re: With Utah out is the coveted 1 spot really that important?

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1 Alabama
2 Georgia
3 LSU
4 Oklahoma
5 Ohio State
6 Florida
7 Auburn
8 Texas A&M
9 Texas
10 Clemson

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LSU has already beaten 5 of these teams this season and will have likely beaten 8 of them if they win the Natty undefeated.

Add in the rest of the top 25 and LSU has 3 more wins. But those three plus USCe have to be the most underperforming SEC teams in this top 25 list. But I guess you could make the case that they do have to play their SEC games against 4 teams in the top 25 of the list

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11 Penn State
12 Michigan
13 Oregon
14 Notre Dame
15 Florida State
16 USC
17 Tennessee
18 Washington
19 South Carolina
20 Nebraska
21 Stanford
22 Mississippi State
23 Miami-FL
24 Ole Miss
25 Arkansas

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So consider that every team in the SEC west has a 4 year recruiting average in the top 25 and LSU's permanent SEC East opponent is in the top 10.
Here is the breakdown top 10 in ()
SECW - 7 (4)
SECE - 4 (2)
SEC Total - 11 (6)

Big Ten - 4 (1)
ACC - 3 (1)
PAC 12 - 4 (0)
Big 12 - 2 (2)
Ind - 1 (0)

We can argue who plays the better teams week in and week out but there is no doubt that SEC teams, west teams in particular, line up against better talent week to week.