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2006 – Florida v. OHIO STATE
2007 – LSU v. OHIO STATE
2008 – Florida v. OKLAHOMA
2009 – Alabama v. TEXAS
2010 – Auburn v. OREGON

Just curious… how did Ohio State (TWICE), Oklahoma, Texas, and Oregon do in those championship games that ESPN made sure they didn’t play in? Your argument is ridiculous. Check your FACTS before making idiotic comments.

Here’s a FACT for you: the Big Ten (TWICE), Big 12 (also TWICE), and Pac 12 all had their chance at beating, and thereby shutting up, the SEC and their fans. Guess what, genius? It didn’t happen. Get over it.
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Don’t confuse the SEC haters with those crazy things called facts. It makes their heads hurt.

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You’re joking, right? “Kill THEIR fan base”? Every team in America should have as loyal a fan base as Texas A&M. I’ve seen less filled stadiums at places like Florida, Alabama, LSU and Georgia, than I have at A&M. Kyle Field NEVER has an empty seat. AND they “travel well”.

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2006 – Florida v. OHIO STATE
2007 – LSU v. OHIO STATE
2008 – Florida v. OKLAHOMA
2009 – Alabama v. TEXAS
2010 – Auburn v. OREGON

Just curious… how did Ohio State (TWICE), Oklahoma, Texas, and Oregon do in those championship games that ESPN made sure they didn’t play in? Your argument is ridiculous. Check your FACTS before making idiotic comments.

Here’s a FACT for you: the Big Ten (TWICE), Big 12 (also TWICE), and Pac 12 all had their chance at beating, and thereby shutting up, the SEC and their fans. Guess what, genius? It didn’t happen. Get over it.

If Texas A&M is 10th, then Alabama should have dropped below them. Period. Stupid polls. Thank goodness we have the Clemson/Carolina, Florida/Florida State and the Georgia/Georgia Tech games coming up in two weeks or so.

After 11 games into the season, we will finally get to see if the SEC is any good or not…

Of course, even if all 3 SEC teams lost, it wouldn’t effect Alabama because they didn’t play any of them this year…

Just my .02
~Jim

Bama deserves no excuse and gets no excuse. If they are the team that all of the sec said could beat nfl teams then you don’t lay eggs against two loss teams at home. Truth of the matter is that reality has proven they maybe just aren’t that great and several teams are better. I think more doses of reality are in store, no matter how many fcs teams sec has lined up to close out their season – see Georgia southern, Western Carolina, Jacksonville state, wofford. Those are the opponents of supposed top 10 Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and south Carolina next week. And you want to troll ND’s schedule. SEC should be embarrassed.

As far as Georgia goes, I’m not going out on a limb for them. Their a good teambut not great. They will get there’s against Bama when the time comes.

I’m no A&M lover either, and I am one who figured they’d be buried in the bottom of the SEC this year while they learned the ropes. I’ve watched them for years under achieve and kill there fan base. I don’t no how many bets I’ve lost taking them in games it kills me. But I give them credit, they stood toe to toe and blow for blow yesterday. Props to the Aggies for upsetting the best team in the country in their house.

I do have to say though, that A&M does have something different this year. Be it moxie or swagger, they got a young QB who has got the right mix. Johnny football has given that team something different and it’s obvious.

No excuses for Bama, but I do have to comment about them having played the week before against one of the more physical teams in the country. That was a big time battle with two heavy weights, and it obviously took it’d toll yesterday.

It’s true, the best teams have to find a way to win, and they fell short.

After watching Pitt choke their game away against the Irish last week with far less talent, I figured ND would open up a can on talentless BC, it just didn’t happen.

As opposed to Arkansas St., Fresno St, Tennessee Tech, Washington St., Cal and Colorado?

Or Missouri St., Miami, North Texas, and Kansas?

ND has more c wins over top 25 teams than Oregon and Kansas St. combined, and has played 4 less FBS teams than Oregon and K State. You wanna argue about K State’s schedule, fine, but you can’t argue Oregon’s.

In June, 2012, Jerry Trammel at NewsOK ranked the non-conference schedules of 68 BCS schools. Here is how it fell out for the SEC:

14th: University of Missouri
32nd: University of Florida
33rd: University of Alabama
35th: University of Mississippi
37th: Auburn University
39th: Vanderbilt University
47th: University of Georgia
53rd: University of Tennessee
55th: Louisiana State University
57th: University of Kentucky
58th: Arkansas University
64th: Texas A&M
65th: Mississippi State University
Unranked: University of South Carolina

In addition, he was able to demonstrate that SEC teams play only 8.9% of their games against ranked national powers and only 21.4% of their games away from home.

The SEC has been selling the nation a bill of goods for the past decade. The SEC has played in a number of championship games, but it is certainly fair to ask if they belonged there in the first place.

Where did I say Alabama was the best one-loss team? You sure read a lot into my question.

At first glance, I thought some teams could have been shifted. Then I started thinking about their losses and realized why the teams were ranked as they were. thekatman was raving about SEC bias, and I wondered whether he’d bothered to consider why the teams fell where they did before he started squealing “bias.” Some people are so accustomed to squealing the same old, same old, they never look at the data. So I asked a simple question to see whether he could provide an intelligent answer.

I’m not saying Alabama is the best one-loss team–or even that being a one-loss team makes you better than a two-loss team. Today, I think A&M is a better team than Bama despite their two losses. But the rankings are based on who you play and how you lose. Bama lost by 5 points in a hotly contested game to the #9 team. Georgia lost 35-7 in an uncompetitive game to the #12 team. That’s why Bama is ranked over Georgia. It’s not a conspiracy.

Last year I never once mentioned home or away in discussing Bama’s loss versus OSU’s loss. I said Bama lost by three in OT to the top-ranked team while OSU lost to an unranked team. Again, what matters is the opponent and the score … not the venue.

I’m happy for their success this year as it it good for College Football, but they still just get by.

In a few weeks it will all be irrelevant anyways as I predict they will come out to Cali and get beat.

I don’t see big difference between their schedules, except that Notre Dame doesn’t schedule teams like Florida Atlantic, Western Kentucky, plus the big tilt they have against Western Carolina next weekend.

So get over yourself.

ND does just enough against lower competition to survive, but they are not at an elite level.

I’d even be okay with Georgia being above Bama for the moment, as they will be playing head to head and that will take care of itself.

K-State and Oregon belong where they are as the continue to win in strong fashion.

Why is Alabama the best 1 loss team?

a team that never made much noise in the Big 12 came into Tuscaloosa and handed Bama a loss. Doesn’t sound like a top 10 team to me.

Last year all you talked about was OK States loss to ISU on the road. seems like a loss at home is a bigger deal. Granted A&M is ranked. but I believe a true top 5 team shouldn’t take a loss from a non top 10 opponent in their own stadium.

why does the SEC get to change the rules? When you lose has always mattered. Some teams can handle the pressure, others can’t. that’s what separates NC teams from the rest of the top 10.

I know SEC coaches don’t care how they win, but has a fan you should never want it given to you. Just like that 6 SEC NC will always have an asterisk, because ESPN made sure only SEC teams played in the game.

What team would you place above Alabama in the rankings and why?