Mizzou Vs. Florida

[ruthead]

Oh Man.....I remember evry one of those games.

Hopefully a long lost era. Yep...that's what I choose to believe.

[hank franklin]

Al, I think a more likely heartbreak scenario is we get to the SEC Championship game with one loss and then miraculously beat Alabama and win the SEC title. But because we have one loss we lose out to Ohio State-Oregon.

IMO whoever wins the SEC title should play for the national championship. One loss, two losses, doesn't matter.

[ozark trout fisher]

Per the Yahoo! article:

Missouri fans......LOL. A great season has many of us only thinking about impending doom. This is 2013, not 2007. There is no logical reason why history has to repeat itself.

South Carolina's a tough opponent, and a loss is very much within the realm of possibility. But even if it happens I see nothing from this team that will make me think they would fold. They would still control their own destiny in the east and I'd still be very hopeful about getting to Atlanta (though Pasadena might be out of the question.) It would just be a harder road.

That said, forget about all that and get a win Saturday! I feel really strong about our chances, but USC has enough talent to make this a very interesting game. I'm thinking Missouri by two touchdowns or so, but that's only if we are successful in playing around Clowney. There is no question he played a little bit better than usual this season against UT. We need to stop him from having another breakout game.

[Wayne SW/MO]

IMO whoever wins the SEC title should play for the national championship. One loss, two losses, doesn't matter.

Based on???

[Quillback]

Based on???

SEC being the strongest conference.

[Feathers and Fins]

LMFAO Mizz residents have learned what SEC HOMERIZUM now is hahahahahahaha and many said it wouldn't happen.

[Wayne SW/MO]

SEC being the strongest conference.

Based on? I'm just going by the fact that from year to year the conference bowl records tend to drift. It still comes down to individual match ups and to say they should get an automatic berth in the big game is nonsense.

[ozark trout fisher]

Based on? I'm just going by the fact that from year to year the conference bowl records tend to drift. It still comes down to individual match ups and to say they should get an automatic berth in the big game is nonsense.

I don't think the SEC should get an automatic birth to the title. Say South Carolina wins tomorrow and qualifies for the title game, and beats Alabama, they have no business playing for it all at 2 losses. But an undefeated SEC champion, yeah, they need to come before the Baylors and the Ohio States of the world.

Why? I've said it before, but it's those non-conference games. I mean that for the specific team and for the conference as a whole. Baylor is the easiest to pick apart, and I don't think they have any argument even at 12-0, barring a truly crazy string of events (which admittedly, tends to happen often as not.) Here's why.....

First of all, they played Wofford, Buffalo, and Louisiana-Monroe. Buffalo is the closest to a legit opponent, but.......... And like it or not, they are dependent on the other members of their conference. Those terrible losses by Iowa State, Kansas State, and Kansas drag the whole conference down, because that 30% of the league, and 25% of Baylor's schedule this year. And the "good teams" failing to pick up any major non-con wins against quality also hurts.....ie Texas losing to BYU and Ole Miss. I could say most of the same things about Ohio State, though the Big Ten is slightly better. One can say those are early games and meaningless, the argument I've seen. But the only way to compare conferences is through non-conference play, and those games are usually early in the season. Bowl records are pretty meaningless except in the sense that they are an extra non-conference game you could figure in. Even in that case, you don't get any information about the lower tier teams by that method because they aren't playing.

Now, I won't try to discredit Florida State or Oregon, because doing so would be unfair. The ACC and Pac-12 are legit with multiple top 15 teams. Those two play real schedules unlike those in the Big 12 or Big Ten and deserve a title game spot if they go undefeated. The Pac-12 might even be better than the SEC, but those two are almost certainly the top 2 conferences, with the ACC a solid 3rd.

[Jerry Rapp]

an 8 team playoff bracket would eliminate 97.3% of all this debate.

[ozark trout fisher]

an 8 team playoff bracket would eliminate 97.3% of all this debate.

Yep. I think that's where this system is headed, eventually. Can't get there fast enough.