SEC Power Poll: Season-Ending Edition

by Arkansas Expats on Dec 5, 2008 5:59 PM CST in Football Comment 1 comment

Well, you know the season is really over when it's time to type out the final edition of the SEC Power Poll. It's been said many already, but this was a down year for The Greatest Conference in All the Land: there were way more disappointingly mediocre teams than surprisingly good ones. There's some good commentary on that subject over with the official results.

It was great fun participating in the poll this year, and was a true honor to be on the same list with so many fine bloggers. Thanks to cocknfire at Team Speed Kills for bringing us into the fold.

And now, with a crushing air of finality, we present to you the last power poll of the 2008 football season (with our week 1 rankings in parentheses).

1. Florida (2)
2. Alabama (4)

These guys have been a cut above all season. Both teams fondly remember their visits to Fayetteville, we're guessing.

3. Ole Miss (8)

Props to Houston Nutt, and we mean it. That game sucked, though...it'll be nice to return the favor in Oxford next fall.

4. Georgia (1)
5. LSU (3)

These two teams sum up the SEC season better than anyone...great expectations, poor delivery.

6. South Carolina (6)
7. Vanderbilt (10)
8. Kentucky (7)

Nothing to say about these teams, sorry.

9. Arkansas (11)

Not super fun season for the Hogs, but there are lots of reasons to be optimistic about the future. Browsing through a lot of the other Power Poll bloggers' sites, we noticed a definite sense of concern about the Razorbacks. They know that next year we'll be the team nobody wants to play, and the year after that we'll be a legit threat.

10. Tennessee (9)
11. Auburn (5)
12. Mississippi State (11)

The coaches for these last three teams all got fired. Ouch.

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I’m glad the Gators got to prove they were better than ‘Bama last night. It’s really too bad Texas wasn’t allowed the same opportunity.

Alabama, Texas, OU, TT, Florida, USC and probably a couple more, all deserved some kind of a play-off system this year.

The BCS standings and how the conference tital games are set up, are proof of the flaws that exist in the system.
Take a look at the Big 12 championship game for instance.
OU was tabbed as the best team in the South div., over Texas, even though they finished with identical records and the Horns won the head-to-head matchup.
Missouri, on the other hand, might be lucky to even be considered the 5th best team in the conference.
OU, Texas, TT, O.State and Kansas, all seem to be better or at least as good as the Tigers.

On the national picture, OU, Texas and TT, all beat up on one another, while all being ranked in at least the top 7 of the BCS standings.
Alabama could also be included with that group, since their only loss was to #4 Florida in the SEC tital
game.
Florida, on the other hand, was the only team in that group that lost to an unranked team, even though they are now favored to win the NC. USC is another team that lost to an unranked team at mid-season and their loss wasn’t even at home, but the only problem they have, according to the BCS system, is that they play in the Pac-10.
So, if the BCS is really going to use that as an exscuse to keep USC out of the title game, how in the world would teams like Utah and Boisi St. ever have a legitimate shot at it?

Isn’t this mess proof enough something has to change?

by GonzoHog on Dec 7, 2008 10:59 AM CST reply actions 0 recs