The SEC is Alabama and Georgia this year, as evidenced by their other bowl performances. The rest of teams are as mediocre as the Big 12 and Big 10. Alabama is basically an all star team, like Duke, North Carolina, and Kansas in basketball for so many years. They can get any recruit in the country that they want.
But not as mediocre as the ACC and PAC 10.
It will be interesting to see if Clemson recovers.