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Message: [QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 2927402, member: 523"] The flaw in college football rankings is and always has been sample size. To cover for this every single ranking system and pollster over values OOC buy games. The SEC as a conference plays maybe 5 or 6 legit games OOC, the rest are fodder. So when we talk about how great they are we are talking about a padded resume. The failing is over valuing and attempting to parse Teams 11-60 using a too small sample size. Teams like Cincy, Memphis, USF are just as good as the middle of every other P5 conference. The difference is at the top. The bottom is is irrelevant. Beating UConn is no differnet than beating Rutgers, Ole Miss, Kansas, or Oregon State, ywt the P5 gets more credit for it. At the top, the SEC has 2-3 legit teams, the B1G (2), the ACC, B12, P12 only 1 most years. Add ND if they are actually good like this year and those are the only games that matter, except for upsets like Purdue over OSU. This year Bama is such head and shoulders better that you really have no idea how good Georgia and LSU are but they had their shot. Mich and OSU will settle it but OSU slipped up this year so they carry that baggage. Clemson is eating the ACC, they look good but again what team did they beat that UCF wouldn't be favored against? ND and Bama have the best legit wins, Mich will if it beats OSU. Oklahoma lost to a mediocre Texas team (Baggage), Texas lost to freaking Maryland and may win the league. UCF is ahead of the entire B12 and Pac12. I don't care what Georgia and LSU have done, unless they beat Bama they cant be put ahead of a team that wins 25+ in a row. Not giving them a shot is an exercise in flimsy excuse making. Though the idiots in the South are experts in that lately. [/QUOTE]

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