8 or 9 seed likely gets the 1 seed in round 2. I’d rather be a 10 or 11 if you’re not gonna be 7 or above.
When it comes time I agree. I was only speaking to how far up the ladder we are right now safety wise. Long way to go though.
Agreed and I pegged the upcoming GA game as a loss in the SEC picks contest. Just have feeling about that one ending up poorly.
Yeah, I would think more of these projections are going to start coming into line with the metrics. You still have teams like South Carolina that are looking vastly overseeded based on Net, KenPom, etc. Palm has them up to a 3, and I get they have a good record, but they are sitting outside the top 40 for a reason.
As a fan still searching for the reason Missouri was invited in, I'm not seeing basketball prowess as the answer. This was a team that hadn't won a conference championship since 1994 (vacated postseason and all), and had only had 2 sweet 16 appearances since that forsaken season. Puts them above South Carolina and Georgia, but not above Vanderbilt as far as east teams go. Go GATORS! ,WESGATORS
I dont like Mizzou, so I'm not making a case for them, but I was always under the impression back in 2012 the reason they were invited was to expand the TV network or market for the SEC. I don't know who else was in the conversation at the time. I mean A&M is not exactly a powerhouse in any sport either right, they are middle of the pack and just average.
A big part of why Missouri got an invite was Bernie Machen. They were upset with the Big 12 and Machen was close to their leadership. The UF president carries a lot of weight.
of the remaining games, they have at Aubrin, @ Ole Miss, Tammy, slUT, and @ MSU. They could come back to earth
Mizzou = St Louis/Kansas City/Midwest markets TAMU= Texas market, tons of $$$ and a huge dedicated alumni base That was the thinking “Wes Chandler was Percy Harvin before Percy Harvin was born.”
When Texas joins the SEC the Texas/T A&M rivalry will be up there with Florida/Georgia and Bama/Auburn especially in football but also in all sports. Mizzou won't have a long term SEC rival.
Kansas is their rival in everything. They’ve played a few times since they moved, including the last three years.
Good call. That makes sense. I see that the Mizzou/KU rivalry renewed during the last three seasons. Before 2021, though, they hadn't played KU since their final year in the Big12 (2011). They play Illinois every year in basketball.
PITT won at UVA tonight. They were 60 NET coming in. Decent chance they could get to 50 still and give us another quad 1 win.
