What's the point of this thread? Just showing how crappy it's been for 2 teams arbitrarily thrown together.
The matchups in bold are the 2 games holding the rest of the conference hostage. And good on them, those are the 2nd and 3rd-toughest cross-division opponents since division play began.
But Florida was randomly tasked with playing a school 3 states over, who's been the toughest opponent, when looking at it from those teams with the advantage thus far. Yeah, that stinks.
But let's look at it from the angle of those behind at the moment:
Alabama (.718) over Tennessee, 17-10-1
Arkansas (.515) over Carolina, 13-10
Georgia (.719) over Auburn, 17-11-1
Florida (.737) over LSU, 16-12
Miss State (.509) over Kentucky, 18-10
Ole Miss (.522) over Vanderbilt, 18-10
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Well damn, we see again - the precious matchups have the 2nd and 3rd-toughest programs to overcome. And LSU, minding its business, get saddled with playing the top program since '92. Because...why?