rip928
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So, you want ESPN to talk about your teams more? Or do you think ESPN is paying or swaying AP voters and coaches, for polls that don't even matter? Or both?
Rolling Stone blows the whistle on ESPN's SEC Bias
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Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
And if you fukkers lose one more game you deserve to be in?
Depends...
Good read
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Because they're pushing this narrative if we lose, it's over. If it was auburn in our position they'd be fighting for them to have an opportunity to defend their title with one loss. SECW squads have a partner fighting on their behalf to get them in regardless of W-L record. They'll even go to bat for a team that won't win its own division or conference to get in. No one is afforded that type of opportunity. Not even UGAExactly, BEAT the SEC schools in the Title games.
AndFSU fans gotta be upset for, they undefeated. Win all the games, and you're guaranteed a spot in the playoff.
Trojan 24
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Like already mentioned, I don't like them giving passes to SEC when they lose to other SEC teams. A Pac 12 team loses to another one and they drop like a rock in the polls.
I always tell people, with the offenses in the Pac 12 if you come out soft on D are stumble on Offense you can find yourself down 20. Until recently an elite SEC could have a bad half against a conference foe and be down a touchdown cause the O's were so trash. It's shifting a little because SEC teams have finally updated the offense.
I always tell people, with the offenses in the Pac 12 if you come out soft on D are stumble on Offense you can find yourself down 20. Until recently an elite SEC could have a bad half against a conference foe and be down a touchdown cause the O's were so trash. It's shifting a little because SEC teams have finally updated the offense.
rip928
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I guess the committee watched too much ESPN this week
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Word?
LastManStanding
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That's what happens when 7 of the last 8 national champions have come from the SEC. The only reason some in the media like Rolling Stone are mad is because the SEC is a conference in the southern states of America. If any conference outside of the south were dominating college football like the SEC has consistently over the last 10-12 years then nothing would be said about it. They would much rather hype up schools out of Massachusetts, New York, etc. than Georgia or Alabama if they could.
How about that east coast bias in professional sports? 9 times out of 10 when a MLB game is on ESPN it's either the Yankees or the Red Sox playing. Or what about that LeBron and Kobe bias with the NBA? There are several teams each year who will not play a single one of their 82 games on ESPN or TNT, but Lebron and Kobe will be on one or the other every week.
Not to even mention that SEC teams draw more money with ticket sales and television ratings. It's not even close when comparing other conferences head to head as a whole. ESPN is going to take into consideration two things whenever deciding what to broadcast about each sport,
1. Who is the best
2. Who attracts the most attention / money
How about that east coast bias in professional sports? 9 times out of 10 when a MLB game is on ESPN it's either the Yankees or the Red Sox playing. Or what about that LeBron and Kobe bias with the NBA? There are several teams each year who will not play a single one of their 82 games on ESPN or TNT, but Lebron and Kobe will be on one or the other every week.
Not to even mention that SEC teams draw more money with ticket sales and television ratings. It's not even close when comparing other conferences head to head as a whole. ESPN is going to take into consideration two things whenever deciding what to broadcast about each sport,
1. Who is the best
2. Who attracts the most attention / money
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Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Rolling Stone barely gives a fukk about sports. That's not even close to their lane. Everything you just typed is nonsense and the type of buffoonery that makes southern football fans look even more idiotic. None of it was coherent or help make whatever point you were attempting to make. And your last point supports the articles main points. Sit this one out Tito. Let mike an jermaine shine
Tide Run This
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Bama could lose 2 more games this season and some fakkit "expert" would find some reason to put them in the final 4. Just let Alabama/Auburn the Pississippi schools and a couple of the SEC East wannabes have its own tourney while the other conferences play a legit playoff. They build in excuses every week how the fukk is A&M a quality win but FSU beating OKST with a healthy Walsh at QB is a joke win. A&M has played a big pile of nothing but since they got an SEC patch on the uniform all the sudden they matter. This 14 version of A&M playing in the Big 12 wouldn't have cracked the top 15 until October this season with the resume they had built.
No other sport where the media has the power to influence who plays in championship games beside college football. There was no justification for Alabama to be in the title game a few years ago not even making it to their conference championship game. Same should apply this year.
Author of the story supposedly went to Florida State 