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re: Please vote in this dumb Brett McMurphy poll (Poll has ended, we won)
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:07 am to cbree88
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:07 am to cbree88
quote:I think that is what he was saying
Not really
The Big 10 is clearly better at the top over the last few years in football, but the SEC is deeper in the middle and bottom parts of the conference.
I believe he is suggesting that if you take the conferences top to bottom, the SEC is better, not that they are better at the top, middle, and bottom
The problem with the question is that proving the entirety of the SEC is better than the big 10 is nearly an impossible task
Non playoff bowls are a poor indicator in the NIL/Portal era due to optouts. Plus there is a history of lower positioned SEC teams playing higher positioned teams of other conferences
Really the only direct correlations for measurement are the playoff games, this is where there are no optouts and teams are on more equal footing. The only real argument the SEC has for falling short is that the conference being tougher means teams are more tired and beat up come playoff time than the big 10, but this again is really a metric that is not provable
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Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:08 am to cbree88
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Do you agree with Kirby Smart’s claim that Nick Saban’s Alabama teams from the 2010s would beat the “dog” out of today’s SEC teams? It sounds like there’s more talent overall in the conference now, so I’m not sure how accurate Kirby’s claim is.
Mostly. I do think the talent has become more evenly distributed due to the portal, as evidenced by every SEC team pumping out draft picks, and teams like Vanderbilt becoming borderline playoff teams.
I think the conference has more total talent now, but the days of teams having virtually every player on both side of the ball drafted are likely over.
This post was edited on 5/29/26 at 10:09 am
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:09 am to cbree88
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Do you agree with Kirby Smart’s claim that Nick Saban’s Alabama teams from the 2010s would beat the “dog” out of today’s SEC teams?
Hard to argue against it
The starting talent on the best teams are as good as they ever were, but Saban's teams at Alabama would grind you into dust with wave after wave of 4 and 5 star linemen
The talent in the conference and overall in cfb is still very much there as much as it ever was, it is however, more spread out now
This post was edited on 5/29/26 at 10:10 am
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:10 am to Squawk7600
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McMurphy has spent years shitting on LSU and all other things SEC. He is an arrogant B1G homer, who believes he’s the smartest guy in the room everywhere he is.
good enough reason for me. thank you for your services.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:24 am to cbree88
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Do you agree with Kirby Smart’s claim that Nick Saban’s Alabama teams from the 2010s would beat the “dog” out of today’s SEC teams? It sounds like there’s more talent overall in the conference now, so I’m not sure how accurate Kirby’s claim is.
The only thing wrong about what he said is that it wasn’t just Alabama. For a run of about 15 years the SEC had multiple championship quality teams most of the time, but haven’t had any recently. The top teams haven’t been anywhere near as good lately.
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