pannell@dosadi.DEC (Roger D. Pannell 229-6893) (10/31/85)
>I don't know about others, but I find it hard to give much respect >to the SEC as a conference. Aren't conference teams supposed to >play each other? How many times did Alabama play Georgia in the >last 6 years? One? >-- >James C. Armstrong, Jnr. {ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa During the Walker years at Georgia and just after he left, I heard a lot of this kind of talk especially when Alabama had good years, too. Georgia always plays Florida and Auburn, and I believe Ole Miss and Kentucky. They also play two other SEC teams, this year those two were 'Bama and Vanderbilt. In addition to the SEC schedule they also have yearly "regional" contests of interest. In the case of Georgia, they play Clemson, South Carolina and Georgia Tech. That leaves two non-conference games to be played. This year Georgia is playing Baylor and Tulane. In recent years these non-conference games have been against teams like UCLA, BYU, California and one of those Texas schools. I also think that it is much better to play a schedule like the SEC plays, because then you know exactly how well a school does outside its conference as well as in it. It's bad, no that should be "it's SAD" when a school has an outstanding record just because they play in a weak conference, especially when the national rankings are based on records without much consideration to strength of schedule. If you look at the record of the SEC outside of its conference I think you will find that even the weaker teams do well. Playing within a conference certainly determines the conference champion, but why limit yourself to the conference championship when you can be proving that you are a national champion? -- Roger Pannell ARPA: pannell%dosadi.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA, pannell%dosadi.DEC@Purdue-Merlin.ARPA UUCP: {allegra, decvax, ucbvax}!decwrl!rhea!dosadi!pannell