SEC (Just Another Conference to Me)
Listed in:The arrogance of SEC football fans can be frightening. Most of the time, I think it comes down to petty insults based on regional anxieties about being looked down upon. The key facts:
-- The SEC is one of the best conferences in college football every year. If you can't see this, you're probably a Florida State fan.
-- It's not nearly as good as the average SEC fan would have you believe.
-- Its top tier is not significantly better than the top tier in the Pac 10, Big East, Big Ten, and Big XII, year in and year out.
-- The conference's reputation is built upon wins over the weak sisters of the south, 1-AA schools and the likes of the Sun Belt Conference. This is extra hilarious because of the hypocrisy involved. The prototypical SEC booster will say conference play is the toughest of any conference in the nation, so they're only screwing themselves if they don't play winnable games in the non-conference schedule, but they'll also take every opportunity to crow about their 80-something per cent non-conference winning percentage. Just because the in-conference games are competitive doesn't mean the teams are better than everyone else; it means they're close in talent relative to each other.
Oh, you want numbers?
Since 1990, the SEC records against rival conferences is not as impressive as the SEC diehards would lend you to believe: Big-12 (20-16), PAC-10 (10-9), Big East (15-20), Big-10 (30-23), ACC (65-50) and the old Southwest Conference (20-19). So against the BCS Conference members since 1990, the SEC has an overall mark of 160 - 127. While this is good, it isn’t exactly dominant. But what the SEC teams hang their hat on is their record against the non-BCS regime: BWest (30-0), Sun (43-3), MAC (33-5), WAC (32-6), CUSA (57-20) and MWest (9-4) for an overall mark of 204-38.
I know I'm not going to convince the die hards in Tuscaloosa, Gainesville, Knoxville, etc, but it sure is fun to needle them with facts! Also, it's fun to needle them in song. Here's one I recorded just the other day. Enjoy.
MP3 DOWNLOAD - SEC (Just Another Conference to Me)
