bama, georgia, texas will be in basically no matter what. then mizzou has a fairly easy sec schedule so I could see them getting in.
Cyclones up to No. 16, highest ranked Big 12 team in latest AP Poll
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OU's path definitely was a sure lock 3 out of every 4 years going forward by staying in the Big12. I hope their extra money is fun while they're watching from home.
respectfully, I don't think ISU has proven they are that good YET. but neither has michigan or notre dame I suppose.
Best post I read on an OU forum is that the sooner fan complained that he received the following comment from a Tennessee fan one week and an Auburn fan the next: “is that the only song your band knows?”
Neither of those teams will win 10 games; neither of those two teams will even sniff the Playoffs. I've been following S.E.C. Football for a long, long time. Teams that lose to Kentucky at home (Ole Miss) and have to go to OT to beat Vandy at home (Mizzou) are going to be food for teams like Alabama, Texas and Tennessee.
Yeah but Missouri only plays Bama, ole miss only plays Georgia. Neither play Tenn or Texas. They do both catch OU though. So I wins is very possible for both, more so for Missouri
That's true, but they will stub their toes somewhere else. I'm just not worried about either of those two teams. I know they both had nice teams in 2023, but I don't see either of them doing that back to back. Time will tell. Oh, Ole Miss plays LSU too, which is a potential loss.
Funny to see so many sucking off the SEC. Super deep this year!? No, Vandy isn’t good. MSU stinks. Florida stinks. Ole Miss was overrated from the start, and Kentucky beating them proves this. Arkansas and Auburn are not good. Mizzou doesn’t scare me and OU wouldn’t win the Big 12 this year. Would absolutely LOVE a shot at them.
Looks like a typical SEC year to me, the only difference being the media slobbering all over them twice as hard as they normally do.
Typical in the sense they are the best?
UGa and Bama are once again a notch above anything the other conferences have, and now UT. Their 2nd tier of Tennessee and Ole Miss types would have great chances at winning other conferences
Seems like once again it’s the SEC and Ohio St, although it’ll be fun to see if outmanned Big 12 or ACC teams can pull an upset, or even a new BIG like Oregon or USC can be like Washington from a year ago
Sagarin has 6 of the top 11 from the SEC. I think there’s arguments to be made against the Sagarin formula, but it is in fact a predetermined formula, not some subjective goalpost moving to show the SEC is best.
So #16 is the highest any Big 12 team is in the current poll? I'm sorry, that is just disrespect. I'm not saying it should be us, but there should be at least one somewhere between 9 and 11.
And if you say it doesn't matter, this is what sets the expectations of who should get into the CFP. It matters. What, exactly, does Ole Miss have to do to drop? They had a BAD loss at home. How about ND? And Mizzou? Give me a break! Can their SEC schedule be any easier?
And if you say it doesn't matter, this is what sets the expectations of who should get into the CFP. It matters. What, exactly, does Ole Miss have to do to drop? They had a BAD loss at home. How about ND? And Mizzou? Give me a break! Can their SEC schedule be any easier?
Editor's note with the online version:
(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. Iowa State football is ranked No. 16.)
I feel like the whole conference other than Houston really is 15th-50th. I think our middle teams would probably match up evenly with midle Big Ten and some of our "bottom" teams like OK State would actually probably destroy them. Nobody matches up well with SEC, computer models have Big Ten an Big 12 even top to bottom and both quite a bit behind SEC, if you were to try that "power 2" bull$hit it's more like SEC is "power 1".
The high end will have to develop over time hopefully. If TCU was still "up" we'd already have that high end, also seems incredibly likely Arizona could have been elite this year if they hadn't lost a lot of players and coaches. There's certainly a lot of upside for TCU, Arizona and Colorado in terms of some natural advantages and talent pool vs competition, maybe even for a team like Cincy or Pitt (they'll be here soon) when you consider the talent around them and only one major conference team in the talent rich state.
OU had to go to SEC. Pay for play is coming and they had to take their seat at the head table with the most $$. They also have to be at the head table when the top division of CFB shrinks to 40 ish teams.
They will have no regret, they never had a choice.
The hypothetical you threw out is just as you describe... far fetched.
Must have been a typo by Hines. I wonder if he will correct it in tomorrows print edition.
No, we can do that after winning in Morgantown or, better yet, winning in SLC.
