Another reason XM sucks.....

[Boss Hoss]

No SEC football station. This is very important during football season.

[Mrs.ssippi]

sure do miss you and your wife, hope all is well !!!!! And I don't have XM, I have the other and we listened to Ole Miss going to Va Beach, it was great. :dancingbanana: We are going to Greyrock next weekend, you should come with us sometime. You can really break in the HummBling. :clapping:

[DRTYFN]

No SEC football station. This is very important during football season.

Sorry, but SEC brings the suck.:dancingbanana:

[Mrs.ssippi]

Sorry, but SEC brings the suck.:dancingbanana:SEC football is awesome look at the teams that are in the SEC, I think DRTYFN brings the suck!!!!!!!!!!!! :giggling: :dancingbanana: ;) :D :giggling:

[PARAGON]

No SEC football station. This is very important during football season.x2

wheeling while listening to SEC football = the cool

[PARAGON]

Sorry, but SEC brings the suck.:dancingbanana:
Ahem.......



There's no defense for not putting SEC No. 1

By Wendell Barnhouse
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)
FORT WORTH, Texas - Jeff Sagarin, whose college football and college basketball rankings have been around for years, knows more about computers and their programming than I do.

His computerized rankings of college football conferences fail both my eyeball and smell test. I know what I see, and I see the Southeastern Conference as the best conference this season.

Sagarin lists the Pacific-10 No. 1, the Big Ten No. 2 and the SEC No. 3. That order stinks.

Sagarin's rankings consider all of the teams in each conference, so the SEC is being downgraded for tail-draggers Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Kentucky.

It's what's at the top that makes me believe the SEC rules. The SEC has five teams ranked 14th or higher in the major polls.

Four of those teams play each other on Saturday. No. 13 Tennessee is at No. 10 Georgia and No. 9 LSU is at No. 5 Florida. Second-ranked Auburn is at home against Arkansas.

The Overstock.com commercials claim that it's all about the " O" but in the SEC, it's all about the " D." Defense is what separates the SEC from other conferences.

The top four teams in the nation in scoring defense? Georgia, LSU, Auburn and Florida. Those teams rank first (LSU), sixth (Georgia), 13th (Florida) and 17th (Auburn) in total defense. Only one conference (ACC) has three teams in the top 17.

LSU's first-team defense has allowed 13 points in five games and has countered that with two interception returns for touchdowns.

UAB coach Watson Brown, whose team regularly faces SEC teams, was asked about how difficult it is to move the ball in those nonconference games. He chuckled ruefully.

"The SEC always has great defenses because of team speed," he said. "This part of the country, there just seems to be a lot of speed available. Team speed covers up for mistakes, and that keeps the offense from making big plays."

Florida has 35 plays of 20 or more yards this season. When the Gators play host to LSU, will their offense be able to produce big plays?

"Their defensive personnel is second to none," Arizona coach Mike Stoops said after his team's 45-3 loss to LSU. "To watch their personnel is somewhat frightening. Their speed and size is pretty overwhelming."

The Tigers already have a loss, a 7-3 pitchers'- duel decision at Auburn. LSU might be the SEC's best team, but in that one game, its offense was stifled by Auburn's defense.

The SEC eats its young. Florida, which had to rally to beat Alabama last week, plays LSU on Saturday, is at Auburn on Oct. 14 and then faces Georgia on Oct. 28. Few teams face that kind of gauntlet in a four-game stretch.

Being the best conference, though, isn't conducive to producing national champions. Tennessee won the first BCS title in 1998, and LSU won the crystal football in 2003. Those are the only SEC teams to reach the BCS title game in eight seasons.

If Florida is undefeated on Oct. 29, the Gators should be No. 1. But if neither Ohio State nor USC loses, would the voters reward the Gators? Same goes for Auburn, which plays Georgia at home on Nov. 11.

Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, whose 12-0 team was the third team in the 2004 two-team BCS race, is starting to campaign for a plus-one playoff that would match the top two teams after the BCS bowls.

"We all understand in our conference how tough it is," Tuberville said this week. "In our conference, (a playoff) is about the only chance we'd have to make it."

Unless some of the computer gurus start re-programming their hard drives.
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? 2006, Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

[KenP]

I like XM, but not so much this morning.:

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