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2011 Schedule Analysis: Southeastern Conference
The third installment of this offseason series is all about the football crazy South and their championship winning football teams. The SEC's scheduling is always a fun topic to talk about, so feel free to chime in with any comments you may have. Before we start I have to announce that I've been...
Who Is The Fastest Boston College Eagle?
Josh Parnell of the ACC blog ACC Mania is putting together a list of the fastest players in the ACC. He recently reached out to BC Interruption asking us to nominate one BC player who is the fastest on the team. Honestly, when the topic was brought up to me, I had no clue who that player would be....
Book It: WVU Has No Chance Against LSU
Why this game is even on the schedule, I have no idea. Just go ahead and mark it in the books: LSU big. And I do mean big. Why? Well, that's easy: speed. LSU and the SEC have a ton of it, and teams from the Big East have none of it. It's not for you or me to decide, it's just how the world of...
Are Recruiting Rankings Biased Towards the South?
Are recruiting rankings biased towards the South? That's what Heisman Pundit says. Is he right? Let's take a closer look. I'll be the first to admit that recruiting rankings are bogus to an extent. It's fairly common knowledge that one of the most important elements of a Rivals or ESPN evaluation...
SEC Dominance: Based on Depth or Top-Heaviness?
Dr. Saturday has an interesting piece up today exploring the SEC's Tide/Gator monopoly. In it, he implies that the idea that the SEC's prestige is based on the conference's depth is, or has recently become, mistaken: The back-to-back mythical championship runs by Florida Alabame over the last...
Cheer For Your SEC Cousins Tonight
I shouldn't have a dog in tonight's fight. My only connection to Alabama was driving through on I-10 and I've never been to Texas. The only reason to choose sides in the BCS Championship Game is for conference pride and SEC fans have that overflowing. Pat Forde's piece Wednesday was correct in how...
Georgia Bulldogs 20, Arizona State Sun Devils 17
My father will not leave a sporting event early. This dates back to his boyhood, when he rode into town to see minor league baseball games in Cordele, Ga., with a local man who insisted upon leaving at the seventh-inning stretch in order to beat traffic. That is, in order to beat the sort of...
The Top 10 SEC-Big Ten Games of the Last Decade: No. 1
Before we get to the Top SEC-Big Ten Game of the Last Decade, let's take a moment to run back through Nos. 2-10, as selected by Team Speed Kills and The Rivalry, Esq. #2 -- Michigan v Alabama, 2000 Orange Bowl#3 -- LSU v Illinois, 2002 Sugar Bowl#4 -- Michigan v Florida, 2008 Capital One Bowl#5 --...
The "SEC Speed Myth" Backtrack Thread
Well let me just say that I hadn't planned to talk about this whole SEC Speed myth anymore, but since cocknfire over at "Team Speed Kills" here on the sbnation network issued a pretty solid rebuttal, I figured I would have to give it a reply. Let me knock off a couple of points right off the...
:: Sigh :: This Again -- The Myth of the "Myth" of SEC Speed
From time to time, I come across a message board or blog comment from someone who doesn't "get" the title of this site -- someone who actually thinks I believe that non-conference games with SEC teams consists of Southern gazelles lapping plodding Midwestern anteaters. This is not entirely true....
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