[lepton]

By my reckoning, 8 of the 14 teams in the SEC have been ranked in the Top 25 at one time or another this season -- including notoriously weak program like Vanderbilt. I think I'd be hard-pressed to think of another conference in my lifetime that was as strong from top to bottom as that.

That's a really odd way to figure...but since you did: 9 out of 11 Big 10 teams were in the top 25 at some point.

Even the bottomdwellers in the big 10 didn't lose to a non-conference opponent with a losing record, and only one with a record worse than 7-4.

[Alberta's Child]

That's a remarkable statistic, and very uncommon in Division I football. I think the SEC number is actually 9 of 14, but that Big Ten figure tells me that they are a very strong conference this year.