Red I will have to give all points to you on this one

waiting to see if we hear from the left coast again :miles:

This is where I think you've left the reservation. Y'alls offense could only muster 19 points against Auburn's defense last season and they weren't even one of the better defenses in the SEC.

Yet you expect to score 28-31 pts against a much better LSU defense? How do you come up with this? Auburn limited your offense with ONLY having a good DL. The rest of their defense, especially their secondary was atrocious. Yet you expect to hang 28-31 on a defense that is stacked from the DL all the way back to the secondary? I don't follow your logic.

that's actually not true. the Pac 10 has 6 schools over 35K enrollment (ASU, Washington, Arizona, UCLA, USC, Cal), while the SEC only has 2 (Florida, Georgia). the rest of the schools of both conferences are in the 20k to 30k range, except for the three smallest schools: Washington State, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. For example, LSU has 29K while Oregon has 23K. The only conference that has a lot of huge schools is the Big Ten (7 schools over 40K)

the reason football is so big in the SEC is because the SEC has the biggest collection of great football programs. if you look at the 16 schools with the best all-time winning percentages in college football, the SEC has six of them (Bama, TN, GA, LSU, Auburn, FL). no other conference has more than 3: Big Ten has 3 (Ohio St, Michigan, Penn St), Big 12 has 3 (Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska), the ACC had 2 (FSU, Miami), the Pac Ten has 1 (USC). and you can take the two ACC schools off that list because they don't have as long as a history as those other schools: they've only played 700-900 games while the rest of those schools have played 1,100-1,200

of course the greatest football programs of all-time are going to have built up the greatest fanbases and the greatest support over the generations... and the SEC has the biggest collection of such programs

LSU in the last 10 years has beaten (OOC):
North Carolina
West Virginia
Virginia Tech
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Miami FL
Arizona
Arizona State
Oregon State
Washington
Georgia Tech
Illinois
Notre Dame

Only 4 losses OOC in the last 10:
Texas lost by 15
Iowa lost by 5 on a hail mary
Penn State lost by 2 fluke
Virginia Tech lost by 18

38-4 in OOC games in the last decade. None of the losses have been at Tiger Stadium, 1 has been in Dallas, 2 in Orlando, and 1 in Blacksburg.

Good points man...

I think another reason football is so big is the high school atmosphere in the south too. The southern states have a high rate of players making it into the NFL and you see a lot of people, like us, who will follow great kids even if they go to other schools....

All the ranting about stats and who has the better ooc record and whose team is bigger faster and stronger and my dad can beat up your dad, has little or nothing to do with the game in jerry world...

Yes, yes, yes and yes

what

So if Bama is fixing to play Troy the fact that Troy is smaller and has never had muck luck (maybe Troy is is bad example) against teams like Bama has nothing to do with the pre game talk ????? :wave::wave::wave::wave::wave: