SEC hype is proven wrong, other than winning that 7 of the last 8 national championships thing.
Heck, I an alum of a Big Ten school and you can just flip on the TV and quickly understand that the SEC is a better conference than all others.
Better conference doesn’t not equal best team. Just look at last year. No one wants to see 2 teams play each other three times in one year.
Nate Silver did some analysis of where NFL talent is coming from. The dominance of the SEC states is starling. Only Ohio and California come close to matching the SEC states. The days of players like Namath and Montana coming out of Western PA are gone. The new PSU coach understands this so he is trying hard to get PSU name recognition south of the Mason-Dixon line.
I am in your club, especially after watching the OSU - PSU groaner this past Saturday. Hint for the Playoff committee: add a play in game for the 4th and 5th place teams in the SEC West. The winner plays SEC West #1 while SEC West #'s 2 and 3 square off, then the ensuing winners playing in the championship game. Seriously, college football is cyclical. The Big 14, Pac 12, ACC, and Big 12 will eventually have their day in the sun.
I went back a few years and looked at the top-25 rankings pre and post season. One year I remember there were 4 Big 10 teams in both pre and post. Not bad, 4 teams that were predicted to be tough, and they proved it. That same year there were 8 SEC teams in the top 25 pre, and 4 in the top 25 post. And one of the four wasn’t in the pre-season poll at all. So the SEC started with 5 way overrated teams...
In the past few years, 2 Big 12 teams have joined the SEC. One of them had a freshman QB re-write the conference record book and the other was the ‘co-champ’ last year. And the 2 teams I am talking about were NOT the cream of the big 12. Not by a long shot...
I do think the SEC is the toughest conference, but not near as tough as they all think. It helps when most of the conference starts as ranked teams...
Have the mighty ducks or fightiing amish spend a season in the sec conf. They would be
singing the blues.