re: Not a fan of College Football Analysts lumping in the "Big 10 and SEC" as equal

In terms of profitability and influence on the sports direction, they are equal. Never forget covid and the influence the Big Ten had in that fiasco. Politically they are more powerful than the SEC. The SEC has all the talent surrounding it and the aura. It balances out

No one cares about the last 20 years, they care about the past 2. Big Tens value is at an all time high.

Yes i did. Schedule cupcakes and get rewarded. Thats why the B10 has won back to back. SEC Schedule is a war of attrition. Its really a gauntlet playing Rutgers and Maryland

Listen, I’m a southern football guy. A lifer. And I love the traditions and have always rooted for southern teams over northern teams. But many of you SEC guys have been totally manipulated by ESPN. They have completely warped your way of thinking. This narrative that the SEC is so deep and they beat each other up is just silly and not reality. I watch every game every week.

You bring up Rutgers and Maryland but stick your head in the sand when it comes to the non-relevant teams in the SEC, South Carolina, Vandy, Auburn, Miss St, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Missouri, Florida, and A&M have done nothing in a decade and could easily be called Indiana, NC State, Purdue, GT, etc.

The pre-season polls have warped your view and many of you can’t step outside your bubble to see your own bias. Look at the last 2 seasons. Like the past 20 years, the polls over rank just about every SEC team except Bama and UGA who deserve their top 4 rankings. And then at the end where are these teams? They weren’t there. What does that tell you. We no longer have an eyeball test because playoffs are played on the field and we see it. Now, could the SEC have all 4 teams in the Final 4? Sure. But the talent disparity is over due to NIL. When Vandy beats Bama and it takes UGA 8 overtimes to beat lowly GT you know the entire sport has changed due to everyone now able to bagman players.

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NIL became legal in 2021. SEC and B1G each have 2 nattys since then

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For those that are too slow to follow: now that teams are able to catch up on paying players and we are no longer stuck with grandfathered teams the sec hasn’t won anything

Indiana beat Michigan last season…and Michigan beat Bama in a bowl game and beat OSU

So I certainly think Indiana could have hung with Bama and LSU last season. LSU lost to USC last season who finished 4-5 in the B1G

Do you people even watch games or just say “SEC better”

Again, to say the SEC has a tougher road when they are the ones holding out so they can play more Georgia Southern’s is laughable. As the previous poster just mentioned - Indiana (who gets no credit on this board) beat Michigan and then Michigan beat Bama. Explain that one? You should be saying, the middle pack of the BIG is getting stronger but instead you laugh at Michigan. But when Vandy beats Bama instead of laughing at Bama you say, see how strong the SEC is.

Like I said, you have allowed ESPN and their money pandering ways to the Finebaum type fanbases create your bias. Many of you are like CNN fans who can’t see your biases. As the data year over year comes in with the expanded playoffs it will be become even clearer how bad the preseason polling was that influenced the entire BCS and 4 team era. How many times have we seen SEC teams go 3-2 yet are still ranked in early October while 5-0 others weren’t all because of the preseason polls.

And none of this is about me trying to be proven right or wrong. It’s all statistics and college football was the last major sport to use a system that was statistically biased whcih is why the sport has been professional wrestling, Now that people with brains run the sport you’ll see future statistics that will show the truth.

The NIL era will buoy the Big Ten a lot. The SEC recruiting edge has been neutralized.

Also, as the very first response says, college football is effectively dead. Whatever the sport is nowadays is wearing its skin suit.

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Nobody on this earth has the ability to watch every game every week. Its mathematically impossible unless you are unemployed and do nothing else. The committee doesn't even do that.

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We just ask that they watch the games that matter

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It’s not a “guantlet” that cost those teams it was losing to shitty teams

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youd have a point if every game was an independent occurrence and the players weren’t human

But injuries add up though. Trap games are a thing, as well as looking ahead