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While it can be said that we like whatever we follow to be the best and to be able to take pride in it then it follows that we want ours to be the best.
My dog is better than yours. etc. At the same time does it matter whos conference is the best? There are no awards for it. No bragging rights that amount to anything. Nothing.
While I do take pride in being a fan of tOSU and the BIg 10 the two are actually worlds apart. The Bucks are singular and can be promoted all the time.
If a conference is 60% weak and 40% strong all the time there isn't much promtion to be done. You just have to suffer with it.
Go Bucks
 
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GeauxTigers;716245; said:
As an LSU fan I obviously support the SEC and think that the SEC is the best conference in college football just like I'm sure many of you guys think Big 10 is the best conference. In all honesty all this stuff about one conference being better than the other is purely subjective and we could argue forever.

Florida/Ohio St just went to show that like throughout the history of football, any team can beat any other team on any given day. I think Florida played extremely well and Ohio St could've played a lot better. But Florida winning doesn't automatically mean that the SEC is better than the Big 10. Top to bottom we are pretty even, even though fans of both conferences don't want to admit that.

Anyway, good luck to you guys next year. And hopefully Nader Abdellah starts for the Buckeyes, I played against him in high school once and he was an absolute monster on defense.
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I think you'll find most college football fans will freely admit the SEC is the best conference in most years. What we don't understand is why an Alabama fan (for example) takes so much delight in a Florida victory. It doesn't change the fact that Alabama has been average for two plus decades...I do understand some conference pride, but the SEC people take it to a level of weirdness that is not seen anywhere else. And I will continue to use the word "incestuous" to describe it...
 
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SEC Strength (Myth?)

One of the strangest statistics, to me anyways, is that the SEC fields at least 1, sometimes 2, and so far this year 3 top 5 teams as far as recruits are concerned annually.

But, according to this link, they're unable to stick a team in the top 5 of NFL draft picks taken: http://drafthistory.com/n_college/college_n.html

They attribute their strength of schedule to their inability to run the tables, but unless their players get worse by playing the best talent in the country this statistic doesn't make sense...

Discuss.

Mods, if this belongs elsewhere feel free to move. I searched and couldn't find a related topic.
 
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This is just off the cuff, but if the SEC is filled with fast skilled players, then maybe they are making each other look bad (bad may not be the right word, how bout less awesome). By this reasoning a skilled fast player in the poor old Big11 (Ted Ginn for example) will look amazing because the players he's facing every Saturday aren't up to his level. This could explain why SEC guys aren't consistently drafted in the top of the draft every year.
 
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fourteenandoh;719492; said:
This is just off the cuff, but if the SEC is filled with fast skilled players, then maybe they are making each other look bad (bad may not be the right word, how bout less awesome). By this reasoning a skilled fast player in the poor old Big11 (Ted Ginn for example) will look amazing because the players he's facing every Saturday aren't up to his level. This could explain why SEC guys aren't consistently drafted in the top of the draft every year.
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More likely it's because those smaller faster guys can't cut it in the NFL where everyone is fast and Bigger.
 
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I think they are, consistently, the best conference in the NCAA. But I also think they get a little too much love in the rankings. Despite our meltdown, Wisconsin and PSU definitely exposed the underbelly of the SEC in the bowls this year (and last year too for the Badgers.)
Some poignant examples of over-rated SEC teams include Wiscy beating Auburn last year, having the same amount of losses and 1 more win (Hawaii vacation), yet finished behind Auburn in both of the final polls? Disrespected. The same thing happened with Penn State and Tennessee in the final AP this year.
SEC is the best conference overall -- but they're still over-rated in the polls.
 
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fourteenandoh;719492; said:
This is just off the cuff, but if the SEC is filled with fast skilled players, then maybe they are making each other look bad (bad may not be the right word, how bout less awesome). By this reasoning a skilled fast player in the poor old Big11 (Ted Ginn for example) will look amazing because the players he's facing every Saturday aren't up to his level. This could explain why SEC guys aren't consistently drafted in the top of the draft every year.
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I think you're onto something but maybe took it too far. I think the SEC's big problem is that Scout and Rivals over-rate a lot of their recruits a little just like the polls often over-rate their teams a little. IMO, northern states get very little respect from those 2 scouting services.
Add in that all the SEC and ACC schools are competing for the same recruits, plus raiding parties by the B10, P10, and Big East (Rutgers to FL) means that they're splitting talent a lot more. But being that Scout and Rivals largely rates players on how much attention they get, a lot of those kids probably end up a little over-rated. In the system of rating that exists, it's hard to be a major program and not bring in a top-25 class every year because the rating is largely based on who these same schools are chasing. And we all know the SEC has some big-name programs that, even if they aren't producing on the field any given year, get attention off the field.
But the "everyone is fast and more talented in the SEC/south" seems ridiculous to me. Is that why Wynn is Florida's leading rusher with 4.9ypc? Did Auburn, Florida, Arkansas and Tennessee expose a lack of talent in the middle of the B10 this year and last? Personally, I don't think they did. If there is more speed in the SEC, it's because of a difference in coaching philosophy. And if that is the difference between our two conferences, that coaching philosophy doesn't seem to have a definite advantage over the B10's coaching.
 
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I think the Pac-10 is generally underrated nationally, as it is consistently as good as the Big East and the ACC in basketball. With Mayo helping a solid USC program as well, many will argue for the Pac-10 being the best in the years to come...
 
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