Okay…here goes. I’m going to divulge something I wouldn’t ordinarily EVER admit: I was watching last night’s UCLA-Tennessee game and I was rooting for…the Bruins. I know. There’s a little vomit in my mouth too. But if there’s one thing I loathe equally as much as those powder blue uniforms, it’s those enormous heads and cocky trash talking coming from the SUC…err…i mean SEC.
So here we go again. The 2007 SEC conference title contender comes over to our side of the country and blows the opener for the second year in a row against a mediocre Pac-10 team. Forgetting UCLA had a third string quarterback who threw four interceptions, what’s the excuse now, SEC? Alright…some SEC fans are sitting at their computers with blood-shot eyes, outraged, thinking ‘well we have three BCS championships right now, while you only have one.’ And LSU fans seem to have selective amnesia forgetting that it was a SPLIT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
But even National Champion/BCS controversy aside, the PAC-10 has been beating the SEC consistently in head-to-head matches since the turn of the millennium. And I don’t care how you try to spin the numbers, the SEC has been on the losing end of the head-to-head conference battles since 2000.
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Stormin’ Ormin, a blogger for foxsports, has done the homework and compiled a list of every head-to-head Pac-10/SEC matchup since 2000. The list is displayed below.
2000 Alabama 24, UCLA 35 {PAC10}
2001 UCLA 20, Alabama 17 {PAC10}
2002 Auburn 17, USC 24 {PAC10} Mississippi State 13, Oregon 36 {PAC102003 USC 23, Auburn 0 {PAC10} LSU 59, Arizona 13 {SEC} Oregon 42, Mississippi State 34 {PAC10}
2004 Oregon State 21, LSU 22 {SEC}
2005 Arkansas 17, USC 70 {PAC10} LSU 35, Arizona State 31 {SEC}
2006 USC 50, Arkansas 14 {PAC10} Washington State 14, Auburn 40 {SEC} Arizona 3, LSU 45 {SEC} California 18, Tennessee 35 {SEC}
2007 Tennessee 31, California 45 {PAC10}
*2008 UCLA 27, Tennessee 24 {PAC10}
The Pac-10 ends up with a *10-6 record against the SEC. So much for the speed and athleticism of the SEC catching up with them. The most alarming part is that if we take the two powerhouses, USC and LSU, out of the equation, the Pac-10 is *6-2 against the SEC.
Take out USC and LSU from the record and you can see that the other PAC-10 teams have been beating up on SEC teams consistently. So SEC, you can go on and claim that you have a better overall record historically against Pac-10 teams. That’s true, but not in the last eight years. Not NOW. So do yourselves a favor. I know, it’s hard. But why don’t you shut your gloating mouths, just for a second, and maybe try winning for a change.
NEXT Pac-10/SEC matchup? The (previously #1) Georgia Bulldogs visit the ASU Sun Devils on September 20th.
*All these numbers had been pre-2008, so I updated the info based on UCLA’s labor day win over Tennessee. To see Stormin’ Orman’s original post, follow this link.
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