Considering over half of SC's conference championships were shared anyway, and that in 3 of the 4 seasons we did not reach the SEC Championship Game we were one game away from it (Auburn in '06 and '04; and Arkansas, Auburn or Bama in '02; Auburn in '00), how much difference in the quality of conference competition do you think it would take to eliminate that margin of conference titles? And considering that one more loss in either of what you deem their "National Championship" seasons (by a team that has managed only one undefeated seasons anyway) would have completely eliminated them from consideration, and that LSU was one more win away from a shot at the National Championship Game in '06, is it really a stretch to "objectively" conclude that even a slight difference in strength of conference competition could be responsible for a weaker SC program purportedly equalling a superior LSU program in number of National Titles?

Does it really take an NFL-to-Pop Warner margin of competition to account for one more or less win in 3 or 4 seasons over the course of a decade?

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Posted by AlexLSU

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Posted on 1/9/09 at 2:00 pm to King Joey

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Considering over half of SC's conference championships were shared anyway, and that in 3 of the 4 seasons we did not reach the SEC Championship Game we were one game away from it (Auburn in '06 and '04; and Arkansas, Auburn or Bama in '02; Auburn in '00), how much difference in the quality of conference competition do you think it would take to eliminate that margin of conference titles?

No one has the correct answer for a conference determining a champion:

SEC - You play a championship game. However, if you're someone like Bama this year, you get to avoid certain teams in the regular season. Say LSU had two SEC losses (UF and UGA) and Bama only had one (LSU), well, Bama would go to the SECCG without ever having to play someone like UF. I like our conference's way of doing things better, but it's not perfect.

Pac-10 - You play every single team. You don't play a conference championship game, which is typically playing one of the top conference teams again, but what if the Pac-10 did have a championship game, what if USC avoided Oregon St in the regular season? USC would have gone undefeated and played Oregon, who they crushed, in the conference championship game.

You can't clearly say one is better than the other because both have strong and weak points.

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