It's Time Once Again to Slam the SEC

We present two views regarding the over-rated Southeastern Conference, undisputed king of cupcake scheduling.

Sam Chi, the BCS Guru, makes a case for the Pacific 10 being the dominant conference of the decade. Nonetheless, the SEC has been better at marketing its product.

Chi, noting the SEC's success in the BCS title game, writes: "That isn't so much affirmation of SEC's superiority as the sign that it's adroitly winning the media war. If the old Confederacy wasn't able to conquer America, its rightful descendants have made sure that the South indeed has risen.

"Don't blame the SEC for understanding and leveraging the system to its maximum benefit. But do blame the Pac-10 for not doing its job."

He then lists the creampuff nonconference opponents of Florida, Louisiana State and Alabama from 2006-09 and compares them to USC's nonconference opponents. Frankly, it's not even a fair fight. The Trojans smoke the competition.

Rick Bozich of the Louisville Courier-Journal takes a look from the East — the Big East. He writes: "This one will earn me a $30,000 fine from the Southeastern Conference commissioner's office for trash-talking, but guess which conference has more teams in the Top 25 of the latest Bowl Championship Series rankings — King Football (the SEC) or King Basketball (the Big East)?

"If you guessed Urban Meyer's league, you can return to practicing your eyeball gouge. If you guessed Jim Calhoun's league, then you have been paying attention to the wonderfully entertaining season the Big East has delivered — even with local contributions nonexistent.

"The SEC sits at one-two, with Florida and Alabama. And that's how it should be. But if you go 25 deep, it's Big East 4, SEC 3. That makes the Big East one of three leagues with four teams on the big board."

Here's even more evidence how the media is fooled by the SEC. Consider that no Big East team was ranked in the Associated Press preseason top 25, the same poll that included five SEC teams in the top 14.

Comments

[Conray Knox]

Ha ha, this is funny, Biggie Smalls said, "More money more problems"...

I love you haters. Without you people would not strive to do better in life. Keep doing your jobs haters,

[IowaGuy]

The SEC is 5-0 in the big game and that's because of the media? Riiiiiiiiiight.

Hate! Hate! Hate!

[Bobby Fenton]

Are you an idiot, The Wiz? This is one of the most ridiculous and falsely reasoned posts I can recall put up on this site, which is saying a lot.

The Wiz seems to think that the entire argument settles on selecting 2 or 3 game snippets out of a 14-game schedule and using those not only to determine strength of schedule (which is flawed in and of itself), but also to determine overall conference strength (so beyond flawed I don't know what to say). Your logic: USC had a tougher out of conference slate than the SEC teams did. Therefore, the PAC 10 is a superior conference. I am literally shaking my head at how brain-meltingly stupid this is.

You want to say the Pac 10 is better and cite other more legitimate reasons you think exist? That's fine. You want to criticize scheduling? Double fine. We all agree the payout games suck. Go for it. But don't make an idiot of yourself by trying to tie the wrong things together.

The only proof of anything I see in this post is that "USC has scheduled better non-conference games than Florida in recent years". That is instead being presented as some earth-shattering revelation of how the SEC has better parlayed its hype machine. Dynamite journalism, Wiz. What a joke.

Oh and check the OVERALL strength of schedule rankings over the past few years and you'll see Florida at or near the top in both of its title seasons. (Inconvenient truth alert)

[P.]

*facepalm*

I swear this site would be worthless if it weren't for the Reporters Notebooks and Columnists Corner.

[Beez]

you guys have to understand "The Wiz" comes from California (or atleast he wrote for a paper there). So when he gets a chance to create a falsehood about football played East of the Mississippi, he's gonna do it. no matter how dum it is.