I guess I don't follow all the teams closely enough to figure this out. USC demolished Arkansas, for Arkansas's only loss, yet look where Arkansas is ranked and where they could go.
And that's not taking anything away from Arkansas. They're playing great football since then, or so it appears.
I'm not sure anything appears what it seems in the SEC anymore. They've got a great reputation, but it looks like a conference in temporary decline, at best.
But who the heck knows? If they have an undefeated team next year that wins the BCS, somebody will plaster this post in my face. ;-)
Nah I don't think the SEC is in a decline per se, it's just that instead of one or two dominant teams, like we are used to seeing, they have 5 or 6 programs that could win the conference at any given time.
That and I think that with the way Arkansas is playing now, they are clearly ahead of ND and West Virginia, but behind only USC, OSU, Michigan and maybe Florida....
Darren McFadden is a beast.