Quote:
|
Originally Posted by King Glorious
No, it's not their fault. But, IMO, they play in one of the worst conferences, top to bottom. Generally, it's OSU and Michigan and the Nine Dwarfs. None of their other conference competition readies them for the big games. They don't help themselves by the non-conference games that they do have control over but then a lot of the high profile teams schedule pretty soft outside of conference. The difference is that a team like LSU can schedule soft non-conference teams because they know they will be extremely tested in conference games. OSU has team speed. But it's not at the overall level of the teams like LSU and Florida. It's just a notch below. There will be isolated positions that they are closer to matching up with them on occassion but overall, it's not the same.
|
The SEC is better. Penn State and Wisconsin aren't dwarves however. Big Ten teams beat SEC teams every single year in bowl games. Take a look at Penn State's bowl games against SEC opponents. Wisconsin and Penn State both beat SEC teams last year in bowls. Michigan beat the SEC in a bowl this year. The SEC is better I admit...but I watched the game last night and I simply did not see an overwhelming talent mismatch as I stated in another thread. They got the breaks and won. That game has an enitrely different look if a couple things break the other way...and that is usually what determines games...breaks.