that you will read during the SEC media days, from USA Today ...
When the first College Football Playoff rankings were released last October, they looked like this: 1. Mississippi State 2. Florida State 3. Auburn 4. Ole Miss 5. Oregon 6. Alabama.
By the end of the season, however, the national landscape looked very different.
Alabama, which went into playoff as the No. 1 seed, got overwhelmed by eventual champion Ohio State. Ole Miss was a complete no-show in the Peach Bowl, losing 42-3 to TCU. Mississippi State had no answers for Georgia Tech's option offense, losing the Orange Bowl 49-34. And Auburn, which fell to the Outback Bowl, couldn't even handle a Wisconsin team that lost 59-0 in the Big Ten championship game.
Suddenly, the season-long narrative that these were four elite SEC West teams beating up on each other in the toughest division in college football history seemed like false advertising.
It wasn't just that the league's heavyweights all lost bowl games, but they lost decisively, getting overpowered in ways that aren't supposed to happen to SEC teams.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ional-championships-bragging-rights/30053689/
When the first College Football Playoff rankings were released last October, they looked like this: 1. Mississippi State 2. Florida State 3. Auburn 4. Ole Miss 5. Oregon 6. Alabama.
By the end of the season, however, the national landscape looked very different.
Alabama, which went into playoff as the No. 1 seed, got overwhelmed by eventual champion Ohio State. Ole Miss was a complete no-show in the Peach Bowl, losing 42-3 to TCU. Mississippi State had no answers for Georgia Tech's option offense, losing the Orange Bowl 49-34. And Auburn, which fell to the Outback Bowl, couldn't even handle a Wisconsin team that lost 59-0 in the Big Ten championship game.
Suddenly, the season-long narrative that these were four elite SEC West teams beating up on each other in the toughest division in college football history seemed like false advertising.
It wasn't just that the league's heavyweights all lost bowl games, but they lost decisively, getting overpowered in ways that aren't supposed to happen to SEC teams.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ional-championships-bragging-rights/30053689/
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