It is interesting how the SEC kool aid is served so regularly and at such high quantities, you can actually see it being regurgitated in small amounts on Gopherhole. It can't be denied that it is effective, because it shows in any/every non-objective human opinion based poll.
I get a kick out of SEC logic.
"The SEC is the best conference!"
- Really, then why are things so balanced in bowl games and head to head in playoffs or regular season?
"Well, the SEC wins all the national championships"
-The B1G has won a few, especially since paying players went visible above boards.
"Yeah, but that is just because the B1G has one great team"
Actually the B1G has had multiple National championships and has advanced several different schools in the new national playoff.
"Yeah, but the B1G isn't as deep as the SEC. It just has a few good teams at the top."
-How do you explain Indiana then? A perennial B1G doormat winning the conference? Or Illinois looking pretty good last year with a bowl win vs heavily favored S. Carolina?
"Well, they just don't have to face a gauntlet like the SEC. B1G teams would all have more losses if they had to face a gauntlet like that!"
- If it were such a gauntlet, wouldn't the SEC look better in bowls and playoff vs teams from other conferences? 11-1 Texas A&M just lost in the playoff to a two loss Miami team, at home!
"That is just because A&M avoided all the best SEC teams and only had to play bottom teams this season."
-But wait, you just said it was a "gauntlet" but now there are teams that can skate through nearly undefeated by avoiding the top teams on the conference schedule?
"Umm, ... "
- And furthermore, middling B1G teams regularly beat favored SEC teams in bowl games.
"Well, that is because the SEC is sooooo tough that the teams are beaten up by bowl season and the focus is on the conference season"
- Yeah, but they are still losing a lot of these bowl games after a month or more rest, and isn't there a phrase that says something about 'it just means more'?
"Umm, ..., Well, LSU would KILL Minnesota because look at all the four and five stars!
- How do you know that?
"because... S... E... C...!!!"
- That sounds a lot like a hypothetical victory, which is strictly opinion, and again - look at all the SEC bowl losses, playoff losses, and regular season losses where the results indicate parity, not superiority with other power conferences?
"Yeah, 'we' win all our hypothetical matchups!"
- You do, but that isn't reality, right?
"It IS reality! SEC! SEC! SEC! In fact, here is an obscure statistic that proves the Mississippi cheerleading squad would beat Illinois if they were to play in person."
- That doesn't really prove anything. Wouldn't Illinois have to actually play the Mississippi cheerleading squad to get proof?
"SEC! SEC! Finebaum! SEC! ESPN! SEC!"
