ESPN's (selective) silence about the SEC
Edit: I should qualify that I'm mainly referring to their website. I don't watch ESPN much outside of the games themselves.
September 6th, 2016 at 8:26 AM ^
I believe they mentioned it during last night's game and spoke about it for 90 seconds.
September 6th, 2016 at 8:50 AM ^
I woke up today with a cockroach near my door and now I see this. My life is so hard
Edit: nvm it's not a cockroach
September 6th, 2016 at 9:14 AM ^
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September 6th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^
waiting for your husband/boyfriend to care for this little issue...
September 6th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
September 6th, 2016 at 10:24 AM ^
September 6th, 2016 at 10:35 AM ^
You step on it.
Hard.
Or if you're my wife, you craft an elaborate plan to return it to the wild unharmed.
September 6th, 2016 at 10:42 AM ^
September 6th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
This is true, unless you don't mind being violently ill for 24 hours.
September 6th, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^
actually, the AZ Giant Hairy Scorpion is not poisonous; the sting hurts and that's about it. Also, these big guys tend not to enter houses. The Bark scorpion on the other hand, is tiny and nasty. The only truly poisonous scorpion, which happens to make its home primarily in Maricopa County...
September 6th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
September 6th, 2016 at 3:52 PM ^
God bless the SouthWest...where going outside may actually kill you.
September 6th, 2016 at 12:21 PM ^
I would support the plan to return it to the wild if it involved some form of Rube Goldberg-esque contraption that would deposit the creature in a dramatic and innovative fashion (pyrotechnics optional).
September 6th, 2016 at 10:24 AM ^
He could poke your eye out with that thing!
September 6th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^
I see what you did there, well done sir.
September 6th, 2016 at 11:53 AM ^
True story. One of these (a scorpion, not a pencil) got into my bed and stung me three times before I could get it off me. The stings are like nasty little electric jolts. I count myself lucky, though, as the stings were mere inches from a place that would have been awfully embarrassing if I'd had to go to the ER. Freaked the wife out more than me, but yeah, I was a bit concerned for a while. Sold that house shortly thereafter.
September 6th, 2016 at 1:55 PM ^
"I repeat: By removing the head or destroying the brain"
September 6th, 2016 at 11:40 AM ^
Woke up with a beetle near your door? You still got nothing on Gregor Samsa.
September 6th, 2016 at 9:53 AM ^
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September 6th, 2016 at 10:47 AM ^
Okay, it's also about how they looked.
Kentucky also had a horrid loss in which they allowed 28 unanswered points or something crazy like that. Arkansas was INCREDIBLY lucky not to lose to Louisiana Tech. They won by 1 point, and LA Tech missed TWO field goals from reasonable distance; either would've won the game.
Tennessee obviously looked horrible.
Florida was in a 6 point game against UMass into the 4th quarter.
Mizzou got slaughtered. They scored points in garbage time to close the gap.
LSU lost by 2 points, but was thoroughly outplayed the entire game. Wisconsin should've won by double digits.
Texas A&M looked better than expected. But that was the only team.
South Carolina and Vanderbilt both looked HORRIBLE. It was a Purdue vs Illinois type of game.
And Georgia looked fine, but I highly doubt UNC finishes this season ranked, and Georgia had massive home field advantage for a "neutral" site game.
Just because Alabama is incredible doesn't give the SEC any depth or better talent than other conferences. (also, USC was way overranked. This is a team that finished unranked last year, has a shitty new coach, lost to Wisconsin in a bowl with pseudo home field advantage, but yet somehow was #20 when the Badgers were unranked).
UCLA is another perpetually overranked team too. The Los Angeles teams are always way overrated. I'm willing to bet that the PAC 12 South will have a champion with the worst record of any division in football.
It's more likely than not that none of UNC, USC, or UCLA finish this season ranked; or, if they do, none are in the top 20.
September 6th, 2016 at 10:47 AM ^
September 6th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^
That still only focuses on how their top teams performed, whereas their middle and bottom teams did poorly even in their wins.
September 6th, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^
I literally don't understand how you don't get what we're saying.
You're asking how many conferences did better. That is so far from the point.
The point is, for the last decade the SEC has been viewed leaps and bounds ABOVE all of the other conferences. Their conference games between middling teams are viewed as marquee. When they lose to conference teams that are not in the top 10, they don't fall in the rankings. This season too, they entered with more teams ranked in the top 25 than anyone else. (Florida over Wisconsin? come the fuck on). Now, there were years when that was true (especially for the SEC West, East is another matter). However, it's been over for a few years and this weekend confirms it.
The point is, this weekend proves the SEC is on the same level as everyone else. That's it. Just because they have Alabama does not mean that their middle or lower end teams are better than other conferences.
Also, the SEC had zero teams who looked dominant against non-P5 competition. Even Illinois and Maryland looked dominant as fuck, for example.
September 6th, 2016 at 12:08 PM ^
but can't we all agree that if the Big 10 performed similarly that our league would be getting lambasted by ESPN's talking heads?
Imagine Iowa losing at home to South Alabama, Wisconsin squeaking by Louisiana Tech, MSU going up big on FSU only to cede 30 straight points, and then us barely getting by App State in OT. ESPN would be declaring that the Big Ten is already or should already be out of the CFP.
September 6th, 2016 at 11:18 AM ^
I wonder how much inside information Steve Sarkisian gave Bama about the USC players and playcalling as he was just hired by Bama and USC kept the hire internal, limiting shakeups and twists to the playbook.
Bama will still be dominant but the timing of the hiring raises some questions.
September 6th, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^
has, for years, played very few big games in the early non-conferece and then crowed about how great they are because they have so many ranked teams. Then they beat up on each other and claim they are great because they are beating ranked teams. It's quite the racket.
They practically invented the strategy of playing nothing but teams like Southwest Missouri State and Florida Atlantic as non-conference opponents to pad your record. Alabama is one exception, as they have generally scheduled pretty well, and Florida has always played FSU but had some streak of like never leaving the state for a non-con game in like 20 years.
This year the SEC actually scheduled well, and, shock, they lost some games. Because they have NEVER been as much better than everyone else as they claimed they were. Because of the way college football works, where perception is reality with the polls, hyping your conference was the best path to success, and the SEC has been the best at hype for the last 25 years.
September 6th, 2016 at 8:28 AM ^
They also talked about during College football daily and how Alabama will now carry the conference blah blah blah
September 6th, 2016 at 8:29 AM ^
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September 6th, 2016 at 9:34 AM ^
The overall talent level from top to bottom is narrower than it used to be. And imho the talent is being spread out a bit better than it has in recent years.
September 6th, 2016 at 8:31 AM ^
They have such a short-sighted view of history. It's like no one ever played college football in the past millenium.
September 6th, 2016 at 8:32 AM ^
Chad Kelly proclaimed himself to the best QB in the nation. How is that working out Chad?
September 6th, 2016 at 9:28 AM ^
September 6th, 2016 at 8:34 AM ^
spin on this one.
September 6th, 2016 at 8:48 AM ^
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September 6th, 2016 at 8:52 AM ^