Putting Alabama aside, who dominated and looked great doing it, the rest of the coattail riders had a rough opening weekend.
Respectable:
Bama, obviously, beating USC 52-6
Auburn losing to No. 2 Clemson 19-13
Georgia beating No. 22 North Carolina 33-24
Texas A&M beat No. 16 UCLA 31-24
Not-so-respectable to downright embarrassing:
Top five (and No. 1 in some places) LSU lost to Wisconsin from the lowly has-been Big Ten!
Top 10 Tennessee needed overtime to beat Appalachian State.
Mississippi State lost to South Alabama
Missouri lost to West Virginia
Arkansas beat Louisiana Tech by 1
Kentucky lost to Southern Miss
Florida led UMass 10-7 in the fourth quarter before winning 24-7 (BTW UMass was 3-9 last year and finished last in the MAC East)
Neither here nor there:
South Carolina beat Vandy 13-10. Intraconference.
Still coming:
Ole Miss vs. Florida State
Not including the one conference game, the SEC was 6-5 overall on opening weekend (so far. FSU will likely make it 6-6)
They were 3-3 vs. Power 5 conferences
They were 3-2 against non-Power 5 teams. And two of those wins were by 1 point and in overtime.
So will the national media take notice and admit the golden era of the SEC is now over?
I only bring this up because of my hatred for the SEC and need to prove to top level recruits out there that the perception that there's NFL, then SEC, then way below is everyone else, is not valid any more.
The only problem is that Alabama is still very much a national title contender, and if they do win, the rest of the chanters will still celebrate titles by SEC teams 9 times in 11 years (or whatever it would be) and still claim superiority based on one team's success.
Respectable:
Bama, obviously, beating USC 52-6
Auburn losing to No. 2 Clemson 19-13
Georgia beating No. 22 North Carolina 33-24
Texas A&M beat No. 16 UCLA 31-24
Not-so-respectable to downright embarrassing:
Top five (and No. 1 in some places) LSU lost to Wisconsin from the lowly has-been Big Ten!
Top 10 Tennessee needed overtime to beat Appalachian State.
Mississippi State lost to South Alabama
Missouri lost to West Virginia
Arkansas beat Louisiana Tech by 1
Kentucky lost to Southern Miss
Florida led UMass 10-7 in the fourth quarter before winning 24-7 (BTW UMass was 3-9 last year and finished last in the MAC East)
Neither here nor there:
South Carolina beat Vandy 13-10. Intraconference.
Still coming:
Ole Miss vs. Florida State
Not including the one conference game, the SEC was 6-5 overall on opening weekend (so far. FSU will likely make it 6-6)
They were 3-3 vs. Power 5 conferences
They were 3-2 against non-Power 5 teams. And two of those wins were by 1 point and in overtime.
So will the national media take notice and admit the golden era of the SEC is now over?
I only bring this up because of my hatred for the SEC and need to prove to top level recruits out there that the perception that there's NFL, then SEC, then way below is everyone else, is not valid any more.
The only problem is that Alabama is still very much a national title contender, and if they do win, the rest of the chanters will still celebrate titles by SEC teams 9 times in 11 years (or whatever it would be) and still claim superiority based on one team's success.
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