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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] South Carolina Defeats Florida 38-19

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South Carolina 7 10 14 7 38
Florida 7 3 3 6 19
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u/Glory2Tottenham Illinois Fighting Illini • Citrus Bowl 7d ago edited 7d ago

Ok can someone explain what the fuck the middle of the SEC is because I swear its like the entire conference

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u/earthling82 South Carolina • New Mexico 7d ago

The meme with the spidermen pointing at each other but there's like 9 of them

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u/smittyphi South Carolina • Duke 7d ago

"Parity"

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u/kyrev21 Kentucky Wildcats 7d ago edited 7d ago

Basically it’s Texas, Georgia, and Bama at the top, then almost everyone else in whatever order you want, then a tier of Vandy, A&M, and Auburn, and finally Arkansas

Edit: I think I reverse jinxed Arkansas

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u/penisthightrap_ Missouri Tigers 6d ago

>Texas

You sure about that?

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u/Flying_Fish_Fiend Florida Gators 6d ago

You jinxed Texas

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u/Environmental_Sir456 Tennessee Volunteers 6d ago

Still have Texas at the top?

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u/SirTiffAlot Missouri Tigers 7d ago

Disagree

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u/sleepytime489 Kentucky Wildcats 7d ago

With what? You got beat at home by a good, but definitely not great Miss State team. Mizzou is not top tier.

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u/EmpoleonNorton Georgia Bulldogs • Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

I would say it is

  • Tier 1: Texas, Bama, Georgia
  • Tier 2: Mizzou, Miss State
  • Tier 3: Fucking Mess of Whatever
  • Bad: Vandy, A&M, Auburn, Oklahoma
  • Arkansas: Arkansas

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u/CJBulldogsss Georgia Bulldogs 6d ago

Meanwhile OU is giving a Texas a run for their money

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u/EmpoleonNorton Georgia Bulldogs • Georgia Bulldogs 6d ago

I give up trying to figure out who is good this year. Arkansas is currently beating Tennessee as well.

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u/Mister-Beardy-Face Florida Gators 6d ago

It’s the SEC. Everyone is good.

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u/MrDuckly TCU Horned Frogs • Baylor Bears 6d ago

Good at being overrated

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u/Bischoffshof Tennessee Volunteers 6d ago

You win your OOC games you can make the claims

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u/Believe_to_believe Arkansas Razorbacks 6d ago

No, no they are not.

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u/Mister-Beardy-Face Florida Gators 4d ago

Okay, everyone except for Arkansas and Vandy are good.

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u/Drak_is_Right Purdue Boilermakers 6d ago

And OU just took Texas's lunch money, their shoes, and their shirt.

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u/sleepytime489 Kentucky Wildcats 7d ago

That’s reasonable. I think mizzou is very good and probably towards the top of that second tier. I am not convinced about state yet

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u/Mister-Beardy-Face Florida Gators 6d ago

There are like 10 teams better than Miss St.

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u/killentime15 Mississippi State • Oklahom… 6d ago

Brother we beat the team that dog walked you

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u/EmpoleonNorton Georgia Bulldogs • Georgia Bulldogs 6d ago

Not in the SEC

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u/SirTiffAlot Missouri Tigers 7d ago

That was on the road. You didn't see they set the record for cowbells?

Mizzou should under no circumstances be below Florida

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u/sleepytime489 Kentucky Wildcats 7d ago

My mistake for that. I was thinking of the Miss State/Carolina game (which Miss State won on the road).

I agree Mizzou is better than Florida. But OPs point wasn’t a power ranking of the entire SEC 1-16. It was saying that there are clearly 3 teams at the top, and then a bunch of other teams behind them in an order that will change week to week, and then a few teams at the bottom.

As of today, that generalization is accurate, and Mizzou is in the middle group. Your team will have plenty of opportunities to prove him wrong this season.

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u/SirTiffAlot Missouri Tigers 7d ago

In replying to you saying the middle is whatever order you want. Who is putting Florida, Scar and Oklahoma above LSU, Tenn or Mizzou?

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u/sleepytime489 Kentucky Wildcats 6d ago

If it makes you feel better, I think mizzou is probably towards the top of that middle group.

But the point is that we just don’t have enough data points to reliably rank them. What is mizzous claim to fame? Beating bad Florida and Texas AM teams? Ok then Florida towards the bottom. Well what about Ole Miss? Florida smoked them so they need to be at the bottom but the rebels beat LSU. You think Tennessee should be towards the top? The same Tennessee that got into a rock fight with a bad Auburn and is currently losing to Arkansas? Oklahoma towards the bottom when they’re currently tied with #1 Texas in fourth quarter?

It is 100% an objective cluster in the middle, and mizzou is part of that cluster. Enjoy it.

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u/BillyBobChorton Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

Tennessee played Texas close like Ohio state.  And mizzou looks good. I think all 5 are potential playoff teams 

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u/sleepytime489 Kentucky Wildcats 6d ago

You think Tennessee is a potential playoff team? That is certainly a take.

Sure, they played Texas close but Texas teams under Sark have a pattern of always playing to the level of their competition.

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u/BillyBobChorton Georgia Bulldogs 6d ago

If Ohio state is one, why not Tennessee? 

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u/sleepytime489 Kentucky Wildcats 6d ago

lol let’s just see how this season plays out. I definitely have an anti Tennessee bias, but I just don’t think they’ve passed the eye test this season.

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u/TonyTheSnowman Texas Longhorns 6d ago

You were dead on about Sark's pattern, and agreed. Too much ball left to accurately judge the majority of teams this year. Based on all the inconsistent play across the board. I think we're about to get a couple teams who make the playoff, that nobody in their right mind would have thought before the season.

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u/nik-nak333 Newberry • South Carolina 7d ago

A meat grinder

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u/NUTS_STUCK_TO_LEG Tennessee Volunteers 7d ago

I feel like “meat grinder” insinuates there are a lot of good teams that beat each other up but most of this conference is just blind kids swinging bats at each other

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u/mountainoyster Virginia Cavaliers 7d ago

Welcome to the ACC 

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u/ManOfTheHour1 Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

A bit different. The acc just takes turns shooting themselves in the foot.

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u/Imrahil_II North Greenville • Wofford 7d ago

Coastal chaos after dark because it just means more

That is equal representation.

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u/Designer_B Iowa Hawkeyes 7d ago

This was my favorite game of me and my friends when we 14! Well sort of. We put these polar rated sleeping bags over our heads and then bullrushed at each blindly flailing until someone got hit hard enough to call the end of the round.

Which feels like a fitting description of what's happening in the sec this year.

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 Missouri • Missouri State 7d ago

I know we all like an anti-sec circle jerk, but I'm pretty sure the SEC has the best OOC p4 record by a longshot

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u/ScaleCreepMinis Northwestern • Northwestern 6d ago

😜

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u/BehindEnemyLines8923 Mississippi State Bulldogs 7d ago

It’s hard to say, because the conference did so well OOC, you kinda have to credit it as the best middle of the pack of the conferences.

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u/livefreeordont James Madison Dukes 7d ago

A meat grinder would imply these are all competitive hard nosed games. This is just taking turns pantsing each other

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u/Mantergeistmann Vanderbilt • Penn State 7d ago

So when'll it be our turn to pants someone? Cause we're sure as hell on the receiving end today.

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u/livefreeordont James Madison Dukes 7d ago

Look who you play next week :)

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u/pataoAoC Oregon Ducks • Team Chaos 7d ago

Lmao one of the better descriptions I've heard for what's going on

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u/2th Tennessee • Summertime Lover 7d ago

Alternatively, a bucket of crabs. Everyone just dragging each other down.

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u/dtomksoki South Carolina • Bowling Green 6d ago

🦀🦀🦀 CRAB BUCKET 🦀🦀🦀

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

They’re just average, don’t give them that level of respect

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u/JamieByGodNoble Coastal Carolina • South Caro… 7d ago

How good is Tulsa?

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u/lm_NER0 Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

Vs y'all? God tier. Vs Arkansas? Poo poo cheeks.

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

You think anybody actually gives a shit about that game?

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u/CharlesMingusSmoke Missouri Tigers 7d ago

I think you do

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u/CirculationStation Mississippi State Bulldogs • AP 7d ago

Tulsa 24 Oklahoma State 10

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

Who gives a shit?

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u/CirculationStation Mississippi State Bulldogs • AP 7d ago

A ranked team currently near the top of the Big 12 got dominated by Tulsa. Something about throwing stones from a glass house I guess.

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u/CirculationStation Mississippi State Bulldogs • AP 7d ago

I think you need to reread my comment. You misread a word.

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

They made a big 12 CCG 3 years ago lol

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u/teshh Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

This is why I love the sec. It's hands down the most competitive conference in college football. Sure there's outliers like uga, Bama, and texas but those middle of the road teams can beat any team in the ncaa on any given Saturday.

It's why sec schools constantly drop in and out of rankings, it's tough to rank so many schools that constant beat each other up.

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u/Negative_Anteater_62 Auburn Tigers 6d ago

This. It's why no SEC game is a truly a free win.

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u/IammYourDAD Florida Gators 7d ago

The middle of the SEC is trash, there’s just different levels.

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u/murdered-by-swords UTSA Roadrunners • Correcaminos UAT 7d ago

Mediocre football teams 

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u/Coesim Wisconsin Badgers • Paderborn UNIcorns 7d ago

Overrated is what it is.

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u/BehindEnemyLines8923 Mississippi State Bulldogs 7d ago

We literally walked into 4-1 Minnesota’s house and made their ass literally quit running the ball.

Made their ass quit.

So if we are overrated what does that make the Big Ten?

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u/Few_Entertainer_385 Missouri Tigers 7d ago

SEC is 10-2 versus everyone else

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u/godzillamegadoomsday 7d ago

And they will be 0-4 vs everyone else like they were in last years playoffs

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u/Few_Entertainer_385 Missouri Tigers 7d ago edited 7d ago

wah wah wah is all i hear. Keep living in the past

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u/BehindEnemyLines8923 Mississippi State Bulldogs 7d ago

Cool, are we talking about the top end of conferences or the middle?

Are y’all not literally just doing the thing you accused SEC teams of for years? Riding the coattails of the top?

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u/kyrev21 Kentucky Wildcats 7d ago

And which conference is the only team to beat Ohio State in?

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u/kyrev21 Kentucky Wildcats 7d ago

And yet they are ranked higher than the reigning national champion and are the highest ranked team in the Big Ten

Plus the reigning national champion refuses to play anyone with a pulse outside of the Big Ten

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

Missouri might want to because they won’t do shit else

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u/Few_Entertainer_385 Missouri Tigers 7d ago

wanna bet on who finishes higher?

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u/Few_Entertainer_385 Missouri Tigers 7d ago

i’ll post a picture of my tits to r/cfb if Oklahoma State finishes higher

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u/Semper-Fido Kentucky Wildcats • Team Chaos 7d ago

I have faith in Missouri...but I am saving this post just in case...

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u/Slyp9 Ohio State Buckeyes 7d ago

Yeah, every year you hear about the SECs losing record against everyone else yet you still haven't humbled yourself.

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u/SaltyBarDog 7d ago

Last year's playoffs is living in the past? You talking shit about the Knicks being the past?

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

And yet Missouri’s all time winning % has improved since joining the sec, so difficult

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u/Big_Lawfulness_8143 Alabama Crimson Tide 7d ago

Didnt Texas and Oklaohoma used to win conference championships?

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

Texas did not win many

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u/Big_Lawfulness_8143 Alabama Crimson Tide 7d ago

So yes? 

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u/kyrev21 Kentucky Wildcats 7d ago

To be fair they were in the SEC east for most of that timespan

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u/SirTiffAlot Missouri Tigers 7d ago

That's like saying KStates all time win % went up in the Big 12.

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u/Few_Entertainer_385 Missouri Tigers 7d ago

it’s almost like they you have more money to play with when you’re in the biggest market conference

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

Yet you couldn’t find that success in the big 12. More sec championship appearances than big 12.

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u/turtles1224 Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos 7d ago

They've appeared in 2 in the Big 12 and 2 in the SEC. At least accurately shit talk people rather than making shit up lol

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u/Icy-Recognition-8700 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7d ago

Oh no they’re equal, you’re right the sec is such a gauntlet. 1 sec is worth at least 5 but 12 CCG appearances

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u/turtles1224 Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos 7d ago

I just like people to be accurate in their shit talk. You don't have to be weird and angry lol

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u/americandreams41 Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

My goodness first Texas didn’t win Big XII championships, now Missouri went to more SEC title games than Big XII title games…. You’re just full of facts

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u/Slyp9 Ohio State Buckeyes 7d ago

By everyone else you mean teams like Louisiana Monroe?

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u/discipleofbill Notre Dame • Laurier 7d ago

I mean they’re 1-0 versus you.

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u/Slyp9 Ohio State Buckeyes 7d ago

We win that game 8/10 times. On the flip side we beat the shit out of you in that championship game 10/10 times.

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u/CirculationStation Mississippi State Bulldogs • AP 7d ago

Not the hypothetical “we would have won that game if if if” argument. Now you’re talking like an SEC fan!

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u/SaltyBarDog 7d ago

Yeah... Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

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u/Slyp9 Ohio State Buckeyes 7d ago

It's not hypothetical. What happen in the OSU vs Texas game in the playoff? Or the one before that?

OSU(Ryan Day) blew the game this year. Texas didn't win it.

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u/UGALOLOL Georgia Bulldogs • New Mexico Lobos 7d ago

Cope

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u/discipleofbill Notre Dame • Laurier 7d ago

Ok but you didn’t win that game. And my team is irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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u/americandreams41 Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

P4 teams

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u/Slyp9 Ohio State Buckeyes 7d ago

You mean the pure ass teams like Florida State and Clemson? All the while you couldn't even beat Shitigan? Lmao

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u/americandreams41 Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

And checks notes Ohio State…

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u/Coesim Wisconsin Badgers • Paderborn UNIcorns 7d ago

How many good OOC teams did the middle of the SEC beat, specifically? Mississippi State beat the Gophers, but other than that?

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u/Big_Lawfulness_8143 Alabama Crimson Tide 7d ago

Ohio State and Baylor 

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u/Coesim Wisconsin Badgers • Paderborn UNIcorns 7d ago

Texas isn’t the middle of the SEC. And neither is Auburn, if we’re being honest. But that win over Baylor is looking kinda impressive, I‘ll give em that.

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u/Big_Lawfulness_8143 Alabama Crimson Tide 7d ago

I think they end up in that messy middle 

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u/braindrain_94 Texas A&M Aggies 6d ago

Auburn is definitely middle of SEC theyre 1-2 in conference play.

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u/UGALOLOL Georgia Bulldogs • New Mexico Lobos 7d ago

Who'd the Big10 beat

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u/ThatPlayWasAwful TCNJ Lions • Penn State Nittany Lions 7d ago

Maybe if we were talking about a lesser conference. 

It's the SEC, so it means they have a lot of depth. 

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u/drummerboy31402 Mississippi State • Marching Band 7d ago

Idk I’m just going along for the ride

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u/screwhead1 LSU Tigers • Arkansas Razorbacks 7d ago

Eastern

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u/may3rd2021 Alabama Crimson Tide 7d ago

Memes

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u/8BallTiger Paper Bag • Clemson Tigers 7d ago

The sport overall has become super condensed. Results among teams who are close to each other can easily flip or get lopsided depending on how well the teams play.

Even the top teams can’t really get away with playing mediocre games like they used to but they won’t get blown out.

Florida is not a top team. They aren’t super talented. Their defense, especially secondary, is a big concern. They basically need the offense to bring its A game every week and instead they’ve had back to back clunkers. They’ve played their C game at best the last two weeks while Mizzou and Scar have played their A games. That is a recipe for getting blown out

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u/SusannaG1 Clemson Tigers • Furman Paladins 7d ago

Bucket of crabs.

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u/warneagle Auburn • Central Michigan 7d ago

Bad mostly

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u/Comfortable_Air_9617 Arkansas Razorbacks • Paper Bag 7d ago

No there’s a pretty clear bottom of the SEC. 

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u/milehigh73a LSU Tigers • Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 7d ago

There are 3 elite teams - bama, uga, ut. There are probably 3 good teams - mizzou, ole miss and someone else. Everyone else is mediocre.

In a week, we will know a lot more. Ole Miss -mizzou, lsu-msst, bama-tenn.

It should be clear who the top 5 teams are.

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u/luigi_lives_matter Arkansas • Vanderbilt 7d ago

There’s a middle in the SEC conference?

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u/Chaotic-PopTart Team Chaos • Pop-Tarts Bowl 7d ago

The PAC-12’s ghost is seeking revenge by eating all of the other conferences 

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u/nkfish11 Miami Hurricanes 7d ago

The middle of the ACC does this every year. It means the conference is mid.

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u/0GeneratedUsername0 7d ago

The same as the middle of every other conference with better PR and hella media bias. Same as every year.

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u/velociraptorfarmer Iowa State Cyclones • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 7d ago

A bunch of eventual 3-4 loss teams who have maybe 1 good win on their resume all bitching about how they all deserve playoff spots

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u/Semper_nemo13 Boise State Broncos 6d ago

The SEC is just deeply mid. Or rather there are like 5 good teams in the country.

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u/Carbonizzle Tennessee Volunteers 6d ago

No.

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u/cbbutle South Carolina • Palmetto Bowl 6d ago

Idk about everybody else. Our problem is that our team is good but our coaches are not

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u/Velvet_Llama Washington Huskies 6d ago

This comment and replies is a good example. Everyone says Texas is legit, nobody argues. Now they lose and it's a laughable take. Did we really get that much information that we can change our opinion that much?

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u/fm22fnam Ohio State • Tennessee 7d ago

Texas, Bama, and Georgia are the only teams that matter in the SEC this year. Everything else is just a circle of suck

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u/cirtnecoileh Ohio State Buckeyes 7d ago

Overrated is what it is