SEC vs. ACC
Yes, I’ve heard the joke already: When are South Carolina and Georgia meeting for the ACC championship?
If ever we needed a reminder that the SEC is football and the ACC is, well, not football, we got it Saturday. The fact that the ACC’s supposed two best teams just got beat by a pair of middle-of-the-pack SEC teams shows it – along with the overhead shots of half-empty stadiums for an ACC championship in years past, and perhaps this Saturday too.
Of course the SEC does this to a lot of people. With the regular season complete, here’s how it has fared against other leagues this season:
SEC 5, ACC 2
SEC 2, Big East 0
SEC 1, Big 12 1
SEC 5, CUSA 1
SEC 4, MAC 0
SEC 2, Pac-10 1
SEC 10, Sun Belt 0
SEC 2, WAC 0
SEC 0, FBS Independent 1 (Army beat Vanderbilt)
SEC 11, FCS Schools 0
That record of 42-6, for a winning percentage of .875, is the league’s best in nonconference regular season play since 1997, when it went 32-4. And it’s the second-best since 1992, when the league expanded to include South Carolina and Arkansas.
Now the trick is going to be equaling the bowl performance of recent years. The SEC went 6-2 last season, 7-2 the year before and 6-3 after the 2006 season.
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State newspaper sports writer Seth Emerson blogs on University of South Carolina basketball and baseball.
Not trying to take sides, but while the data is compelling for SEC this year, not so last year. Was it worse that the “big three rivalries” (UF, Uga, SC) were as they turned out this year or last? Should one disband the ACC this year or the SEC last year? Hate to accuse “drive-by sports media”, but if you throw out Alabama and Florida and Duke and Maryland, what’s the diff in all the rest? While I believe the SEC to be the better football conference year in and year out, I fail to see what all the bandwagoning is about. Rivalry games are just that. Look at what went on nationally.
Well UF’s rivalry with FL State has been that way every year for the last 6.
I agree that the discrepancy is not the biggest in the world between the two conferences.
But last year’s SEC bowl record was impressive for a down year in the conference. And that down year was an exception.
Here’s the thing. The Gap will increase. SEC exposure is killing the ACC and the others. The ACC is their own worst enemy. Instead of trying to correct the sucky conference with tough nosed football. They play a tougher versoin of touch football. They get smacked in the mouth and cry like Spiller did on the sideline.
and South Carolina should truly be a member of the ACC and not the SEC.
SEC played 14 out of conference games against BCS conferences, and 23 non bcs conference foes, not counting the 11 FCS opponents. How does that compare to other conferences? No angle, just wondering?
It appears the ACC went 30-18 out of conf. But, look closer. The SEC played 11 FCS games, while the ACC played 14 (with VA losing to W&M, and MD losing to Richmond). In the FBS, however, the ACC played 20 BCS OOC games, and 14 nonBCS OOC games (ND being counted as a BCS game). The SEC played 14 BCS OOC games, and 23 nonBCS OOC games. The SEC had a whopping ten games(10-0) against the mighty Sunbelt, while the ACC had one(1-0). The ACC had three games(1-2) against the MWC (including two losses against it’s BCS bowl bound champion), and none against the WAC, while the SEC had two(2-0) against the mighty WAC, and none against the MWC. Versus ConfUSA: SEC-6(5-1), ACC-6(4-2); MAC: SEC-4(4-0), ACC-2(2-0); IND: SEC-1(0-1), ACC-3(2-1). What does all this mean? Nothing! But for all you USC math students out there, both the SEC and the ACC were 49-49 in conference. Go Tigers!
dawoman, I guess you didn’t see any USC players crying after the 08 game, or the year before that, etc., because they didn’t
GIVE A DAMN, huh?