The debate for conference supremacy is really heating up now between the Big-12 and SEC. Call me crazy but i am at the point where i think the Big-12 is better. I am aware that no one outside of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas agree with me but there's a argument to be had. The SEC is the conference where football junkies go. Its old school hard hitting football with alot of defense, the type of football your dad would enjoy. The Big-12 is the next gen of football. A whole lot of points, no defense allowed type of football, for the casual fan this is what you like and for most people this is just more exciting. Currently the Big-12 has the greatest assembly of qb's one conference has ever seen. Colt McCoy is the Heisman front runner, Sam Bradford is going to be a top 10 pick, Graham Harrell throws for 50 td's and 5,000 yards like its no ones business, you have Chase Daniels who coming into the week was the Heisman front runner and is a great college qb, theres also Zac Robinson who just beat and out played Daniels, o lets not forget Cody Hawkins, Josh Freeman, Joe Ganz, and Robert Griffen all play in the conference and could start any where else. The SEC just has Tebow and Stafford and thats its. The SEC has two main arguments for why they are the best, (1) that the conference has produced four champions in five years and (2) that the conference has "depth." As for previous champions ask Alabama or Ole Miss what they think about previous champions, previous champions having no bearing on this year, because well there LAST YEARS CHAMPIONS!!! Now to the depth issue, there's no way to pretend Tennessee (losers to UCLA, narrow victors over Northern Illinois) is a high quality team this year; ditto Mississippi State, now 2-4 and sinking like a stone. The bottom half of the conference as a whole, in fact, is pretty painful to watch. Auburn is running a broken version of a gimmicky high school offense, and Steve Spurrier not only isn't fielding a competent offense at South Carolina this year—he hasn't since he arrived. Now the Big-12 top teams show why they are superior than the SEC top. Florida lost to Ole Miss, Bama barely beat Kentucky, and LSU snuck by Auburn. As for the Big-12 Oklahoma beat Baylor by 32, Texas beat Coloroado by 24, Mizzou beat Nebraska by 35, and Texas Tech beat K-State by 28. And no go along with the SEC "no weeks off" motto, Nebraska took Tech to OT. Your probably figuring that im making the argument for the SEC by saying the bottom half can compete with the top where as the Big-12 top crushed the bottom but im not, I'm suggesting that the SEC's supposed juggernauts have rather limped by teams rated equally to the lower tiered Big 12 teams—who were just obliterated by the Big 12's actual juggernauts. For example: #13 LSU unimpressively getting past #98 Mississippi State 34-24, or #7 Florida losing at home to #48 Ole Miss.
Contrast with, for example: #6 Missouri thrashing #41 Nebraska in Lincoln, 42-17, or #21 Oklahoma State routing #100 Texas A&M 56-28, also on the road. Now you SEC fans will bring up the schedules of the Big 12's four undefeated teams, to which I have this to say: 1) I'm sorry, but which non-conference wins from the SEC am I supposed to be gushing over? Bama over Clemson was impressive up until we found out just how mediocre the Tigers were when they dropped one to Maryland. Georgia's win over ASU might have looked better had the Sun Devils proven themselves a good enough team to handle UNLV. And Florida's big non-con win was over #54 rated Miami. Beyond that, it's slim pickins', so you'll forgive me if I don't consider finger-pointing at the schedule to be particularly true. Another thing to keep in mind is that there are a couple aspects to each game. One is the opponents quality, the second would be the margin of victory. Now the BCS does not allow for margin of victory to be included in its rankings, but Jeff Sagarin's who provides rankings to USA Today has his own ratings which take into account all the data including margin of victory. In his ratings the SEC does very well with two teams in the Top 10, four in the Top 15, and five in the Top 26. The funny thing is the only conference to top them is guess, go ahead guess, if you guessed the Big-12 then your right. The Big-12 has four teams in the Top 10, and a fifth at #25. For those of you who had a hard time figuring that out its 5-5 for each but the Big-12 has four in the top 10 to the SEC 2 The SEC is a good conference dont get me wrong, but i feel that this year fans are basing their arguments that the SEC is the best conf. on previous years, and good head coaching.
Contrast with, for example: #6 Missouri thrashing #41 Nebraska in Lincoln, 42-17, or #21 Oklahoma State routing #100 Texas A&M 56-28, also on the road. Now you SEC fans will bring up the schedules of the Big 12's four undefeated teams, to which I have this to say: 1) I'm sorry, but which non-conference wins from the SEC am I supposed to be gushing over? Bama over Clemson was impressive up until we found out just how mediocre the Tigers were when they dropped one to Maryland. Georgia's win over ASU might have looked better had the Sun Devils proven themselves a good enough team to handle UNLV. And Florida's big non-con win was over #54 rated Miami. Beyond that, it's slim pickins', so you'll forgive me if I don't consider finger-pointing at the schedule to be particularly true. Another thing to keep in mind is that there are a couple aspects to each game. One is the opponents quality, the second would be the margin of victory. Now the BCS does not allow for margin of victory to be included in its rankings, but Jeff Sagarin's who provides rankings to USA Today has his own ratings which take into account all the data including margin of victory. In his ratings the SEC does very well with two teams in the Top 10, four in the Top 15, and five in the Top 26. The funny thing is the only conference to top them is guess, go ahead guess, if you guessed the Big-12 then your right. The Big-12 has four teams in the Top 10, and a fifth at #25. For those of you who had a hard time figuring that out its 5-5 for each but the Big-12 has four in the top 10 to the SEC 2 The SEC is a good conference dont get me wrong, but i feel that this year fans are basing their arguments that the SEC is the best conf. on previous years, and good head coaching.
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