I'm not sure what the reasoning behind Virginia ahead of Texas is.  As a UVA grad student, I've seen them play a lot this year, and every game has been madness.  I guess they have an "impressive" win over UCONN, who only has one loss that counts.  But their losses are much worse than ours.  Even if you say Wyoming on the road is equal to KState at home - NC State is not as good as Oklahoma.

Also, I feel like you have overrated the 3 loss teams in the SEC.

I put LSU and Oregon a 1 and 1(a).  I waffle on this because I don't know how highly to rate LSU's close wins over allegedly good SEC teams.

The problem is that all these SEC teams have lots of losses and they're all to each other for the most part.  So are they all good or all they all mediocre?  I tend to think that they're overrated.  They, like Texas, get the benefit of being ranked high based on reputation alone.  So when we look at the teams that LSU has beaten, they're all ranked higher than they would be if they had different names printed across their chests.

Look at Florida.  They're only decent wins are against Tennessee and Kentucky and their losses are to Auburn, LSU and Georgia.  But are Tennessee and Kentucky actually good?  Tennessee's only good wins are against Georgia and South Carolina.  Kentucky's only good win is against LSU.  No one else.  You see how it's viciously cyclical?  The only comparison we have for SEC teams is against other SEC teams, and so who's to say if they're good or overrated based on their names?

The problem is that SEC teams rarely play anyone good outside of the conference.  LSU beat Virginia Tech but Tennessee got destroyed by a Cal team that's fallen off the map.  Georgia beat a mediocre OK St team and Auburn beat a mediocre K-State team and lost to what appears to be a mediocre South Florida team.  And Bama lost to a mediocre Florida State team.

I tend to think not specifically that any individual SEC team is overrated, but that the conference as a whole is overrated to the extent that losses to other SEC teams look better than, say, a loss by a Pac10 team to another Pac10 team.  Just by virtue of us not knowing what to do with these SEC teams because of their allegedly traditional power, we intrinsically overrate them.

They all beat each other because they're the best teams in the best conference and have mostly better talent. But when it comes down to it, how would your team compare in that conference?

Imagine playing a Red River Shootout opponent/atmosphere for four weeks straight. Kind of tough as compared to, say, the Big 12 this year. Only OU has played two of the top four in the Big 12 ... KU has played none and Mizzou and UT each lost their only matchups