Monday, November 26, 2007

SEC reflections and "conference cannibalism '07"

  • Week 1: Cali beats (15) Tennessee.
  • Week 2: (17) South Carolina beats (23) GA.
  • Week 3: Miss State beats unranked Auburn. (3) UF beats unranked Tenn.
  • Week 4: (14) KY beats unranked Arkansas.
  • Week 5: Unranked Auburn beats (3) UF.
  • Week 6: (7) South Carolina beats (17) KY. (25) Tenn beats (24) GA.
  • Week 7: (17) KY beats (1) LSU.
  • Week 8: Unranked Vandy beats (6) South Carolina. (14) UF beats (8) KY. Bama beats (20) Tenn.
  • Week9: Unranked Miss. State beats (14) KY. (20) GA beats (9) UF. Unranked Tenn beats (15) South Carolina.Week 10: Unranked Arkansas beats (23) South Carolina.
  • Week 11: (10) GA beats (18) Auburn.
  • Week 12: (8) GA beats (22) KY.
  • Week 13: Unranked Arkansas beats (1) LSU.
Points to ponder: # of times an unranked conference team beat a ranked conference team - 6 # of times a conference team beat another conference team in the top ten - 6 # of times LSU was knocked from #1 spot by conference team - 2 Current #4 GA is not playing for the conference title Sorry for the long post! Wacky year.

2 comments:

Victor said...

rob,
Great analysis. The SEC has that cannibalistic attitude and the teams to create havoc. Although it would take some thought to do the same thing for the Pac-10, off the top of my head, here goes:
1. Unranked Stanford upsets #2 SC
2. Unranked Oregon State upsets #2 Cal
3. Unranked Arizona upsets #2 Oregon

Three #2 teams in the nation beaten by unranked, Pac-10 opponents. That has probably never happened in any conference in the history of college football. What do you think?
Victor

Rob said...

victor, i'm not sure if there's some link to the "mother of all ncaa football record books" but SURELY this season has had more radical upsets than any other, at least in my lifetime. Just the SEC and PAC-10 combined would probably do it. i hope mizz and WV lose so the BCS has to confront a slew of pitchfork/torch waving teams!!!