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It’s more than that. If it were up to them they’d have 6 teams in the 22 team playoff--because they are used to automatically getting 50% of the participants in the previous formats SEC always gets to make excuses for bad losses because of the patch on the front of their jerseys. Indiana loses by 10 on the road to Notre dame and everyone says they don’t belong-- Georgia loses by 13 to Notre dame in a dome in the SOUTH and everybody got excuses -oh they had too much time off. Please
There are two things going on with the SEC. First, the rosters are not as deep as years past because of NIL and the portal. Second, for decades the entire conference has been leeching glory off of whichever two teams are at the top of the conference. I disagree that the middle and the bottom are better. Quite the opposite. The middle and the bottom are the same as every other conference.
Of the 13 titles the SEC has won since 2006, Alabama has 6. Like you said, this is basically Alabama and then a few schools have a great year here and there.
@kylegross1081 The SEC dominated yes because the6had bought all the best talent😂.mostly underhand dealings. SABAN retired because he saw the writing on the wall. He probably got tired of having to give up all them cars tooo.. 😂😂😂😂
@@roywall8169 there's 5 teams in the SEC won national titles in the past 20 yrs not counting TX or OK, 4 multiple titles lol Big Ten 2 total titles, wtf r you talking about
@@K1ll0watt Sabin has 7( 6 at bama 1 at LSU)..and urban Mayer had 2( urban also has one at osu in that time) so of the 13 sec titles in 20 years, 9 belong to 2 coaches and smart just won 2 that’s 11…alburn bought one with cam newton( well documented) and Joe burrow one… no the sec is not been good 3 coaches have and Nick Saban was the sec… The big 10 has 2 osu titles one in 2001 and 2014 and um has one, Mich lost one and osu lost 3 or 4 nattys don’t act like the big 10 has not been great, it’s just saban has been better than anyone. The sec is bad without saban and urban Meyer….and it will be bad without him, as no sec team made the natty last year and won’t make it this year.. and there back up big 10 will have 2 nattys WITH TWO DIFF TEAMS and next year the ducks will win the natty… It proves the big 10 is better and has always been better, it’s just BAMA and saban has been dominate for The last 20 years , the rest of the sec has been avg with one other good team a year like every other conference.. But get ready, the SEC is gonna be the big 12 and bad like it used to be in the 90 - one or two good years, without saban welcome back to parity
Ship sailed...... They literally dominated the Big 10 in regular season blowing them out in every match up but the one they won against LSU in the last second
@@tonyduckett5315 all teams are different in post season with the transfer portal and opt outs...... You can't compare a team with most of its starters out vs a team with them because they are different. That's the problem with the NCAA now it's basically 2 separate season with completely different teams.
@@fodetoure1576 How is my logic flawed? The SEC only has one team left in the playoffs and Texas is more than likely still only in due to the refs not calling an obvious targeting, thus preventing a possible game winning field goal by Arizona. Even Saban retired because he knew with NIL, the glory days of Alabama are over, at least temporarily. Alabama got smashed by Oklahoma, then beat by Michigan. Tennessee got smashed by Ohio State. Georgia was dominated by Notre Dame. South Carolina beat by Illinois. By what standard are the mid and lower SEC standouts. Not by playing weaken top level SEC teams. Not by beating teams like Mercer. South Florida, Western Kentucky, UTSA, UL Monroe, Tennessee Tech, Massachusetts, Chattanooga, etc.
2:21 Nope. The middle of the SEC WASN'T superior to other conferences, especially the B1G. Florida beat non-Power-5 team Tulane. BFD. Vandy beat 7-5 GaTech by one score. BFD. Oklahoma isn't a good example; they lost to Navy. Meanwhile: Missouri had to come back from down 10 to beat Iowa by 3. Alabama, which had been overrated all season, lost to 7-5 and unranked Michigan. South Carolina, which had been overrated all season, lost to Illinois. Texas A&M, which had been overrated all season, lost to 6-6 and unranked USC. Tennessee, which had been overrated all season, got crushed by Ohio State. In the minds of SEC fans, when Alabama loses to Oklahoma, it's because the SEC is so strong, and when Ohio State lost to Michigan, it's because the B1G is so weak. The bowl games put an end to that nonsense.
Most of the SEC bowl games had ranked SEC teams against unranked teams, and the SEC still did poorly. Most years have SEC teams playing inferior teams in bowl games. It is easier to win a game when you are a step above them.
They're ALWAYS overrated. Not that some members haven't been very good in the past, it's just that it's only been one or two while the media spews constant propaganda that the whole conference is so much stronger than it actually is. This always starts with high preseason rankings setting a false floor. Then when teams lose to each other they don't drop as much as they should because of the built-in false idea that it was a "good loss." That's why you get teams like South Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Alabama and Georgia being ranked better than they actually are throughout the season.
They were also overrated last year as a conference. The SEC homers still hang on to thinking that GA would’ve beat Michigan in 2023 playoffs. Delusional.
First off. Bama had a lot of their stars in. Michigan had none. And they still pushed them around. I've been saying it for years. Once players get NIL money. SEC is going to see a massive drop off. They've been paying players behind closed doors for who knows how long and yes other schools did also I'm sure. But not to the extent. Now it's a even playing field. And frankly, the other conferences has more money. Better universities, better tv deals.. the Big Ten is going to take over. Ohio State is always good. Oregon has Nike money, Penn State and wisconsins produces the most CEOs. USC and UCLA has LA money. Michigan is Michigan.. There's a reason Saban waa a failure at the NFL level. A .500 ball coach at Michigan State and then never had a losing record in the SEC. He also bailed once he knew what NIL would do. 😂 Ruin his legacy.
And the SEC dominated them in the regular season every time they met but once........ If Big 10 was the best and the SEC crushed them what does that make the SEC
The SEC has been over rated since the 2000s!! The only way to prove that the conference was worth the hype was to have a playoff. It is being exposed now with the CFP!
I guess we are all fooled by ESPN's narrative on how strong SEE's schedule. I predict ESPN's TV rating will go down south next year because now SEC is no longer the best conference in college football.
Yeah. It’s because the sec for the longest time was paying players under the table and getting away with it and now that there’s an even playing field it’s all over
@@ultragator724 Yea, but now BIG JIM’s Used Cars in Greenbo, Alabama cannot buy the best DE in the country for $10,000. It is legal now and these northern colleges have alumni with REAL money, not used car money. It is over, the labor can now participate in capitalism. Tenn has real money, and oil money from A&M or Tex Tech might come into play.
If they are overrated then so is the Big 10......since SEC I regular season dominated Big 10 4-1......Big 10 flipped it in post season. Just took every SEC team having a crap ton of opt outs for them to beat em
@@sat62183sure Alabama went up against a team that the defense was gutted. Graham, grant, Stewart, Johnson, Moore. Offensively they were missing their 2 RB’s. Number one TE and number 1 WR. They never had a QB and the make a wish kid got knocked out during ff the game. Bama started their same QB as all season. They stunk up the field. Bama didn’t even play the same team ohio did. It was a shell of its former self.
The SEC doesn’t have the two deep as much anymore due to paying players being legal now. 😂 weird how when things are more evenly fair results show the truth
Once programs gained ability to pay players through NIL and transfers stopped having to sit out, SEC IMMEDIATELY took a nosedive cuz their “under the table” illegal payment plans were neutralized, no longer allowing them to trap 3-5 stars on their 2nd string. That and Saban’s exit (probs best coach in history) spells a return to last century’s mediocrity, or worse, for the entire SEC. Long overdue comeuppance on the horizon.
I think what it proves is they have garbage coaches, and since they can't hoard talent with NIL and the transfer portal, there won't be so much Southern dominance in the game going forward.
No, you cannot revisit the conversation if Texas wins it all because they just joined the conference. All it's going to say is the conference Texas just left,is stronger
The SEC will fall in quality because, there is no longer a Darth Vader at Alabama and, they have nothing to strive to. Every SEC team strove to beat and model themselves after Alabama. Now? You have milk toast Deboer that no team is going to strive to be.
This Bama team was as unpredictable as the lottery. Bottem line, we got outcoached - outplayed by better motivated teams. NIL to a large degree has "Evened" the spread of the best players. The better planned, prepared, Coached and motivated teams will be the difference maker going forward. rtr...... :(
This disappointment of the SEC says nothing about the teams; it's more about pundits in sports thinking and analyzing to much and building narratives and dramas just like all the rest of the media. Play the game and report is what we need to get back to. The rest is fiction, as we see.
Let’s be honest the problem is there’s no more Nick Saban to make look them look good in the postseason. He contributed to more than 50% of their postseason success. And it was basically impossible to make the playoffs without beating Bama if you were in the SEC first.
People act like Regular season full teams don't matter...... Full team no opt out SEC 4-1 vs Big 10. Post Season w/ opt out 1-4. If SEC is overrated and they dominated what people call the best conference at full strength then how bad is the Big 10 when they need the SEC teams to have opt outs and still barely beat them?
@@sat62183 Bruh the SEC is losing to the Big 10 in the PLAYOFFS...no one is opting out in the playoffs, and coaches won't allow it. Also the SEC isn't the only conference with players opting out Bowl games Most of Michigan's starters sat out while Alabama's starters played and Bama still lost
The Big 10 was the most dominant this year. Michigan was rebuilding and still good. Ohio State, Oregan, Penn State, and Indiana were playoff caliber. Stand by, things are changing.
Most dominant? SEC dominated them 4-1 with all wins being blow outs this year....... If the Big 10 was most dominant and the SEC crushed them in every match up what does that make the SEC
@@wattsinc. USC vs LSU 1-0 Big 10 Texas vs Michigan 1-1 Alabama vs Wisconsin 2-1 UCLA vs LSU 3-1 I'm missing one game from regular season SEC won. Crazy how people act like Regular season didn't matter now
Yeah. It’s because the sec for the longest time was paying players under the table and getting away with it and now that there’s an even playing field it’s all over
Sure, now all teams and top 5 conferences have a shot. Instead of just 1 conference. Sec has been paying more the last 20 years than any other conference, now it's evened out. Imagine that, that they're struggling like the other conferences were the last 20 years now that it's evened out.
The sec paid players long before it was legal. Now that NIL rules allow other conferences to pay players legally, the sec has lost their illegal advantages over the other law abiding power conferences. Another issue that needs to be addressed is how the sec teams start off and stay highly rated in the rankings. Before any games are played, numerous sec teams are arbitrarily ranked in the top 25 for no objective reason. This gives the sec an unfair advantage over all the other conferences. Since no games have yet been played, the rankings are arbitrary opinions based on no factual evidence of how a team has actually performed in the current season. Teams should not be ranked in the preseason before playing any games as it results in ratings that may not be accurate. This injustice helps sec teams stay highly ranked when one undeserving yet highly ranked sec team loses to another undeserving yet highly ranked sec team and does not drop much in the rankings simply because they lost to an undeserving yet highly rated sec team. This results in sec teams staying in highly ranked yet undeserved positions in the polls. The sec plays only 8 conference games while the BIG10 plays nine. This fact allows sec teams to avoid another peer on peer game in favor of a power conference on weaker conference game, almost assuredly resulting in another undeserved and noncompetitive victory for the sec against an over matched opponent. The sec teams may play one good team from another power conference occasionally, but they always load up on multiple weaker conference opponents to pad their win/loss records.The fallacy of sec football dominance has been revealed for the farce it has always been.
Texas doesn't look that great either. This team lost to Georgia twice. Hard to see them running with Ohio St. Alabama lost to a Michigan team that plays with rules where the forward pass is illegal and a defense full of 2nd and 3rd string players 😂
Because in a sport decided by voting and commitees it’s been a bit sus they automatically got half of the final 4 in a sport with 5 conferences and 100s of teams. Now we see what happens when they have to actually earn that final 4 spot. If you only put ACC teams in the tournament guess which conference will bring home the title? Cheering for conferences is GOOFY
I don't think the SEC was overrated, in my personal opinion, you're starting to see what this constant transfer portal and NIL is doing to a conference like the SEC, that will pay anything for a player in football. The constant shifting of personnel on the field has provided good talent but talent that has played with each other for only a short period of time. Watching OSU and Notre Dame, the announcers made a big deal about the players that were not only 4th and 5th year seniors but have stayed at said schools the whole time. Ole Miss is a great example of butchering NIL to get good players from other SEC schools. OM will beat teams like Georgia but then lose to teams like Kentucky. Inconsistency with players not used to playing with each other is a bigger issue than people realize.
It seems to me that the SEC has been a very good conference but overrated for a long time. The conference usually has one juggernaut like Bama and later Georgia while all other conference teams and fanbases chant "SEC, SEC" as though one good team somehow makes all others better. Kentucky, Vandy and Miss St are still Kentucky, Vandy and Miss St. Also, it is a bit pathetic piggybacking off of other teams' success like a leach. If you are a Tennessee fan, you should hate Florida and Bama always. Should be in your DNA.
The SEC is been Alabama for a long time because of Sabin now he's gone and the SEC now is a little better than average I think the big 10 is better because I think the national championship is between Ohio State and N.D
And now, hordes of Buckeye fans will be crossing the Texas border and pouring into Dallas. We don't want them in Grapevine and running the beautiful people off.
@@bigneiltooWhat did the scoreboard read? Maybe Georgia should have rattled off the same type of Indiana fourth quarter performance. They might have won this thing.
Indiana lost by 10 to Notre Dame. Georgia lost by 13 to Notre Dame. Based on some of the loudmouths in the SEC who said Indiana didn’t belong in the playoffs maybe it was Georgia that didn’t belong in the playoffs.
The portal is transforming college football. Parity will result to an extent. Money and playing time are luring depth away from power programs. Georgia probably beats Notre Dame if they had their QB but he almost got his arm ripped off by Texas. But I think Ohio State is the best team.
Yep; just a bunch of cupcakes beating up on each other and getting propped up by ESPN and the national media. With the changes to NIL and the portal it looks like it's going to be harder for programs and conferences to maintain extended superiority as the talent pool will simply be much more dispersed and it will be much harder for a few elite places to stockpile talent 3-4 players deep at every position. We're already seeing it this year where even the top teams can be seriously compromised by a couple key injuries.
SEC has gotten exposed. Alabama got builied and bitched by Michigan, South Carolina lost to Illinois, Kirby Smart and Georgia got outcoached and outclassed by Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame, Tennessee got steamed rolled by Ohio State, Texas almost choked and looked like they were trying to give Arizona State that win. I hate to say it, but Ole Miss is the only SEC team that proved that they should be in the playoffs by dominating in their bowl game. Yeah, Texas is the only SEC team left in the playoffs, but I'm telling you right now, no disrespect to Arizona State. I like Arizona State and they are a good team but they are not on the same level as Ohio State. All I have to say about Texas, if you think struggling against Arizona State is one thing and almost choking the game away, y'al are in a rude awakening when y'all play Ohio State. Ohio State is a scary team in these playoffs. I don't wanna say someone come in my comment "Duke starting quarterback transferred" bruh well of that's the case, how come Ole Miss was able to take care of their business, but Alabama lost to a Michigan team where their starting quarterback gets hurt during the game, 2 running backs were injured, their starting Tight End was injured, their best pass rusher was injured, their best defensive tackel was hurt and like 4 more other players got hurt and plus, Alabama was a 17 point favorite. Now I know someone gonna say "well some Alabama players transferred before the bowl game" bruh, even then they was still complaining about how Alabama should had made the playoffs so what excuses do they have
I always say this. SEC fans talk about how football is bigger in the SEC and nowhere else even bigger than the NFL. Well, that's not true at all. The most well know schools for football and places for football all come from the North. Just so happens the Football Hall of Fame is in Ohio.
You can keep calling michigan a crappie team, but i say if JJ would have given us one more year, we would have won it all. It was the only piece of the puzzle we were missing. Think at the end of the year their defense ( just like the bears or ravens super bowl winning teams) found a way to win for us.
No it’s just the landscape. No one can just stockpile players. It used to be big schools would recruit one to start one to backup and another so your rival doesn’t have them. Now the spares go into the portal and go play somewhere else. As the season goes everyone has crapped the bed at least once. It might be a long time before we see another undefeated season
That's why saban retired. He was mediocre at msu, started paying players at lsu and won his 3rd year. Left for the nfl Miami dolphins and in 2 years was below 50% winning. Came back to bama and sure enough...3rd year wins natty and basically every other year. Then after the 3rd year of nil and a penalty free transfer portal, he retired. He knows his run of stacking all the best players was over.
The postseason means nothing anymore. It used to be a couple players opting out before they go to the draft... now its handfuls of players entering the transfer portal because they don't want to wait their turn. The transfer portal should only be once a year, in the offseason, and a player should be limited to 1 portal entry. This switching teams every year is ridiculous.
"Forget a winning record, playing an SEC schedule *COUGH* I mean "Toughness of schedule" should ONLY matter, and just simply being an SEC team means you have the toughest schedule IN THE WORLD...We and other SEC teams deserve a spot over SMU, Indiana, Boise State because WE'RE THE MIGHTY SEC ROAR!!!!" -SECESPN/Fanbase Yet these "Top" SEC teams schools lost mid B1GTEN schools, MID B1GTEN SCHOOLS in these bowl games!...😵💫😵💫😵💫 OVERRATED!!!😂🤣😂 Honestly I think the SEC has been overrated for the past ten years, but now since NIL has leveled the playing field more than before, SEC schools are no longer the only school paying players. It's crazy how Nick Saban was crying about this is essentially "Pay to Play" yet on record many of times in the past he was documented paying players and giving them cars!!! Now the talent is no longer being hoarded to the SEC and it's exposing how mid these SEC Football programs and their coaching staff really are when they no longer get the "Leg up" on the competition.
You don't even mention the Big XII, what a failure on your part. The ACC had been trash this Bowl season. The SEC has been badly overrated. Who has showed up? The B1G and Big XII. You couldn't even throw ASU a bone, or BYU, or ISU, or KSU. This keeps your channel smaller than it deserves to be. BYU have SMU it's only season loss. BYU lost to ASU (CFP) and KU. They deserved it more than SMU, Miami, or Boise.
@@tarheel7406 , I largely agree with you. You can't hold it against Duke as they play with a 3rd string QB and are several players short due to portal and NFL absences. That said, Alabama wasn't missing many parts, certainly not as many parts as Michigan, but still lost in bad fashion. Nobody seems to care however when Cam Ward sits out part of the game but Iowa State is on 3rd stringers on defense and are missing their best weapons on offense. The announcers didn't but hardly mention it. ESPN doesn't want to make a big deal about how depleted some of these teams are, usually not SEC or B1G teams. Because of that, I DO judge SEC or B1G teams more harshly for bowl losses in the NIL era.
@@kingbaldwiniv5409 Privately I have no problems with B1G and especially SEC bashing due to their arrogance, but I need to be officially objective. The SEC has clearly been down the last 2 seasons, but the fans won't admit it. The penalty is a pile on.
I am an SEC fan first and college football second. While I lament the decline of the SEC as the dominant football conference, I knew that downfall was inevitable. Sports works in cycles. The Big 10 is the emerging football power. Ohio State is on the precipice of CFB domination. So be it. The other conferences will have to adapt to become competitive. That will be fun to watch in today’s NIL world. Won’t be much different than pro sports teams bidding for the best talent. Buying college football championships is now legal.
2:47 Oklahoma nearly lost to Houston in Norman. The bottom and middle is not better anymore imo. But good video overall. I hope this puts to rest the 4 autobid conversation.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, one of the architects of the current College Football Playoff format, is “absolutely” interested in tweaking the format for the 2025 season, he said Thursday. Why?
No it shows the SEC is a meat grinder. Anyone that goes into the SEC is shorting their career due to the overwhelming amount of damage that their bodies endure. The portal should help spread the talent around and help more players raise to the top. Look at Jenty, in the SEC he would have suffered a lot of damage playing in that conference but instead he went the smart route and will be going to the next level.
The only metric we should be looking at is the amount of players being drafted for each conference, which will tell you the level of talent at each conference has. For the past 20 years, the SEC has had more players drafted to the NFL than any other Conference . Those are wondering if it’s even close the big 10 generally has been the second best at draftable players, but there’s still a decent gap between the amount of players SEC has had drafted in the amount of players vs other conferences. That being said I do think the SEC was down this year compared to previous years . However I will stick by my premise drafted players os a better measuring stick
The sec has always illegally paid for talent while the other power conferences have not. That is why the sec has had more drafted players. With the NIL in place now, the other conferences can legally do what the sec has illegally been doing for ages. The sec has been exposed. Times are changing. No longer will the fallacy of the sec"s unjustly perceived dominance apply.
As bad as the top level SEC teams were this year. Look at their middle teams like Arkansas. Arkansas won 7 games, four of who were AR-Pine Bluff, UAB, Louisiana Tech, and Texas Tech - not exactly quality wins.
You are correct in your assessment. The SEC at the top wasn’t as good as previous years and everyone had flaws. Big 10 at the Top was a better Conference. Don’t use comparisons because OU had 2 weeks to prepare for Bama, a team that Crushed LSU in Baton Rouge and that LSU team Beat OU. Bama played Down to their completion all year
Stop ranking teams until after the 5th game of the season. Every year there are teams who get elevated higher than they should be . Stop allowing espn to control most of the conversation around college football.
The fact though is Georgia was using a back-up quarterback. As a Mizzou fan the Tigers were a compellely different team this year when QB Brady Cook was banged up too bad to play but at times did so anyway. South Carolina was without a running back that gave Mizzou plenty of trouble due to an opt out. That being said there needs to be a limit on how many from one conference make the playoffs whether it likely next goes to 8 or 16 teams with no bye and giving all higher seeded teams first round teams a home game. I am an old Big 8 fan.
It will be interesting to see how the SEC media/propaganda machine twists things. How much love will they give Texas? Although Texas is in the SEC conference, they're really not in SEC country (LA, MS, AL, GA, TN)
Sark is holding back his offense by sticking with an QB who isnt mobile therefore when pressured panic. I HAVE SEEN RECEIVERS WIDE OPEN AT TIMES AND LANE OPEN AT TIMES AND HE JUST STAND THERE AND TAKE SACKS, THAN SARK PLAY CALLING AND NOT USING MORE OF HIS WEAPONS LIKE TE HELM,BONDS AND BLUE.
With the talent being spreaded out , coaching and development is going to make the difference unless you have a once in a generation playmaker like Jeremiah Smith.
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Yeah now all teams can pay players and not just the SEC. That's the difference between now and years passed
It’s more than that. If it were up to them they’d have 6 teams in the 22 team playoff--because they are used to automatically getting 50% of the participants in the previous formats
SEC always gets to make excuses for bad losses because of the patch on the front of their jerseys.
Indiana loses by 10 on the road to Notre dame and everyone says they don’t belong--
Georgia loses by 13 to Notre dame in a dome in the SOUTH and everybody got excuses -oh they had too much time off. Please
I absolutely loved seeing all these cocky SEC fan bases wallow in disbelief and disappointment.
Say what you will. Whatever conference your team is in the same thing will happen to them. What goes around comes around.
See you next year
SEC and Big 10 are the same this year
SEC dominated regular season...... Big 10 post
@@DeborahVerret-yp9fp I'm not so sure about that. This is the new normal.
@@DeborahVerret-yp9fpcorrect. Seven of the ten top ten recruiting classes for next year are in the SEC.
There are two things going on with the SEC. First, the rosters are not as deep as years past because of NIL and the portal. Second, for decades the entire conference has been leeching glory off of whichever two teams are at the top of the conference. I disagree that the middle and the bottom are better. Quite the opposite. The middle and the bottom are the same as every other conference.
Of the 13 titles the SEC has won since 2006, Alabama has 6. Like you said, this is basically Alabama and then a few schools have a great year here and there.
@kylegross1081 The SEC dominated yes because the6had bought all the best talent😂.mostly underhand dealings.
SABAN retired because he saw the writing on the wall. He probably got tired of having to give up all them cars tooo..
😂😂😂😂
@@roywall8169 there's 5 teams in the SEC won national titles in the past 20 yrs not counting TX or OK, 4 multiple titles lol Big Ten 2 total titles, wtf r you talking about
@@K1ll0watt Sabin has 7( 6 at bama 1 at LSU)..and urban Mayer had 2( urban also has one at osu in that time) so of the 13 sec titles in 20 years, 9 belong to 2 coaches and smart just won 2 that’s 11…alburn bought one with cam newton( well documented) and Joe burrow one… no the sec is not been good 3 coaches have and Nick Saban was the sec…
The big 10 has 2 osu titles one in 2001 and 2014 and um has one, Mich lost one and osu lost 3 or 4 nattys don’t act like the big 10 has not been great, it’s just saban has been better than anyone.
The sec is bad without saban and urban Meyer….and it will be bad without him, as no sec team made the natty last year and won’t make it this year.. and there back up big 10 will have 2 nattys WITH TWO DIFF TEAMS and next year the ducks will win the natty…
It proves the big 10 is better and has always been better, it’s just BAMA and saban has been dominate for The last 20 years , the rest of the sec has been avg with one other good team a year like every other conference..
But get ready, the SEC is gonna be the big 12 and bad like it used to be in the 90 - one or two good years, without saban welcome back to parity
Spot on
SEC misses the good ol' days of paying players under the table. That ship has sailed...
Ship sailed...... They literally dominated the Big 10 in regular season blowing them out in every match up but the one they won against LSU in the last second
@@sat621831 game?
Then the SEC should have done the same thing in the postseason
@@tonyduckett5315 all teams are different in post season with the transfer portal and opt outs...... You can't compare a team with most of its starters out vs a team with them because they are different.
That's the problem with the NCAA now it's basically 2 separate season with completely different teams.
"Alabama" misses the good ol' days of paying players under the table. That ship has sailed.- Fixed it for you.
Middle and lower SEC teams beating mediocre top SEC teams doesn't mean that they are better than other conferences.
This logic is beyond flawed
@@fodetoure1576 How is my logic flawed? The SEC only has one team left in the playoffs and Texas is more than likely still only in due to the refs not calling an obvious targeting, thus preventing a possible game winning field goal by Arizona. Even Saban retired because he knew with NIL, the glory days of Alabama are over, at least temporarily. Alabama got smashed by Oklahoma, then beat by Michigan. Tennessee got smashed by Ohio State. Georgia was dominated by Notre Dame. South Carolina beat by Illinois. By what standard are the mid and lower SEC standouts. Not by playing weaken top level SEC teams. Not by beating teams like Mercer. South Florida, Western Kentucky, UTSA, UL Monroe, Tennessee Tech, Massachusetts, Chattanooga, etc.
2:21 Nope. The middle of the SEC WASN'T superior to other conferences, especially the B1G.
Florida beat non-Power-5 team Tulane. BFD.
Vandy beat 7-5 GaTech by one score. BFD.
Oklahoma isn't a good example; they lost to Navy.
Meanwhile:
Missouri had to come back from down 10 to beat Iowa by 3.
Alabama, which had been overrated all season, lost to 7-5 and unranked Michigan.
South Carolina, which had been overrated all season, lost to Illinois.
Texas A&M, which had been overrated all season, lost to 6-6 and unranked USC.
Tennessee, which had been overrated all season, got crushed by Ohio State.
In the minds of SEC fans, when Alabama loses to Oklahoma, it's because the SEC is so strong, and when Ohio State lost to Michigan, it's because the B1G is so weak. The bowl games put an end to that nonsense.
ESPN is a seditious joke.
The SEC rode the coattails of Saban. Once he was gone they had to prove themselves to still be good.
NIL changed the game. Bama, Georgia, and LSU can't stack a 3 deep roster of studs like they could before
And they still beat the Big 10 4-1 in the regular season that people act line no longer matters
Most of the SEC bowl games had ranked SEC teams against unranked teams, and the SEC still did poorly. Most years have SEC teams playing inferior teams in bowl games. It is easier to win a game when you are a step above them.
Man say it louder. And as soon as they had to play in the cold they are calling for domes only. Soft eastern conference
You're right! The SEC does traditionally get very favorable matchups
They're ALWAYS overrated. Not that some members haven't been very good in the past, it's just that it's only been one or two while the media spews constant propaganda that the whole conference is so much stronger than it actually is. This always starts with high preseason rankings setting a false floor. Then when teams lose to each other they don't drop as much as they should because of the built-in false idea that it was a "good loss." That's why you get teams like South Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Alabama and Georgia being ranked better than they actually are throughout the season.
How do you define middle and bottom? Michigan and USC in middle of B1G both beat SEC teams in bowls
USC beat LSU and Texas A&M this year and was 6-6 in the B1G
They were 6-6 overall. 4-5 in the big ten @@littlepeep7380
@@Pcbdude82 Just doing our part to raise the prestige of the B1G vs everyone else. I despise the SEC. they been overrated for years.
And don't forget THE FIGHTIN ILLINI
Saban owns several Mercedes dealerships. Every player gets a car!!! Nick Saban was giving away cars way before Oprah Winfrey😂😂😂
😂😂😂right
They were also overrated last year as a conference. The SEC homers still hang on to thinking that GA would’ve beat Michigan in 2023 playoffs. Delusional.
First off. Bama had a lot of their stars in. Michigan had none. And they still pushed them around.
I've been saying it for years. Once players get NIL money. SEC is going to see a massive drop off. They've been paying players behind closed doors for who knows how long and yes other schools did also I'm sure. But not to the extent. Now it's a even playing field. And frankly, the other conferences has more money. Better universities, better tv deals.. the Big Ten is going to take over.
Ohio State is always good. Oregon has Nike money, Penn State and wisconsins produces the most CEOs. USC and UCLA has LA money. Michigan is Michigan..
There's a reason Saban waa a failure at the NFL level. A .500 ball coach at Michigan State and then never had a losing record in the SEC. He also bailed once he knew what NIL would do. 😂 Ruin his legacy.
Yup big 10 was the best conference this year.
And the SEC dominated them in the regular season every time they met but once........ If Big 10 was the best and the SEC crushed them what does that make the SEC
@@sat62183 Sitting at home watching the big 10 play for a national tittle.
The SEC has been over rated since the 2000s!! The only way to prove that the conference was worth the hype was to have a playoff. It is being exposed now with the CFP!
I guess we are all fooled by ESPN's narrative on how strong SEE's schedule. I predict ESPN's TV rating will go down south next year because now SEC is no longer the best conference in college football.
Yeah. It’s because the sec for the longest time was paying players under the table and getting away with it and now that there’s an even playing field it’s all over
Dude literally everyone was doing that
@@ultragator724 Yea, but now BIG JIM’s Used Cars in Greenbo, Alabama cannot buy the best DE in the country for $10,000. It is legal now and these northern colleges have alumni with REAL money, not used car money. It is over, the labor can now participate in capitalism. Tenn has real money, and oil money from A&M or Tex Tech might come into play.
@@ultragator724 no they weren't, clearly. Maybe everyone in the sec was doing that. Handful of other teams were doing it and you can tell which ones.
@@ultragator724 Thank you! For the life of me I can't figure out why these people don't understand that.
Because they weren't.@@DeborahVerret-yp9fp
The truth is there was no elite team this year.
SEC has been overated for years!
They won 15 of the last 20 nattys
SEC clearly was not the best conference this season they have a losing bowl record
SEC is overrated for sure
THIS YEAR ONLY
Not the 12 before
@@jamesth0mas891and years to come. the playing field is leveled.
If they are overrated then so is the Big 10......since SEC I regular season dominated Big 10 4-1......Big 10 flipped it in post season. Just took every SEC team having a crap ton of opt outs for them to beat em
@@sat62183sure Alabama went up against a team that the defense was gutted. Graham, grant, Stewart, Johnson, Moore. Offensively they were missing their 2 RB’s. Number one TE and number 1 WR. They never had a QB and the make a wish kid got knocked out during ff the game. Bama started their same QB as all season. They stunk up the field. Bama didn’t even play the same team ohio did. It was a shell of its former self.
The SEC doesn’t have the two deep as much anymore due to paying players being legal now. 😂 weird how when things are more evenly fair results show the truth
The portal helps to prevent power teams from hoarding good players for future seasons. They don't get play time, they're out.
Once programs gained ability to pay players through NIL and transfers stopped having to sit out, SEC IMMEDIATELY took a nosedive cuz their “under the table” illegal payment plans were neutralized, no longer allowing them to trap 3-5 stars on their 2nd string. That and Saban’s exit (probs best coach in history) spells a return to last century’s mediocrity, or worse, for the entire SEC. Long overdue comeuppance on the horizon.
Yep, Yep, and Yep......they already complaining and want to change the rules.
I think what it proves is they have garbage coaches, and since they can't hoard talent with NIL and the transfer portal, there won't be so much Southern dominance in the game going forward.
No, you cannot revisit the conversation if Texas wins it all because they just joined the conference. All it's going to say is the conference Texas just left,is stronger
The SEC will fall in quality because, there is no longer a Darth Vader at Alabama and, they have nothing to strive to. Every SEC team strove to beat and model themselves after Alabama. Now? You have milk toast Deboer that no team is going to strive to be.
This Bama team was as unpredictable as the lottery. Bottem line, we got outcoached - outplayed by better motivated teams. NIL to a large degree has "Evened" the spread of the best players. The better planned, prepared, Coached and motivated teams will be the difference maker going forward. rtr...... :(
This disappointment of the SEC says nothing about the teams; it's more about pundits in sports thinking and analyzing to much and building narratives and dramas just like all the rest of the media. Play the game and report is what we need to get back to. The rest is fiction, as we see.
Let’s be honest the problem is there’s no more Nick Saban to make look them look good in the postseason. He contributed to more than 50% of their postseason success. And it was basically impossible to make the playoffs without beating Bama if you were in the SEC first.
SEC is way overrated and the results are being shown in the playoffs and bowls.
Losing 4 games in the SEC is better than anyone, ever.
Said the SEC.
People act like Regular season full teams don't matter...... Full team no opt out SEC 4-1 vs Big 10.
Post Season w/ opt out 1-4.
If SEC is overrated and they dominated what people call the best conference at full strength then how bad is the Big 10 when they need the SEC teams to have opt outs and still barely beat them?
@@sat62183 Bruh the SEC is losing to the Big 10 in the PLAYOFFS...no one is opting out in the playoffs, and coaches won't allow it.
Also the SEC isn't the only conference with players opting out Bowl games
Most of Michigan's starters sat out while Alabama's starters played and Bama still lost
Per the precedent set last season, GEORGIA should have been seeded as low as possible under the CFP rules.
The sec sucks. They have t been the best conference in years. It shows. They aren’t very good top to bottom.
The Big 10 was the most dominant this year. Michigan was rebuilding and still good. Ohio State, Oregan, Penn State, and Indiana were playoff caliber. Stand by, things are changing.
Most dominant? SEC dominated them 4-1 with all wins being blow outs this year....... If the Big 10 was most dominant and the SEC crushed them in every match up what does that make the SEC
@sat62183 only one team faced the big ten in the regular season. All added up 5-2 big ten
@@wattsinc. USC vs LSU 1-0 Big 10
Texas vs Michigan 1-1
Alabama vs Wisconsin 2-1
UCLA vs LSU 3-1
I'm missing one game from regular season SEC won.
Crazy how people act like Regular season didn't matter now
No win was against an upper tier B10 team
None of those B1G teams lost to Vanderbilt, Arkansas or Kentucky…😂
NIL has changed EVERYTHING. Even STRENGTHS of conferences
Yeah. It’s because the sec for the longest time was paying players under the table and getting away with it and now that there’s an even playing field it’s all over
Sure, now all teams and top 5 conferences have a shot. Instead of just 1 conference. Sec has been paying more the last 20 years than any other conference, now it's evened out. Imagine that, that they're struggling like the other conferences were the last 20 years now that it's evened out.
I would say that Tennessee was the most overrated team in all of college football. They had no offense and the quarterback is no good.
Fam Tennessee played a better game against Ohio state than Oregon. 34-8 vs 21-10 at half time
@@malikmerchant4054lol. No they didn’t. The Tennessee game was over halfway through the first quarter. Good revisionist history though. 😂
@@malikmerchant4054 What about the whole game...can't ignore the 2nd half to suit your narrative
@@malikmerchant4054yeah and they had a great second half. Scored a whole touchdown
BREAKING NEWS: The MAC will be joining the SEC to help make the conference stronger and more competitive
😂😂😂
So the Manning thing is really funny. If he cant beat out Ewers then why would they put him in. So Sark owes Ewers the job!!!!! Cmon people
The Bama QB shit himself on atleast half of the third downs
The sec paid players long before it was legal. Now that NIL rules allow other conferences to pay players legally, the sec has lost their illegal advantages over the other law abiding power conferences. Another issue that needs to be addressed is how the sec teams start off and stay highly rated in the rankings. Before any games are played, numerous sec teams are arbitrarily ranked in the top 25 for no objective reason. This gives the sec an unfair advantage over all the other conferences. Since no games have yet been played, the rankings are arbitrary opinions based on no factual evidence of how a team has actually performed in the current season. Teams should not be ranked in the preseason before playing any games as it results in ratings that may not be accurate. This injustice helps sec teams stay highly ranked when one undeserving yet highly ranked sec team loses to another undeserving yet highly ranked sec team and does not drop much in the rankings simply because they lost to an undeserving yet highly rated sec team. This results in sec teams staying in highly ranked yet undeserved positions in the polls. The sec plays only 8 conference games while the BIG10 plays nine. This fact allows sec teams to avoid another peer on peer game in favor of a power conference on weaker conference game, almost assuredly resulting in another undeserved and noncompetitive victory for the sec against an over matched opponent. The sec teams may play one good team from another power conference occasionally, but they always load up on multiple weaker conference opponents to pad their win/loss records.The fallacy of sec football dominance has been revealed for the farce it has always been.
Texas doesn't look that great either. This team lost to Georgia twice. Hard to see them running with Ohio St.
Alabama lost to a Michigan team that plays with rules where the forward pass is illegal and a defense full of 2nd and 3rd string players 😂
Now all teams can buy players not just the teams in the SEC
People been waiting so long to call the sec frauds😂
Because in a sport decided by voting and commitees it’s been a bit sus they automatically got half of the final 4 in a sport with 5 conferences and 100s of teams.
Now we see what happens when they have to actually earn that final 4 spot.
If you only put ACC teams in the tournament guess which conference will bring home the title?
Cheering for conferences is GOOFY
Now that paying players is out in the open, you’re seeing the SEC crash and burn 🔥 Their advantage is gone forever.
The refs gave the game to Texas
I don't think the SEC was overrated, in my personal opinion, you're starting to see what this constant transfer portal and NIL is doing to a conference like the SEC, that will pay anything for a player in football. The constant shifting of personnel on the field has provided good talent but talent that has played with each other for only a short period of time. Watching OSU and Notre Dame, the announcers made a big deal about the players that were not only 4th and 5th year seniors but have stayed at said schools the whole time. Ole Miss is a great example of butchering NIL to get good players from other SEC schools. OM will beat teams like Georgia but then lose to teams like Kentucky. Inconsistency with players not used to playing with each other is a bigger issue than people realize.
When you cry for decades about the sec winning all the time and you put together a committee to put you in congrats.
NIL is the great conference equalizer
Actually I would say Notre Dame had the worse loss on any playoff team (at home against a middle of the road MAC school N. Illinois)
And Oregon was overrated
It seems to me that the SEC has been a very good conference but overrated for a long time. The conference usually has one juggernaut like Bama and later Georgia while all other conference teams and fanbases chant "SEC, SEC" as though one good team somehow makes all others better. Kentucky, Vandy and Miss St are still Kentucky, Vandy and Miss St. Also, it is a bit pathetic piggybacking off of other teams' success like a leach. If you are a Tennessee fan, you should hate Florida and Bama always. Should be in your DNA.
Because the NIL SEC can't do MUT no more. Simple!
Sec doesn't have any qbs worth a crap
The SEC is been Alabama for a long time because of Sabin now he's gone and the SEC now is a little better than average I think the big 10 is better because I think the national championship is between Ohio State and N.D
SEC is not the powerhouse it was 30yrs ago, face the reality.
And now, hordes of Buckeye fans will be crossing the Texas border and pouring into Dallas. We don't want them in Grapevine and running the beautiful people off.
Everyone is finding out how good the BIG 10 really is !!!!!!
Preseason rankings are a joke
All rankings are a joke
Georgia loss by 13 Indiana loss by 10 just saying 😂😂
Indiana lost by 24 then got a last minute TD+2+onside kick + hail mary pass.
@@bigneiltooWhat did the scoreboard read? Maybe Georgia should have rattled off the same type of Indiana fourth quarter performance. They might have won this thing.
Indiana lost by 10 to Notre Dame. Georgia lost by 13 to Notre Dame. Based on some of the loudmouths in the SEC who said Indiana didn’t belong in the playoffs maybe it was Georgia that didn’t belong in the playoffs.
The portal is transforming college football. Parity will result to an extent. Money and playing time are luring depth away from power programs. Georgia probably beats Notre Dame if they had their QB but he almost got his arm ripped off by Texas. But I think Ohio State is the best team.
Yep; just a bunch of cupcakes beating up on each other and getting propped up by ESPN and the national media. With the changes to NIL and the portal it looks like it's going to be harder for programs and conferences to maintain extended superiority as the talent pool will simply be much more dispersed and it will be much harder for a few elite places to stockpile talent 3-4 players deep at every position. We're already seeing it this year where even the top teams can be seriously compromised by a couple key injuries.
It was 95% Nick saban with urban Meyer and Georgia having multiple title runs
SEC is overrated
Bama lost to Vandy nuff said😂😂😂
SEC has gotten exposed. Alabama got builied and bitched by Michigan, South Carolina lost to Illinois, Kirby Smart and Georgia got outcoached and outclassed by Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame, Tennessee got steamed rolled by Ohio State, Texas almost choked and looked like they were trying to give Arizona State that win. I hate to say it, but Ole Miss is the only SEC team that proved that they should be in the playoffs by dominating in their bowl game. Yeah, Texas is the only SEC team left in the playoffs, but I'm telling you right now, no disrespect to Arizona State. I like Arizona State and they are a good team but they are not on the same level as Ohio State. All I have to say about Texas, if you think struggling against Arizona State is one thing and almost choking the game away, y'al are in a rude awakening when y'all play Ohio State. Ohio State is a scary team in these playoffs. I don't wanna say someone come in my comment "Duke starting quarterback transferred" bruh well of that's the case, how come Ole Miss was able to take care of their business, but Alabama lost to a Michigan team where their starting quarterback gets hurt during the game, 2 running backs were injured, their starting Tight End was injured, their best pass rusher was injured, their best defensive tackel was hurt and like 4 more other players got hurt and plus, Alabama was a 17 point favorite. Now I know someone gonna say "well some Alabama players transferred before the bowl game" bruh, even then they was still complaining about how Alabama should had made the playoffs so what excuses do they have
Everybody have one good year and then y'all start talking crazy but don't worry we'll be in the SEC looking at it we won't forget it😂😂😂😂😂😂
I always say this. SEC fans talk about how football is bigger in the SEC and nowhere else even bigger than the NFL.
Well, that's not true at all. The most well know schools for football and places for football all come from the North. Just so happens the Football Hall of Fame is in Ohio.
Ole Miss went against Duke with a backup...there would have been beaten by PSU by 30...they had no chance..
You can keep calling michigan a crappie team, but i say if JJ would have given us one more year, we would have won it all. It was the only piece of the puzzle we were missing. Think at the end of the year their defense ( just like the bears or ravens super bowl winning teams) found a way to win for us.
No it’s just the landscape. No one can just stockpile players. It used to be big schools would recruit one to start one to backup and another so your rival doesn’t have them. Now the spares go into the portal and go play somewhere else. As the season goes everyone has crapped the bed at least once. It might be a long time before we see another undefeated season
Why not make 8 to 12 leagues, only play the teams in your league. Winner moves to the playoffs.
Come on, Mike, espn needs to control that...
Can't over recruit and stockpile players. Now it is about coaching, and it shows.
That's why saban retired. He was mediocre at msu, started paying players at lsu and won his 3rd year. Left for the nfl Miami dolphins and in 2 years was below 50% winning. Came back to bama and sure enough...3rd year wins natty and basically every other year. Then after the 3rd year of nil and a penalty free transfer portal, he retired. He knows his run of stacking all the best players was over.
The postseason means nothing anymore. It used to be a couple players opting out before they go to the draft... now its handfuls of players entering the transfer portal because they don't want to wait their turn. The transfer portal should only be once a year, in the offseason, and a player should be limited to 1 portal entry. This switching teams every year is ridiculous.
"Forget a winning record, playing an SEC schedule *COUGH* I mean "Toughness of schedule" should ONLY matter, and just simply being an SEC team means you have the toughest schedule IN THE WORLD...We and other SEC teams deserve a spot over SMU, Indiana, Boise State because WE'RE THE MIGHTY SEC ROAR!!!!" -SECESPN/Fanbase
Yet these "Top" SEC teams schools lost mid B1GTEN schools, MID B1GTEN SCHOOLS in these bowl games!...😵💫😵💫😵💫 OVERRATED!!!😂🤣😂
Honestly I think the SEC has been overrated for the past ten years, but now since NIL has leveled the playing field more than before, SEC schools are no longer the only school paying players. It's crazy how Nick Saban was crying about this is essentially "Pay to Play" yet on record many of times in the past he was documented paying players and giving them cars!!! Now the talent is no longer being hoarded to the SEC and it's exposing how mid these SEC Football programs and their coaching staff really are when they no longer get the "Leg up" on the competition.
You don't even mention the Big XII, what a failure on your part.
The ACC had been trash this Bowl season. The SEC has been badly overrated.
Who has showed up?
The B1G and Big XII.
You couldn't even throw ASU a bone, or BYU, or ISU, or KSU.
This keeps your channel smaller than it deserves to be.
BYU have SMU it's only season loss. BYU lost to ASU (CFP) and KU.
They deserved it more than SMU, Miami, or Boise.
Non-playoff bowls are a poor measure. I said the same a season or so ago when the BIG12 had a terrible postseason.
@@tarheel7406 , I largely agree with you. You can't hold it against Duke as they play with a 3rd string QB and are several players short due to portal and NFL absences.
That said, Alabama wasn't missing many parts, certainly not as many parts as Michigan, but still lost in bad fashion.
Nobody seems to care however when Cam Ward sits out part of the game but Iowa State is on 3rd stringers on defense and are missing their best weapons on offense. The announcers didn't but hardly mention it.
ESPN doesn't want to make a big deal about how depleted some of these teams are, usually not SEC or B1G teams.
Because of that, I DO judge SEC or B1G teams more harshly for bowl losses in the NIL era.
@@kingbaldwiniv5409 Privately I have no problems with B1G and especially SEC bashing due to their arrogance, but I need to be officially objective.
The SEC has clearly been down the last 2 seasons, but the fans won't admit it. The penalty is a pile on.
Yes, the answer is yes.
I am an SEC fan first and college football second. While I lament the decline of the SEC as the dominant football conference, I knew that downfall was inevitable. Sports works in cycles. The Big 10 is the emerging football power. Ohio State is on the precipice of CFB domination. So be it. The other conferences will have to adapt to become competitive. That will be fun to watch in today’s NIL world. Won’t be much different than pro sports teams bidding for the best talent. Buying college football championships is now legal.
Yep. Saban used to stash 4 and 5 star players on the bench so that other teams couldn't use them. Not anymore!
Well, 16 the of last 23 national championships SEC. Including new members. 20 of the 23 have been won below the Mason Dixon line.
2:47 Oklahoma nearly lost to Houston in Norman. The bottom and middle is not better anymore imo. But good video overall. I hope this puts to rest the 4 autobid conversation.
Oklahoma was near the bottom man.
@@codyrockarano5220 Exactly, and this comes from an Oklahoma Sooners fan. I still don't know how we beat Alabama
The SEC isn't going to just lay down and die. The rivalries run too deep regardless of the NIL money being thrown around the NCAA
How are they overrated if the SEC only had 3 teams in the college football playoff?
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, one of the architects of the current College Football Playoff format, is “absolutely” interested in tweaking the format for the 2025 season, he said Thursday. Why?
All the teams with home games won and all the conference champions lost.. wild year
The SEC is still the best conference. Did you see Missouri beat the brakes off of Iowa? I mean come on man, Georgia almost competed with Notre Dame.
Sc had thier #1 RB and star edge rusher opt out. If SC had been in playoff would have been the complete team. Different story.
No it shows the SEC is a meat grinder. Anyone that goes into the SEC is shorting their career due to the overwhelming amount of damage that their bodies endure. The portal should help spread the talent around and help more players raise to the top. Look at Jenty, in the SEC he would have suffered a lot of damage playing in that conference but instead he went the smart route and will be going to the next level.
The only metric we should be looking at is the amount of players being drafted for each conference, which will tell you the level of talent at each conference has.
For the past 20 years, the SEC has had more players drafted to the NFL than any other Conference . Those are wondering if it’s even close the big 10 generally has been the second best at draftable players, but there’s still a decent gap between the amount of players SEC has had drafted in the amount of players vs other conferences. That being said I do think the SEC was down this year compared to previous years . However I will stick by my premise drafted players os a better measuring stick
The sec has always illegally paid for talent while the other power conferences have not. That is why the sec has had more drafted players. With the NIL in place now, the other conferences can legally do what the sec has illegally been doing for ages. The sec has been exposed. Times are changing. No longer will the fallacy of the sec"s unjustly perceived dominance apply.
As bad as the top level SEC teams were this year. Look at their middle teams like Arkansas. Arkansas won 7 games, four of who were AR-Pine Bluff, UAB, Louisiana Tech, and Texas Tech - not exactly quality wins.
You are correct in your assessment. The SEC at the top wasn’t as good as previous years and everyone had flaws. Big 10 at the Top was a better Conference. Don’t use comparisons because OU had 2 weeks to prepare for Bama, a team that Crushed LSU in Baton Rouge and that LSU team Beat OU. Bama played Down to their completion all year
Stop ranking teams until after the 5th game of the season. Every year there are teams who get elevated higher than they should be . Stop allowing espn to control most of the conversation around college football.
they are a favored conference. nothing new. not about your team but about the big money programs. imagine that
The fact though is Georgia was using a back-up quarterback. As a Mizzou fan the Tigers were a compellely different team this year when QB Brady Cook was banged up too bad to play but at times did so anyway. South Carolina was without a running back that gave Mizzou plenty of trouble due to an opt out. That being said there needs to be a limit on how many from one conference make the playoffs whether it likely next goes to 8 or 16 teams with no bye and giving all higher seeded teams first round teams a home game. I am an old Big 8 fan.
It will be interesting to see how the SEC media/propaganda machine twists things. How much love will they give Texas? Although Texas is in the SEC conference, they're really not in SEC country (LA, MS, AL, GA, TN)
Always overrated. They were promoted so much due to TV contracts.
Sark is holding back his offense by sticking with an QB who isnt mobile therefore when pressured panic. I HAVE SEEN RECEIVERS WIDE OPEN AT TIMES AND LANE OPEN AT TIMES AND HE JUST STAND THERE AND TAKE SACKS, THAN SARK PLAY CALLING AND NOT USING MORE OF HIS WEAPONS LIKE TE HELM,BONDS AND BLUE.
The SEC will figure it out over time.
With the talent being spreaded out , coaching and development is going to make the difference unless you have a once in a generation playmaker like Jeremiah Smith.
Penn State was not one play away from beating Ohio State at home. Will Howard fumbled through the end zone for a touchback Does that count?
You think?