SEC is over-rated

"SEC football 2009 has been living off its past all season, and the backlash is coming. Maybe it's here already. Maybe, as I channel my inner Barack Obama, I am the change we've been waiting for.

It's certainly not the other 'Bama.

Alabama? That's the superpower we're tired of waiting for. Just like Florida.

Overrated, both of them."

24 days ago patienthornsfan 3 comments 0 recs |

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I’ll be the first to admit that the SEC has been the top conference over the past 5 or so years, this year included. But the overall mix this year seems a little weaker than in years past. The Big 10 is still down and perhaps may have reached its nadir with even OSU looking thoroughly pedestrian, while the ACC continues to find itself lacking anything resembling an elite team. The Pac 10 still seems like the USC plus also-rans though even USC seems diminished. The Big East just doesn’t deserve mention. The Big 12 has definitely fallen off its perch and has made the biggest decline of any conference to my eyes. This could have been a year when the conference surpassed the SEC, but instead the North is looking absolutely abysmal and the South has been decimated by injuries and suspensions. In the end I’ll take the easiest road to a MNC, so perhaps all this plays in our favor. Lord knows if we win out no one will remember the overall weakness of the teams below us.

by Rickyspub on Oct 29, 2009 8:39 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I think they may be the top conference when averaging all of the past five years, but I would not vehemently disagree if one were to say that it was the top in each of those seasons. Big difference, and lots of media and fans don’t really bother with that difference. In particular, the season KU won the Orange Bowl and Mizzou probably should have been as well was a season in which the SEC was clearly not the strongest. And despite no top-end team last year, I recall finding the ACC was actually the best in terms of overall conference stength.

by burntorangehorn on Oct 29, 2009 8:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Its always hard to judge, especially once you get past the top teams...

I could see the argument that the ACC is the best in terms of overall strength last year, but then I wonder how doormats in other conferences might do against the ACC and get the feeling that maybe, outside of Vandy, the lower echelon teams in the SEC would be no worse than middle of the pack ACC teams. I think the the Big 12 last year would have had half its teams as the cream of the crop in the ACC as well. The Pac 10 might be the best top-to-bottom conference this year as well as in many of the years past. But I am somewhat wary of conferences that don’t regularly manage to have multiple teams in the BCS picture late in the season which is why I still think the SEC and Big 12 are the premier conferences of the past several years. Having several dominant teams will make the middle tier teams look worse than their counterparts in other conferences where only one or no team dominates. Its hard for the Big 12 to look solid when in some years we have two, three, or even four teams losing but one conference game.

by Rickyspub on Oct 29, 2009 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs