Hey guy's, with the SEC way of doing the Conference championship games, what happens....
Is everything placed on the Conference record or the over all record ?
What happens when say one side has a down year and the other has a great year ?
Example :
Suppose Alabama and LSU have great years and go say 11-1 and on the other side Florida has a good enough year to win thier side of things at say 9-3.
LSU and Alabama should be playing for the CCG , not Florida. Is the better team in the other division just screwed because they can't play in the game ?
That doesn't seem fair .... Not sure I agree that the CCG's are always a good thing, I'm not a MONEY hungry type guy.
So Florida plays in this case and could be the champion with a inferior record over two other teams that are 2 games better ?
conference Record, Out of Conference games have no bearing on SEC standings, it's like they don't exist.
To win your division, you have to have the best conference record (cross-divisional games count).
Ties are settled by the Head to Head matchup, if there is a 3-way tie, then Divisional Record comes into play.
Back in the early days of the SEC divisions, the East tended to dominate, but that's evened out as the basement of the West has gotten better (the East's basement, Vanderbilt & Kentucky haven't) and Alabama got good again.
The ACC suffers a problem like that, as it's Coastal has been constantly better than it's Atlantic.
btw, in your example, since both Alabama & LSU are 11-1, the winner of their head to head matchup will go to the SEC Championship Game against Florida. Something like this happened once. LSU had a great record, and Georgia managed to win the East on a so so record. Everyone expected LSU to dominate because of that. Strange thing happened though, Georgia kicked LSU's ass. So you can't go off record, especially since everyone doesn't play everyone. In your example we know who is better between LSU & Alabama, but not between them & Florida, since Florida likely didn't play Alabama.
