http://mrsec.com/2012/06/sec-headlines-622012/ Up to the minute SEC football and basketball news Sun, 26 May 2013 05:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://mrsec.com/2012/06/sec-headlines-622012/comment-page-1/#comment-76432 10Vol85 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:22:51 +0000 http://www.mrsec.com/?p=255626#comment-76432 I’ll save you the trouble.  Here are the seasons in which the AP had the best 4 teams pre-bowl as judged by the AP post-bowl:
1978, 1982, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2005
That’s out of a possible 45 seasons (1965, 1968-2011)
FWIW, in 1999 the top 4 were in the correct order as well.

]]> http://mrsec.com/2012/06/sec-headlines-622012/comment-page-1/#comment-76424 10Vol85 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:44:51 +0000 http://www.mrsec.com/?p=255626#comment-76424 “best 4 teams” -  So, why don’t you run the numbers from the mid-60s, when the AP started voting again after the bowls up through 1997 before the BCS was implemented (locking down the top two).  Use the AP as a surrogate for the BCS to see just how many times the best 4 teams (as indicated by the final poll – the more accurate of the two polls) would have been selected (as indicated by the pre-bowl poll – which would have been used to select the teams for a playoff).  I bet the results would show that the “best 4 teams” would have been selected very few times.

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