I guess when your team is a consensus preseason top 5 team, you feel liberated.
He ain’t afraid of no Trojans:
“I can tell you that I would like nothing better than to play USC for the title,” Miles said in a speech that radio station WWL made available on its Web site.
Playing to an audience largely populated by LSU fans, Miles saw an opening for a chance to plug the strength of the SEC, calling into question the strength of the Pac-10 Conference, which USC calls home.
“I can tell you this, that they have a much easier road to travel,” Miles said of the Trojans. “They’re going to play real knockdown drag-outs with UCLA and Washington, Cal-Berkley, Stanford — some real juggernauts — and they’re going to end up, it would be my guess, in some position so if they win a game or two, that they’ll end up in the title (game). I would like that path for us.
“I think the SEC provides much stiffer competition.”
He thinks there ought to be a special rule for the SEC champ:
Miles said Auburn was the victim of an injustice and repeated his assertion that an unbeaten SEC champion should play for a national championship.
He’s not afraid of what an eight team D-1 playoff would mean for the SEC, either.
There’s little doubt Miles thinks there would be a strong SEC presence in an eight-team college football playoff unless the field were limited to conference champions.
“There’d probably be at least four SEC teams in the top eight,” Miles said.
At least.
Did I mention that he’s not impressed with Southern Cal?
Miles came from a Big Ten background too. Expecting him to lay roses at the feet of the Trojans, especially after his comments about USC having a suspect schedule, would have been foolhardy.
“Should something be done about SC?” Miles said. “Yeah. It might just have to be the system first, though.”
Pretty impressive talk for a guy that’s never won a SECCG to date.
(h/t The Wizard of Odds)
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July 2, 2007 at 1:05 pm
[...] Usually it’s left to Tommy Tuberville to stick his foot in his mouth about a tough schedule or an unfair system before they actually play the games. Now it’s Les Miles’ turn. Miles, who doesn’t have an SEC title to his name yet, is already knocking down other preseason contenders and flashing his SEC membership card (H/T: Get the Picture). [...]