Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:26 pm
...It was about the national media who will fawn over not being able to hit wide open receivers and a truckload of turnovers as "dominating defense", when you know damn well that same performance in literally
any other conference would be called out as exactly what it was: sloppy offense with a shitload of mental mistakes.
When I opened ESPN's CFB page last night, the first three tweets - all from national ESPN writers - were talking about Florida moving up in the polls due to their "overwhelming defensive performance". It was amusing...they all apparently watched a very different game than I did.
Did you think that maybe the media is biased towards the SEC because, coming into Saturday, they had 5 of the top 10 teams, and that the SEC has several high-profile wins against contenders in the other conferences, like Oregon, Texas, and Notre Dame? And though Florida's win over Auburn was sloppy, it was still a huge win, just like Auburn's sloppy win over Oregon earlier in the year.
The national media is not showing SEC bias. The Big 12, the Big 10, and Clemson also get lots of favorable press. On the other hand, the national media are definitely showing some anti Pac-12 bias, starting with the build up to Oregon's game with Auburn where they stated that an Oregon loss would basically end the Pac-12's chance to make the playoff. And right now your best team (Oregon) would be the sixth best team in the SEC this year, so naturally the Pac-12 will suffer in any comparisons with the SEC. But ultimately the Pac-12's problem (IMHO) is that it is a conference where the University Presidents are much more concerned about Academics than sports, especially an expensive all-male sport like College Football.