re: If you count the Sugar Bowl vs ARK, Ohio State is 18-13-1 vs current SEC teams

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This is not an argument you want to make. The black population in a number of non-southern states is comparable to, or on some cases higher than, the black population in southern states ( Illinois, for example, has more blacks than some southern states). While the proportion is higher in most southern states, the total black population isn't necessarily higher. The higher proportion of blacks in the population doesn't explain the phenomenon. I suspect there are socio-economic factors and social trends – like a higher level of participation in high school football among southern blacks, perhaps. But it isn't because there are significantly more blacks in the south, because there aren't.

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I attribute it more to the fact that southern players have

a)better weather to train in year round
b)spring football in some states
c)led the wave of the 7 on 7 and skills camps

They've simply trained more over a longer period of time in many instances. Other areas are upping the training so I do think the gap may close. Also, basketball is huge in the north. Many elite athletes choose basketball over football.