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The 2014-2015 NCAA Football Season Thread

Roller said:
I know that people tend to think that SEC schools aren't much academically. But Alabama at least is fairly highly rated. It will never match the top-tier private and public schools, but it's been ranked in the top 50 public universities for years, and its law school is rated #23 in the country by U.S. News and World report, just behind USC.

UAB, another school in the UA system, is also ranked highly, especially in health-related programs. (That's the one that had its football program terminated recently which could be the subject of its own thread!)
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Yeah I think it's just what kind of perspective you have too. Nationally, they are perfectly fine schools. It's when you're comparing them to the top schools in the country that people then make those claims.

So that's why when people say things along the lines of SEC schools aren't great academically, they're comparing them to really good schools. Alabama is fine, but academically it's not on the same level (or close to ) schools like Northwestern or Michigan, or really any of the schools in the B10. And the reason I mentioned the B10 is because of their requirement for schools (or at least used to be) to be AAU members.

ACC has a bunch too: Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia Tech, etc...

SEC has Florida, Vanderbilt, Missouri and Texas A&M. The last 2 coming from the Big 12 and are quite good academically.
 
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The SEC is hardly the worst, but I don't know if it is fair to lump a school as a whole in with the academic performance of their football players. Big public institutions with tens of thousands of students are always going to be weighted by the majority of students who aren't there on a football scholarship. I will say that Mississippi is certainly a travesty though...

I was surprised by the PAC12 academic rankings. The conference doesn't do great as a whole, but all of the California schools are in the top 25, which is pretty impressive.

The ACC also gets a bump in that chart because they included ND in their column, don't know if that counts.
 
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Great Bowl Season so far ! Boise State took care of business and earned a 3rd Fiesta Bowl victory ! and TCU showed they could have played with the best and FSU(Fumble State U) lost on National TV haha
 
I think Alabama's weakness has finally caught up to them - weak/poor secondary. Kiffin's play calling could be a bit more aggressive but these long balls are just killing Alabama. Also, it must frustrate Alabama that Ohio St. is not really doing anything fancy, it's the same run plays over and over and they can't stop it.

Going to be an interesting second half.
 
Ohio St. played better than Alabama but both were just beating up on each other on poor play, Cordale Jones in own territory and Blake Sims with two picks. I will be shocked if Oregon doesn't win their first NCAAF championship.
 
I hope the Ducks choose their most nightmarish looking uniforms, with all the glittery feather things, for the big game, to throw the Chestnut guys off balance.

Big vs. Pac, just like the good old fashioned Rose Bowl classic.
 
Who would have though that TA&M and Arkansas would be the only teams from the "dominant" SEC west to win their bowl games...


Alabama: L 42-35 to Ohio State
Mississippi State: L 49-34 to Georgia Tech
Ole Miss: L 42-3 to TCU
Auburn: L 34-31 (OT) to Wisconsin
LSU: L 31-28 to Notre Dame
 
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