The Official SEC thread

Thiefery said:
LOL watching a youtube live at the SEC media day and they are laughing how today looks like a skeleton crew.. people definitely skipped out to get back home today LOL
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Well, to be honest, who was left to speak? That Awbarn coach? They didn’t miss anything
 
Tin Man said:
Your mascot is a steer, and your color is dirt. Our mascot still has a pair, and our color is sunrise orange.
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your mascot is a dog.. which is tougher than being a volunteer i guess
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Tin Man said:
Horns Down no penalty in SEC
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Happy Daffy Duck GIF by Looney Tunes
 
Hand signs are something sorority chicks came up with...if you're a grown-ass man throwing hand signs...
 
Deep Creek said:
Conferences that play the most one score games

Well now.
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I saw that the other day. What's the significance of that?

I think the SEC's shtick is that every week is tougher in the SEC, not that we have the closest games. The B1G/SEC/ACC are going to be top heavy, while the B12 is just a bunch of mediocre teams. Just because a bunch of mediocre teams play close games doesn't really matter.

If anything, this really makes you question TX and OU, doesn't it?
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
I saw that the other day. What's the significance of that?

I think the SEC's shtick is that every week is tougher in the SEC, not that we have the closest games. The B1G/SEC/ACC are going to be top heavy, while the B12 is just a bunch of mediocre teams. Just because a bunch of mediocre teams play close games doesn't really matter.

If anything, this really makes you question TX and OU, doesn't it?
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You’ve gotten out of SEC jail and gotten your SEC Homer Card back!

Pretty obvious there isn’t a lot of significance in the number of close games. It does beg the question of CFB fans. Would you rather watch close games among two mediocre (or even bad) teams or a blowout by a big brand name team against any non big brand?

I think the viewership numbers answer that question. The vast majority of viewers prefer to watch the big brands even if games are blowouts or the big brand isn’t very good at the point in time. (Viewers kept watching USC, ND, Texas, etc even in some pretty crummy years.)

I’ll switch from watching Ohio State destroy Northwestern in favor of a close game between Wake Forest and NC State. But, I’m obviously in the minority. I’m pretty sure the viewership numbers for the Ohio State/Northwestern blowout would be three to four times those of a one score Wake/NCState game.
 
Deep Creek said:
You’ve gotten out of SEC jail and gotten your SEC Homer Card back!

Pretty obvious there isn’t a lot of significance in the number of close games. It does beg the question of CFB fans. Would you rather watch close games among two mediocre (or even bad) teams or a blowout by a big brand name team against any non big brand?

I think the viewership numbers answer that question. The vast majority of viewers prefer to watch the big brands even if games are blowouts or the big brand isn’t very good at the point in time. (Viewers kept watching USC, ND, Texas, etc even in some pretty crummy years.)

I’ll switch from watching Ohio State destroy Northwestern in favor of a close game between Wake Forest and NC State. But, I’m obviously in the minority. I’m pretty sure the viewership numbers for the Ohio State/Northwestern blowout would be three to four times those of a one score Wake/NCState game.
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Which is why I am not sure of the significance of the article you cited. The author breaks down which conferences have the closest game and for the life of me I don't get why that matters. Like you said, are we going to argue the B12 is the best conference because they don't have any top teams and have a bunch of teams that can beat each other on any given Sunday?

FWIW, I think that's actually kind of cool and it has to be what the B12 is going to embrace. And for each team's fans, that has to mean something. In that conference, 5-10 teams might win the conference in any year. Their fans can show up knowing that they may win on Saturday, unlike Vanderbilt, MSU, Kentucky, or Florida in the SEC. The B12 have to lean into that and hope that they can make more fans want to watch close games instead of a big team whipping up on mid or low-tier team.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Which is why I am not sure of the significance of the article you cited. The author breaks down which conferences have the closest game and for the life of me I don't get why that matters. Like you said, are we going to argue the B12 is the best conference because they don't have any top teams and have a bunch of teams that can beat each other on any given Sunday?

FWIW, I think that's actually kind of cool and it has to be what the B12 is going to embrace. And for each team's fans, that has to mean something. In that conference, 5-10 teams might win the conference in any year. Their fans can show up knowing that they may win on Saturday, unlike Vanderbilt, MSU, Kentucky, or Florida in the SEC. The B12 have to lean into that and hope that they can make more fans want to watch close games instead of a big team whipping up on mid or low-tier team.
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Significance is probably just to point out there is less of variance among teams in those conferences. Not who is better or worse. And it isn't only the Big 12. ACC is right there with the Big 12 as far as close games. So is the MAC and Sun Belt. And C-USA and the American have nearly as many blowouts at the B1G. Again the point is not identifying which conference is better or worse at all.
 
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