College Football 2016 Week 1 running thread

As dixie noted, the SEC is the only place that can schedule FCS teams and make it work financially.

I am consistently amused by the idea that we don't know enough about SEC teams because they only play 11 FBS opponents instead of 12. If it mattered, it would show up in playoff and bowl results. It doesn't and it doesn't.

 

Only eight league games for ACC schools too. And with no Big 12 title game currently, that league's champ will finish the season with as many conference games as the ACC and SEC champs.

 

And the Big Ten just went to 9 games this year, so let's not act like the SEC is some decades-long holdout like a Japanese soldier hiding in a cave on some Pacific island thinking World War II is still going on.

 

well the year it played nobody, TCU destroyed Ole Miss 42-3 at the Peach Bowl. The same Ole Miss team that filled its spot in the Vortex of Power that season by beating Alabama.

 

That's cool. You're aware that bowl bids are handed out based on the regular season, correct? Their OOC opponents that year were Samford, Minnesota and SMU.

Also, it's Vortex Of Domination. I trademarked it. And Ole Miss was the vortex's #5 team that year.

 

Want to hear something shocking? At least one major conference champion will be left out this year too.

 

I am similarly amused by the idea that we don't know enough about non-SEC teams because they only occasionally play SEC teams.

 

Do I need to go over the Vortex rules again?

As I said earlier, though, none of it matters because we essentially have an elimination tournament now. Where all hell breaks loose is if two SEC teams make the playoffs, or if a two-loss SEC team kicks a one-loss other champion to the curb. But I don't think that will happen.

 

Or if a one loss Notre Dame is bucking for the same spot as a one loss ACC team.

 

LOL ... I get it. I just like tweaking the nose of the SEC narrative, even if it hasn't actually been proffered.

 

Over the past "decade" (since 2006), the SEC is 12-6 vs. the Pac-12. SEC is 6-1 since Auburn's BCS title win over Oregon.

Only thing helping Pac-12 save face was Tennessee's shitshow of a team (2 debacles vs. Oregon). And even that has changed.

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