Horns247 Board

Agree.

I understand the point when folks point to Notre Dame's tight wins against a couple of weak teams, but every team runs into that during a national title run unless they are Nebraska 1995 or Miami 2001. Notre Dame has the best defense in the country. If they play someone from the SEC, the typical weak SEC offense is going to have problems. Of course, ND's offense is pretty weak too, so it would be a toss-up for me.

No one wants to give ND's defense credit as a national title worthy D, but outside of Bama 2011, I am not sure of a better one in the last 5 years. I am not talking about statistics, although their stats are fine and without the inflation of a bunch D1 bottom feeders and a couple of D2 teams clouding their schedules. I am talking about straight up getting after it from kickoff to 00:00.

The SEC has “supposedly” the following teams in the top 12 of the BCS:

Alabama #2, Georgia #3, Florida #4, LSU #7, A&M #9, South Carolina #12 (in order of rank)

Now let’s see who has played whom:

Alabama (LSU, A&M) * Georgia SEC Champ. /////////// Best win: @ 2 loss #7 LSU ////////// Loss: Home to #9 2 loss A&M
Georgia: (Florida, South Carolina) *Alabama /////Best win: #4 Florida /////// Loss: @ #12 2 loss South Carolina
Florida: (A&M, South Carolina, LSU, Georgia) //////// Best win: #7 LSU/ #9 A&M //////// Loss: Neutral # 3 Georgia
LSU: ( Alabama, Florida, A&M, South Carolina) //////Best win: #9 A&M /////////////// Loss(es): #4 Florida, #2 Alabama
A&M: (Alabama, Florida, LSU,) /////// Best win: #2 Alabama ///////////// Loss(es): #4 Florida, #7 LSU
South Carolina ( Georgia, LSU, Florida) //////// Best win: #3 Georgia ////////// Loss(es) #7 LSU, #4 Florida

Summary:
Florida and LSU have had the toughest schedules both playing 4 of the possible 5 toughest SEC teams.
Alabama and Georgia have had the easiest schedules. Both will play each other coming up. Alabama is being rewarded for beating Michigan, but cmon the Big 10 is down big time.
South Carolina and A&M are similar in that both have lost to 2 other teams in the top 6 of the SEC but also have a win over 1 top 6 SEC team.

Why is Bama automatically #2? In reality since Georgia beat Florida it should really be Georgia, Florida then Alabama. But Florida has clearly played the tougher conference schedule up to this point and is the only team to do so and come out with just 1 loss.

Sure they are.

I think you missed a "t" in your username.