Valid point. Buckeyes will almost always get the benefit of the doubt - ‘cause blue-blood. But if you have a conference loss and an SEC team has one conference loss, conference rep might make a difference.
I often read y’all bitching about the constant b.s. SEC over-ranking, and at the same time read about your insistence that your conference mate’s rep is inconsequential to you.
This seems disconnected somehow, given the fact that I agree the SEC gets loads of false rep. The cure for that is not 2 new year’s day losses to SEC SEC SEC - a day after 1 SEC non-conference champ skull raped the B1G Conf Champ. Could be wrong.