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The SEC bias in College Baseball
After the field of 64 was announced there were a lot of upset Big-12 fans, count me among them. The selection committee invited nine teams from the SEC despite the fact that the conference is in decline and was ranked #4 in terms of RPI at the end of the season. Two particular points were hit hard in various reaction pieces. Both LSU and Georgia were given super-regional ...
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Georgia 18, Georgia Tech 6
Dawg Sports — ... , but the charge that S.E.C. baseball teams were given excessive credit compared to their Big 12 coevals was dealt considerable damage both by ...

Does the S.E.C. Benefit From a Baseball Bias?
Dawg Sports — ... , published a posting in which he charged that college baseball’s tournament selection committee is infused with a pro-S.E.C. bias. Although James characterized this as a "rant," he sold himself short, as his argument was articulate, intelligent, and temperate. In some respects, moreover, he undeniably was correct. ...

Growing College Baseball
And The Valley Shook — ... Over at Rock Chalk Talk , one of our sister blogs, James Quinn posted a story questioning the SEC's lofty placement in the tournament, with its two national seeds and its 9 invitations.   ...

College Baseball Musings
Dawg Sports — ... , James Quinn criticized the S.E.C., adding at the end: "Of course, SEC teams could go on a tear starting today and make me look like a complete idiot by next week." While nothing that extreme occurred, of course, ...

The Road Less Traveled: Recent Reflections on Out-of-Conference Scheduling
Dawg Sports — ... I asked the question, "Which four college football teams are the most overrated in 2008?" I concluded that two of the squads fitting that description were Big 12 teams, Kansas and Texas Tech, and this position drew some retorts from the B.C.S. league to our immediate left. Perhaps this should not have surprised me, as my criticisms of the Jayhawks and the Red Raiders came only a week after I answered the charge raised by Big 12 partisans that N.C.A.A. baseball suffered from a pro-S.E.C. bias. In any case, when my SB Nation ...

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