03-03-2015, 10:56 AM
To this long-timer, a season without games against both USC and UCLA isn't a real football season.Â
We all love 10-and-more win seasons, but I also like big games; they stir me in ways that games against Utah, Oregon State, and Arizona don't--not to mention Duke, Army, and UCF. Those are everything-to-lose games for me.
If the SEC teams played real schedules, you and many other might feel differently. Their misleading 9-3 seasons set a standard for the nation, and make 8-4 look like near-failure. But if each of them had to replace one of their ridiculous OOC opponents with an SEC team, it would add seven losses a year to the SEC's aggregate win-loss, and make possible a true comparison of teams across the country.
We all love 10-and-more win seasons, but I also like big games; they stir me in ways that games against Utah, Oregon State, and Arizona don't--not to mention Duke, Army, and UCF. Those are everything-to-lose games for me.
If the SEC teams played real schedules, you and many other might feel differently. Their misleading 9-3 seasons set a standard for the nation, and make 8-4 look like near-failure. But if each of them had to replace one of their ridiculous OOC opponents with an SEC team, it would add seven losses a year to the SEC's aggregate win-loss, and make possible a true comparison of teams across the country.