Bielema: SEC needs to have 9 conference games...because numbers matter.

[selmaborntidefan]

As a reminder, Mandel is a graduate of a Big Ten school, Northwestern.

 

[Padreruf]

As a reminder, Mandel is a graduate of a Big Ten school, Northwestern.

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Yeah, but their top 4 get to play their bottom 6...like the P4.

 

[teamplayer]

Here's the other funny thing:

"The SEC has likely destroyed itself with the creation of a conference championship game. A team that has to go through a gauntlet already now has an additional tough game against a foe that in the past they might have avoided. This may make the climb to a national championship go from difficult to impossible."

That was the basic assessment when the game was announced.

Now?

"SEC needs to add another conference game, their schedules aren't difficult enough and Mercer something something."

Any of y'all go look at Florida's 2008 schedule?
Miami
Florida State
Hawaii (undefeated in the 2007 regular season and supposedly snubbed)
8 SEC games, including 10-3 Georgia and 9-4 Ole Miss and 2007 national champ LSU
#1 Alabama in the SEC championship

But what do folks talk about?
"Florida shouldn't be allowed to play Citadel in November!"

Florida faced all four other teams in conference that won at least 8 games. They won 3 of the 4.
And their two biggest in-state rivals, who had combined for 7 national titles in the previous 25 years.

But apparently, Florida should have played Mississippi State (who lost to La Tech) rather than Citadel.

Yet, some folks continue to fall for the ridiculous statements each and every year. It's comical.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1957580647528075435

Indiana adds home games w/Howard in 2026 & Miami (Ohio) in 2028,

IU's non-league schedules
2025: ODU, Kennesaw St, Indiana St
2026: Howard, Colorado St, WKU
2027: Kennesaw St, Indiana St, UMass
2028: Austin Peay, Miami (Oh), E. Michigan
2029: Ball State, E. Illinois, WKU

But remember.....THEY PLAY NINE CONFERENCE GAMES!!!!!

 

[DzynKingRTR]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1957580647528075435

Indiana adds home games w/Howard in 2026 & Miami (Ohio) in 2028,

IU's non-league schedules
2025: ODU, Kennesaw St, Indiana St
2026: Howard, Colorado St, WKU
2027: Kennesaw St, Indiana St, UMass
2028: Austin Peay, Miami (Oh), E. Michigan
2029: Ball State, E. Illinois, WKU

But remember.....THEY PLAY NINE CONFERENCE GAMES!!!!!

What this doesn't say is they are not playing Howard University, but just one guy named Howard.

 

[arthurdawg]

That is a pitiful non-con schedule.... I mean... La Monroe would probably end up 12-3 playing that schedule. And we have Wiscy and FSU as well, of course.

 

[teamplayer]

That is a pitiful non-con schedule.... I mean... La Monroe would probably end up 12-3 playing that schedule. And we have Wiscy and FSU as well, of course.

I'm guessing their powerhouse nine game Big schedule is only slightly more of a challenge. Give me a break.

 

[arthurdawg]

I'm guessing their powerhouse nine game Big schedule is only slightly more of a challenge. Give me a break.

Guaranteed all conference teams will be 0-9 in that schedule every year. Nobody will be able to win a single conference game! /s

 

[Crimson1967]

Is he still married to the woman who got pictured wearing the pig nose?

 

[selmaborntidefan]

That is a pitiful non-con schedule.... I mean... La Monroe would probably end up 12-3 playing that schedule. And we have Wiscy and FSU as well, of course.

What's funny is that I don't even mind Indiana's schedule, I honestly don't.

Until it comes playoff time and that schedule lands them in the postseason over a team with one more loss but 3-4 higher quality wins and a schedule MUCH more difficult. I would have had less problem with Indiana's schedule last year if they had lost a close one to a lesser team but beaten Ohio State.

I know this is an Alabama board, and I know it's fashionable to hate Auburn, but SOS is why I've been saying for over 40 years they got jobbed out of the 1983 national title. Our fans trying to say "nuh-uh!" fixate on two things, "but they got whipped by Texas" and "they didn't even score a touchdown against Michigan," two objections I find ridiculous and that those same fans would never make were it any other team.

Just compare the two schedules:
Miami played two teams that wound up ranked (WVA and Florida) and got blown off the field (28-3) by Florida. The same Florida that Auburn beat in November. The rest of Miami's schedule came out of the dung pile while Auburn pulverized a 9-3 (unranked) Vols team, and played THREE STRAIGHT GAMES against teams at the time ranked in the Top Ten and won all 3. They then beat us in that rain game (and we wound up ranked #15). Their sole loss was in September to Texas, 20-7. So they have a better loss to a better opponent, beat the one team that beat Miami, beat three straight top 10 teams, and oh yeah, won their bowl game against a #8 ranked Michigan by twice as many points as Miami won theirs ON THEIR HOME FIELD over #1 Nebraska.

But because the media had proclaimed Nebraska the greatest team ever all the way back in October, Miami was now "the team that beat the greatest team ever" in the coverage. As far as the "but they didn't score a touchdown," I must have missed the class that said, "Wins don't count if your points are acquired by not scoring touchdowns." Bear in mind that Michigan averaged 29 ppg that year and Auburn held them 22 below that - a statistic that somehow was considered impressive when Miami held Nebraska 22 points below what the Huskers usually scored.

Again, I'm not an Auburn fan, but this is where the whole SOS leads consistent folks, too.

 

[December05]

Surely they acknowledge our juggernaut game against Wisconsin far tougher than a ninth SEC game, right? And then opening with a 10th future SEC game at FSU….

How about they guarantee most of their teams will face more than three ranked in-league teams during the season when we commonly face six or more before crowing about our ninth game…

 

[arthurdawg]

What's funny is that I don't even mind Indiana's schedule, I honestly don't.

Until it comes playoff time and that schedule lands them in the postseason over a team with one more loss but 3-4 higher quality wins and a schedule MUCH more difficult. I would have had less problem with Indiana's schedule last year if they had lost a close one to a lesser team but beaten Ohio State.

I know this is an Alabama board, and I know it's fashionable to hate Auburn, but SOS is why I've been saying for over 40 years they got jobbed out of the 1983 national title. Our fans trying to say "nuh-uh!" fixate on two things, "but they got whipped by Texas" and "they didn't even score a touchdown against Michigan," two objections I find ridiculous and that those same fans would never make were it any other team.

Just compare the two schedules:
Miami played two teams that wound up ranked (WVA and Florida) and got blown off the field (28-3) by Florida. The same Florida that Auburn beat in November. The rest of Miami's schedule came out of the dung pile while Auburn pulverized a 9-3 (unranked) Vols team, and played THREE STRAIGHT GAMES against teams at the time ranked in the Top Ten and won all 3. They then beat us in that rain game (and we wound up ranked #15). Their sole loss was in September to Texas, 20-7. So they have a better loss to a better opponent, beat the one team that beat Miami, beat three straight top 10 teams, and oh yeah, won their bowl game against a #8 ranked Michigan by twice as many points as Miami won theirs ON THEIR HOME FIELD over #1 Nebraska.

But because the media had proclaimed Nebraska the greatest team ever all the way back in October, Miami was now "the team that beat the greatest team ever" in the coverage. As far as the "but they didn't score a touchdown," I must have missed the class that said, "Wins don't count if your points are acquired by not scoring touchdowns." Bear in mind that Michigan averaged 29 ppg that year and Auburn held them 22 below that - a statistic that somehow was considered impressive when Miami held Nebraska 22 points below what the Huskers usually scored.

Again, I'm not an Auburn fan, but this is where the whole SOS leads consistent folks, too.

I get the argument, but I have way more fun saying I don't and taunting their fans!

 

[selmaborntidefan]

What this doesn't say is they are not playing Howard University, but just one guy named Howard.

"First of all, we'll talk to that legendary and accomplished coach, Bobby Knight......Coach.....it has been said that the finest line in the cosmos can be found betwixt a man and his reputation. YOU, oh General, have shown this ta be. But what muss be asked yea inquired of you.....did you evah think Indy-yanna would become a football power rivaling your astute and fantastic job as a leader of men and they-uh-fore capable of perhaps pushing your athletic support on campus down all the way to Numbah 2?"