NFL isn't as prevalent in the SEC region.
There is a local radio sports talk show host in Metro Detroit area that is a die hard Spartan, but loves SEC football seemingly more than life itself and while only in his 30's, has visited all but one or two of the SEC schools for a home football game.
However, don't think for one minute that OSU or UofM would be struggling down in SEC country this season. While many like to hype Auburn v Alabama or USC v ND as the nations biggest rivalries, any unbiased or realistic sports fan knows UofM v OSU is the biggest because it is a border war, conference battle, the last game of the regular season, and usually decides who the winner of the Big Ten (11) is, unlike the SEC Championship game, which may not pit the two best teams against each other (the two best teams may both be in the East or West divisions respectively, but they don't face each other).
2006-10-02 09:00:29 · answer #5 · answered by Mike Oxmahl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep hating tOSU. Just let them prove it again and again on the field. All in all each conference has its top teams and its bottom teams. However there is no way that the top teams in the big 10 would struggle down south. Or bring your big boys up north to play in late November in the cold. Wouldn't do well. The top big 10 schools, Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Penn State would do well in any other conference. Plus there are usually 1 or 2 other teams that step up each year. The Sec is a very good conference but right now it is not the top.
Its all in cycles. Right now the Big 10 is on top.
2006-10-02 10:28:22 · answer #6 · answered by acefra 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
5-6, 5-6, are you kidding me? you think the SEC having people lots of attendance makes them tougher than the big 10? iowa would win the sec this year and last year. michigan would go undefeated this year and osu would beat LSU, south carolina, auburn or whoever you want by 20 points at their stadium in a night game. who has better tv ratings? i'll give you a hint, in prime time abc match-ups the big ten has 8 of the top 10 highest tv rated games ever, the other two are involved nebraska and the miami hurrincanes. why do you think that is? georgia is a joke, LSU is a joke, auburn is decent, but no at all unbeatable, SC, lol yeah i wont honor that. i think that the SEC is good, but to say the undefeated #1 team in the nation with this years heisman trophy winner and the best coach in college football would go 5-6 is the funniest thing i have heard all day. we beat 3 ranked teams this past month, 2 on the road in night games, one being the #2 team in the nation. drop it.
2006-10-02 08:24:26 · answer #7 · answered by Hafeman 5000 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-29 09:09:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's easy to go undefeated and make it to a National Championship game when you play an easy conference schedule like you get when you play in the big 10. Tennessee will have played 4 top 10 teams this year with 3 of them being sec teams. The SEC then has to win the conference championship game which the big 10 doesn't have.
The guys above me have shady stats and unrealistic claims. I think that is obvious.
2006-10-02 08:51:03 · answer #9 · answered by juicetke 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Big Ten will just have to settle for having the most National Championships.
2006-10-02 08:26:38 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋