Carolina Dawg: July 2007

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

SEC vs. Big 12 Challenge

Over on OrangePower we have been having a discussion on a SEC/Big 12 challege to start of the season for all 12 teams from the Big 12 and the SEC. I of course had to weigh in on this .

I would love to see something like this.

The scheduling would be easy.

Big12 North vs Sec West
Big12 South vs Sec East

Do this 2 years...home and away.
Next 2 years Switch it up

Big 12 North vs. SEC East
Big 12 South vs. SEC West

The teams Play say in 2007 with their rankings in their division from 2006 determing who plays who.
Big12 South #1 vs. SEC East #1
(Oklahoma) vs. (Florida) using 2006 finishing order.

This would be a great thing for college football. It could easily be scheduled for the first game of the Season as we all have non-conference games scheduled that week.

This is something I would love to see, lets here your thoughts.

Monday, July 9, 2007

SEC vs Pac-10

Seems that everyone in the Pac-10 wants to talk about how tough their conference is compared to the SEC. They point to out of conference schedules to prove how tough they are and the SEC people point to in conference schedules.

I decided to do somethings a little different and take 1-10 from the Pac-10 and match them up with 1-10 from the SEC. I did not use conference rankings for this, instead I looked at the teams toatal winning percentage from 2006.

Here are the match-ups.

1. Florida vs. USC (Florida win) gets the nod by being National Champ.

2.LSU vs. California (LSU win)

3.Oregon State vs. Auburn (Auburn win)

4.Arkansas vs. UCLA (UCLA win)

5.Tennesee vs. Oregon (Tenn. win)

6. Georgia vs. Arizona State (Ga. win)

7. Kentucky vs. Washington State (Wash. St. win)

8. Arizona vs. South Carolins (SC win)

9. Washington vs. Alabama (Bama win)

10. Ole Miss vs. Stanford (Ole Miss win)

With this I see the SEC going 8-2. Note that all of this is subjective, but what shows to me is that SEC is a much deeper conference than the Pac-10. The Pac-10 has Southern Cal as it's only elite team and 2-3 good teams, Cal, UCLA, Oregon. After that the PAC really drops off. Elite teams in the SEC Florida, Georgia, Auburn, LSU(Only SEC champs since 2000), good teams in the sec Arkansas, Tennesee, Alabama, South Carolina, and the our lower level teams, and even those could compete with the "good" teams in the Pac-10. The SEC after this comparison is a much tougher conference than the Pac-10. Disagree?? Post your thoughts!

Friday, July 6, 2007

AJ Green on Television

Any Georgia fans out there who might want to get a chance to see one of our top recruits for the 2008 class play. Well nows your chance. On August 24, 2007 the Summerville Greenwave will be playing Miami's Booker T Washington HS on either ESPN or ESPN2. The game features 2 teams who are expected to compete for the State Title for their respective states. Summerville features consensus top 5 college recruit WR AJ Green(5 star) , along with standout QB Reid McCollum(3 star) who has commited to play for South Carolina. Miami commitment Thearon Collier (3 star) WR and DB Brandon Harris(4 star) will start for Booker T Washington.