Friday, January 9, 2009

Now tell me the SEC isn't the best conference!!!!

BACKROUND INFO
For the last couple of years, the SEC has been the most dominate conference in college football. SEC fans were RAVING about the upcoming 2008-2009 football season. The season looked bright, and fans were ecstatic!! But this year, their was a clear competitor that looked to overtake the college football world. The Big-12. With a conference of high scoring points, and tremendous QB's, the Big-12 looked as if it would pass up the SEC this year. With the regular season ending, the Florida Gators, and the Oklahoma Sooners were set to play eachother for the national championship game in Miami. SEC v.s. Big 12. Many argued that 11-1 Texas should have went to the championship since they beat Oklahoma, which was the Sooners only loss. But it didn't matter anymore, because it was all said and done.

REALITY
The SEC posted up a 6-2 bowl record this season, as the Big-12 held a record of 3-3. Two of the Big-12's bowl game losses were to SEC teams. Texas Tech was the only team to beat Texas all year. With top receiver in the nation, Micheal Crabtree, and tremendous senior QB Grahm Harrell, looked unstoppable until their setback against Okahoma. Well this raiders team went on to face Ole Miss in the Cotton Bowl. Now remember what you all said, "Florida doesn't deserve to be in the national championship, they lost to Ole Miss. They suck!". Will that "Sucky" Ole Miss team just happens to be in the SEC, and just happened to beat Texas Tech 47-34. If Texas Tech, the only team who beat the "unfairly treated" Texas team, lost to Ole Miss. Then I'm pretty sure that this argument, argues its self. Now to Texas. Texas had a 11-1 record in the Big-12 south, and was set to play Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. Ohio State had lost 2 national championships in a row, and had lost to Penn State earlier in the year, who got blown out by USC. So when you looked at the game, you pretty much knew that it was gonna be a Texas win. But when Texas took the field, it wasn't exactly like that. They struggled to score, and weren't quite playing so good. They squeezed it out in the end because of a stupid decision by OSU coach Jim Tressel, to score very fast, rather than wasting some time, and kicking a game winning field goal. Because of his hurry-up offense late in the fourth, he left Texas with enough time to drive down the field and win it for the longhorns. Although it was a win, it wasn't very impressive. Now we move on to the last one loss team in the Big-12 south, the Oklahoma Sooners. The Sooners played Florida in the national championship, and I'll give them one thing, they did a tremendous job of stopping Florida's offense in the first half, but the second half wasn't the same. Critics say that Oklahoma gave the game to Florida with two red-zone possessions that resulted in 0 points on the score board. I have one thing to say about that. Florida caused both of those stops. It wasn't Oklahoma, Florida was determined, and got it done. They blew threw the line and stuffed Oklahoma on fourth and goal, and they kept the play alive by tipping the ball in the air, and eventually picking it off. Tim Tebow was the hero again on the offensive side of the ball. After throwing as many interceptions in the first half, as he had thrown all year, Tim Tebow came out and led Florida down the field numerous times, including many 3rd down conversions. The result of the game being 24-14, Florida. That raps up all three powerhouses in the Big-12 south, Texas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma. Two of which lost to SEC team fair and square. Texas, lucky to come away with a win against a BCS embarrassments.
Out of all of this, only one thing comes clear to me. THE SEC IS STILL AROUND; CLEARLY BETTER THAN THE BIG-12, AND THEY'RE NOT GOIN AWAY ANY TIME SOON!!!!! SEC!!!

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