I was watching something on ESPN last night...I know that's surprising...and Fowler, Herbie and Corso were on. This quickly made me happier. The joys of college football season's approach, the countdown to our tailgate in my apartment's parking lot for the Cal game, and the newly planned road trip to Gainesville.
Herbie felt the need to talk about the Pac-10. Usually, we leave this to someone like Mark May, but today it was Herbie. He made mention that the second best conference in the country this year is going to be the Pac-10. Interesting comment, here's why.
We all know that USC is going to be the #1 team in the country until they lose, mostly thanks to ESPN. If they lose is another story. Recently, USC has pretty much walked through the Pac-10 regular season schedule. Matt Leinart lost one game in league play, his first career start...and I think last year they got beat by and Oregon State and a UCLA, but I could be wrong about the former. This year, they are stacked, again. USC's strength is not negotiable. Pete Carroll is a great coach, who recruits whoever he wants.
The strength of the Pac-10 comes from how many games USC loses. Arizona is supposed to have their breakout year...that they were really supposed to have last year. I don't care what anyone says, Oregon is slipping. Cal, has one of the best play makers in the country in DeSean Jackson, but we will see what happens on September 1, baby.
If USC wins the Pac-10, it means their conference hasn't changed. No one has offered a contest in league play. Speculations on the Pac-10 can be done mid-season, but as no one is expecting USC to lose, let's not worrying about the West Coast...no one does anyway.
The other note I am going to make is that rumors are going around that Urban Meyer is going to institutionalize a two quarterback system at the University of Florida. Isn't Noah Brindise in their organization to tell them this isn't a good play?
What does this mean for the Gators, the SEC, the nation, and those who are obsessed with Tim Tebow? It means one of two things: first, Tebow isn't ready to take over the offense on a full-time basis or second, the freshmen blue chippers that came in this off season are in fact better than Tebow. Either way, it makes the Gators less effective on offense this year than the year previous. A wonderful piece of news for us Vol fans.
Speaking of the SEC, this is why no other conference can be listed with the SEC. Any one of the following teams can win the conference this year: Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee. Also, off the top of my head, Tennessee has to play three of the remaining five and if one of the others are lucky, extremely lucky, they might only get two, keeping in mind that Alabama and South Carolina have two of the best coaches in the past twenty years of college football. Any questions?
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ESPN/ABC is the most biased of any news source in America. I boycotted the networks for a brief time after Herbie slapped southern football across the face by saying its a travesty that Florida is going to Tempe instead of Michigan time and time again. Unfortunatley its impossible to boycott ESPN, the best damn sports show gets too damn old, fast! Any team that wins the SEC and has suffered only one loss or less deserves to play for an outright national title. However, two times in the past 5 years this has not been the case thanks to ESPN/ABC's endorsement of only conferences they have national (ABC) deals with. LSU's title has an asterisk next to it, and Auburn is still writing letters to the BCS. It's insane that ESPN can sway opinion so much with unqualified analysts. I am sure some bozo was betting thousands on Michael Irvins every word. Bottomline, no conference is close to the SEC, only media conglomerates can attempt to bring it down. When it comes to the SEC flexing its muscle against other "power" conferences, even I am a Tebow guy. Go Vols!
~Rusty
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