Let's pretend we took the 2019 SBC All Conference Football Team members and created a 15th SEC team. This would include first, second, and third All SBC teams, but would not include the honorable mentions. That would put us around our scholarship limit. This team would be coached by SBC Coach of the Year Billy Napier.

Let's also pretend this team would play all 14 SEC teams on a neutral field over the course of a season, and then all teams would be ranked best to worst from 1 to 15. Where would you see this team finishing? Feel free to "show your work!"

(04-17-2020 04:45 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  Let's pretend we took the 2019 SBC All Conference Football Team members and created a 15th SEC team. This would include first, second, and third All SBC teams, but would not include the honorable mentions. That would put us around our scholarship limit. This team would be coached by SBC Coach of the Year Billy Napier.

Let's also pretend this team would play all 14 SEC teams on a neutral field over the course of a season, and then all teams would be ranked best to worst from 1 to 15. Where would you see this team finishing? Feel free to "show your work!"

I love the idea, but I think it's a lot like the "could alabama beat the lions" or "could LSU beat an XFL team" arguments. Too many variables.

However, I'll make some assumptions. If this is a one time club, I would say they get slaughtered. Program cohesiveness matters, and I don't think an "All-State" style group would be very good until year 3 or 4. If that were the case, for sake of this imaginary discussion, new recruits would be made of more All-SBC guys and not SEC recruits.

If we were to say 18 returning starters, 4+ years of experience as a program in the SEC using the SBC's best as a feeder system, I think they lose one, two, maybe three conference games. The coaching staffs, and university resources would be too much for a title, I think. If you look at APP's recent run at roughly #18 to #22, an all conference teams with 4 year feeder system could get ranked around 8 to 10. An all conference team with zero years experience and zero returning starters would probably be second or third in the Sun Belt. They would take a few hits early, I think, but destroy every sun belt team late in the season. Then again, that type of intensity and leadership could make up for a lot early, so who knows.