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It is interesting to note that SEC is 8-7 against the ACC.
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| Posted: 12/26/16 10:51 am ::: |
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It is interesting to note that SEC is 8-7 against the ACC.
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Out of curiosity, does that surprise you?
I don't think the ACC is particularly strong top to bottom this year.
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Fighting Artichoke
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| Posted: 12/26/16 11:58 am ::: |
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It is interesting to note that SEC is 8-7 against the ACC.
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I have them as 9-9 with the rubber match being ND@Tenn on Jan 16th. The star for the SEC has been LSU, which is 3-0 against the ACC. South Carolina is 2-1 while Georgia is 0-2. The stars for the ACC have been VTech (2-0), Louisville (2-1), and Georgia Tech (2-1).
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| Posted: 12/28/16 7:23 pm ::: |
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| I'm sure that this thread is meant to be a response to one last year, when the AAC did better (6-7) against the SEC. The trouble with this topic is that it is like responding to a "man bites dog" thread with a "dog bites man" thread. With all the demeaning comments concerning the AAC posted on this board over the 3+years that it has existed I took an opportunity to present a stat that suggests that there isn't quite as wide a gap between the 2 conferences as some would like to think.
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Conway Gamecock
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| Posted: 12/29/16 12:55 am ::: |
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| I'm sure that this thread is meant to be a response to one last year, when the AAC did better (6-7) against the SEC. The trouble with this topic is that it is like responding to a "man bites dog" thread with a "dog bites man" thread. With all the demeaning comments concerning the AAC posted on this board over the 3+years that it has existed I took an opportunity to present a stat that suggests that there isn't quite as wide a gap between the 2 conferences as some would like to think. |
I agree, but I think you got your analogies crossed. It was discussed on another message board by UConn fans that once you get beyond a cream of the crop - CT, perhaps USF for the AAC, and USC and UT for the SEC - that both conferences towards the bottom are quite similar in competitiveness.
This point was generated as a response to debates regarding UConn bloating their season's stats once they enter conference play, as well as UConn fans boasting constantly of UConn's superior OOC schedule strength, while at the same time deriding many SEC team's OOC schedule strength and then claiming that the SEC's conference strength did little to level the playing field out.
And then last season came, and surprisingly the AAC actually competed with the SEC in head-to-head matchups, sort of.
So inevitably the AAC-SEC Challenge thread of last season was started at the other site as well as here, as a means of display of the AAC's ascendance to Power Conference relevancy. But it wasn't representative of the dog biting the man. That happens every day at one place in the world or another. It's much rarer to capture the splendor of the man biting the dog in their natural habitat, but I do believe we managed to document the occurrence of such in no less than two women's collegiate sports message boards....
In the past 4 seasons:
2012-13: SEC - 6, AAC - 3
2013-14: SEC - 7, AAC - 1
2014-15: SEC - 6, AAC - 3
2015-16: SEC - 7, AAC - 6
And now with Vanderbilt's loss to Memphis, this season it's currently SEC 9, AAC 4, with one final game to be played. That's a total of 35-17 in favor of the SEC: a two-to-one total that seems to confirm that yes it is the humble Man that traverses this world with bloody ankles....
But the debate was about conferences from top to bottom: that once you got past the cream at the top, both are very competitive. But it has been the lone Champion of the AAC - Connecticut - that has been hoisting the league banner high: over those 52 contests, UConn is 6-0 against the SEC.
This means that once the Cream of the AAC is removed, the SEC's dominance is even more pronounced at 35-11 - a better than 3-to-1 ratio. And how many of those SEC wins are claimed by the SEC's Champions? Well, South Carolina is only 1-2 during that time, with it's lone win versus ECU just last season. Tennessee only has one lone contest versus an AAC opponent - a win against SMU. Mississippi State has now risen to elite-hood within the SEC, and it has played a ton of games against AAC foes: 7 all told. But MSU wasn't exactly a dominant program in the first 2-3 seasons, and it has wins over several of the better AAC teams like Tulane, and a win over a top-20 ranked USF last season or the one before. It also has a lot of other wins against the weaker AAC teams.
But if you take away UConn's 6 wins, and delete both USC's and UT's combined 2 wins, it's still 33-11 in favor of the SEC. With half of those AAC wins coming in just one single season.
Whatever last season can be called, it certainly cannot be called "The Year of the Dog".......
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