The SEC simply is overhyped year after year after year. They tend to have 2 or 3 very good clubs each season, but so do many other conferences. I will agree however, that the fans of the SEC teams tend to elevate the rivalries moreso than many other rivalry games in other parts of the country.
The whole system is inane though. Arbitrarily assigning a seed to the usual suspects to start the year and THEN allow computers and polls to decide things half way through the season. Riddle me this...how Michigan who lost at home to a D2 team and then got beat down by Oregon can still be considered top 12 in the country to start today? Today they were exposed by an average Wisconsin club. Its ridiculous.
At the beginning of this season it was hard to argue that USC didnt have the single toughest schedule in the entire country....and yes they lost a game they shouldnt have to a division cream puff, but it was at least a D1 club and they found themselves lower than Michigan etc? Silliness. At one point this brilliant system had the University of freaking South Florida number TWO in the entire nation. Its just such a clusterbuck of a system.
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