Greg Sankey Claims SEC As Best 'By Far' Despite Big Ten Dominance

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"If you look at the entirety of our league, we are by far the most competitive, the strongest football league by far," Sankey told reporters following the second full day of SEC spring meetings. "But you're going to lose games when it's close and competitive like that. So why have they surpassed us? It's an oddball, it's bounced a couple times the wrong way."

"I can assure you that everyone in this league is trying to figure out how to come up on the top end of that in the future," Sankey said, "But I think from a big picture, the breadth, the depth of this league, this league stands alone. In fact, we saw metrics out of the college football playoff presentation where there's no doubt we're the strongest league. Now, there's some segments of other leagues that are towards where we are, but not nearly the entirety of a conference like the Southeastern Conference. It's a pretty special place."

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