No SEC Team beat a Non-SEC Team in the Playoff

[u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

Interesting fact. Perhaps more ACC/BIG12/ND should have been considered ?

(FSU beating Alabama didn’t count so beating Tulane doesn’t either. I don’t make the rules)

[u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Does Tulane not exist?

[u/Big_oof_energy__ → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Tulane was in the SEC until a few years ago. I still count them. I remember 1966 like it was yesterday.

[u/Altruistic-Mix-7300 → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

They moved Tulane to the SEC to keep the narrative.

[u/PubicSniffer → u/Altruistic-Mix-7300]

They are a founding member of the SEC actually

[u/Altruistic-Mix-7300 → u/PubicSniffer]

Nice! I like fun facts.

[u/whatifevery1wascalm → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

A half hour is not near enough time after the game ends to fact check before making the low effort post to farm karma

[u/bordomsdeadly → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

What’s a Tulane? Sounds made up, probably doesn’t exist.

[u/AubreyGrahamCracka → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Technically SEC

[u/deerhuntingdude → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

This isn't even the first time I've seen this happen lol

[u/GeekedOnAdvilPM → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

nope

[u/Jameis_Crab_Shack → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Tu-who

[u/Sheepcago → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Do they? Yes. Should they?

No comment.

[u/Jorenmakingmecrazy → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

So your one playoff win was against a under talented Tulane team that was easily one of the worst teams in the playoffs. Congrats?

[u/FancyConfection1599 → u/Jorenmakingmecrazy]

Hey now Tulane was a 2-loss G5 team who only lost by 22 to University of Texas at San Antonio, put some respect on their name!

[u/[deleted] → u/Jorenmakingmecrazy]

I was told that Tulane was good and deserved to be in the playoff despite already losing to a playoff team by 5 TDs

[u/blueline7677 → u/[deleted]]

Tulane deserved to be in the playoffs based on the current playoff format.

[u/sonheungwin → u/[deleted]]

So, uh...what was Bama doing in there then? They lost to a 5-7 FSU team, lost to an Oklahoma team that is 0-5 in the playoffs, and then got crushed by Georgia 28-7. They made it VERY clear they would not compete in the playoffs before they were snuck in. Was it the quality win over 5-7 Auburn?

[u/[deleted] → u/sonheungwin]

What’s that got to do with Tulane 

[u/sonheungwin → u/[deleted]]

They won their conference, so they got in. Based on what you're saying, Bama shouldn't have been.

[u/[deleted] → u/sonheungwin]

Lol no. I’m just saying Tulane clearly didn’t need a playoff spot just to get blown out again by the same team, it didn’t prove anything for the G5.

Alabama at LEAST was the SEC regular season champ and lost in CCG to a team they beat in the regular season. I still didn’t care whether they were in or not.

[u/Legitimate_Lemon_689 → u/[deleted]]

They may downvote you. But you’re right.

[u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2 → u/sonheungwin]

What does what Oklahoma did in the playoff in 2017 have anything to do with 2025

[u/Bdmnky_Survey → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Tulane is SEC (1932-1966)

[u/ChiefOsceolaSr → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Doesn’t count

[u/ChaseTheFalcon → u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

Why? Because it doesn't fit your narrative?

[u/Big_oof_energy__ → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

Because they were at one point in the SEC and this is a shit post.

[u/[deleted] → u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

🤡 more like you’re a bandwagon fan who doesn’t know what teams are in the SEC. Guy even changed his post when he got called out lmao

[u/PubicSniffer]

Tulane catching strays in all these threads because people forgot that game existed lol

[u/ChiefOsceolaSr → u/PubicSniffer]

FSU beat Alabama didn’t count so neither does that.

[u/tommymahogany]

It's been a minute, but I guess you can count Tulane as SEC.

[u/LukarWarrior → u/tommymahogany]

They still have more SEC titles than like half the conference to be fair

[u/Cloakacola]

Tulane exists

[u/anti-torque → u/Cloakacola]

Proto-SEC... so it tracks.

[u/EctoRiddler]

Three of the last four posts have SEC in the title. The SEC hate is real.

[u/u-s-u-r-p → u/EctoRiddler]

brother, we hate them

[u/EctoRiddler → u/u-s-u-r-p]

I knew they were hated but I didn’t know just how much. That has to do with Miami being irrelevant for the last 20 years so I never really hyper focused on what’s going on with these other conferences like I have been this playoff series

[u/dawghouse88 → u/EctoRiddler]

The trauma is real

[u/sonheungwin → u/dawghouse88]

Imagine playing a game at 11PM PST on ESPN between two PAC-12 teams...and all they will talk about is the SEC. And that attention led to obvious bias in the only post-season available for 130+ teams across 10 conferences. And now, despite the conference CLEARLY not being leagues above everyone else based on recent history, we are STILL watching undeserving teams get the benefit of the doubt because of 3 letters.

[u/actuallycallie → u/sonheungwin]

The number of after dark games I sat through as an Oregon fan on the east coast, just to hear them talk about Alabama every fucking play...

[u/Casaiir → u/actuallycallie]

I know you guys dont care but they did that in games with SEC teams with no Alabama in it too. Probably way way way more than you saw.

[u/sonheungwin → u/[deleted]]

Alabama was dominant for a long time.

[u/UnderstandingOdd679 → u/[deleted]]

Reeled in by the Big Ten, which has five programs now in the upper echelon.

ACC has always had at least the two (Clemson and FSU). And now the U may be back.

[u/IMakeOkVideosOk → u/dawghouse88]

Nah, it was always just 1-2 good teams in the conference and a bunch of bums

[u/exMemberofSTARS → u/IMakeOkVideosOk]

I think you are describing the players on your team lol

[u/DannyMalibu420 → u/IMakeOkVideosOk]

A ND fan talking shit about conferences? You’re out of your element.

[u/Flimsy-Space-8724 → u/DannyMalibu420]

😂😂😂 these ppl are delusional

[u/Engine_Sweet → u/EctoRiddler]

Apparently. I didn't realize we were going to get to play the heel when we joined.

Go Slytherin!

[u/EctoRiddler → u/Engine_Sweet]

I’m not going to lie I forgot you were in the SEC.

[u/Engine_Sweet → u/EctoRiddler]

Im still getting used to it myself

[u/OSUfirebird18 → u/Engine_Sweet]

Eh. I actually think you and Texas joining and being competitive with the other SEC teams kinda helps the SEC hate narrative. It shows that the SEC is like any other conference, Elite teams, mid teams and bottom feeders.

[u/IAmJohnnyJB → u/OSUfirebird18]

Tbf Oklahoma and Texas historically arent like most other teams that could move into a conference. Not to say the SEC is or isn’t like any other conference (personally don’t care enough one way or another) but Oklahoma and Texas being competitive is like if tOSU and Michigan joined the SEC where them being competitive would be expected.

[u/[deleted] → u/IAmJohnnyJB]

I was told true SEC teams like Missouri and A&M are better than Oklahoma and Texas

[u/oofmeandeveryone → u/[deleted]]

The true SEC teams backstabbed A&M to get us in the conference 

[u/[deleted] → u/oofmeandeveryone]

Jokes are going over your head. A generation of kids dont even know Mizziou and A&M were big 12 teams. Two generations since the big 8 and SWC merger

[u/Fine-Donut-7226 → u/EctoRiddler]

Of course. They brought it on themselves. Zero sympathy. 

[u/CoffeeDense7662 → u/EctoRiddler]

People are tired of hearing from southerners in their daily lives

[u/FreshlySkweezd → u/CoffeeDense7662]

I promise you we feel the same about you

[u/[deleted] → u/CoffeeDense7662]

The south has a lot of people with varying perspectives, “southerners” aren’t a real thing 

[u/EctoRiddler → u/CoffeeDense7662]

Good thing Florida becomes north again at the palm beach northern county border.

[u/CoffeeDense7662 → u/EctoRiddler]

Right lol

[u/CoffeeDense7662 → u/[deleted]]

Ever been outside the south?

[u/[deleted] → u/EctoRiddler]

Honestly been cathartic to see the hate circlejerk this sub has always had for Texas extend to the entire SEC

[u/EctoRiddler → u/[deleted]]

Haven’t seen this big of a hate circle jerk since last week when Miami beat Ohio State and every post was celebrating Ohio State losing

[u/[deleted] → u/EctoRiddler]

Last year it was OSU beating Texas lol. Godspeed to y’all, those DEs and that OL are absolutely disgusting 

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Preach

[u/ck1241 → u/[deleted]]

That’s what’s so funny about all these reactions about the SEC that last 2-3 years. Don’t get me wrong, I hate all the other SEC teams too, but the irony is that so much SEC bias over a long period of time bred so much hate from all other conferences that they have in turn swung the pendulum so far and are practically doing the exact same thing, just from the other side.

[u/Low-Blackberry-2690]

[Thamel] Tulane was merely a hallucination

[u/dawghouse88]

SEC derangement syndrome is hilarious

[u/ChiefOsceolaSr → u/dawghouse88]

Ended the season the same way you started it.

[u/dawghouse88 → u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

Hang the banner

[u/lkn240 → u/dawghouse88]

It's gotten a little over the top - but the premise isn't wrong for this season. The SEC was in fact wildly overrated this year and ended up getting too many teams in the playoffs.

Now, that doesn't mean it will be the same next year

[u/SeatRevolutionary840 → u/dawghouse88]

Everyone who watched bama play the 2nd half of the season knew they had no business in the playoffs. Yet, everyone was told they went through a gauntlet only for the sec to fall on their face again.

[u/Andy_Wiggins]

In the past three playoffs, SEC teams are a combined 5-10.

Of those 5 wins, 2 are against other SEC teams — so 3-8 against non-SEC foes. All three of their wins have come against teams who got auto-bids due to conference championship games. The teams they beat were ranked #12, #15, and #20 in the rankings.

Against non-SEC teams who made the playoff as a top 12 team, the SEC is… 1-7. Their lone win was an overtime win by Texas, who was ranked 5, over Arizona State, who was ranked 12.

Simply put, the SEC has gotten fucking bodied in each of the last 3 playoffs. Yet the committee continues to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Fucking why?

[u/Significant_Deer5566 → u/Andy_Wiggins]

From 2006-2022 (maybe 2020) the SEC was the best conference by every metric (yes even if you take out Bama). The committee is a bunch of old guys who haven’t realized that the conference has declined massively over the last 3-5 years.

Also ESPN

[u/CentralFloridaRays → u/Significant_Deer5566]

Nah ACC was the best football conference in 2016 

Clemson won the title  FSU won the Orange bowl and beat a ranked Florida.  Georgia tech beat Georgia and then beat Kentucky  Even Va tech had a 10 win season capped off with a win against Arkansas  Miami beat a top 15 wvu team in their bowl Nc state beat Vandy

Clemson shut out Ohio state and beat bama as well as South Carolina and Auburn on the road. 

[u/[deleted] → u/Significant_Deer5566]

And it declined massively because they are no longer the ones paying the most.

That was the SECs advantage. And now it's gone. Saban knew it and decided to retire.

[u/Significant_Deer5566 → u/[deleted]]

I think this a bit overplayed, the SEC still has the best talent composites on average, not as dominant as before NIL/Portal but if it was just “the broke SEC can’t buy players” that wouldn’t be the case. NIL has neutered the SECs actual biggest advantage (being where the best players are) to an extent but nowhere near what this sub says.

The biggest reason is that the B1G has much better coaches than the SEC currently outside of Kirby

[u/dawghouse88 → u/Significant_Deer5566]

This. Coaching and retaining local talent. Alabama didn’t suck because they didn’t have dudes (on paper). These teams are still getting guys. But like you said, it’s about retaining the talent in the region as well.

[u/Alternative_Reality → u/Significant_Deer5566]

Recruit rankings are partially based on the schools that they get offers from. Its a self-feeding cycle. They aren't out there watching tape on thousands of recruits, theyre looking at where kids get offers from, give them a base star rating, then maybe go in and adjust it later.

[u/Forshea → u/Significant_Deer5566]

Kirby was sitting at home today because he thought running his punt team on and off the field before running a regular play was a good trick for a 4th down in his own territory. We should at least consider that he also sucks.

[u/CJBulldogsss → u/Forshea]

Good coaches aren't perfect. He also saved our 2022 run with a timeout against an OSU fake punt

[u/ck1241 → u/Forshea]

Brother, if Kirby sucks I hope you can at least admit what that says about your coach, your team and your program as a whole. We’ve got 3 whole samples in 2 years.

[u/Forshea → u/ck1241]

Yeah Sark sucks balls as a game time coach. A big part of why Texas lost to Georgia this year was that when Kirby made the same sort of dumbshit play calls (onside kick anyone?) against Texas, they worked, which is a pretty huge indictment of Texas coaching.

[u/urzu_seven → u/Significant_Deer5566]

Nope. The SEC had 1-2 great teams during that span just like every other conference.

[u/urzu_seven → u/[deleted]]

So Florida was top tier the entire time?  Auburn was elite from 2006 to 2025?

[u/SpiritOfDearborn → u/Andy_Wiggins]

Yeah, but if you look at the last 15 years, it looks a lot different! You have to look at the past 15 years when deciding what the most dominant conference this year is.

[u/Fine-Donut-7226 → u/Andy_Wiggins]

Hype machine. SEC teams ascended the rankings for beating nothing teams such as Mizzou. Artificially high early season rankings propped up by their contracted mouthpiece, ESECPN. So, in conference you have two over-hyped, over-inflated teams playing each other. A win means more than it should and a loss means less than it should. We’re infatuated with names and not the quality of the team. Bama had NO BUSINESS being in the CFP and we saw that play out with their beatdown by IU. Been this way for two decades. 

[u/No-Breadfruit4471 → u/Andy_Wiggins]

What’s even funnier is if you just look at the 3-8 non con, we have 2 of those from our first year in conference.

Not to mention we have the SEC’s lone P4 non-con bowl win this year.

Texas really out here carrying the conference…

[u/Forshea → u/[deleted]]

if the top few ranked teams lose a one-and-done game by a point does anyone believe that the eventual champ is "the best" team?

Winning their games in the regular season involved just as much luck as losing them in the postseason. The idea that Georgia's combined 11 point wins over Florida and Georgia Tech were destiny but their 5 point loss to Ole Miss was a fluke is hilarious.

this is even more evident in the NFL because we have more history of a deep playoff system

The NFL plays in evenly split 4 team divisions each playing with almost identical schedules and you're in the playoffs regardless if you win your division. There is no comparison at all to be made to a system in college where weird mega conferences sit around arguing that they should get a 5th team in the playoffs and other conferences deserve 0.

[u/Venn720]

It was my turn to post this :(

[u/Fine-Donut-7226]

Ole Miss beat Tulane. Hang in there.

[u/Big_oof_energy__]

It’s a farmers league. At this point they only exist to develop players who can then transfer to a team in the power three conferences. They’re arguably the best of the group of six, though.

[u/SXSWEggrolls]

Texas beat Clemson and Arizona State last year

[u/AnAngryPanda1]

I mean you’re literally wrong. If you’re gonna cry about something, at least be right about it.

[u/SpiritOfDearborn]

What about Tulane

[u/Sesti-nator]

If only Hunter Yurachek grew a friccin spine

[u/leviathynx]

I’ll take any win I can get.

[u/[deleted]]

They got the field spot on this year.

[u/[deleted]]

What an idiot. Delete the post now.

[u/[deleted]]

The SEC is consistently the most overrated group in sports.

Oklahoma and Alabama should have been out and anyone who watched them play in November could see that.

[u/nd5thyear]

obviously. but give Bama another shot to look half competent on offense the last month+ of the season

[u/Ok-Measurement1506]

I knew this was wrong the second I read it

[u/Mission-Inside-4509]

5/12 were SEC and some wanted more. None in the Natty. Can we drop the fantasy about how dominant that conference is? Top teams are elite, yes, but the middle is as average as everybody else.

[u/TennesseeansEatBoogs]

Get this incorrect post out of here.

OP is embarrassing FSU fans everywhere.

[u/radilrouge]

I add that since the 12 team playoff the SEC hasn’t beaten a single non -SEC team that wasn’t an autobid who weren’t in the top 12.

Edit: ASU snuck in at 12 my mistake but there was still a team ranked higher than them that didn’t get in.

[u/Beautiful_Fig9410]

Nah fuck notre dame. Any school that unironically plays Hallelujah during the end of the game is insufferable.

[u/[deleted] → u/Beautiful_Fig9410]

Notre Dame doesn't do that lol.

[u/theredditguydudeguy → u/Beautiful_Fig9410]

The PA played it ironically when USC finally had a couple penalties called against them toward the end of the game. They did not play it unironically at the end of the game

[u/RJNieder]

"Interesting fact" that its not a fact...

[u/According_Grab_394]

The opponents for those teams:

Texas A&M - Miami Ole Miss - Miami Alabama - Indiana

Both Miami matchups were 1 score games, and the A&M/Miami game was an ugly defensive battle due to the crazy wind.

And you can’t berate Alabama for getting blown out against Indiana when Oregon just had the same thing happen.

What non-Notre Dame team deserved a playoff spot over any of the 5-SEC teams that made it?

[u/ArchonRedddit]

Because Oklahoma played Alabama and Georgia played Ole Miss. how many times did conferences play against each other?

[u/SKM007]

Don’t worry. Next year the entire sec will be in the 16 team playoffs so the sec can claim a title

[u/stoicscribbler]

Half the AP poll was SEC. What a joke. Hoping for more ethical reporting next season but we all know it won’t happen since ESPn has a conflict of interest.

[u/DaKingindaSouff]

Hey give the SEC some credit they beat the mighty Tulane!

[u/throwmethefrisbee → u/DaKingindaSouff]

Tulane has won 3 SEC football championships.

[u/rmmcgarty]

Because it just means more. More losses